Caro on Stampin'

Monday Class Card 5 and 6

2012-02-09T06:34:00.000Z

Morning, I am back with my last two cards to show you.

This card uses an image from Hopeful Thoughts. Do you remember me using the same set in the first card I showed you? I used the marker pens to colour in the stamp and then huffed the stamp to moisten the ink and stamped the image onto whisper white card. The vase is made from the ornament punch, and then you cut off the bottom. To give some texture we then put this through the stripes folder and the big shot. The sentiment is from Pocket Silhouttes and layered onto the decorative label punch which has been cut in half. A bit of whisper white satin ribbon and spritizing with the colour tool and wisteria wonder marker pen finishes off the look.

and the final card....

This card is so simple and uses on of the FREE sale-a-bration sets and early espresso inkpad and marker pen. The greeting is layered up on dimensionals after being punched out using the curly label punch.

I have my Friday class on the 10th at 7.30pm at Chapel Hay Methodist Church, Churchdown. I have a few spaces left so let me know by the end of the day if you would like to join us. We will be making two lovely cards.

Monday Class card 3 and 4

2012-02-08T06:24:00.000Z

Morning I am back with two more cards to show you from my recent 6 card class.

The above card showcases the Artistic Etchings stamp set and I have given it a vintage feel with the over stamping and the lace ribbon. The greeting is from Outlined Occasions which is one of the FREE sale-a-bration sets you can earn with an order of £45 until the 31st March 2012.

This card would be ideal for a male birthday. It incorporates the modern label punch, word window punch, scallop border punch and the square lattice folder for the big shot.

We used the rock and roll technique to get the two tone colour on the leaves. The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Back soon with the last two cards. I have a crafting morning planned with a fellow demonstrator today and then I am off to Hannah's school to help with costume change as her whole school are putting on a production this week called Olivia. The first performance is this afternoon. I watched their full dress rehearsal on Monday and they did so well, just a few technical isses to resolve.

Monday Class card 1 and 2

2012-02-07T11:23:00.000Z

Good Morning

Last night saw a busy evening at my 6 card class. Everybody had to make difficult choices as to which FREE sale-a-bration set they ordered!! one lady just had to have 2 sets. I am a bit naughty as I try to bring out different stamp sets each class or use them in a different way, so you can see the possibilities.....

Here are the first two cards of the evening.

Both of these cards used images from Everything Eleanor, and sentiments from Curly Cute and Hopefull Thoughts.

The get well card got dunked in the concord Crush inkpad at some point in the evening, hence the mucky corner of the card in the photo.

and inside the box...

2012-02-03T17:06:00.002Z

so what was inside the box...any guesses?

Now pay special attention to the corner of the card. There is a bookmark attached, which looks like this.

I will be back next week with the cards from my 6 card class which is on Monday evening at 7pm at St John's Church Hall, Churchdown. Places are available but I need to know by Sunday evening if you are coming. The price of the class is £11 or FREE with an order of £16 or more on the night. A great opportunity for you to meet with like minded crafters and build your stash on a monthly basis. Any order of £45 also qualifies for a FREE sale-a-bration set too.

February workshop make and take design

2012-02-02T06:59:00.000Z

I have to say thank you to Amanda Fowler for this design. The layout is from a card we made last month at our quartely training, and I have just changed the colour combination.

The card uses one of the sale-a-bration stamp sets called Fresh Vintage. The colour combination is pool party, wisteria wonder and lucky limeade.

Isn't it just sooooo lovely....and remember the stamp set is FREE with an order of £45. I still have a few dates in February for party bookings so give me a call today to book yours.

Now here is my hostess gift...

I even worked out the measurements for this myself...make sure you check back to see what was in the box...

Rich Flowers and embossing....

2012-02-01T16:59:00.000Z

Over the last few months my sister and I have been drip feeding stampin'Up! to one of her friends in Birmingham. Now there is only so long that you can resist isn't there! One problem though was that Donna didn't drive and was therefore unable to attend events I run..Well guess what she has now passed her test...and last weekend she did a dummy run to Gloucester and used the motorway for the first time as she would like to attend the vintage extravaganza in March. In honour of this I designed a simple card for us to make last Saturday..she loved it and is coming down again this weekend for another card making session and is of course coming to extravaganza.

Here is the card we made, I just blinged mine a bit more after, as I only had 30 minutes from my sister that card making was one the menu.

I will be back tomorrow with some pictures of my workshop make and take for February and my hostess gift. Hannah is nagging me for tea...so best get to the kitchen!

January's (Thursday Class)

2012-01-25T06:03:00.000Z

Last Thursday was our class where we normally make an indepth card and a 3d project.

You will recognise the card as being similar to Monday's post....I just changed the colour combo and the stamping ink.

For our 3d project we made this long box from the pillow box die and the bigshot. It will fit a bar of chocolate!!! perhaps a nice pen or item of jewellery.

sale-a-bration

2012-01-24T00:04:00.006Z

Sale-a-bration has arrived!! I can't believe how quickly the last year has flown by, but Stampin'UP! are back again with their fabulous once a year incentive.

For each £45 order you place you are able to choose one of 4 limited addition stamp sets and a pack of 12 x 12 designer papers.

This offers runs from the 24th January through to the 31st March 2012. You can choose to purchase from all current catalogues and your free goodies will be delivered to you with your order.

Now if you decided to join the Stampin'UP! family and become a demonstrator during this period, you will receive a stamp set of your choice and up to any value for FREE. I will be holding an apportunity event in February where we can talk about this in more detail and of course you can contact me at any time if you are interested in this.

NOW I am offering my very own incentive during sale-a-bration (this is not an offer from Stampin'UP! or other demonstrators).

Would you like to earn your very own set of marker pens (page 112 in the main catalogue rrp £89.95)? If the answer is yes please read on.....

For every £45 order you place through me you will receive an entry into the draw.

If you host a party for me you will receive an entry into the draw.

If you join my team of Stampin'UP! demonstrators you will receive an entry into the draw.

£2 will also enter you into the draw.

The draw will take place on the 1st April 2012 and the winner will be announced on my blog.

Training With Amanda Fowler

2012-01-23T13:02:00.000Z

As I said on my previous post I went to our quarterly team taining on Saturday with Amanda Fowler. I had offered to do an inspiration table designed around one of the Sale-a-bration sets. This offer starts tomorrow the 24th January.....so make sure you come back and take a look.

I demonstrated the card below 4 times to around 40 people and promised to put the card details on my blog along with measurements. So here goes

First the card...

Here is the closed card...

Now for the measurements. This card is called an easel card and you will need.

1/2 sheet of A4 card scored at 10.5cm and 5.2cm. This will provide the card base. Remember to score the the lines nice and crisply with your bone folder. The fiskars trimmer makes this so easy to cut and score.

Then the front layer is a piece of cardstock measring 14.5cm x 10.2cm
The next layer is a piece of cardstock measuring 14.2cm x 10cm.
The insert is a piece of cardstock measuring 14.5cm x 10.2cm.

I distressed all the cardstock using the cutter tool but scissors work if you dont have this tool.

