May Deals of the Week.

Don't you just love sales? I know I do lol, and this one is no exception!

For EVERY week of May there will be certain items on sale from the Stampin' up! Catalogue.  These items are only available at this special price for ONE WEEK ONLY.  Get in really quick, as you will remember these deals run out very quickly. 

This weeks list is below:

Ok then, some fab prices on some of these stamp sets isn't it? Don't miss out on yours email me HERE today to place your order, remember stocks deplete pretty fast!

This weeks deal ends on the 10th May or as stock lasts!

Eat chocolate.

Its a great feeling to be home, don't get me wrong I love getting away, but it feels oh so good when I wander back through my front door (happy sigh).  Anyway I am home just in time as today a group of lovely customers will be using this wonderful new stamp set to create 4 cards and a box to put them in.  Here is a piccie of what they will be making:

If these classes are something you may be interested in then please feel free to email me and book yourself in for my next class - We will be scrap booking next month and let me say the page I have planned for you is fabulous!  It will be a double header next month, a layout and punch art all rolled into one!

 

Tea bag holders

I have had these little pretty in pink pocket notes for a looonng time now and they have been a long time retired, but thought I would use them for tea bag holders to go out to new workshop customers.  They are so cute and are the perfect size, so I thought I would share with you today how I have decorated the fronts of them.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Morning cup,  Clearly for you
Ink Pads: Real Red, pretty in pink, chocolate chip, basic black, certainly celery marker, old olive marker
Cardstock:  whisper white, chocolate chip, pretty in pink
Punches: Scallop circle,  1 1/4" circle punch, corner punch
Other:  pretty in pink grosgrain ribbon, white gel pen,  crystal effects

A pink flamingo

When I saw this stamp with a little flamingo on it I really didn't know what to do with it, but I love love love how it turned out, it suits this new punch beautifully, a little pink to colour this little flamingo and it finished it off nicely.

Note:  To achieve the early espresso mat behind the punched out image, I punched 2 more early espresso decorative label punches, trimmed the 2 smaller sides on one punched shape, then the two longer sides on the second punched shape then glued them behind my original punched image.  May need to trim a little if some doesn't fit exactly, but it works pretty well.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Clearly for you (NEW)
Ink Pads: Real Red, Pretty in pink, early espresso, Old olive, pretty in pink marker
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very vanilla
DSP: Soft subtles DSP stack, Neutrals DSP stack
Punches: 5 petal flower punch, scallop circle punch, decorative label punch
Other: Very vanilla satin ribbon, vanilla smooch spritz (NAH)

Born to Ride

When I saw this stamp in the catalogue, it was the first one on my wish list, I love it, and members of my family own and ride these beauties so it was only apt that I bought this stamp.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Motorcycle, Extreme elements, Teeny tiny sentiments,  Wild West alphabet(retired), calender alphabet (retired)
Ink Pads: basic black, crumb cake, early espresso, crumb cake marker.
Cardstock: Crumb cake, Basic black, whisper white
Tools:  Spritzer (on happy birthday tag), Cutter kit
Other: Linen thread, silver clip from clip asstmnt.

Happy Easter to you all

Just 'hopping' in to wish you all a very happy Easter, I hope Easter bunny leaves you all the chocolate you could possibly need.????

Have a restful time and please stay safe.

Happy Easter

Clearly for you

Another gorgeous stamp set from this most FABULOUS mini.  SO many ideas, so little time.  Here I have for you today two 3 x 3 note cards - we even sell the matching envelopes to fit this perfect size.

The left one I have used only white cardstock to layer the two layers, and on the second card I have used 1 layer of crumb cake cardstock.

Not many supplies needed to make these little cuties!

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Clearly for you
Ink Pads: Crumb cake, Baja Breeze, and bashful blue marker.
Cardstock: Whisper white, Crumb cake

Other:dimensionals. 

Sew Suite

Am I loving this new catalogue or what? I think it is the BEST one EVER!  Here is a card using the NEW stamp set Sew Suite.

and below is a picture of what stamps come in this fabulous set.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Sew Suite, Curly cute(retired)
Ink Pads:Versamark, Basic Black, Old olive
Cardstock: Very vanilla, Old olive
Punches: Scallop Trim border punch
Tools: Cutter kit.
Other:  Buttons from new mini catalogue, Dimensionals, Glue dots, Black stampin' write marker.

So worth the wait.

There is a challenge this week over at JAI to make a card/project using the colours of your favourite chocolate wrapper.  I love love love anything with peppermint in it, but my all time fave is the peppermint chocolates from Haighs!  Why the title of this post?  If I am lucky (as they are quite expensive)I get these delicious morsels 3 times per year, my birthday, valentines day and mothers day, sometimes I even am lucky enough to get them at Christmas! And yes - they are so worth the wait lol.

Here is the wrapper or beautiful gift box these beauties come in, and if you follow my blog you may have seen this same box in a couple of posts :) :

all white and gold.

