Last few remaining days

This friday sees the last day for ordering anything from the current Stampin up! catalogue and the mini catalogue.  I played with another colour combo this week and a few more rub ons.

Products used:

Stamps: Perfect Punches

Cardstock: Basic Grey, Cherry Cobbler, Calypso Coral and Cake Crumb

Rubs ons: Hidden Garden Blossoms

Ribbon: White taffeta

Punches: Scallop trim border

Embossing folder: Elegant Bouquet

There are lots of lovely new goodies in the new catalogue, if you would like one they are £4.00 each and free postage.  I am also starting another stampers 10 group....if you would be interested heres how it works.

I need 10 people to committ to ordering £15.00 min each month for 10 months, starting in October you each take it in turn to be the "virtual hostess"...names will be randomly picked when I have all 10. The hostess section has been changed this year...you now get alot more choice.  For £150.00 order {10 ladies x £15.00 order per month} you get £25 in hostess pounds to spend in either the hostess exclusive section or on anything else in the rest of the catalogue. There are no more levels in the hostess ection...just costs in hostess pounds. Its free postage to me from Germany, then you can collect from me. If you are not local then you just pay the postage from me to you a month in arrears...so I send an order to you and let you know what the postage was, you add that to your next months money and so on. You can spend more than £15.00 and lot of people do especially in their month so they get even more in freebies.  I have 4 more spaces to fill...so let me know if you are interested. 

Lili of the Valley Christmas Bears

I have been hitting my scraps box again to see what I can make, this card uses some Christmas die cuts from Lili of the Valley I brought a year or so ago and never got around to using.....surprse surprise!!  If you are not into the colouring of Lili of the Valley stamps then these are a great alternative and you can get them done alot quicker.  I made a twisted easel card and for some reason the glitter is not showing in these photos, but I used glitter card for some of the snowflakes and dabbed some Stickles for the snow at the end.

Products used:

Die cuts: Lili of the Valley Christmas bears

Papers: Bo Bunny Tis the Season, brown fluffy paper, glitter card, matt goldc card

Stamps: Imagine That Papercraft own range... Christmas Write Big

Nestabilities: Circle { to cut the die cut}, Labels 21, Create a flake 1

Punches: Martha Stewart Frond and snowflake, Dovecraft small snowflake, Ek Success snowflake border

Embellishments: Tiny flat back gems and Stickles Diamond glitter glue

All the papers are from the Bo Bunny range, the backing behind the die cut is another quarter from one of the 12x12 sheet. The trees were all over another sheet, so I cut them out and added foam pads behind.



Lil of the Valley tent card

Had a lovely day yesterday at the monthly crop I hold locally.  Did not get much done but I did manage to colour a image and make it into a card.  I got a fab little 6x6 paper pad from My Minds Eye free in a craft mag this month so I used the colours from that to colour in my image and then I made a tent card using a prescored cardstock from Kanban.

side view

Products used:

Stamps: Lil of the Valley Oh Christmas Tree...sentiments are also LOTV but I cant see them on the web site so they maybe discontinued!
Papers: My Minds Eye { freebie}
Dies: Go Create frilly 7
Punches: Assorted snowflakes Carl, Martha Stewart and Dovecraft, Martha Stewart Frond
Ribbon: Seam binding
Buttons: Jessie James
Promarkers: Her coat and tights... Red and Berry red. His coat and hat and stool ...Cocoa, Cinnamon, Sandstone and Umber. Tree:  Marsh Green, Moss, Pine. Outline...Warm Grey 1. Star: Pastel yellow, Mango and Burnt orange.For the skin I used pale pink and soft peach.
Glitter: Diamond stickles

Have a lovely Sunday, hope you get a chance to get some crafting in!!

Introducing Island Indigo

Todays the last colour I am showing you from the new In Colours family.  Island Indigo is a lovely turquoise and I am sure will be popular.  I have teamed it up with More than mustard and Lucky Limeade to create an autumn card.  Walking Molly over the park and you can see the trees beginning to change colour. Chart first so you can compare

I used a mix of stamp sets for this one.  Autumn Splendor for the leaves and I stamped each one in the three colours and cut out. The splat, post mark and text are from French Foliage. Punches are scalloped border, Modern Label and word window. I made the background using the Texture wheel. The sentiment came from Trendy Trees stamp set and the dotty paper is More than Mustard from the paper stack. I finished it off with some twine and a brad.

Introducing Pool Party

Todays colour is Pool Party, slightly lighter than Baja Breeze which is one of my favourite colours.

I have just got the update for the colour coach and one of the suggestions to go with Pool Party is Wild Wasabi and Chocolate Chip.

 

I used Ornate Flowers stamp set, Eyelet border punch, the tag is from the Lots of Tags sizzix die. The sentiment is from the Just Believe stamp set and I sprinkled Glass Glitter in Champagne on a thin strip of sticky double sided tape. I wanted some Wild Wasabi ribbon to go on the card which I dont have, so I coloured some white taffeta ribbon with some of the Wasabi ink.  To do this I held the ribbon on the ink pad with a dauber and then dragged the ribbon along the pad, it soon draws up the ink.  Leave it to dry or heat with a heat gun or else it will transfer onto your card if it is still damp. The bakground panel is Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.