You could use this template and design your card around any stamp set and colour combo.

Any questions please give me a call on 01452 855231 X

"Celebrate its your day"

2012-01-20T15:43:00.000Z

We have our quarterly team meeting tomorrow and I thought I would show you one of the items I am displaying on my inspiration table.

I was asked to use one of our new celebation sets called Outlined Occasions". In my box of "things" that I buy thinking that I might be able to use them at some point I found a 2012 calendar and a display stand. I decided to use them and make a desk calender using one of the DSPs from the mini catalogue and the My Friend stamp set.

Some ribbon and little embossed butterflies finish the look.

Right I have bags to pack for me and Hannah as she is off to her nanny's for the weekend.

Simply Adorned

2012-01-19T15:42:00.001Z

I thought I would show you this delicious necklace I made recently using some new products from the mini catalogue.

The chain is from the simply adorned range and is 61cms long, and has a toggle clasp and Stampin'UP! charm identifier. I have decorated the necklance with one of the simply adorned charms. These are a locket-style charm with a hinge so that you can customize the charm with your own stamping or photo. I have stamped using the Artisitc Etchings stamp set and added a small heart and pearl. One of the simply adorned baubles, a key and a piece of victoria crochet ribbon finishes off the look.

Thank you Card

2012-01-13T10:47:00.002Z

Morning...It's a short post today but I thought I would show you the little thank you card all my ladies received with their product orders in January.

Whilst blog hopping and Internet surfing I came upon a card which I feel in love with and I have adapted it slightly and come up with a similar version. I can't remember where I saw this card so if it's one of yours please let me know so that I can credit you.

I have adapted it again and used for my quarterly team meeting swap which is next week so pop back after then to see another version.

Baby Card

2012-01-11T06:16:00.000Z

Do you remember me telling you about my Friend Paula and here baby that was due aroud the time of my birthday in December, well baby Harry finally arrived on the 28th December a mere 16! days late....Mother and baby are well (he is sooooo cute and I have to keep telling myself that it's to late to be going back to sleepless nights and teething) my baby starts secondary school in September!

I have had the little Additions stamp set for over a year now and only two of the stamps were mounted so I decided to mount the rest and make a card for Paula and Clive. Although I have many stamp sets and accessories sometimes it's easier to buy! omg I can't believe I have just admitted that. I know that handmade cards mean so much more and perhaps I need to make time to make cards for me rather than always for a class or someone else.

Anyway here is the card I came up with.

Monday Class Card 5 and 6

2012-01-10T06:29:00.000Z

Hi there. Today I am showing you the last two cards we made a our 6 card class.

Here is the first card of the day....

I feel this card has so many possiblities, but I have used it for an anniverary card. We embossed the whisper white card base with the elegant bouquet embossing folder and then lighty daubered the image with wisteria wonder ink. Then using a small hand held punch we punched out very small circles of wisteria wonder cardstock and added to the centre of each flower.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and was stamped and punched out using the word window punch. The outer images was made from the decorative label punch and a clever technique using a post it note!

and the last of our 6 cards.

This card has a whisper white cardbase and is teamed with bravo burgundy ink and cardstock.

We used the spritzer tool and the bravo burgundy maker pen to create the background of the card. A strip of bravo burgundy cardstock and matching dsp from the paisley petals range were then distressed using the distressing tool, and the edges then lighty daubered.

The image comes from the new postage set in the Spring Mini and were coloured in using bravo burgundy and old love marker pens. We then punched out the image using the new postgage stamp punch and daubered the edges. These images were adhered using dimensionals.

The Happy Birthday sentiment comes from Create a Cupcake.

I do hope you have enjoyed the last 6 cards and that they have inspired to create your own. If you would like to join in at our next class it will be held on Monday 6th february at St John's Church, Churchdown. Just call to book your place. Sale-a-bration will be with us next month

Monday Class card 3 and 4

2012-01-09T06:16:00.001Z

The weekend just flies by doesn't it....and then we are back to Monday morning, I hope the two cards I have for you today show you that minimal is ok, and your cards can look stylish with little product and effort!

Here is card 1.....

This card will be great to put by for the time when a masculine card is needed, and is very easy to create. The two stamp sets we used are Lovely as a Tree and Curly Cute which are in the main catalogue.

We have a very vanilla card base and we used More Mustard ink. First of all I made a template using the circles 2# die and the big shot. Next we placed the template on our card base and lightly daubered the inner circle. (this is called reverse masking) once this was done we stamped the tree image in the centre and added the happy birthday greeting at the bottom.

If you wanted a female version, you could follow the same technique and use flowers.

and card 2.....

Again we have a very vanilla base and we used crumb cake and soft suede ink.

We stamped the image Elizabeth straight onto the card base in crumb cake ink. This stamp is from our A la Carte' range and costs 8.95. We then stamped our greeting using one of the stamps you get in a set called It's your day which again is great value for money at £7.95 for 2 stamps. This was punched out using the oval punch and adhered using a dimensional to give some depth to the card.

Enjoy your day....and pop back soon

Monday Class card 1 and 2

2012-01-08T11:15:00.000Z

Due to the first Monday of the month being a bank holiday we held our 6 card class on Friday evening. Thank you to my group of ladies who came along, the new Spring Mini catalogue was well received by all.

Here is the first card we made.....

We used a very vanilla card base teamed with pool party ink and cardstock. The images are from a new stamp set in the spring mini called Spiced Paisley and the greeting is from Your a Gem. We ran the pool party card stock through the stripes embossing folder and added a strip of dsp from spice cake and velvet ribbon. The greeting was stamped and then punched out using the 3/4" circle punch.

and card 2....

This card uses a whisper white base and is teamed with Not Quite Navy cardstock and ink.

The floral image comes from My Friend in the Spring Mini and the sentiment from Create a Cupcake, which was stamped and punched out using the ex large oval punch and mounted on a decorative label shape.

To finish off the card we used the embosslits butterflies and cut them out using dsp from Paisley Petals. To make the card "pop" some rhinestone gems would look lovely along the body of the butterflies.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, Hannah and I are off for a walk soon to blow the cobwebs away!

Spring Mini Catalogue

2012-01-07T07:52:00.000Z

I am in love with this catalogue......I had such fun yesterday making some samples to show at last night's class. The vintage look and colours are so not in my colour palette ( I am a jewelled winter which means all the deep purples, green, black and white are so me) but I am so drawn to the mustards and browns to theme up with the stamp sets and accessories we have. No pink and purple for a while me thinks!!!

Here is one of my samples. A decorated journal

All the products used came from the Spring Mini or main Catalogue. (there may be something you don't recognise but all will be revealed after the 24th of January....

I have used a Stampin' Up! journal 6x6 and distressed so saffron and more mustard cardstock with the distressing tool and daubered the edges with crumb cake and early espresso ink. I have used the new spiced cake dsp and again distressed the edges with tearing and daubering. The circle in the centre comes from the circles 2# die and the sentiments from Your a Gem and something that will have to stay secret for a bit longer...I have used more mustard scallop dots ribbon, velvet ribbon from the spring mini, victoria crochet trim and very vaniila seam binding ribbon. Accessories come in the form of large buttons and a key charm from the mini and pearls from the main calatlogue. Ah nearly forgot I also used crystal effects on the "Love" and coloured in the small hearts with the real red marker pen.

