Butterflies Everywhere

We had a feast of butterflies at my card class last weekend. I love butterflies but must admit to not using my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die as often as I should. We also made a tag to match the card & gift bag but I gave my sample to one of the ladies who didn't finish all her projects.

 The little easel card would be ideal as a place setting, wouldn't it look nice with these decorating wedding tables?!

And the little gift bags, which are made using the Two Tags Die would make lovely wedding favours. The Lace Ribbon Border punch makes a fab handle.

I also made a large butterfly easel card to show how this can be done using the largest of the butterflies on the die.

 It takes a bit of folding but is well worth the effort & I love how the vellum looks after it's been embossed.



Stampin' Up! Products used

Cardstock - Regal Rose, Melon Mambo & Whisper White

Paper - Vellum & Flirtatious Speciality

Other - Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Rhinestones & Antique Brads

Training Swaps

I was sorting through some photos yesterday & came across some projects I haven't posted.

This cute little ice-lolly I made as swaps for our Stampin' Up! Regional Training in May was one of them.

I love finding projects which show how you can use Stampin' Up! punches in different ways & it was very therapeutic sitting & making 50 of them.



Stampin' Up! Products used

Stamp - Sweet Cake
Card - Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade & Crumb Cake.
Ink - Poppy Parade & Crumb Cake
Punches - Modern Label, Corner Rounder, Word Window & Scallop Oval.
Other - Two Tags Die.

Less Is More Week 79 - Green & Blue

This weeks challenge at Less Is More is to use Blue & Green on your projects.

I love the Stampin' Up! Reason to Smile stamp set which is free this month if you spend over £60 (although you can buy it if you don't spend over £60) please contact me if you would like details.

This is the second of these cards as when I'd finished the first one it had a dirty great blue inky finger print in the top right hand corner! I was not happy I can tell you!!

Stampin' Up! Products Used

Stamps - Reason To Smile & Petite Pairs
Cardstock - Whisper White & Lucky Limeade
Ink - Night of Navy
Other - Large Square Punch (to create the banner), Pennant Die, Not Quite Navy, night of Navy & Lucky Limeade Stampin' Write Markers.

Sweet Cake

I love the Sweet Cake stamp set in the Summer Mini Catalogue.

It's a great set for layering & it comes with three sentiments so can be used for all sorts of occasions.

I've used the stripes embossing folder to give detail to the botom of the card.

And once I'd made one I kept going lol!!

Stampin' Up! Products Used

Stamp Set - Sweet Cake
Card - Lucky Limeade & Whisper White
Paper - In Color 2011-13

Less Is More Sketch

To say I've been AWOL from the LIM challenge blog is an understatement!! I've checked in each week but then never got around to taking part (bad bad LIMette!!)

I've tried to make some crafting time this week that's just for me & not business related, just plain old relaxing crafting, so thought I'd put this weeks sketch to good use in doing just that.

Most of the products on this card are from the Summer Mini Catalogue & I'm hoping that some of them make it into the new main catalogue in October, fingers crossed.

I've paper pieced the balloons covered them in Crystal Effects & popped them up on some Dimensionals to give a 3D effect.



Stampin Up Products Used

Stamp - Pedal Presents & Perfect Pairs
Ink - Basic Grey & Basic Black & Melon Mambo Marker
Other - Simply Scored Board, Island Indigo Bakers Twine, Crystal Effects & Adorning Accents Edgelits Die

Here is the second project we made at class on Saturday, a Diarama card. These cards are simple & yet so effective & fold flat for minimum postage. With the Simply Scored Board you can make these time & time again. There are instructions on how to make it with a video tutoral here thanks to Julie Davison for sharing.

We used the Up Up & Away stamp set which is so versatile & is one of my favorites from the Summer Mini Catalogue.

Class Projects

Last week I had my first class since my op so was really looking forward to seeing everyone. 

I planned my Simply Scored Class ages ago & was dying to show my ladies our fab new tool.

I wanted to show how the Simply Scored an be used on all sorts of projects & how the markers at the top of the board make making multiples of the same project an absolute breeze!

One think I love about Stampin' Up! is their motto 'Share What You Love' & that is what most demonstrators do. As I'm constantly telling my ladies, if you type the name of any Stampin' Up! stamp set, tool or colour in to your search engine you will find hundreds of projects to choose from. That's just what I did with the Simply Scored & along with a couple of projects I'd come across on Pinterest I had my class projects.

This desk top card holder was from the inspirational Jo Dumbleton & the tutorial can be found here. Thank you for sharing Jo.

We decorated the card holder with a rosette & there are lots of tutorial on the web for these.

I'll be back with details of the other projects we made.

If you live in the Leeds area & would like details of my classes please email me.

Pedal Presents

I had another bit of craft therapy today & what better than a bit of colouring in.

I'm ashamed to say that this is the first time I've used this stamp set but I've seen so many lovely cards made with it that I thought it was about time I used it.

I've gone for the clean & simple look again as I'm loving this style at the moment.

Stampin' Up! Products

Stamps - Pedal Presents & Sincere Salutations
Cardstock - Lucky Limeade & Baha Breeze
Ink - Basic Black & Grey
Other - Baha Breeze Seambinding, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon, Large Label Punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border & Stampin' Write Markers

Bakers Twine Flowers

I'm hanging my head in shame here when I see how long it is since I last blogged. Where has the last 3 months gone!

I found a fab tutorial on Pinterest recently for flowers using any kind of string or twine & thought they would be ideal for Stampin' Up! Bakers Twine.

They are so easy to make & as I was recovering from an operation last week it was very therapeutic to sit and make a few.

I've kept the cards very Clean & Simple.

Update

Here is the link to the twine flowers.

Stampin' Up! Products

Stamp Set - Everything Eleanor & Party This Way
Ink - Lucky Limeade & Black
Other - Bakers Twine & In Color Brads 

Card Candy

There are many great things about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and one of them is getting to see and order products from upcoming catalogues.

Sadly some great products currently available in the Spring Mini Catalogue, including this gorgeous Spice Cake Designer paper, will no longer be available after 31st April but we then have our Summer Mini which starts on 1st May.

The Summer Mini caused alot of excitement amongst the European Stampin' Up! Demonstrators as there are some fantastic new products. My pre order arrived yesterday & I couldn't wait to unpack & get started.

I found a tutorial for a card candy box and have adapted it to fit UK size A6 cards & it was so easy to make using one of the new products which will be available from 1st May.

It's a great gift idea & includes colour co-ordinated sentiment mats & 2 of each sentiment from Sincere Salutations so the recipient can customise their own cards.

I've included 4 cards in 2 different designs.

And here's what they could look like after the sentiment has been added.

This will be one of my June classes and I will post full details of the item & cost once the new catalogue has launched.

Pssst - Have you spotted another new product one one of the cards??

Stampin' Up! Products used

Cardstock - Pool Party, Soft Suade, Cajun Craze, Pear Pizzaz & Very Vanilla
Stamp Set - Sincere Salutations & Triple Treat Flower
Ink - Soft Suade & Pear Pizzaz
Other - Basic Pearls, Large Label Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Five Petal Flower Punch, Fancy Flower Punch, Word Window & Modern Label Punch, Beautiful Butterfly Die & Polka Dot Embossing Folder & Perfect Pennants Die.