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My Hero with Emerald Envy Embossing

This stamp set is named My Hero, which is a great name because it’s the charity set. For each set bought, Stampin’ Up! donates to the Ronald McDonald House Charities (over a million dollars so far) so you need to buy it. Not only because of the charity donation, but because it’s a fun set.

Stampin' Up! Weather Together

Here’s an image of the complete set:

Fun right? Today I used the umbrella and I used a trick that I saw on Pootles’ site. She mentioned a much easier way to emboss any colour. First you use the embossing buddy and then tap your image onto a versamark pad and then onto the colour that you want. After you stamp it, you add clear embossing powder to the card and then heat it. Voila. Heat embossing in whatever colour you like. Sam says that she’s been doing this for three years and hasn’t seen any issues with her ink pads. That’s good enough for me! Heat embossing in every colour here I come!

Once I’d heat embossed my image in deep rich emerald envy, I cut it out with the Umbrella Weather Framelits dies.  Next I used the archival basic black ink to create the umbrella handle (it’s two images) and cut that out as well. After gluing my umbrella to the whisper white, I used more basic black to add the raindrops from the Weather Together set. The whisper white then had a basic black mat before I adhered it to an emerald envy card base. I used a sentiment from the same set inside the card. I think this card would perk up someone who was sick. Hopefully!

You need this set. LOL. I feel like the famous posters calling people to sign up.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Weather Together Thank You

Pootles is starting a weekly colour challenge and I thought that it would be fun to enter the inaugural one and to take the opportunity to use my last so far unused set, Weather Together. It’s the issue (ha!) with getting such a large first order, it takes a while to use everything!

Stampin' Up! Weather Together

The colour challenge is to use any or all of smoky slate, so saffron, pool party and pink pirouette. I’m really not a grey person (too much grey school uniform and I’m still not over it although it’s over 30 years ago!) but I like how smoky slate goes with pink pirouette. I started by stamping the umbrella handle in smoky slate on smoky slate cardstock and then cut it out with the matching dies, Umbrella Weather Framelits Dies – how easy is that? And actually they aren’t just matching, they come in a bundle saving you an instant 10%. I stamped the outline of the umbrella in smoky slate on pink pirouette and then added the pink pirouette dots. I built the card by gluing the umbrella handle onto a piece of whisper white and then popping up the umbrella itself with dimensionals. The sentiment is also from the Weather Together set. I made a little border to pull everything together with a slim smoky slate mat and left a good frame of the pink pirouette. It’s fun to play with different size borders, tiny changes make a big change to a card. Once I had the card all together, it felt as if there was something missing, so I cut out some of the little hearts using the Umbrella Weather framelits and stuck three of them onto the middle panel of the umbrella. There. That’s what was missing.

See you tomorrow,

Liz