I would love to know what you think of the journal?

First Class of 2012

2012-01-06T11:51:00.000Z

Tonight is our 6 card class. Class will be held at Chapel Hay Methodist Church for this month only, from 7-9pm.

You will have a chance to view the new mini catalgoue and get to use new products in making your cards.

A list of all 2012 classes and dates are on my blog. Just click on the classes tab at the top of the page or contact me for more details.

I Will post some photo's of the cards we make tomorrow.

Happy New Year

2012-01-03T17:21:00.000Z

The children have gone back to school today....have I had an easy day? No the decorations are down and the house has had a spring clean and I am now ready to get back to work.

I thought I would show you some of the lovely handmade Christmas Cards I received today, and then if you pop back tomorrow you will be able to have a look at our new mini catalogue. There are some lovely new things to see. I will also be updating my 2012 class dates so that you can plan ahead.....

So here we go with the cards.

Last Class of 2011

2011-12-28T16:32:00.000Z

My last class of 2011 was held on the 15th December, and since then I have had a bit of a break from crafting. End of term things with Hannah and then visits to Sussex and Hampshire last week and that last minute Christmas Shopping and queuing to collect the turkey......

let me show you what we made...we decided we had had enough of Christmas so we made these fun box's and card.

Here is the box we made. The original idea came from Jenny Moors and my ladies asked to make one exactly the same so we did.

and the card

Now I don't normally do this with cards but I used 4 different stamp sets with this one. Everything Eleanor, Aviary, French Foliage and Happiest Birthday Wishes. They just seemed to go well together. The card is a two fold one and just so easy to create.

We had mince pies, sweets and homemade cakes as it was the birthday of one of my ladies.

Cards by some very talented ladies and gents

2011-12-20T18:23:00.000Z

I have just taken down my birthday cards today to make room for Christmas cards. I thought I would share some of the handmade ones with you.

Friday Class

2011-12-16T10:11:00.000Z

Last Friday it was our last Christmas class. I decided that we would have a fun packed evening with 4 projects to make.

We made a gift bag inspired by Jenny Moors and a tag to go with it. We used the Mocha Morning Speciality papers and early espresso cardstock.

We then moved on to this lovely snowman box that Amanda Fowler showed us how to do earlier in the year.

and lastly a little thinking of you card. The stamped images are from Pines and poinsettias and were stamped using the marker pens so that we had a multi coloured image.

In the New Year I will have a brand NEW set of the marker pens to give away! please make sure you check back to find out how you can take part.

Thank you tags

2011-12-15T10:02:00.001Z

At my Monday class most of my ladies place an order of £16 or more and receive their 6 cards for free. The order was placed last tuesday and I received 3 large box's of goodies on Friday! Wow that was a quick turnaround. Now having said that I had a class on Friday evening and a lot of my ladies were coming so I needed to get the order unpacked and thank you cards made.

I decided to use the two tags die and the big shot to make thank you tags.
The greeting and image are from Easy Events and I coloured in the images with blender pens and ink from the inkpad leaf.

Its a pamper day!!

2011-12-14T08:08:00.000Z

It's my birthday today and I am off with my sister and 2 friends for manicure's and pedicure's and a spot of lunch.

We will be having a laugh I am sure.....but hopefully not having to act as the midwife. My friend Paula is expecting a baby and he was due on the 12th but has decided to stay put for a little while longer.

That Christmas Card....

2011-12-13T17:01:00.000Z

I have finally managed a 10 minute slot to upload some photos and post for you. Tea is cooking and we are off to Hannah's Christmas Carol concert tonight. Just hope it may stop raining so that we can walk....parking will be difficult at the church.

This is the Christmas Card that I demonstrated at a local library craft group.

I love the vintage look that the lace ribbon gives the card.

Monday Class Card 5 and 6

2011-12-09T09:08:00.000Z

Now we are on to the last two cards of the evening....

I hope you can see this picture ok? Its a simple but effective Christmas card. We embossed the whisper white sheet cardstock using the big shot and the vintage wallpaper embossing folder. The greeting was added at the bottom.

and our last card....

This pretty card using Season of Joy and Green house Garden stamp sets together with a greeting from Sincere Saluations. There was a bit of hand cutting on this card.... Look out for my next post and you will see how I turned this card into a Christmas one.

Monday Class card 3 and 4

2011-12-07T08:00:00.001Z

Here are the next two cards we made

I love the vintage feel of this card. The basic grey cardstock was distressed using the distressing tool and then daubered with basic grey ink. We did the same to the layer of DSP (retired stock). We then added some black scallop trim ribbon and stamped the boat. The boat is one of our A la carte stamps and is great value for money at £8.95. A birthday greeting was added inside.

I think my ladies have decided perfect plum is one of my favourite colours....and they would be right. I took the inspiration for this card from a recent one my Stampin' UP! granny sent me. Thank you Jane!

I sold several of these frames for the big shot last night...They are so useful and great value for money at £7.95 for a pair. One rectangle and one Oval.

Monday Class card 1 and 2

2011-12-06T08:49:00.001Z

Here are the first two cards we made last night.

I think the second card will look better with a bit of bling or a subtle pearl. This is somthing my ladies can add later.

A Lucky Girl!!!!

2011-12-05T16:49:00.000Z

Gosh I can't believe it's almost a week since I last posted. Things have been a bit hectic at home.

On Wednesday I picked up my new car......A little present from my husband!
My old faithful Ford was part exchanged for a smaller and more ecomonical Nissan Note. Its lovely to drive and I have to admit I will feel more confident doing the longer journey in this car.

On Thursday I meet a lovely group of ladies at a local library craft group. They were all new to Stampin' UP! and it was my great pleasure to introduce them to a whole new way of crafting. I will show you the christmas card we made in a few days time.

On Friday I went to see Duran Duran at the LG Arena Birmingham with my sister. We had a lovely evening and it was great to revisit the music of my youth....

On Saturday I was up at the crack of dawn taking Hannah and my Mothering- in- law to catch a coach to crystal Palace were Hannah was taking part in a Cheerleading Competition, and then it was back home to get ready for, 4 ladies coming to my house and crafting. 3 of them made the Christmas Wreath and Helen came along and had free range of all my stampin'UP! punches and big shot accessories.

Here they are.....ignore the mess in the background please.

A quick tidy up and then Alice and I were off to Cheltenham Ladies College for the Winston's Wish annual memorial service. We always do this togther to remember Alice and Matt's dad and meet up with friends we have made. I also made my annual donation as I do not send general Christmas cards instead I donate the money to Winston's Wish so that they can continue with the fabulous work they do in helping children deal with the loss of a parent or sibling.

Hannah and her Nan arrived home about 9.15pm shattered and disappointed that the squad didn't come within the top 3.

Finally we all made it to bed.