Here is my card:

I wanted the gold embossed border to imitate the Haighs chocolate box

Looks like a fairly simple card to make huh? Its not one I am keen to try again anytime soon lol, the embossing of the gold border gave me all sorts of grief for whatever reason, and after 5 attempts, i settled on this one :)

SU doesn't have gold satin ribbon, so on my heat resistant mat i put some gold metallic reinker, spritzed it with water, spread it with my hands until I was happy with the smooth consistency and then dumped the white satin ribbon in the concoction.  Heat set it with the heat gun and I have instant gold satin ribbon.

Details:  All SU unless stated.

Stamp Sets:  Word play, Eat chocolate
Ink Pads:  Chocolate chip, versamark ink pad, versamark pen
Cardstock:  whisper white, brushed gold
Tools:  Heat gun, Glue gun(non SU)
Other:  Gold embossing powder, White satin ribbon, Gold metallic ink refill (retired), water spritzer, crystal effects

Strength and Hope

As soon as I saw this set in the New Mini catalogue, I knew it would be on my first order.  I am sure most people know someone or there lives have been touched by someone who has had breast cancer.  This stamp set is gorgeous and the best thing?  From every set sold WORLDWIDE of this fabulous stamp set Stampin' up! donates $2 towards breast cancer research.  As women there has never been a more worthwhile cause, and I for one jumped at the chance to not only own a new stamp set, but to aid in the fight against one of the biggest diseases to affect women - Breast Cancer. 

Here is a piccie of the set:

Here is my card:

The big double butterfly was made with the bigz butterfly die, and the antennae was used from the strength and hope stamp set.

The H has been stamped, cut out and raised on dimensionals

some basic pearls have been added to the butterfly, and the tulip frame embossing folder was used on the white cardstock.  The butterflies were popped into the very vintage embossing folder, which I had inked the inner embossing folder in pretty in pink, then run through the big shot machine.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Strength and hope
Ink Pads: Pretty in pink, Rose red
Cardstock:  Pretty in pink, Whisper white, Rose red
Tools: Big shot machine, framed tulip embossing folder, bigz butterflies die
Other: Basic pearls, dimensionals

Some new punch art???

I was definitely in the mood tonight to sit and create some punch art - I used the colours in the inspiration card from Pals Paper Arts and the challenge over at Stampin' Royalty which is Spring has sprung for the main ideas of my card. I  also had an address book in my stampin room that was the inspiration behind this French looking urn - can you guess the 3 punches I used to create the actual urn??

The bowl of the urn I used the owl punch, chopped off of the ears and feet, and slimmed down the sides, the stem is made from the cupcake punch and slimmed down, and the base is used from the 1 1/4" punch.

I also used the spring blossoms punch to create the leaves for the base of the flowers.  The little fancy bits on the side of each urn were just hand cut.

I used the rock n roll technique on the flowers in the urn and the Fleur De lis symbol.

I coloured the urn with a variety of colours and used the white gel pen for all the highlights.

I created my own crinkle ribbon using a white seam binding and colouring with my reinkers and a spritz or two of water - and don't forget the heat gun :).

Details: All SU unless stated

Stamp Sets: Greenhouse Garden, French script(retired), Carte postale (retired)
Ink Pads: Crumb cake, old olive, pretty in pink, Rose red, different markers for urn 
Cardstock: Whisper white, Very vanilla, Pink pirouette
Punches: Owl punch, Build a cupcake punch, 1 1/4" square punch, spring blossom punch, modern label punch.
Tools: Heat gun to crinkle ribbon, water spritzer bottle, aqua painter
Other:  white seam binding (not SU as its not available here), white gel pen,

A top note bag

Don't you just love new products? I know I do, and this new mini catalogue is jammed pack FULL of stunning new items, and today I have a project that took all of 15 mins MAX to put together, and I looooove it.

New stamp set called Nature Walk

New mini paper lunch sacks - fabulous

 

Nature Walk stamp set - beautiful!

These mini lunch sacks come in packs of 10

Details:

Stamp Sets: New Nature Walk
Ink Pads: Soft suede, old olive marker and cherry cobbler marker
Cardstock: crumb cake, white confetti
Punches: large oval punch
Tools: Big shot machine, Cutter kit
Other: NEW mini lunch sacks, Top note die,

Pick a memory #1

A few posts back now I showed you the post on Pick a Memory.  Anyway a couple of weeks ago we had our first attempt at it, my son picked one but as it was raining we couldn't go on the chosen bike ride, so he dipped into the glass bowl once again and it came up "create cupcakes".  Well this went down a treat, so we got out the mini cupcake maker, I organised some toppings, and wullah, 40 or so cupcakes, decorated by master 4.  What a mess we made, but what fun we all had.  Here are some piccies of the finished product!

The pick a memory jar:

and the yummy if somewhat top heavy, overly decorated (big grins) cupcakes lol:

yummy toppings, mini marshmallows, sprinkles, cashous, and little
farm animals and roses

Happy sigh, I love to spend time with my little one, even if it is only an afternoon creating cupcakes :)

I will be back throughout the year with more Pick a memory adventures.