Tomorrow I am looking at Lucky Limeade...have a great day

Introducing Calypso Coral

Todays colour is called Calypso Coral and I have teamed it up with Baja Breeze and Daffodil Delight.

I found a pack of the rub ons that I had not used yet, Hidden Garden Blossoms and you get 2 sheets in a pack, 1 white and 1 brown.  Unfortunately , these are on the retirment list so get them whilst stock lasts. I used the flower and 2 borders. The border going up the side of the card has been inked with Calypso Coral ink on the Vine and Blossom wheel and run along twice.  Ribbon is Daffodil Delight 1/8" taffeta, embossing background is the squares embossing folder and the punch is the eyelet border.  Little Butterflies from the Sizzix cut and emboss die Beautiful wings. Sentiment is Curly Cute and I added a silver brad to the small flower centre.

If you want to compare colours again, I made another little chart.

Back tomorrow with another card using Pool Party.  I am updating the list as things go on the retirment list, its on the right hand side of my blog.  Dont forget the mini catalogue is still going but only until the end of the month.



Snowy Cuddles easel card

This image was one that I had used recently in my Promarkers class and I finally got around to making it up into a card....and yes I have the list of colours!!  I am determined to use up my scraps of previous years Christmas paper before I buy anymore...she says and I got 2 free 6x6 pads in some mags this week....but they dont count..lol!!!  This card uses some of last years Bo Bunny range and one side of a sheet of 12x12 you get 4 6x6 squares which are great for using as a backing.  Bo Bunny do this with all their ranges so it worth keeping an eye out.  Don't think 12x12's are just for scrapping, you will gets tons of cards out of just a few papers. I also had some border stickers left over from a kit to co-ordinate with the papers. The easel card itself is from a QVC kit and as the bottom part is folded over and stuck down I dont have to attach anything to the centre to hold it in place..the lip is enough. The trees on the left were already on the paper, I just carefully cut away enough to slip the stamped image behind. One of the scraps I had was covered in trees so I cut a few out to add some more dimension.

The sentiment stamp is new from Woodware, they are doing a range of singles stamps, great value for money and I love the mixed fonts in this stamp and its quite big which is great if you are doing the larger cards.   Snowflakes are a mix of punches in glitter card, scraps of Bo Bunny paper and my fluffy paper. 

Products used:

Stamps: Woodware and Stampavie Penny Johnson Snowy Cuddles

Papers: Bo Bunny Tis the Season 12x12 papers

Punches/Dies: EK Success, Martha Stewart and Dovecraft snowflakes, Nestabilities squares

Embellishments: Buttons and beading from stash, Diamond Stickles glitter glue

Colouring: Promarkers:  Outline...Cool grey 1 and 2.  Hat...Cool Grey 4 and Black. Scarfs/hat...Red Berry, Red, Poppy.  Carrot: Mango and Bright Orange.  Body:  Pastel Blue.  Nose: Pastel Pink or Soft Pink and most importantly of all a Blender pen.

Ink: Black Versafine for sentiment and Mementos Black for image.

Next week I am going to be posting details on the new  5 In colours from Stamp'in Up, so come back tomorrow for a looksie!

Finally, today is a very special day for remembering the horrors of 9/11...my heart goes out to everyone that was effected.  It does put your life in prospective and even though I have had a horrible week my family and I are still here and breathing I just wish I could say the same of the 2976 people who lost their lives that day.

Sarah Kay birthday card

Have been meaning to post a picture of this card all week, made for a good friends birthday last Monday. I used a new Sarah Kay stamp we got in the shop recently.  I combined it with a new My Minds Eye pad I brought a little while ago from their latest release of limited edition 6x6 pads.

Products used:

Stamps: Kanban sentiment, Sarah Kay Vivenne and Mannon are always together.

Papers: My Mind Eye 6x6 pad Blink of an eye

Punches: EK Success border punch Arbor, Martha Stewart Frond punch

Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities labels 5

Ribbon: Stampin'Up Seam binding

Embellishments: Wild orchid assortment, pearl spray from crafts-4-you, Kaisercraft pearls

Colouring: Promarkers { I know the list is here somewhere will update when I find it!!}

Inks: Mementos Black and london fog, Creamy brown ink for edges.

Last Chance List

Very late last night I got the "Last Chance list" from Stampin'Up! This is a list of all the products currently in the catalogue that will not be in the new one! So if there is something on the list that you have been meaning to buy this really is your last chance.  When stock has sold out it wont be replaced, some of it has been discounted. To see the list click on the picture on the side bar.

I am offering free postage on all orders for september to me, then you can collect or I can arrange to meet if you are local.

The mini catalogue is still current until the end of the month, but not all of it will go into the new main catalogue.

If you would like to go on the list to recieve a new catalogue when it comes out, let me know.  I am charging £4.00 instead of £5.95 and it will be sent postage free.