I have Monday Card class tonight and will be showing you the cards we make during the week.

Thursday Class Card Project

2011-11-29T15:30:00.000Z

Our November class was held last Friday, a bit later than normal due to me being away at convention....

Here is the card we made. The bauble is heat embossed with the cherry cobbler embossing powder. These fab new colours are amazing and going down very well with my customers.

Our second project was this lovely vintage box. Everybody received a bar of chocolate to put in their finished box to take home, but it will easily hold a lovely set of jewellry or fancy pen.

I just love the Mocha Morning paper and the lace ribbon and antique brads.

The final class of the year will be held on the 15th December 2011 please contact me to reserve your space. Class costs £8.00

November Friday Class

2011-11-25T08:07:00.000Z

At My last Friday class we made these two projects.

A lovely Christmas Card with Gold Embossing

The second project was a gift card holder using the top note die and the big shot.

Awards Dinner Convention 2011

2011-11-23T15:13:00.000Z

After a full day of swapping crafting and business talk it was time for us all to go and get dressed up ready for our awards dinner.

We were honoured to have Shelli Gardner (cofounder and CEO of Stampin' UP!) and her daughter Sara join us at our table for dinner.

Here is our starter, it was lovely

I forgot to take a picture of the other courses duh!!!!!

Here we are all dressed up

and lastly here is me walking across the stage for my sales achievment.

My Swap and Room Gift from Convention 2011

2011-11-22T15:06:00.000Z

Last year at convention I found out that when you share a room with a fellow Stampin' UP! person you generally make them a gift. I had 3 gifts to make one for Jane, Gilly and Kerry.
I had kept 4 tins from my extravangza and decided to decorate them and put coasters inside.

Next came my team swap. There were 13 of us this year attending convention, and this was my swap. I bought the frames just after last christmas and they have been hiding in my shed waiting for the right moment....

and finally my convention swap. I made a decision to make a smaller number of swaps this time (21) but for them to showcase a number of techniques and give that WOW factor.

This brings me to the end of this post I hope you like what you see....I would love to have some more friends join me at convention 2012 in Germany if you would like all the details of how you can join me give me a call on 01452 855231.

Lastly Vicky I hope you are reading this!! Thank you so much for your help in making all my swaps/gifts. It made the task a lot quicker XXXXXX

I'm BACK!!!

2011-11-21T14:20:00.004Z

Hi everyone, just grabbing a quick few minutes to let you know I am still here. I got back yesterday from Disneyland Paris and Stampin' UP!s 2011 convention yesterday.

We have had an amazing few days and guess what Stampin' UP! is going to get even better!! oh yes......and that's a little tease from me so make sure you keep looking in .............

I spent my time with some lovely and amazing ladies who share my love of paper crafting and Stampin' UP! 3 ladies were very special and they were my room mates for the duration and we had such a ball..........some photos will be shared and a few won't (OK Jane my special one of you came out a treat.....but I wont be sharing I promise!)

Here's a few pics today. I am busy cooking tea to leave for my hubby tonight as I am out with the two girls, and it will soon be school pick up time. I just hopes it stops raining! although I could do a bit of free advertising and use my new Stampin' UP! umbrella.

Christmas Wreath Class

2011-11-14T09:29:00.003Z

NEW I AM RUNNING A CLASS FOR YOU TO MAKE THE LOVELY CHRISTAMAS WREATH FEATURED HERE.

The class will be on the 3rd December 2011 from 10-1 at Chapel Hay Methodist Church, Churchdown.

The cost will be £18 to included your styrofoam ring, half a pack of Holly Berry Bouquet Speciality papers, 1 metre of ribbon and a pack of flat head pins.

All you will need to bring along is a 12x12 trimmer to cut your paper into strips.

Please let me know asap if you would like to come along, and payment will be required by the 20th November in order that I can order all the product need and ensure it is here on time.

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

News

2011-11-06T18:49:00.005Z

Hi just to let you know I am still around, just had a busy week and a fab weekend attending Jenny Moors extravaganza.

Georgina and I made a weekend of it by taking the children out of school on Friday afternoon and travelling down to Ringwood in Hampshire to stay with my Uncle and his family. Whilst Georgina and I went crafting for the day on Saturday, Hannah and Thomas were set to work raking the leaves in their Great Uncle Steve's garden and then they had a trip to Burley where they went witch hunting....

If you ever get the chance to go to Jenny's extravaganza you will be spoilt and have the most wonderful time crafting with friends and making the most beautiful projects. Jenny is a very talented lady. She holds a crafters competition where you can make something put it on display and then throughout the day everyone has one vote for their favourite thing. I made this Christmas wreath, inspired from one I saw hanging in Jane Cutting's kitchen on Wednesday and I won! I was amazed.

Hannah went off with her dad this morning to stock car racing together with her guy for the competition there. They are having a bonfire after racing. She has just phoned me to say her guy won.....I think we need to buy a lottery ticket ticket, and see if our luck continues!

Hannah's guy was made from lots of brown paper which I have with my stampin' UP orders, a pair of old tights, an old dressing up costume and stampin' UP! cardstock and sticky strip. So it sounds like they had fun today I hope she saves some of her prize for me (its chocs) for relaxing with later whilst we watch the last episode of Downton Abbey and of course X Factor.

I have two classes running next week so I hope to see some of you either Monday/Friday or both.

"It's good to be the Hostess"

2011-11-03T20:03:00.001Z

NEW PROMOTION

Get even more FREE products when you host a qualifying Stampin’ Up! workshop
1 November – 15 December 2011.

Scallop Dots Ribbon Share

2011-10-29T08:44:00.000+01:00

I am running a ribbon share with the Scallop Dots Ribbon. I have filled one share and the second one is half full.

I need nine people to run each share and for £7.72 you will receive 1 metre of each colour in the range.

Here's a look and my first batch all cut and ready to go.

If you would like to take a space please get in touch.

Another 3D cone Box

2011-10-28T08:42:00.000+01:00

Here is another box made with the Cone die and the big shot.

This one would make a lovely Christmas Favour box.

Thursday Class Card Project

2011-10-27T17:42:00.000+01:00

Gosh I can't believe it's a week since I posted. I promised the girls that I would spend some time with them this week as its the school holiday's and I have been so busy during October with workshops and my all day event.

I thought I would share last Thursday's class projects with you.

Here's the card

I pretty much cased this card from Monica Gale. Everything Eleanor is my favourite new stamp set I just soooooo love it. My colour combo is black, soft suede and pool party. I screwed up the lace ribbon border and adhered it using sticky strip so that it look like lace! The dsp is from the neutrals paper stack and we hand cut the flowers. The greeting was from Tiny Tags and the banner was from the cone die.

Here is our 3D project

We have used Wild Wasabi and Marina mist and the cone die to make this project. We tied the box with the lovely Victoria crochet trim.

More Monday cards from earlier this month

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card 3

card 4

Card 5

Card 6

The top card here is the one that we ended up making, the bottom one was my original idea.

Our next class is on the 7th November at 7.30pm. If you would like to join us please get in touch.

