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Monday, March 16, 2015

Let's start at the very beginning - Day 4

Did you know that for every $90 you spend on products you will receive a FREE product. If you haven't bought your starter kit suggestions yet then now until the 31st March would be a good time. The 31st March is the last day of Sale a Bration and then all the FREE products are gone for another year.

Now let me show you what I made today with the stamp set. The first card, I used Melon Mambo as my base card. I then stamped some images out on the Whisper white card and cut them out as a square. I cut out a Whisper White square just a touch bigger as a mat. I raised both these layers with dimensionals. It could also look good if you used Melon Mambo as the mat.

The second card is another male card although I would be happy to receive it. The base card was Tangerine Tango, next layer was Tempting Turquoise, next layer was Old Olive. I stamped two of the images on to Whisper White and glued to Old Olive mat, then I stamped the duck again and cut it out. The duck was then raised up with dimensionals and stuck on to the stamped duck. The colour layering carried through to the sentiment. Don't be scared to try colours together you might be pleasantly surprised.

Let's start at the very beginning zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

layers of card zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

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Day 4

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Let's start at the very beginning - Day 3

Have you been playing?
I hope so. Let us have a look at a couple of more layouts. This time we are using Whisper White base, and using all the images on an Old Olive layer. Each panel is raised up on dimensionals. The second card uses only one of the images and the sentiment is stamped straight onto the base card.

Why not try putting both the images together. Stamp a sentiment and use a colour from your pack. Use dimensionals to raise this layer up from the Whisper White base card.

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Day 3

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Let's start at the very beginning - Day 2

So let us see just how easy it can be to produce some beautiful cards using all your starter kit supplies.
Yesterday you saw these two cards. The Old Olive card has a stamped layer and then the sentiment has been matted on to a piece of Old Olive and raised with Dimensionals. The Whisper White is just a reverse with the addition of an Olive Green layer. Same design, different layout and colour, pretty easy don't you think?

Old Olive base Let's start at the very beginning zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

Day 1 Let's start at the very beginning zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

Male card zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

Pacific Point base zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

Now let us try another layout. This one would make a nice male birthday card. The first one is using Whisper White card as the base and then pacific Point card as the mat layer behind the stamped images. The second one is using the Pacific Point card as the base and then the stamped layer.

So what do you think? Change the base card and you change the entire look of the card.

Whisper white base zena kennedy independent stampin up demonstrator

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Day 2

Friday, March 13, 2015

Let's start at the very beginning...

As the song from Sound of Music says - "Let's start at the very beginning, A very good place to start"... What ever hobby that you have there are always the starting items that you will need. Over the next few days I am going to show you

where to start
how to gather a starter kit together
what to do with this kit
what I need next
where to from here

Where to start
It is important to decide what you want to do with your hobby. Do just want to make cards or are you a scrapbooker as well? Luckily the two overlap but of course scrapbooking requires a few more items to start, these I will cover as we go through the weeks. This week it is about the basics of card making.

How to gather a starter kit together
You will need adhesives, card stock, a stamp set and ink. There are other basic tools for beginners that I love and would suggest that you invest in down the track but for now, let us just concentrate on what I think is the very basic of kits.

Snail adhesive $12.00 id#104332
Stampin' Dimensionals $7.00 id#104430
A4 Whisper White card stock $15.75 id#106549
A4 Brights card stock pack $14.00 id#131282
(20 sheets, 2 of each colour)
Soft Suede Ink Pad $11.50 id#126798 (I would choose an extra colour, but we are doing basic)
Wetlands Stamp Set wood $38.00 id#26695 clear $30.00 id#126697
(if you buy clear, you will need to purchase acrylic block D $14.00 id#118485, I personally like using clear stamps as you can see where you are placing them)
Stampin' sponges $6.00 id#101610

The reason why I have chosen this stamp set is because it has 3 sentiments that are very popular and it also has some images to get you started. They are good for Male cards too which is always hard to find.

So there you have it for today, if you would like to order any of these products you can do so from my online store.

Here is a sneak peek of what I have in store for you over the next few weeks.