Lazy Sunday's...

I am enjoying some lovely peace and quite today. Alice is with her boyfriend and Hannah and Paul have gone off racing. I have the radio for company and my to do list.....

I have tried to not go into Alice's bedroom for weeks, but decided this morning enough was enough, how she hasn't become ill with the amount of dust I have no idea. Now Alice is almost 18 but the most untidy hoarder I know!!! How both girls can be so different....Hannah has a place for everything and heaven help anyone who messes it up! I have cleaned, hovered, hung up clothes and put clothes in the washing up basket. Remember the large sacks you could buy at christmas to put presents in? Well that is full of rubbish...the bed has been made and I feel that I can enter the room again. What does Alice think? I will let you know tomorrow.

Emails have been written and orders placed, so now I am on to planning for my class next Thursday. It's half term and I have made a point to catch up with friends and enjoy some time with the children.

I lovely invite out for tea tonight was a lovely surprise, so I am going to save the roast I was going to cook for tomorrow.

Before I go let me show you one of the cards we made at my class on Friday night. I am sorry we over ran ladies it's funny I thought the cards we made were going to be too quick, but as one lady pointed out there were lots of layers and some new techniques involved.

The first card uses the Fruit and Flowers stamp set from the Spring Mini Catalogue.

My colour combo was old olive and rich razzleberry, and whisper white was used for stamping on. There is stamping and hand cutting involved in this card as well as using chrystal effects to highlight the centre of the flowers. The lattice square embossing folder gives some texture to the background as well as the spritzer tool.

We decorated the inside too.

I hope you like my card. Enjoy your Sunday and I will be back tomorrow.

Monday Class Card 5 and 6

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

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

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...

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

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....

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!