More from Extravangza

2011-10-19T08:49:00.000+01:00

project 3 "A Tag box and Tags"

The last project of the day was to make 3 Christmas Cards.

This brings us to the end of the day....YES ladies there will be another one but Helen I can't fit one in before Christmas!!!!! I will email you the next date soon and will again offer the early bird booking fee.

Extravanagza Projects

2011-10-18T08:45:00.001+01:00

Project one " A book in a Tin"

Project 2 "A snowglobe card"

Back tomorrow with the last 2 projects. Hope you can join me?

Ladies crafting and Cake........

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Here are some photo's of everyone enjoying themselves (well I hope so anyway!!!!)

And cake for afternoon tea.....Its huge thanks to my mum who made the cupcakes and Nancy who as always kept everybody in tea and coffee..

Christmas Extravaganza

2011-10-16T18:37:00.000+01:00

The day finally arrived yesterday that I have been planning and preparing for.

22 lovely ladies crafting for a full day.....with a christmas theme. Here are all the tables set up before everybody arrived.

We had a welcome table with everybodies stamp set and welcome packs.

A Christmas tree with gifts and christmas carols playing in the background......

I will be back tomorrow with some more pics..

Monday Class Card 2

2011-10-07T10:32:00.001+01:00

This was our second card.

Products Used

Big Shot and elegant bouquet embossing folder, Island Indigo ink and cardstock. Scallop oval punch and dauber. Sincere Saluations stamp set.

Monday Class card 1

2011-10-06T10:27:00.000+01:00

I can't believe how fast our monthly monday class comes around!! This is the first card that we made.

Ladies I am so pleased that you liked this one!

Products used.
Big shot, square lattice embossing folder, bashful blue, not qute navy and very vanilla cardstock. Ornate flowers and just believe stamp sets. Bashful blue ink and dauber

New Catalogue Launch

2011-10-05T10:26:00.000+01:00

Last Saturday saw my catalogue launch day and I thought I would share a few photo's of the day with you. It was a lovely morning with about 15 ladies and gents popping by. The new catalogue was well received by everyone and ladies your orders will be here tomorrow!! Hooray......

Thank You

2011-10-02T10:09:00.000+01:00

I would just like to thank you all for your support in being my workshop hostesses and coming along to classes over the last year. Your support means that I have earned my place to walk across the stage at Stampin' UP! convention in November. Convention is being held at Disney Land Paris this year and I know there will be lots of lovely things waiting for us. There will be more about Convention in November.

New Catalogue Launch

2011-09-28T17:06:00.003+01:00

So for my absence recently. So much to do and not enough time!! I have some lovely things to share with you from the 1st October using new products and stamp sets.

Please drop in to Chapel Hay Methodist Church, Chapel Hay Lane, Churchdown, Glos on Saturday morning from 10-12 where you will be able to have a look at the new catalogue and some samples. Of course there will be something for you to make as well.

NEW CLASS on a FRIDAY

2011-09-18T09:51:00.000+01:00

This was our second card for the evening. For this card I concentrated on two stamp sets that our leaving us at the end of the month!! Big Bold Birthday and Plane and Simple. I can't believe that Plane and Simple is going as I love this set. I will be keeping my set for my own personal use.

We have a made a single panel card here. Although everyone had their card pre-cut and scored for them I showed them how to make this simple but effective card.

The colour combination is concord crush, pear pizazz and whisper white. We used pretty in pink, concord crush and pear pizazz ink for stamping.

The dsp are from lap of luxury and we just daubered around the edges. We used the scallop border punch along the bottom panel of the card.

Next month we will be making two projects using the Build a Blossom stamp set and punch. The class is on the 7th October at 8pm. Give me a call for more details.

NEW CLASS on a FRIDAY

2011-09-17T09:42:00.000+01:00

I started a new class last week where we will be doing a mixture of projects. If there is something you would like to do let me know and we can try and cover this for you at this class. This month we made two more in depth cards.

I cannot take the credit for our first card. I found it on Monica Gales blog and just loved it. I have changed the colour combo but basciaaly its the same.

The card base is cherry cobbler and we have used the music roller over the top half of the card using cherry cobbler ink. Then we have two panels one baja breeze and the other very vanilla for stamping on. We stamped images from Just Believe in soft suede and then over stamped them. The flowers were punched out using the flower from the punches with the itty bitty stamp set in the mini catalogue. A pearl was added to the middle of each one.

Now the clever bit is the ribbon. We used a mixture of crumb cake and baja breeze seam binding ribbon. We tied a large bow and then spritzed it with water, scrunched up and left to dry. You are then left with a messy looking bow (or maybe vintage). Adhere this using a glue dot.

The sentiment was stamped into the frame from Just believe and then layered onto a piece of baja breeze punched out using the decorative label punch.

Monday Class Card 6

2011-09-16T09:38:00.000+01:00

This was our last card of the night....We have used Cajun craze and so saffron and the stamp set was Clearly for You which will be moving from the mini to main catalogue in October.

We stamped the butterflies onto the main image and then re stamped them and hand cut them out and layered on top. A bit fiddly but hey we have to have one that requires a bit more concentration don't we!!!!

Monday Class Card 5

2011-09-15T09:35:00.000+01:00

This was our Christmas card for the month of September. We used the Jolly Holly retiring DSP (these have now all sold out) and layered the squares on a strip of old olive cardstock. The square were punched out using the 1 1/4" square punch.

The sentiment was from Occasional Greetings again.

Monday Class Card 4

2011-09-14T09:30:00.000+01:00

This card is bright and a bit funky. The colour combination is melon mambo and pumpkin pie.

We used fine flourish to create a background and then punched out a few circles using the 3/4" and 1" circle punches. A bit of stamping and daubering on these add a touch of interest. We used the scallop trim border punch along the edge of the melon mambo card together with a piece of pretty in pink ribbon.

The sentiment is from Curly cute.

Monday Class card 3

2011-09-13T09:27:00.000+01:00

This is a black and cream theme. The stamp set is Just Believe. ( I seem to be using this a lot at the minute!) and basic black ink. A few rhinestone gems add a bit of bling.

Monday Class Card 2

2011-09-12T09:22:00.000+01:00

For this card we have used night of navy cardstock and ink.

The flower background was using greenhouse garden and the frame was from four frames in the mini catalogue. This lovely set is moving over to our new catalogue in October. The greeting was from occasional greetings which retires at the end of this month so please do make your order for this before it goes. It is also available with a massive 40% discount.

The greeting was placed in the frame using the stamp-a-ma-jig.

A piece of night of navy ribbon knotted finishes off the card.

Monday Class card 1

2011-09-10T09:16:00.003+01:00

I can't believe where this week has gone. Its Saturday morning and I am finally posting some pictures for you. I have had two classes this week, Hannah has gone back to school and Alice has had 2 indution days at college and starts Monday......

The above is the first of the six cards we made last Monday. The cards at this class are simple, stylish and easy to duplicate.

We used pacific point cardstock and the retiring blueberry crisp dsp. The square were punched using the 1 3/8" square punch.

