Strong and Beautiful Meets Love What You Do

Today we are looking at #simplestamping I have chosen a current set and a new set in the Spring/Summer 2019 catalogue.

This is what I came up with

Christmas Commissions Part Trois

Another commission, this time from my niece, she needed 10 cards and 30 small cards for her son to give to classmates. Only brief was they had to be secular.
This is what I came up with.

Her cards (with some Stampin' Up! and some contraband DSP!)

Spring Sneak Peak 07 - Nine Lives

In last years holiday catalogue we had a bundle with a cat punch, I bought the punch but not the stamp set, anyway the punch carried over into the current (2018-19) annual catalogue but with no stamp set to use it with, very puzzling indeed.

Anyway looking through the new spring/summer 2019 occasions catalogue, there it is, a lovely stamp set for the cat punch, YAY! I get way too excited LOL.

Here is what I came up with.

Christmas Commissions part deux!

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I have had a table of crafts at my wife's workplace for the past week and it has resulted in some commissions for me.

These are A5 sized and each card has a money wallet inside with matching DSP.

Christmas Commissions

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I have had a table of crafts at my wife's workplace for the past week and it has resulted in some commissions for me.

I really like that I was asked to make more of these cards as they are so beautiful.

Spring Sneak Speak 06 - Butterfly Gala

Hello everyone and welcome to another sneak peak, today we are looking at the Butterfly Gala Bundle, a lovely set indeed.
I cased the catalogue for this one, but had to make a couple of changes...

#stampinforall challenge

Today I have set the #stampinforall facebook group a sketch challenge.

This is the sketch...

What Am I Up to?

Spring Sneak Peak 05 - Happy Mail

Just a few things, but totes gorgeous!

Spring Sneak Peak 04 - Classic Garage

Another of the make & takes from OnStage, this one features the Classic Garage Suite with an example of the DSP, Dies and Ribbon, all nicely displayed onto one of our pizza boxes!

Watch the video

Team Meeting Make & Takes

It was our team meeting yesterday and we did a couple of make & takes using the Bloom by Bloom and Amazing Life stamp sets.

No.1

Spring Sneak Peak 03 - Bloom by Bloom

Another beautiful set to peruse from the new spring catalogue. The card and envelope is from the Memories and More and you get 20 cards and envelopes 10 of 2 different sizes to match the M&M card pack that is also available. The flower is from the Bloom by Bloom set and the sentiment I discovered is from Itty Bitty Birthdays.

Spring Sneak Peak 02 - Forever Lovely

Spring 2019 Sneak Peak 01 - Amazing Life

OnStage 2018 Swaps Received

I was only able to make 25 swaps for this event due to some ill health, and I arrived late so Big Thanks to everyone who swapped with me. :)

Enjoy with me the total gorgeousness :)

OnStage 2018 Goodies

I had a really lovely time at OnStage Birmingham 2018, even though I was a bit poorly, it was a wonderful event and I am looking forward to Telford in April 2019.

Ikea Tealight Gift Box with Eastern Medallions

Many thanks to the very talented Gez Carpenter for the inspiration for this project, you can check out her original blog post here

This is a gift box with a separate lid that has been die-cut with the Eastern Medallions Thinlet Dies

Here is mine...

My OnStage Swaps for Birmingham 2018

Hello everyone, this blog post and tutorial video were supposed to go live on Saturday in time for OnStage, oops I forgot to schedule!

Anyway, here is what I made. Thanks to Sue Robinson, a fellow team member for the original which I just resized for my project.

A Box for the Take Your Pick Tool

Big thanks to Liz Yuille at Old Stables Crafts for the measurements, very useful!

I used Basic Black card stock and the Tranquil Textures DSP.

All the products I have used will be below. :)

#stampinforall Design Team Challenge 15th Oct - Mono tone

Hello everyone and welcome to this weeks design team challenge for you to have a go at! This week we are challenging you to use a single colour. In my example I have used Lemon Lime Twist and using the 'stamping off' technique have created different tones of the colour. You have until 6pm on Friday 19th to wow us with your creations to the group.

Ten Cards In Ten Minutes!

Really easy project using the Memories and More Card Pack with the Notecards and Envelopes.

Make Any Size Box...

...with ease!
Big thanks to Donna from the Stampin' Up! training team for the inspiration and technique.

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Here is my entry to the tic tac toe challenge in the #stampinforall facebook group, I went diagonal and got tree, die-cut and shine, so some silver foil paper and silver embossing powder later....

#stampinforall Design Team Challenge - 1st October 2018

Hello everyone, and welcome to this weeks #stampinforall design team challenge which is, and I'm going to mention the C word! Christmas is Coming :)

Here is my sample for this week...

Share What You Love meets Eastern Palace

Ok, so day 2. Over in the #stampinforall facebook group the challenge this week has been to do a fun fold card and here is my take on it, inspired by Klompenstampers here

Share What You Love Day 1 of ?

So, Share What You Love, a truly beautiful suite of products, I have held off doing a full expose of this as I hadn't got the Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder until just recently, so several months behind everybody else, here we go!

Day 1 of an unknown number series :)

Thanks to Gathering Inspiration Stamp Studio for the inspiration to CASE her lovely project, you can find the original here

And here is mine.

Petal Palette & More

It's time to CASE the catalogue again, this time using the Petal Palette Stamp Set and Thinlet Dies.
I was inspired by the sample on page 119 of the 2018-19 annual catalogue (available to download here) I found the colours quite unusual and had to have a go!

Old Stamps - New Colours!

Today I have used the Floral Phrases stamp set which first appeared in the 2016 annual catalogue, the Petals and More Thinlets and new colours Grapefruit Grove, Petal Pink, returning colour Mossy Meadow and existing colours Pear Pizzaz and Early Espresso.
I used the 2018-19 annual catalogue for inspiration, picking the image on page 109 for Floral Phrases.

