Enthusiastic SPARKS glow!

Hello Everyone!


I don't usually post many workshop projects, but I thought that I would share a few with you.


Last evening there were many SPARKS glowing!!! That's right, SPARKS; 10- Five to Seven year olds in a guiding unit. They had so much fun along with their leaders and some moms.

The first card was obviously designed with all of their special dads or grandpas in mind! I just love the In The Wild stamp set. The wild animal images are wonderful. Both stamp sets used on this card will be retiring June 30th and will never again be available to order. The Happy Father's Day is from the All Year Cheer II set. On this card, the elephant was stamped with Basic Black ink, and coloured in with the Going Grey Stampin' Write Marker. Notice how the tusks were not coloured leaving the white paper to show though. The Always Artichoke cardstock was embellished with Silver Cord. To help hold the cord in place, the rectangular hand-held punch was punched at either end leaving an opening on each edge. This helps prevent the cord from slipping. The other colours of cardstock are Whisper White, Basic Black, and Sahara Sand.


The second card is a fun Birthday Card. The stamp set used is Eat Cake. The solid stamp images make this card a fun and quick card to stamp. You simply just ink your stamp into your desired colour of ink and stamp on your project. The colours of cardstock shown on this card coordinate with the ink. The coordination of Stampin' Up's! ink and cardstock give your projects a professional and finished look. The colours used on this card are: Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White.


The last card is also another quick but fun card. All of the girls wanted to begin the evening stamping this card. The butterfly image is from the Winged Things stamp set and it is also another retiring set. The image was stamped on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. The bright and cheery colour on the Very Vanilla cardstock was achieved using the Baby Wipes technique. You can create any array of colour using this technique and I can guarantee you that each card will be different from the next! The words Thank You are from the Wonderful Words stamp set.

It was so wonderful spending the girl's last meeting of the year with them. I'm honoured! I think that I had a record breaking finish as well. The girls were completed all of their cards in less then an hour!

Not only kids have a great time stamping....but adults can too! If you have a group of friends who would like to get together for an evening of stamping fun, just contact me at staceysstampingstudio@shaw.ca. Stampin' Up! has a catalogue jammed packed with wonderful stamp sets and accessories as well as plenty of stamped projects and cards to keep your creativity flowing! If you would like to have a catalogue party, ask me how you can earn FREE stamp sets and accessories for yourself! FUN and FREE...how much better does it get!

Happy SPARKLY Stampin'!


Stacey

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