The greeting was from just believe and stamped in pacific point ink and punched out using the word window punch.

Workshop card

2011-09-05T08:30:00.000+01:00

We had a lovely time at Jo's workshop on Friday evening. All the ladies have been to workshop's before and regulary attend my classes, so we agreed on a simple make and take and then lots of time to look at the last chance list. The ladies had all been back to work that day as well after the school holidays so wanted a relaxing evening.

The inspiration from this card comes from a Christmas card Amanda showed us at our last training and I just changed the colour combo and dsp and of course the greeting.

The card base was perfect plum and we used papers from Lap of Luxury. Rose red cardstock was the base onto which we adhered the dsp which had been punched using the 1 1/4" punch. The edges were daubed using concord crush ink.

The greeting came from Cheer and Wishes which is one of our retiring stamp sets. The inside of the card had a little more stamping using Big Bold Birthday another retiring stamp set. We used the stamp-a-ma-jig to position the two images.

Dirty Dancing

2011-09-04T10:22:00.004+01:00

We had the most fabulous time yesterday.......The play was amazing very like the film. I have to admit to being rather hot when we left!!!

When we arrived the water fountains were normal but when we left they were pink and we managed to get a rather nice lady to take our photo with the pink water as the back drop.

The girls shopped as well so much that we had a trip back to the car so that we had more hands free for more shopping....after.

We you loved the film first time round and get the chance to see the musical you won't be disappointed.

Off to see Dirty Dancing

2011-09-03T10:02:00.002+01:00

Morning

Thought I would do a quick post whilst waiting to be picked up. I have a girly day arranged today. We are off to Bristol to see the musical Dirty Dancing......I have seen the film soooooo many times and know the script off by heart X

First off is coffee and cakes and a little shopping....then the musical and a lovely meal after. What more could a girl ask for?

I have been told the area around the theatre is very pink, even the water in the fountain outside. Will try and take a picture and show you tomorrow.

I have lots of things to show you and hope once Alice starts college on Monday and Hannah goes back to school I can get back into the swing of things......

see you tomorrow XX

Retiring Products

2011-09-01T09:20:00.002+01:00

Good Morning

Earlier all of you on my mailing list will have received our retiring list of catalogue items....there are some great bargains to be had with up to 40% off some items.

I have my first workshop scheduled for tonight as a group of ladies make the most of this annual offer from Stampin'UP!

Please do check out the list and give me a call/email/text with your orders. Once these items have sold out they will be deleted from the list........I will of course keep you updated if this is the case.

Remember I can take visa or masterCard, cash and cheque for your order.

Any questions at all please call 01452 855231 / 07855617920

A special card and gift for a special friend

2011-08-31T09:29:00.001+01:00

It was my best friends birthday at the end of the month and this is the card and gift folder I gave her.

I have used the in colours and some DSP for my theme. Last week I was sorting out left over class/workshop kits and this card was adapted from one of those left over kits.

I used pocket silhouettes for the stamping.

The message on the insert inside the gift folder was printed on the PC and then punched out.

Will she like her present!!! I will let you know................

Friends Crafting

2011-08-29T10:37:00.000+01:00

Last Thursday I spent the day crafting with Trevor (my downline) and his mum Irene.

The card was my design and was adapted from one of the leftover workshop kits I had sorted out. The colour was certainly celery and pretty in pink. The subtles family is my favourite!! I showed Trevor how to create this little pinwheel effect from the 5 petal punch.

After lunch Trevor showed me how to make this lovely box (in matching colour), which is perfect for jewellery. Thank you Trevor for the tips on making a perfect box!

well I nearly did didn't I!! Trevor also showed me some masking techniques, and gave me the measurements for perfectly making square and rectangles using the scallop trim corner and border punch.

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This is a card is recently sent to my downline Trevor. I had fun using the owl punch and the woodland walk dsp.

Monday Class Card 6

2011-08-26T10:18:00.000+01:00

This is a slight variation of the card we did. I can't seem to find my photo so thought we would use Pat's card instead.

I love the colour combo of this card and the use of the punches.

Monday Class Card 5

2011-08-25T17:15:00.003+01:00

Well better late than never with these last two cards. This week has just flown by....

We have used Cajun craze, basic grey, baja breeze and whisper white with this card and the stamp set is Artistic Etchings and Oval All.

Panels and layers give dimension to this card.

Monday Class Card 4

2011-08-19T09:22:00.000+01:00

This one uses a very vanilla base and wild wasabi ink and cardstock.

The images are from Just Believe and the sentiment from Party this Way. We stamped the tall grass image from the stamp set and then run it through the lattice embossing folder and the big shot. A bit of tearing on the wild wasabi cardstock is added to the bottom. We used the samj to centre the sentiment before hand cutting out the image.

A bit of gold elastic cord is knotted at the top.

Monday Class card 3

2011-08-18T09:13:00.000+01:00

A Christmas card this time. Using whisper white and perfect plum ink and cardstock.

The stamp set is Season of Joy and we added 3 rhinestone gems to the centre of the flowers at the top of the image.

We punched the scallop trim border punch along the strip of cardstock.

Monday Class Card 2

2011-08-16T09:09:00.000+01:00

Don't you just love this bright card? The colours are real red, pumpkin pie and pacific point. The stamp set is seeing stars and the greeting is from Curly Cute.

The scallop border punch was used along the real red cardstock.

Monday Class card 1

2011-08-15T09:05:00.000+01:00

We have a whisper white base teamed with chocolate chip ink and cardstock.

The stamp is a single one and is called Sail away (123013 £8.95) and is ideal for masculine cards. The spiral border punch is used along the side of the card. A bit of gold elastic cord tied finishes the card.

Everyone added their own sentiment from sincere salutations.

Away at sea........

2011-08-14T08:01:00.000+01:00

Hannah and I are away for four days staying with friends in Devon. If you have any orders please email them to me and I will action on Wednesday 17th.

I have scheduled some posts so please keep popping by.

Plane and Simple

2011-08-13T09:55:00.000+01:00

Now this card is much bold than the last one. I used odd scraps of card that I had. The base is crumb cake teamed with pacific point and blueberry crisp dsp. The sentiment comes from party this way and was stamped in pacific point ink, punched out with the word window punch and layered onto the modern label punch.

Again a bit of mat and layering finishes off the card.

Plane and Simple

2011-08-11T09:51:00.000+01:00

I have been asked for some more cards using the bi-plane from the stamp set Plane and Simple.

I have this set as one of my favourites in the mini catalogue.

This card has a whisper white base and is teamed with basic black and newsprint DSP.

The image was stamped in basic black and then I used the Black journal pen and the spritzer tool to give a more vintage feel. A little bit of mat and layering finishes off the card.

Workshop card

2011-08-09T10:39:00.003+01:00

I did a workshop last Friday evening for a lovely group of ladies. Thank you Jan for inviting me.

This is the card that we made during the evening. I am really impressed with my bow tieing ....the seam binding ribbon makes it so easy to do.

