{40th Birthday card}

Had the pleasure of making this for a friend of mine last week.

For any of you who love Stampin' Up! products there's only a couple of days left to benefit from all the fab offers on at the moment.

The best one (in my opinion) is to sign up and get up to £61 of free products!

For £99 you can choose £160 Stampin' Up! goodies.  Please contact me asap for a no pressure chat about what it would involve.

Used up some retired paper for the flowers.  The background was embossed with the Fluttering embossing folder, then I used a sponge dabbed with in the white Craft Ink.

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{Happy Easter - Weekend Ramble!}

Hi everyone,
just wanted to wish all my blog readers a very Happy Easter! It really is one of my favourite times of year and certainly my favourite occasion to celebrate in the Christian calendar.

Here is my ramble and card...

and here is the song the quote is taken from...

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{Mini Christmas Wreath}

Hi everyone, oops I am a day late with this post.
Hope you don't mind, yesterday I was out with my family enjoying the Good Friday break and spending time with friends.

Here is a little Christmassy project for you.  Of course you could use it for lots of other occasions.

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{Paper Flower Corsage Tutorial}

Hi there!

As a lot of you may already know, I love making flowers, and am always on the look out and playing with punches and paper to find a new way of creating flowers.

A few weeks ago I organised a wedding crafting event and designed these to show the ladies what they could make.

I have filmed a video tutorial to help get you started.

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{Weekend Ramble and Titanic Card}

Hi Everyone, here is a roundup of what I've been up to last week!

Also... I show you how to make this card.

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{February Results and New Challenge for March}

Hi everyone,

last month I set a challenge to create a romantic themed card without using the colours pink or red.

Here are the entries I received...

A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated, I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the Stamp set is Hazel!

The next challenge is to create a card using 

"something old  and something new"

all qualifying entries will be entered into a prize draw!

Here are the cards I have made.

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 March 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 31st March 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.

{Weekend Ramble with Ruth}

Hi everyone!
I'm afraid I've been neglectful of my blog this week.

Had some lovely news... I've been chosen to be a display stamper for the Stampin' Up! Onstage Live in April.  Looking forward to playing with some new goodies.

Here is my recent ramble...

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{Onstage display stamper entries}

As a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I have the privilege of being able to go to events organised by Stampin' Up!  

These events include business talks and tips, creative inspiration from other demonstrator presenters and beautiful samples of work made with products from upcoming catalogues.  

As demonstrators we've been asked to apply to be display stampers, so here are my entries.  

3D item no 1 - Bouquet of paper flower pens

Spiral Flower Die, Fringe Scissors, Fun Flower punch and It's My Party DSP

3D item no 2 - Sweet cones with peg embellishment

Typeset DSP, Papillion Potpurri, Elegant Butterfly punch, pegs, Jute Ribbon, Lace and Stain ribbon.

12x12 scrpabook layout

Kraft cardstock, Shine On SPSP Awesomely Artistic, Timeless Textures, Dots for Days, Grateful Bunch, Pedal Pusher.

See how I made this in a time lapse video...

Card no 1

Birthday Blossoms, White Craft ink, Basic Pearls, Snips, Pansy Punch

Card no 2

Timeless Textures, Picture Perfect

Card no 3

Birthday Blooms, Timeless Textures, Butterfly thinlets, Snips, Poinsetta Punch, Jute, Bloomin Heart thinlets, Itty Bitty accents heart punch, Petite Petals punch

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{Simple watercolour technique}

This is a great technique if you're new to watercolouring.

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