Go for Greece Blog Hop September 2018 - Holiday Catalogue So Santa

I can't believe that this is our very last blog hop for the Go for Greece Group. Whilst I didn't earn the incentive trip this year, I have been surrounded by some amazingly talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators world-wide and have gained some very insightful mentoring; for which I'm incredibly grateful for.... and made some amazing lifelong friendships. along the way.

When the 2018 Holiday Catalogue came out, my heart skipped a beat. Sooooo many amazing products and suites. It was hard to pick just one favourite. But the one that stood out for me was the 

So Santa stamp set. This set screamed Aussie Summer to me because of the Santa in his boardies.

I headed to my local cafe with my stamp set and catty and drew inspiration from my beautiful setting, Terrigal Beach (it's a hard life living this close to an amazing location, incredibly lucky!)

While sipping my coffee, I had a fun card idea pop in my head. Why, not take some of my stunning local sand and put it in a shaker card!

First I created a window, card front size and layered it over a piece of white cardstock the same size, I did this to add a little bit of stability as I knew the card was going to be heavy (reserve the cut out rectangle piece as this will be used later). I used the embossing paste liberally and pressed down into a tub of sand. Wanting to make sure that the sandy paste was completely dry I left it overnight.

I layered a window sheet to the under side of the frame using tear and tape. 

Below is the reverse side of the front panel. I've used foam adhesive strips around the inner and outer parts of the panel for extra stability. Pour in some sand.

  

The Santa was stamped in memento ink and coloured in using our amazing Stampin' Blends. I fussy cut him so I could position him on the front.

Don't you just love how this turned out?! My children just loved it. What a fun shaker card!

Thank you for stopping by on this very last 

Go For Greece Blog Hop. 

I hope you've been inspired by my creations and those of other amazing demonstrators. I'm Tanya Kane.... and enjoy!  And don't forget to come back and visit for more ideas and inspiration!

1.	Kylie Bertucci - Australia
2.	Pia Gerhardt - Germany
3.	Christine Matias - Australia
4.	Wendy Lee-USA
5.	Tatiana Tobin - Australia
6.	Libby Dyson - Libby Stampz Australia
7.	Alessandra Winfield - Australia
8.	Alejandra Gomez - Creating with Allie - US
9.	Jessie Holton - Australia
10.	Shelly Wadge - Australia
11.	Sandra Mastello - Australia
12.	Rebecca-Jo Unwin- Australia
13.	Angel Shaver
14.	Narelle Fasulo - Australia
15.	Sue Vine - Australia
16.	Sarah Fleming - USA
17.	Tanya Kane - Australia

Go for Greece Training Group Blog Hop June 2018

Thank you for hopping on over to my blog. Today I'm participating in the June Go For Greece Blog Hop. I love this group of amazing Stampin' Up! Demonstrators, from all over the world, that are all supporting one another to reach personal milestone's. I have learnt so much in this group and hope to join these amazing demos on the Greek Isles incentive trip.

I love the simplicity of using our distINKtive stamps. One step stamping that really does look like a multi-step stamp. The stamped image shows shadows and depth and is photo realistic. Each stamp has deeply etched images so you get a perfectly stamped image every time.

With the cards featured, I really have gone back to basics, using just ink and stamps. I wanted to showcase just how easy it is to get some stunning cards with minimal supplies. This stamp set Healing Hugs, can be used for any occasion.

I have used a whisper white card base, A4 cut in half. I stamped numerous blossom images and fussy cut them out so I knew where to stamp the leaves and sentiment.

I wanted to create numerous cards and hadn't had a play with the Stamparatus in a while so I inked this beautiful bloom and went a little crazy stamping multiple images out. 

These blossoms layered on top if each other create the appearance of a posy.

Just be really careful that you have test stamped your image on scrap paper to see how the image looks. Some ink pads are really juicy and this affects the stamped image. If the stamp pad is really juicy, get the back of a spoon and gently push the ink back down into the inkpad; try stamping again. 

I've found the more I've stamped using the same ink the better the image as by stamping numerous times is naturally pushing that ink back down into the pad.

Here's a card I created during a team meeting with my upline Ellen Woodbridge. 

Ellen designed this beautiful Get Well card.

I hope you've been inspired by my creations and those of other amazing demonstrators. I'm Tanya Kane.... and enjoy!  And don't forget to come back and visit for more ideas and inspiration!

1.	Kylie Bertucci - Australia
2.	Valérie Perlin - France
3.	Sarah Fleming - USA
4.	Pia Gerhardt - Germany
5.	Candice Fields - USA
6.	Libby Dyson - Australia
7.	Alejandra Gomez - USA
8.	Hannah McCurley - UK
9.	Shelly Wadge - Australia
10.	Tatiana Tobin - Australia
11.	Cheryll Miller - Australia
12.	Wendy Lee-USA
13.	Tina Hewett - Australia
14.	Vicki Hunter - Australia
15.	Sandra Mastello - Australia
16.	Alessandra Winfield - Australia
17.	Angie McKenzie - USA
18.	Kate Bolt - Inkstampshare
19.	Anna Krol, UK
20.	Kayla MacAulay - Australia
21.	Tanya Kane - Australia

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Tanya

Animal Outing and Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured embossing

While Attending OnStage back in April, all demonstrators were given this super cute stamp set called Animal Outing. It really resonated with all Aussie demos because of the adorable kangaroo and koala.

I decided to use this cute little rhino in honour of the little rare one-horned rhino born in the UK recently. I have used memento black to stamp with and coloured with Stampin' Blends. The stamp set indicated where the additional shading needs to be, so I put an extra layer of colour down in those areas.

The Textured Layered Leaves embossing folder has so many uses, and looks amazing as the background for this image.

I found a scrap of DSP from a left over pack and thought "How cute would it be to have the giraffe peeping through the bushes"!

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Tanya

Share What You Love Bundles... What you need to know

I hope you enjoyed the cards from my previous post; Inksomniacs Blog Hop. I briefly touched on the bundles but didn't want to overwhelm you with greatness lol.

I'm soooo excited about the Share What You Love bundles. There really is something for every crafter and every budget. The more that I play with these goodies the more I love them! The pearlized embellishments are my fave. From the 1st of May 2018, Stampin' Up! are releasing 3 bundles... the frist bundle has one free product, the second 2 free products and the 3rd yup you guessed it 3 free products!!

The first bundle:

The second bundle:

The third bundle:

Are you excited?! Well it gets even better. The new In Colours for 2018-2020 have been released in a bundle with a 10% off discount.

If you NEED to have a catalogue, please message me as I would love to get a hardcopy in your hands to drool over :)

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Tanya