My card base was rose red and then we created a watermark background using versamark and one of the images from style beautiful. The other contrasting colours were so saffron and wild wasabi.

We used the scallop trim border punch along the side edges and then used the Beautiful Butterflies die and the big shot to cut the butterfly. (this is a great way of using up all your scraps) the butterfly was finishes of with a row of pearls along the centre of its body.

The sentiment comes from sincere salutations and is stamped in rose red ink, punches out with the ex large oval punch and layered on a decorative label. The DSP comes from the soft subtles paper stack.

Thursday Class Card Project

2011-08-04T10:10:00.001+01:00

This is Thursday's card project. We have a bashful blue cardbase, teamed with basic grey, whisper white and pacific point.

The piece of pacific point cardstock at the top has been rollered with the very vintage wheel and pacific point ink. At the bottom of the card we have a piece of Pacific point dsp from the paperstack dsp.

The scallop circle is the die again and the big shot, and we used the cop-o-dile to punch a hole in each scallop. (sorry ladies I know some of you didn't like doing this!) The second scallop in whisper white was from one of my own dies and then passed through the square lattice. The flower was from the flower bust embosslit and had a rhinestone gem in the middle. The leaves were from the 2 step bird punch again.

The greeting came from the level 2 hostess gift stamp set in the mini catalgoue Afterthoughts. The fish tail was created using the photo corner punch.

The ribbon was the whisper white satin ribbon.

Gift with Purchase

2011-08-03T19:01:00.000+01:00

For orders of £75 or more, or if you host a party of £250 you get these lovely items for free.

Some of their lovely striped grosgrain ribbon, selection of clips and the lovely exclusive toiletries bag.

Call me today to book your own workshop.

Wedding Gift

2011-08-02T09:03:00.000+01:00

I have to give credit to Jo Whittle for this gift, as it is a smaller version of a frame she brought to last Thursday's class. Jo saw a similar gift in one of the posh!! shops in Cheltenham and knew she could recreate for a fraction of the cost.

I brought a box frame from the range and painted it using a tester post. I hand drew a heart shape and then die cut lots of the butterfly embosslits and covered the shape.

To finish off the corners I punched out the small heart from the 3 heart punch and adhered then to the frame corners and covered with crystal effects.

One week has passed

2011-07-31T10:00:00.001+01:00

Well we have survived the first week of the school holidays. Have you?

We have visited the fair this week, been swimming and had several play dates. I have also managed to craft and prepare for my next Monday class which is the 8th August at 7pm.

Pop back again soon to see the lovely wedding gift I have made to give to my cousin who got married in July in Italy.

July's Thursday Class Project

2011-07-29T09:45:00.002+01:00

We made these lovely scallop circle bags at our last Thursday class.

Georgina, Vicky and I worked to design the insert for the bags ourselves as I found lots of these bag designs on the Internet but couldn't find any measurements for the inserts.

The flowers were made using the flowers die and the lattice square embossing folder and the big shot. The cardstock used was so saffron, daffodil delight and springtime vintage dsp.

The scallop circles were made using perfect plum cardstock and rose red. The die was again passed through the big shot. as you can pass through about 6 pieces of cardstock at the same time it made the prep a lot quicker.

The leaves were from the 2 step bird punch.

July Quarterly Training

2011-07-25T10:14:00.002+01:00

Morning all....Well its the first full week of the school holidays for us and the "what are we doing today" has already started.

Well Hannah I need to do some washing, renew the car insurance, sort out our family rail card, collect a book for the library and the list goes on........Think we will need to compromise somewhere along the line don't you? At the moment she is listening to music so I am trying to get as much done as I can whilst she is occupied. Just the library to go now...

I was a bit behind with posting last week but thought I would show you the two swaps I designed to take to our quarterly training on the 16th. It was a fun day with lots of chat and crafting. Although its a long day and involves a fair bit of travelling it is always well worth it.

Now I will try and keep up with posting on my blog over the holidays so please do keep popping back. Classes will be running through the holidays and I am available if you would like a home workshop during August as well. Just contact me for available dates X

Monday Class Card 6

2011-07-18T08:27:00.000+01:00

This is our Christmas card of the evening. It was a whisper white cardbase teamed with Bravo Burgundy cardstock and ink. The snowflake images come from Serene Snowflakes and the greeting is from Contempo Christmas. We have used the spiral border punch along on side of the cardstock and stamped the centre images and greeting using the white craft ink. A rhinestone gem has been placed in the centre.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing this months cards. Would you like to join us at the next class? Its on the 8th August at 7pm, please contact me for more details.

Monday Class Card 5

2011-07-16T08:20:00.000+01:00

This was our second card of the evening aimed at males, but do you know what most of my ladies swapped the greeting to SEASONS GREETINGS from Curly Cute and were going to add a bit of sparkle and have it as a christmas card. I am so pleased that my ladies feel comfortable to be able to change a card or its greeting. My original design is there if you want it, but we all learn so much from sharing our creativity!

The card is a very vanilla base and strips of always artichoke and garden green cardstock. Both inkpads in the same colour were on the table for stamping the tree. The tree image comes from Lovely as a Tree

Monday Class Card 4

2011-07-14T08:10:00.000+01:00

Our fourth card of the evening could be used for a number of occasions. I left this card without a greeting, but left choices out on the table so that my ladies could personalise their card.

We have a whisper white base and then concord crush as the co-ordinating colour. I have used the Strength and Hope stamp set which is one of my favourites at the moment.

The middle of the card has a decorative label punched out in concord crush and then the butterfly was stamped onto a piece of scrap card and punched out using the ex large oval punch. This doesn't give you the full butterfly but you want to make sure you have the antennae. Then stamp and hand cut out another butterfly without the antennae and adhere it on top.

My ladies and I don't do fiddly cutting out!

Monday Class card 3

2011-07-12T08:04:00.000+01:00

Our third card is inspired from last months Thursday project. We used the Garden Whimsy stamp set and another greeting from Sincere Salutations.

Our card base is very vanilla together with Regal Rose and Soft Suede inkpads for stamping with. The images have been stamped onto 1 3/4" squares and then glued together to form a jigsaw like pattern.

Remember our cards at this class are stylish but easy to put together, so that everyone should go home with 6 completed cards.

Monday Class Card 2

2011-07-10T08:00:00.000+01:00

I know a number of my ladies, don't like to use the wheels and handles straight onto their cardbase, but hey ladies practice makes perfect!!

We have a whisper white base and have then used perfect plum ink and cardstock. The wheel is the retro mix and then we used the big shot and beautiful wings embosslits with a greeting from Sincere Salutations.

Monday Class card 1

2011-07-08T08:53:00.000+01:00

Our first card is a male themed card. We have used whisper white and basic black cardstock and ink.

The motorbike comes from the mini catalogue and is excellent value for money at £7.95.

I wanted to achieve a clean look with this card with no fuss, although we did use the distressing tool to rough up the edges of the cardstock.

The greeting comes from Occasional Greetings and is one that I often overlook but I think the size of it blends itself well to this card.

