{Wedding Inspiration}

Had great fun yesterday helping some brides design and create their wedding stationary, favours and wedding flowers.

Here are some items I made to inspire them... Paper cones filled with sweets, invitations and decorative pegs.

Have a fab weekend!

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{It's Christmas - Make a box}

Here's a quick idea to get ahead on your Christmas packaging!

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{One Sheet Wonder Wednesday - Pastel Florals}

I've missed doing One Sheet Wonder Wednesdays!

So here is one!

Id didn't use all the sheet this time, I'll share what else I made in a few days.

Here is the video

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{Crafty Party Fun!}

I had the pleasure of providing a Crafty Party for a young lady turning 9, she had invited her favourite people to have a crafty time making some bunting, decorating a notebool and creating a fabulous flower pen.

Here are some pics from the party.

If you would like to have a Crafty Party for a young person in your life, then please contact me!

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{Weekend Ramble with Picture Perfect}

Week round up and a play with the gorgeous Picture Perfect stamp set.

On the YouTube video I show you how to stamp the roses, to see how I put the card together check out my Periscope video on Katch

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{Sweet Sixteen Birthday Card}

I love making commissioned cards!  

It's such fun to find out about the person I'm making the card for, and to make the card just for them!

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{New Saleabration items!}

Love that little four letter word... FREE!
Especially when free comes with even more options!

Stampin' Up! have done it again, they've created some more lovely items that will make crafting a joy!

For every £45 spent you can FREE items, and here are three new items.

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{Weekend Ramble}

A short little ramble this week...
See the new Saleabration items that will be available from the 16th Feb!

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{Bloomin Love!}

Happy Valentines Day!

I hope that whatever your love life is like you are living a life of gratitude and contentment.  I am very grateful for the love of a wonderful family and friends, but above all, each day I know and live in the love God shows me.

Here are a couple of cards I made a few weeks ago.  Thought it would be appropriate to share them today!

Here is a video with an explanation of how I made them.

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{Hello Birthday Boy}

I just love how a few stamps can transform a blank piece of card into a work of art.  

Here is a slightly more masculine card for a "birthday boy"  The sentiment stamps are from the set Hello, that can be earned for free during Saleabration.

The other super fabulous thing about Saleabration (now till the end of March) is that if you sign up to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator you get £160 of product for only £99!  There are lots of ways you can be a demonstrator, please have a look here for more information.

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{My daughter's challenge entry}

My daughter has taken a real shine to stamping, she loves putting the images together to create a bit of a picture.  She completely suprised me at the end by wanting to draw a sun in the corner!

If you would like to watch her creative process, and hear her explaining what she's doing, here is a video...

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{Sponged Birthday Blooms}

A couple of weeks ago I ran a class for children.  i introduced them to the idea of using a colour wheel, then set them challenges through out the class to use different combinations.  Here is the card I made with them to show what choosing 3 opposite colours would look like.

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{Weekend Ramble}

Weekend Ramble...

For those of you who are new to my blog I just wanted to explain what my ramble is all about.  On my YouTube Channel I put all sorts of tutorials, overtime people who follow me said they like to hear me talk about what I've been up to in my life.  I didn't want to do that in all my videos so my weekend ramble is exactly that... a ramble.  So if you would prefer not to hear me witter on please feel free not to watch it, here is the card I made during the ramble.

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{A field of flowers}

So pleased how this card turned out, and I've really enjoyed showing people how simple this technique is.  

Using three colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel, use the sponges to create bands of colour on Whisper White Card.  

Heat emboss the floral images with black embossing powder.

With a wet paint brush pick up some white ink from the Craft White inkpad and colour in some of the floral and leaf images.

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{You are loved...}

Here is another card using the Bloomin' Love stamp set, really enjoyed experimenting with this repeat pattern technique.

To be in with a chance to win this set please look at this blog post.

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{Bloomin' Hearts Thinlets Die in Gold Foil}

When I saw this die in the Spring/Summer catalogue, this die was one that I just oooooed over.

To be able to use the thinlet die you need to have a die cutting machine such as the Big Shot.

It's an amazing tool, it enables you to cut amazingly intricate shapes and dies with a few turns of the handle.  It is quite an investment -  however if you were to hold a party or sign up to Stampin' Up! you could have this machine for considerably less.

During Saleabration there are some great offers on, here is a video explaining how you can save money now.

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{Hello my friend}

Showing off another Saleabration set, this time the "Hello" set that has lots of lovely sentiments.  So simple to jazz up with some florals and some bling.

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{Sunday Ramble}

Here is last night's ramble...

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{February Challenge}

Hi there and welcome to February's challenge!

Thank you everyone that participated last month, I'll be announcing the winner soon.

As we're getting closer to Valentine's day, the challenge this month is to make a love themed card suitable for either Valentine's day, an anniversary or a wedding, but, you are not allowed to use pink or red!

All qualifying participants will be in with a chance for winning this stamp set - read below for the rules.

Here are a little set of cards I have made.  To see the video tutorial you need to be a Newsletter subscriber, if you aren't and would like to be, then go here.

And here are a few made by my super talented down line Lindsey.

NB Whatever you make will have to contain at least one Stampin' Up! product and you need to be a resident of the UK, France, Germany, Holland or Austria to be entered in the draw.

You can enter in several ways... either
Put a picture on your blog and then paste the link to the post in the comments below
or
Post a picture on Facebook and in the description put "Artful Stampin January Challenge" and notify me through my Artful Stampin Facebook Page.
or
Post a picture on Instagram with the hash tag "artfulstampinchallenge"
or
Email me a picture of what you create to paperandpearls @ talktalk.net

You have until midnight (GMT) on the 29th February 2016 to enter.  By entering you give me permission to show your pictures on my blog to inspire others.

Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators are welcome to join in, however, please be courteous and let me know as I won't be entering your name for the draw.

Enjoy! and I look forward to seeing your entries :)