Here is what I came up with, I put my own spin on it, not having the embossing paste I decided to use the Lovely Floral Dynamic TIEF.

#stampinforall Design Team - Autumn is Coming - 17th Sept 2018

Hello everyone, this week Autumn is Coming, here is my sample for you all, feel free to CASE or come up with your own.

Remember Autumn is Coming!

Floral Phrases Frenzy!

OK, set the wayback machine for June 2016 and Stampin' Up! releases a new suite called Floral Boutique, gorgeous stamp set, dies, dsp etc.

I have finally picked up the stamp set and dies and thought I would CASE the projects on the catalogue page, I'd already picked up the washi tape in clearance and a lovely lady called Kay gave me a half pack of the DSP so I am all set!!

I made these two first....

Mini Notebooks for Maggies

Some of you may know that I volunteer for Maggies Cancer Care Centre in Nottingham, they were a fantastic help during my wife's journey with stage 4 breast cancer in 2013, since around 2015 I have been one of the fundraising volunteers and I thought I would use my crafty skills to make some mini notebooks for them to sell in the centre.

You can find out more information about Maggies Centres here

Here is what I have come up with, really easy, method is below.

Easy Beautiful Card with Stamparatus™

Same basic card as the previous video but used the Stampin' Up!® Stamparatus™ instead, made the card a lot quicker to do and with 4 stamping platforms (more than any other stamp positioning tool) was so easy to place 3 stamps.

An Easy Beautiful Card for #stampinforall Design Team

This week the design team have set the challenge of only using products available in the new Stampin' Up! catalogues, so the annual and holiday catalogues only.Thanks go to a German demonstrator for the inspiration of this gorgeous card.

September Happy Mail

Watch the video to see what crafty goodies I purchased!

Design Team Challenge 27 August 2018 #stampinforall

Hello and welcome to this weeks #stampinforall design team challenge, this week we would like you to create a project using designer series paper, ribbon and die cuts/punches. No Stamping Needed (unless you want to!)

Here is my example to inspire you!

Tea Bag Favours Or Gifts

Many thanks to a fellow team member, Sue Robinson for this project which she bought to our team garden party last Saturday.

Really easy project, perfect for team or customer gifts, craft fairs etc.

August Happy Mail

I should have posted this in the middle of last week, but totally forgot.

Enjoy!

Team Garden Party Shoebox Swaps

On Saturday 11th August, my upline, Helen held a team garden party, we all contributed to a bring and share lunch which was epic and were also tasked with providing a 'shoebox swap'

Here are the projects that I made (excluding mine obvs)

It was a cracking day and I can't wait to do it again soon!

A Box for the Big Bow Card

A couple of days ago, I posted a big bow card and I was thinking how to package it, an envelope is not really suitable, so it had to be a box!

This is what I came up with...

Big Bow Card with Stampin' Up!

Hi everyone, I spotted a video by LiveLoveScrap on YouTube of a lovely big bow card and had to case. The original was made using non-su products and you can watch it here.

My version is 100% current Stampin' Up!

Beautiful ATC's received.

Hello everyone, I take part in a couple of ATC (artist trading card) challenges as a way of broadening my crafting experience and as a way of using Stampin' Up! product, demonstrating that they are not just for cards!!

So I have received 2 challenges back this week....

T-Bag Favour Mania!!

Hi everyone, thank you for visiting my blog today, I have been making t-bag favours. something I haven't done before. Here is the first one I did, thanks to lyriclover810 on YouTube for her inspiration. You can find her video here.

#stampinforall Design Team Summer Showcase

Hello everyone and welcome to the blog post for the #stampinforall Design Team Summer Showcase.

This is what I created, a box card using Daisy Delight from Stampin' Up!

Tutorial To Convert PDF to Image for Use on Blogs etc

Just a quickie tutorial, but hopefully useful!



If you enjoy then please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel and this blog!!

A Couple Of Male Cards

Watch the video to see how I made a couple of male cards, inspired by Scrimpingmommy!



Measurements are in the video.



Thanks for watching.

Using up DSP and Other Bits Part 8 of 8

Yay! The finale :)

For the final post I did lots of different things with the colour theory suite.

For the first one I cased a lovely card from Kelly Acheson here and tweaked it :)

Using up DSP and Other Bits Part 7 of 8

Part 7 and its birthday time. I fell in love with this suite and am sad now that the DSP, stamps and Dies have retired.

These cards are approx 6"x6", not my usual A6 size, always good to change things up!

Here's what I did...

Using up DSP and Other Bits Part 6 of 8

Phew! Nearly there, so in part 6, Fresh Florals meets Colour Theory!

I made Anniversary cards for a change, using the now retired Butterfly Basics stamp set.

I'm not sure if I saw this design on pinterest or you tube, if I ever find it again I will update this post.

Design Team Challenge - Embossing with Dies

Welcome everyone to the blog post for the #stampinforall design team challenge for w/c 4th - 8th June 2018.

The theme for this week was embossing with a die or dies, this is what I came up with for an example.

Using up DSP and Other Bits Part 5 of 8

So, I CASED Pootles, who CASED Patty Bennett, such fun!! The DSP is Fresh Florals and is the successor to Floral Boutique. You can find Pootles card here Also used are items from the Eastern Palace bundle.

Using up DSP and Other Bits Part 4 of 8

Hello everyone, halfway through this series now and the DSP is Floral Boutique, a good freind sent me half a pack after I missed out on it and I am finally using it!

I did a few different designs of cards, tho the card bases are all the same size and the DSP is 4"x4" The style is CAS which I love and particularly suits the purpose of the cards I think.

I used 4 different designs of the paper, here is the first.