A picture from Bournemouth

2011-07-06T08:44:00.000+01:00

Just a few photo's from our weekend away.....The weather was absolutely gorgeous just sun sun sun!!!! The bottom photo shows Hannah in the blue with her friend George. The both compete for the youth division of GCA Fireflies. They had so much fun on the beach and in the sea. Must admit to having a bit of a paddle too.

The top photo is of the BIC in Bournemouth you can just make out the number of people below where we were sitting. Apparently there was a 16K footfall over the weekend, that's a lot of people. Many people watched their teams perform and then moved outside to the beach.

The Youth team came 8th out of 14 so we were really pleased as they were up against some really top squads.

Monday Class

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Remember its class tonight at 7pm at St John's church Churchdown. We have 6 lovely cards to complete including one Christmas card.

If you have not booked in and would like to join us please ring me, I cut several spare kits and if I can fit you in I will. 01452 855231 /07855617920

Come back later on in the week and see what we made.

Away for the Weekend

2011-07-02T07:37:00.000+01:00

Hannah and I are off to Bournemouth today after her Cheer practice as we have a competition tomorrow.

Hoping for fresh air to lift our spirits! and dry weather so we can picnic/BBQ on the beach tonight.

Will let you know how they get on next week.

And the Box envelope

2011-07-01T10:20:00.000+01:00

This template is the same that we used for last months project, but we have just altered the overall look.

The box itself is early espresso, and then we have embossed panels of regal rose using the big shot and vintage wallpaper.

The butterflies were also cut using the big shot and then put through the same embossing folder. A few pearls finished the look.

Now thinking of next months projects.

June's Thursday Class

2011-06-30T10:08:00.001+01:00

Last Thursday we made a waterfall card and a box envelope. This post will concentrate on the waterfall card but I will show you the finished box another time.

First of all I have to say a massive thank you to Georgina and Vicky who ran the class on my behalf. Good friends and sisters are like angels in disguise XXXXX

So back to the card, we used regal rose as the base followed by early espresso. This layer was stamped with the sanded background. The waterfall mechanism is real rose, early espresso and whisper white, and two silver brads.

This card looks so effective, and is easy to make (if I can do it so can you!) I found a you tube tutorial and watched it a couple of times and hey presto the card emerged. I also found some inspiration at www.haveagostampin.blogspot.com which is Jane's blog.

The stamp set we used was Garden Whimsy, and went down a treat with a number of my ladies as they like butterflies. We used regal rose and early espresso inkpads and then the markers in old olive, regal rose, real red and basic black.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think to the card.

Thank you cards

2011-06-28T12:56:00.002+01:00

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. Lots of things going on at home at the moment which need my attention more than my blog and crafting.

I hope you will bear with me and I will post as and when I can. Normally my crafting is my salvation when things get a bit rough, but this time I just cant settle to do anything...

Now the photo above shows my thank you cards to the ladies who attended a workshop last week at Sharon's. Their goodies arrived this morning just as I was taking Hannah to school, so when I got back I had to make these little notes as I am sure Sharon will be collecting their goodies pretty quickly.

The stamp set is Hopeful Thoughts and Curly Cute for the greeting. The flower image was coloured in using the markers in regal rose, rich razzlebury and garden green. I just love the versatility of the markers so that images can be coloured just as you want them. The greeting was stamped in regal rose using the standard inkpad.

Thank you ladies for a great night and I look forward to bringing the new catalogue to you in October at Sue's party.

Jenny Moor's all day mini Extravaganza

2011-06-20T10:54:00.000+01:00

At the beginning of June Georgina and I attended one of Jenny Moors extravaganza's. Check out Jenny's blog here www.stampingmoments.blogspot.com . You are also able to buy the class instructions from here.

We both had such a fab time and it was especially nice to be able to craft for ourselves instead of for a class or workshop. Jenny and her mum worked so hard to make the day lovely for all 38 of us.

The photo shows Georgina sat at the end of the day and the top one shows her place setting at the beginning of the day.

Baby Card

2011-06-19T10:00:00.000+01:00

One of Hannah's Cheerleading coaches had a baby girl at the beginning of this week and I wanted to send a card with Hannah on Saturday, but was pushed for time and could definitely not buy one as Clare's mum Jan comes to my classes!

We sent Clare the baby tri shutter card I made a while ago and then changed one of my Monday cards with a different greeting. I printed out my sentiment on the computer in pink and then punched out using the ex large oval punch and layered it up on one of the frames from the Four Frames set.

3 large pearls completed the look.

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Circle Circus afternoon projects

2011-06-18T10:53:00.000+01:00

The first project of the afternoon was this book mark. I have to be honest the idea was cased from Jenny Moors www.stampingmoments.blogspot.com . You need two jumbo lolly sticks and then cover them with pretty designer paper. I chose the Jolly Holly paper thoughout this class because it has lots of circles in its design. 2 decorative label punches some stamping and circle punches complete the look.

The second project was a slider box and inside were 3 tea lights onto which we stamped images from circle circus.

Again let me know if you would like to see this class available to buy.

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My Circle Circus Class

2011-06-17T17:23:00.006+01:00

Last Saturday I held an all day class using the Circle Circus stamp set. I had 3 ladies on the day and 2 ladies who were unfortunately able to join us. Ladies I have your kits for you just let me know when you are able to do the projects.

The Morning was for card making and they made these 4 lovely cards. All the colour combinations were taken from the colour coach and I hope you agree that the results were striking.

If you are interested in purchasing the class instructions, please do let me know and I will have a go at converting them into a PDF document for you to purchase via paypal. (gosh I have just set myself a challenge haven't I!!!!)

Tomorrow I will show you the 2 afternoon projects.

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Monday Class Card 6

2011-06-14T08:52:00.000+01:00

This was our last card of the evening and possibly another one for the men.

We have a whisper white base onto which we have stamped directly in old olive ink. We have used images from Plane and simple and Lovely as a Tree. The happy birthday was stamped and then punched out using the small oval and layered onto a word window punched shaped.

Monday Class Card 5

2011-06-13T08:47:00.000+01:00

Here is a card for the men. We have a very vanilla base, then a layer of Cajun craze which has had the bottom decorated using the decorative label punch. We have run some marina mist cardstock through the big shot and square lattice embossing folder and then punched out using the 1 3/8" square punch.

The aeroplane was from plane and simple and stamped in Cajun craze onto scrap card and then hand cut and adhered using a dimensional.

The greeting is from Curly Cute.

Monday Class Card 4

2011-06-12T08:41:00.000+01:00

This was the more difficult card of the evening! We have a whisper white base and I used perfect plum cardstock and ink to accessorise.

The flower image comes from Build a Blossom in the mini catalogue and was stamped directly onto the base to form a flower shape. You can see that on my card I really inked up the first petal which gave a nice bold ink, but that I hadn't quite done the same on the others. These have more of a material effect! The centre piece was stamped in daffodil delight and punched out using the 1/2" circle punch.

We have used the scallop border punch along the side and dotted using the white stylo pen. The greeting is from Oval all and was stamped and then punched out using the oval punch and layered onto a scallop oval. Again we have used the pen to dot.