Birthday celebrations
Our family celebrate quite a few birthdays at the end of January. It is the birthday of my two nieces and husband all within 3 days of one another. I have already posted a 21st Birthday card for one of my nieces, unfortunately I forgot to photograph the other card before sending it, but here is the card I made for my Husband I used the Need for Speed and Lovely as a Tree stamp sets. One of the trees from the Lovely as a Tree was stamped in Crumb cake onto some very vanilla...
Spring/Summer Catalogue Launch
Good afternoon, this is my second post of the day! The brand new Spring/Summer Catalogue from Stampin' Up has been released today and I am pleased I can now share it with you all. As with all our other catalogues, it is jam packed with all sorts of lovely products. There are so many to choose from, my favourites so far is the honecomb textured embossing folder, hearts a flutter and secret garden stamps and matching framelits. Here is a card we will be making in one of my...
Honeycomb
Here is the 2nd card we made with inspiration from Sue Wilson in the Creative Expressions booklet. We changed the design quite a bit this week to use products that we already had. Thank you Tracey who provided the card and Anita who brought the dies, ribbon and decorative pins We started with a basic White square card and layered it up. The essentials paper piercing pack and piercing tool from Stampin Up was used to pierce holes around the four sides of the first layer of white...
Hearts easel card and affection collection
We have been having a few problems with our internet at the moment. The connection is very intermittent and is becoming frustrating. Whenever I try to upload onto my blog there is no connection and have to keep coming back to it. So apologies if the posts are sporadic, I will continue to upload when possible. Here are the cards we made at Running with Scissors on Thursday afternoon.We used the hearts collection framelits to cut out some pink pirouette card to make the heart easel card....
Affection Collection
Due to the snowy weather over the last couple of weeks I had to cancel a couple of card classes. Fortunately the snow has now disappeared and the classes were rescheduled to this week. These are the cards we made:- For the first two cards we used the Affection Collection stamp set from the Autumn/Winter seasonal mini catalogue which is due to end tomorrow, Thursday 31st January Colour combination is pink pirouette, crumb cake and whisper white. We used the delicate...
Need for speed
Hi there, I am back today to share the cards we made in our Friday afternoon card class. I have had a lot of requests for mens cards, I, like many others, find designing mens cards quite challenging, one of the reasons is I feel I cannot embellish them with flowers or butterflies but they still need to be decorative. I used Need for Speed stamp set and designed the following with men in mind. One of the trees from Lovely as a tree stamp set was...
Untitled Post
Here is a sneak peak of an upcoming class on Saturday 2nd February 1pm - 4pm and repeated again on Monday 4th February 10am - 1.00pm We will be using the Framelit Hearts collection dies to create a beautiful 3 layered heart easel card and a matching gift holder. I have made two cards, one in pink and one in white and you can choose which colour you would like to make. They would make an excellent Wedding, Anniversary or Engagement card The cost of the class will be £14 to include...
Memorable Moments
I regularly meet up with a few friends on a Tuesday afternoon for a crafting get together. One of our friends, Anita, bought us all a lovely book from Creative Expressions featuring some beautiful and inspirational projects for us all to work through each week. The first project we embarked upon is a card designed by Sue Wilson. We substituted some of the items with those we had in our stash and this is my version. I made the card for my niece who is 21 today ...
Sale-a-bration Time !
Its Sale-a-bration time at Stampin' Up. It's the best ever and most exciting time for crafting. Sale-a-bration is an annual event and this year there are lots of fantastic FREE products. Stampin' Up are celebrating their 25th Anniversary and that means there are much more to choose from. There are 17 FREE products when you you place a £45 order (before shipping) between now and 22nd March. There is no limit so if you place an order for £90 you get 2 FREE items JOIN - if you...
Sale-a-bration Sneak Peak
Good Morning! Do you have snow?? We have a little bit today but nowhere near the amount that was forecast. Unfortunately I have had to cancel three card classes over the past week so I am hoping it will soon clear up and we can all start crafting together again Sale-A-Bration begins tomorrow and you can earn FREE items for every £45 spent throughout the 2 month period and this time there are 17 items to choose from Here is a sneak peak of a card made with some products that you can get FREE...
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