less than 2 weeks left!

Sale-a-bration (sab) is one of my favourite times of the Stampin' up! Calander. No huge surprise given that it's the time when we can get lots of freebies. There is just short of 2 weeks left to get hold of your freebies so I thought I would show you what I've been getting up to with mine.

For this make I have used the good as gold card kit. It includes 8 card blanks and envelopes with luxurious gold liners along with embellishments. I love the spotty card blanks and you'll see them again in some of my other sab makes further down.

This make uses 3 of the gorgeous sab freebies. One of the lovely sweet sorbet papers at the top, a flower from the petal parade stamp set as the focal point and an embossed section using the decorative dots folder at the bottom.

Here is another make using the petals parade stamp set but this time with a more masculine feel.

This make was inspired by my team mate Joanne aka the crafty owl and uses the See ya later stamp set. 

This twisted easel card features some of the spotty card and the gold elastic cord from the good as gold card kit. This make uses the banner blast stamp set and coordinating punch both of which were free!

The final make I'm sharing today is cased from the lovely Vicky and again uses the decorative dots embossing folder. This time instead of using the big shot to emboss an embossing tool is used to select individual dots so that a graduated effect can be achieved.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my many makes all that is left for me to do is let you know how you can get hold of some of these freebies for yourself. Simply place an order before the 31st of March and for every £45 spent you get to chose a product from the sale-a-bration range for free. It really is that simple!

Get well Becky!

To my regular readers thank you for your patience as I know this post has been a long time coming. Those of you who know me personally will know this is because I have been unwell, I am feeling much better now and I'm hopeful that my blog posts will increase in their frequency. To any new readers hello and welcome.

Today I want to share with you a project that I made a few months ago now at a team training event run by the lovely Monica and Bekka.

The reason I am blogging this now is because I sent this lovely card to another member of my Stampin' Up! family Becky this week who is feeling under the weather. I am usually rubbish at getting cards in the post so I hope she realises how special she is.

The card showcases the lovely flower shop stamp set ( just £17.95 for 6 gorgeous flower stamps) and coordinating pansy punch. You can see this lovely set on page 90 of the annual catalogue and order it and/or your other Stampin' goodies from me, my details are on the contact me page above.

Owls part 2

As promised here is are the class projects from my Christmas owl punch themed class.

A festively dressed owl,

A robin,

A festive owl in a tree,

A penguin in a snow flurry

And a reindeer using the circle thinlit die to make the card base.

Owls part one

I asked one of my regular customers what product she would like me to theme a class around and she picked the owl punch. I thoroughly enjoyed looking through pinterest for inspiration for the projects we'd make.

We made a pizza style box with matching note cards,

a giraffe card,

 a card with a pair of owls in love,

 a new baby card

 and decorated a pillow box with a rose.

We enjoyed the owl punch themed class so much that we decided to do round 2 with Christmas themed owls which I will show you in my next blog post.

25% off 25 stamp sets to celebrate 25 years

Wow what an amazing offer!

To see the discounted sets click here

This offer is only available until Monday 28th. I will be placing an order on Monday so let me know if you want me to add anything for you. Free postage if you collect from me.

Seasonal Catalogue blog hop

Hi there, if you have arrived here on the blog hop you will have come from the lovely  Irene. If you are a first time visitor to my blog then let me start by welcoming you.

I have a couple of lovely projects to share with you today using new products from the seasonal catalogue which has just launched.

Firstly a card which I made for training swaps recently showcasing the lovely colour me christmas stamp set.

I love this little fellow and knew that I wanted to make a card using him straight away when I received my stamp set. I stamped him onto watercolour paper and then used an aqua painter to colour him in picking up ink from the lid of my ink pad after giving it a squeeze. I used baked brown sugar for his fur, garden green for his jersey to co-ordinate with the card base and then used crushed curry and cherry cobbler for the details. I cut him out using the ovals collection framelits and made a matt with cherry cobbler card stock using those too. The sentiment is from greetings of the season (which has carried over from last years seasonal catalogue so is still available to purchase). To finish off the design I used some designer series paper in cherry cobbler from the regals colour collection stack and some cherry cobbler bakers twine.

I also want to share with you a card featuring the new fun with christmas stamp set.

I think the little fox is so cute and that he along with the little sloth make a really unusual Christmas design. I must admit that I usually go for more traditional designs at Christmas so this project pushed me out of comfort zone a little but I'm really pleased with the result. You may just be able to make out that the matts are shiny this is using the new silver foil sheet which is just gorgeous. The DSP this time comes from the Winter Frost specialty  which has 2 sheets which are foiled. I haven't used those sheets for this card as I have something really special in mind for those and will share that with you another day. I have used  the 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches along with the word window and modern label punch to create the focal points and matts for this card.

I hope you have enjoyed my makes and that you pop back again soon to see more. As for the hop it's onward to the lovely  and talented vicky to see what wonderful creations she has come up with

Bye for now

Beth

When is a cupcake not a cupcake?

I recently did a cake themed class. I wanted to show my ladies different uses for the cupcake builder punch rather than just making cupcakes. So asked the question when is a cupcake not a cupcake?

When it's a handbag

The handbags are made using the cake or case part of the punch, upside down punched from our lovely Designer Series Paper (DSP) the handle and flap is using the large oval punch and the clasp is a mini brad as you can't beat a bit of bling. Depending on your chosen paper this may look better with one of the little pearls.

When it's an ice cream

We used the topping part of the punch to create the scoops of ice cream and popped them on top of a pennant punch, I ran this through the square lattice embossing folder to give the waffle cone effect. The flake uses the candle from the cupcake builder punch too. I love the Neapolitan ice cream effect of this card using very vanilla, choc chip and pretty in pink card stock.

When it's a hot air balloon basket and clouds

The sky was made using the topping from the punch stuck to the card stock with 2way glue pen left to dry before sticking so it is just tacky like a post it note and sponging over with the blue ink. Once the toppings are removed you get this lovely cloudy sky effect. The balloon is a circle punched from DSP and the basket is the case from the punch. To add to the effect we ran these through the square lattice embossing folder.