Happy Christmas in July! Last week was the Stampin' Up! Incentive trip to the Greek Isles. While I didn't earn the trip it was fun to watch other demonstrators from around the world share pictures of the 2019 Holiday Catalogue. It put me in the Christmas spirit and I knew that a Christmas card would be a perfect swap card for Sunday's team meeting!

My brother gave me the Dashing Deer stamp set for Christmas last year and I believe this is the first time I've used it! When first looking at the stamp set I thought the doe and buck were one stamp but they are not, but they are perfectly sized to work together. I used the Stamparatus to stamp all my images since I was making 3 cards. It allowed me to get the stamped images to show up in just the right spot on all of my swaps.

Supplies
Stamps: Dashing Deer, Buffalo Check background
Colours: Merry Merlot, Pretty Peacock, Very Vanilla, Gold
Accessories: Versamark, Gold Embossing Powder, Layering Oval dies, Stampin' Dimensionals, Stamparatus

~ Amanda

Fireworks! Since last week was Canada Day I thought scraping these photos was a good idea to do on my Facebook live. If you haven't watched yet you will most likely hear me talk about not liking the page and how it wasn't turning out for me the way I thought! Now that a few days has passed I really do like this page! What do you think? - leave me a comment below if you'd like.

This is my second card I made using the Dino Days stamp set. I really wanted to use this dinosaur on my first card but the neck was soooo long the head was the only part that would've showed on the card! It looked silly for it to float there so I decided to create this card.

This Dinoroar Suite has designer series paper, stamp set, die set and enamel shapes! You can see the whole Dinoroar suite here: https://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/products/201008/dinoroar?dbwsdemoid2157916

Supplies
Stamps: Dino Days
Colours:  Granny Apple Green, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Black
Accessories:  Subtle Embossing Folder, Stitched Rectangle dies, Stampin' Dimensionals

~ Amanda

Hello and welcome to our July Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop. This month we are creating projects that feature the In Colours from either the 2018-2020 or 2019-2021 collections!

Stampin' Up! provided us demonstrators with colour combinations for the In Colours! I love that they do that for us. I decided to use one of the colour combos to create a card - Purple Posy, Pool Party and Smokey Slate.

Lilypad Lake is the perfect stamp set to use right now! Summer is here and this card makes me think of dusk along the water while camping. This card is a CASE from Cathy Casey that I found on Pinterest. The "waves" were stamped with Versamark onto the new Fluid 100 Watercolour paper then embossed in White. Then I used an Aquapainter and the 3 colours (Purple Posy, Pool Party, Smokey Slate) to create the water. A quick wipe of a tissue after it dried to take the colour off the embossed part and it was ready to assemble!

Supplies
Stamps: Lilypad Lake
Colours: Purple Posy, Pool Party, Smokey Slate
Accessories: Lakeside Dies, Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper, White Embossing Powder, Versamark, Rhinestones, Silver Thread, Stampin' Dimensionals, Aquapainter

Thank you for stopping by! Head on over to Libby's blog to see her project featuring the In Colors!
~ Amanda




Our next crop will be on Saturday July 27th in support of Loving Spoonful. Registration is $30 and closes on July 7th. Head over to Facebook to learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/292829261605176/

Join us on October 25 to 27, 2019 for our Crop Kingston Fall Retreat. Registration is open until September 1st. Head over to Facebook to learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/290602808288112/

At the June crop I borrowed a new stamp set called Dino Days. I wasn't sure if I would buy it and wanted to play around with it to create a few cards. I did some Pinterest searching for inspiration and found a few cards using rectangles of colour with stamped images. This is a great simple card. I stamped each dinosaur in the colour it is stamped on but you could get the same outcome by using Versamark.

You can see the whole Dinoroar suite here: https://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/products/201008/dinoroar?dbwsdemoid2157916

Supplies
Stamps: Dino Days (in my store: https://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/product/149406/dino-days-photopolymer-stamp-set?dbwsdemoid2157916)
Colours: Grapefruit Grove, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Whisper White
Accessories:  Stampin' Dimensionals

~ Amanda