Throwback Thursday -Sale-A-Bration - Feels Like Home

 Well the sun is sort of shining, the sky is still covered in cloud but it's warm here thankfully, so that's a bonus for being stuck indoors today. Today I have used one of the most gorgeous stamp sets from this round of Sale-A-Bration stamp sets, it's called Feels Like Home. It is just the one main image, 2 smaller ones and 5 sentiments. It's just brilliant. I love it. 

I stamped the image onto a white card mat and then had fun colouring it in using the Stampin' Blends pens. I was going to colour the wall but decided in the end to leave it as it is. I die cut the 2 frames and the scalloped edge of the card using the amazing Scalloped Contours dies.  I used the beautiful bright red of Poppy Parade as the background mat and love the way that the picture just pops off the card. The Poppy Parade mat inside was first stamped with the vines and 1 of the sentiments from the same set and the inside ones are from In Your Words stamp set once again. 

For more information on the products and Sale-A-Bration information, please click on the link HERE and it will open up in a new page for you so you don't lose your place.

     

Make It Monday - Delicate Petals

Well, we are all now well and truly into the New Year and I hope that you all had a lovely break over the Christmas and New Year holidays? Cary has made some gorgeous fun projects once again to start the year off for us all. I hope that she has inspired you to do some lovely projects based on her cards.

Anyway back to this week, I will be aiming to show you some projects using one of the new stamp sets called Delicate Petals. It's not one of the sets that I would normally jump at but I am so please that I did! It really is quite delicate (just as it says). I have made a very simple card by stamping the main floral image once and adding a few of the little flower sprays and a few little dots here and there. I used one of my favourite colours Poppy Parade and Whisper White cardstock. I edged the mat that I stamped on with the Ink Pad to make the mat pop off the page. I hope it pops for you too? I'm really pleased with the simplicity of this card that I love it!

As Cary explained, January sees the start of another Seasonal Catalogue. The just released seasonal catalogue from Stampin' Up! is soon to be followed by the New Annual Catalogue in a few months too.  Until then and in conjunction with the seasonal catalogue we have our annual Saleabration season. This is usually for 3 whole months but this year we will be getting 2 lots of Saleabration. One in January and February and the other in July and August. Every Saleabration, we always have a special offer for you to join our team of demonstrators. This month it is a kit of your choice for only £99 which you get to choose to the value of £130. In addition to that, you get 5 packs of Designer Series Papers too! What an absolute Bargain! 

If you are interested in joining our amazing team of wonderful demonstrators please just drop us a line or message us here and we will get back to you. Being a demonstrator with all of the amazing products, demonstrator benefits and most importantly, working for the very best company ever! You just cannot go wrong. Start your new year off the right way, loving what we do and sharing what we love.

Gill xxx😍😍

Make It Monday - Have a Hoot

Hello now once again I have to follow the amazing creations Cary made last week! Weren't they brilliant? I think she's a superstar crafter. The Advent Calander and gift box on Friday is superb. I can't wait to have a go at making one of those. Using Memory and More cards too! Who knew they could be that versatile? Well today I am going to show a very simple card showing the start of my playing with this great, fun stamp set, Have A Hoot. I love all of the images even the Halloween ones but most of all the family of owls are so cute!

As I said it is very simple, only this time I added a white mat onto the gorgeous bright red of Poppy Parade. I just love that colour. 2 identical images stamped in Memento black ink and a message was stamped in the Poppy Parade Ink. Only a little bit of colouring and that was the owls hat. Just a touch of red!

A few extra messages on the inside using the lovely Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set. A very highly under-used stamp set. I will be using it more often too.

#simplestamping

 

Technique Tuesday - Christmas Rose

 Today's card is supposed to be a technique but it's actually very similar to yesterday's simplestamping card. The difference is that I cut the card front in half. Using the Christmas Rose stamp set, I stamped half of the image on the front mat and using a dauber and the very pale green of Pool Party ink and coloured roughly over the whole mat which started out as white. On a separate piece of white card, I stamped the image 3 times then coloured in only the flowers using the stamp once again. Yes, I did my lovely fussy cutting and cut all of the flowers out. The yellow (Daffodil Delight) rose was placed over the stamped area and the other 2 roses (Poppy Parade) were separated and placed either side.

When I open the card, the 3rd large rose was placed directly below the front one and a message added. 

Very simple and straightforward. More information in our shop HERE