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Team Challenge & Labelling Stampin’ Blends

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17 Sep
Hello, Crafters.
I hope you had a beautifully relaxing weekend. Saturday 
week ago one of the ladies in my team set a challenge for 
us all, and we were to share our cards on Saturday! For 
some inexplicable reason, there was much confusion about
 when the challenge started, when it ended, and what we 
were expected to be doing. At one stage it all became so
 confused, it was absolutely hilarious!

 I think we are all singing from the same song sheet now,
and everyone is geared up for this week’s challenge which
 we have to share this coming Saturday. Today’s card is
 my card for last Saturday’s challenge which was Basic
 Black and Soft Sea Foam (or Mint Macaroon)! I started with
 a top layer of Basic Black Cardstock (CS), with a layer of 
Soft Sea Foam CS, and a Basic Black CS card base.

 I had just finished Friday’s card, which was the three gifts
 using the Nothing Sweeter Stamp set and the Sweetly 
Stitched Dies. I decided I’d do something similar using the
 Christmas Tree, and die cut them without stamping them. 
 If you didn’t understand what I meant when I wrote on my
 blog on Friday “The gift has horizontal lines as in stitches, 
the tree has vertical lines that look like dominoes, and the 
heart has little crosses on it” you can see on today’s card 
the stitching on the trees that looks like dominoes! LOL!

 I added some Basic Rhinestones to the trees,and painted the
 NOEL using my Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Pen. To decorate
 the inside of the card I took a layer of Soft Sea Foam CS
 and wrapped a strip of the fabulous black sparkly ribbon
 that’s available in the Christmas Catalogue – called Black 
3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon (page 49) – about an inch up 
from the bottom. I die cut a Christmas Tree in Basic Black 
CS, and adhered it over the ribbon on the right-hand side. 
 If you watched my Craft Studio Tour video, you will know 
that I had some more pen trays on order for my Stampin’ 
Blends. I ordered six trays so I would have room to store 
the pens I already have, and would have room for new 
ones as I gradually add to my collection. When my pen trays
 arrived, I’d been sent black trays but I’d ordered Clear. To 
cut a long story short, my clear trays arrived on Saturday, so
 I set to organising my colours the same way as I do my inks.

 That is, all the greens together, all the blues together, all the
 pinks together etc. But this still left the problem of not
 being able to identify the exact colours, nor the light and 
dark! I mentioned to hubby that I find my pens frustrating 
because I have to keep pulling the pens out and reading 
the labels to find out what’s what! He suggested that I
 numbered them on the end caps!

At that moment, the lights went on, and I knew exactly what 
I was going to do! First I put the colours in the correct pairs,
 light on the left and dark on the right. I also made sure the
 colour names were facing up (toward the ceiling)
 and pointing towards me.

 I took some white self-adhesive circles that fitted on the
 pen caps exactly and wrote the first name e.g. CRUMB 
on one circle and CAKE on the second circle. Then I
 ahered CRUMB to the light pen and CAKE to the dark
 pen. I did this for all the pens I have. There will 
probably be times when colours won’t co-operate with
 my system e.g. if we ever have PETAL PINK
 and POWDER PINK
 I hope this has given you some food for thought!
That’s about it from me today, so until
 tomorrow, happy crafting.
JanB.

Products Used

 

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

Basic Black A4 Card Stock
[121688]
£8.00
Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock

Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock
[147012]
£8.00
Sweetly Stitched Framelits Dies

Sweetly Stitched Framelits Dies
[147918]
£24.00
Nothing Sweeter Photopolymer Bundle

Nothing Sweeter Photopolymer Bundle
[149955]
£39.50
Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush
[141897]
£7.50
Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Rhinestone Basic Jewels
[144220]
£4.75
Black 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Glittered Organdy Ribbon

Black 5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Glittered Organdy Ribbon
[147897]
£8.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue

Liquid Multipurpose Glue
[110755]
£3.75
Tear & Tape Adhesive

Tear & Tape Adhesive
[138995]
£6.25


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