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Home Decoration with Stampin’ Up!

Aloha, all!

You’ve all heard about my next door neighbor, Deme, who is the one who made that great quilted bag using the Sizzix Stampin’ Up! Scallop Square Die.

Now Deme is at it again, but this time with Switch Plates!  She is just so creative, and loves to try out all different kinds of crafts.  Today I’m featuring swtich plates that she made using Stampin’ Up! Wheels and Sculpey Polymer Clay.  I found some basic instructions for making the switch plates here. 

To make these switch plates, Deme used a pasta machine (as cheap as you can get one, she says) and set it to the thickest setting to make the best thickness for using the wheels.  She colored the basic clay a bit with Classic Ink Pads, then applied various colored inks to the wheels and ran them across the switch plates multiple times.  Finally, she sprinkled some Iridiscent Ice over everything and baked according to the product instructions.  Are these not wonderful?!  (Hmmm.  I’ve been using "wonderful" a lot lately.  I must be having a good time )

Here are the products for each of the switch plates shown here:

• On the left:  Fast Flower Wheel, More Mustard Stamp Pad (for the background), Really Rust and Taken With Teal for the wheel.
• On the right:  Retro Remix Wheel, Bravo Burgundy Stamp Pad (background), Taken With Teal and Ballet Blue.

I think I may try these myself!!  How about you? If you need any wheels, or some of that fabulous Iridiscent Ice embossing powder, just let me know.  Or you can order online 24/7 by clicking here and then the Shop Now button in the upper right.!

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My {Current} Favorite Papers!

Aloha, all!

Now that the fall and winter holidays are past, I'm ready to move on to SPRING!  OK, so perhaps I'm not as ready here in Hawaii as those of you who've been dealing with the winter weather in the mainland USA and Canada.  But the days are getting longer, and I'm tired of Red!  Until the Fourth of July – but that's another time and place.

So far, my favorite Designer Series Paper for Spring is Tea Party, and I'm spending some time in the Craft Room this week playing with a brand new pack of Tea Party that was delivered to my home on Saturday.  My first card with it was the result of a sketch challenge (the sketch is at the end of this post).  What fun this was because we were to make a tall and thin card – or short and long – but I chose the former. 

One of the best features of Stampin' Up! products is how well everything goes together!  This printed sheet from Tea Party matches the So Saffron and Pretty in Pink accent card stock just perfectly.  Not only that, the Sizzix Stampin' Up! exclusive Embosslit, Sweetest Stem, carries out the same design features that are in the flowers in this paper.  Is that not just the best!

Even more – those So Saffron and Pretty in Pink Brads just set everything else off so nicely that I just can't keep my eyes off the picture.  Of course, the Certainly Celery Ink matches the Certainly Celery Card Stock that I used for the embosslit flower in the background.  What more could a stamper ask for?!  Oh, the money to buy it all, of course!  Lacking that, I'll work with what I have and enjoy the heck out of it.

Here's the sketch for this card.  I didn't use plain card stock as a card base for this project as the other side of this printed paper is light enough to hold a handwritten greeting just fine, though I may just slip in a folded note.

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