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Loving the Basic Grey at the moment.  Have you noticed?

Found this lovely card  >here < by Monica, and was so inspired I got playing.

I stamped some flowers from the Green House Garden stamp set, they were a bit too large for the effect I wanted, so I cut a spiral into them and rolled them up.

I think this is the first time I have inked up this stamp from the Green House Garden set, I completely bypassed it! Will be using it a lot more now!

Can you see the little green flowers have a slight suede texture?  By scrunching and roughing the flower up (punched from cardstock), you can then separate the layers, so not only do you get 2 for the price of 1, but a lovely texture.

New Catalogue and Idea book as from tomorrow!

Please contact me to get your hands on the 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalogue.  If you've never seen one, I'm sure you'll be impressed with how packed full of ideas and samples it is.

I'll be updating my blog in the next few days so you can see it directly more easily.

However, if you can't wait, click HERE and it will take you to the Stampin Up website which should have it live from 1st October!

I'll leave you with this card, that was inspired by a skirt I saw in a shop window!

Floral Birthday

Gave this card to my friend today, so I can put it on here! I love making a sheet of my own "patterned paper" and then using it in different ways to create different cards.

Lots of flowers...

on these cards!

I love creating beautiful backgrounds with these floral stamps.

Just had delivery of my first ever order as a demo.  The stamps etc. are all bagged up ready to go to their new homes to be played with!  I bought myself the set of Regals ink pads.  I must say I am impressed with the quality, and that combined with the Very Vanilla cardstock which is so smooth and seems to just take the ink so well - I am very please with the results.

Green House garden and more...

These are some of the other things we made last night.  I showed the ladies how to do the two step stamping, and they all oooed and aaahed over how to use the Stampamajig! 

Stamps

Greenhouse Garden, Four Frames and Lexicon of Love (retired)

Card

Very Vanilla and Old Olive

Paper

Designer Series Paper - Melon Mambo

Inks

Old Olive

Regal Rose

Ribbon

Very Vanilla Satin

Tools

Decorative Label Punch

Other

Dimensionals and Martha Stewart Leaf punch

We also made a personalised notebook.  Used the Fun Flowers die to cut the flowers, sponged the edges with basic black and "cupped" the circle with the end of a pencil and stuck it on with 2 dimensionals.  The ladies had great fun with the Stampin wheel to make a background which I then cut up for them to use.

Stamps

Baroque border

Card

Very Vanilla and Basic Black

Die

Fun Flowers

Inks

Riding Hood Red

Basic Black

Other

Quickutz Sophisticate letters, EK Success Swirl punch and Fiskars Threading Water punch.

It's arrived and I've played!

My lovely Starter Kit arrived on Tuesday, I just had to capture the moment, so here are some pictures...

I swapped some of the recommended stamp sets for ones that I thought would be more useful for me, and also choose some different coloured ink pads.  The kit is fantastic value for money even if you wanted to save money on some crafty goodies.  Click here for more info on how to get it.

Initial thoughts about some of the products.

My first reaction to the Very Vanilla card stock was that it is to light weight for making a card base.  After a discussion with my fab upline Claire, she explained that the Very Vanilla and Whisper White card was for stamping on and then sticking onto the coloured card. I have to admit the stamped images on that card looks superb.  Apparently if you like to colour with Copics the colours do not bleed as they sometimes do with other card. 

Here is one of the card's we'll be making at classes this month

Stamps

Greenhouse Garden, So Many Thanks and Baby Blossoms

Card

Very Vanilla and Basic Black

Inks

Basic Black

Regal Rose

Ribbon

Very Vanilla Satin