{Something Old...Something New}

Soooo... what do you think of the new catalogue?

Any must haves on your wish list yet?

This week the children have been off school as it's their half term holiday.  It's been lovely not having to get up for the school run, and enjoy some chilled out days at home.

I've been sneaking off to my craft room to play with some of the new products , here are some cards mixing new colours and stamps with others that have been around already.  I have been experimenting with a whimsical style of stamping and leaving white space to let the designs "breathe".

I'm pleased to announce I'll be running a 

Paper Crafts Workshop 

with fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator Joyce Jones on 

Saturday 25th June 

10.00am - 12.30pm

at The Dragon Hotel in Montgomery, Powys

Class fee £15

We'll be making 4 items, and the idea is to inspire you to use paper crafting for celebrations and events.  All tuition and materials provided.

Bookings need to be made by the 20th June.

There is a lovely restaurant at the hotel, if you would like us to reserve place for lunch,please let us know.

To secure a place please pay using the Paypal button below

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{More In Colour 2016-2018 creations}

When I was sent "the" box of goodies from Stampin' Up to make the samples for Onstage, I have to confess I felt both overwhelmed and underwhelmed... if that makes sense.  It was nerve wracking playing with the new colours, initially I explored how they looked with our current colours, however after being told that I needed to focus on the new ones I approached my task with renewed vigour.

I returned to my love of 3D florals, fauna and butterflies, and tried to show off each colour in a different way, using various textures through stamping and shaping the card.

Here are more detailed photos and a video explaining how I created each card.

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{Masking Technique with Fine Tip Glue Pen}

Wow! What a week - I'm still recovering from last weekend's excitement, and adjusting to the products that are retiring from the current catalogue.
What do you think of the new in colours?

These are some of the samples I made for the display at Onstage in Telford.  They feature a really simple technique, made easy by the use of the Fine Tip Glue Pen.  You can choose your favourite stamps to have a go.

Sweet Sugarplum

Dapper Denim

Emerald Envy

Flirty Flamingo 

Peekaboo Peach 

Here is a video explaining the process...

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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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{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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{Birthday spray of flowers}

Much as I love making layered and somewhat complicated cards, there's something really satisfying about combining some images onto a flat piece of card stock to make something  quite lovely. 

The leaves (What I Love stamps stet) were stamped with Watermelon Wonder onto the same colour cardstock, with flowers from the Birthday Blooms stampset.  I then used the splatters from Awesomely Artistic in Tip Top Taupe to finish it off.

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-{Jubilee Bunting}-

Hi all, sorry I have not got around to posting a video this last weekend.

I was away at a ladies conference in Swanwick in Derbyshire.  A few weeks ago a lady from church who is one of the organisers sidled up to me and asked if I would be willing to run a workshop.  

The conference was attended by approximately 200 ladies who were their for fun and fellowship, spiritual and physical food and to enjoy the lovely surroundings of the conference centre.  As the "Word for Women" conference were celebrating their 50th anniversary they though it would be nice to make some bunting.  

So, the ladies taking part were given 7 pennants, 7 white circles and 7 scalloped circles.  They could choose whatever word or phrase they wanted.  They all seemed to have a chilled and creative time... please comment below if you were there!

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{OSWW week 18 - Square Pillow Box Die}

Ok ok, so it's the very early hours of Thursday morning... I thought you'd prefer it late than never!

and I made another card from the scraps

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