Congratulations Balloon Celebration

Stampin' Up! Uk Balloon Celebration Congratulations Card

There are so many great stamp sets in our catalogues that often I buy one because I love it, but then never get around to using all the stamps in the set! I really didn’t want that to happen to Balloon Celebration, a stamp set that I love so much I used it for my catalogue launch party back in January, but then never actually got around to using it again properly, until now.Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

This stamp set has a heap of great little images, and is great for far more than just birthday card with balloons on! Kylie Burtucci made an awesome card using this set a few weeks ago, and I just knew I wanted to CASE it for a friends wedding anniversary card last week.

Stampin' Up! Uk Balloon Celebration Congratulations Card

Their wedding colours were white and a sort of soft champagne colour (something we don’t really have in our palette) so I opted for So Saffron instead.

The wedding card featured on my blog last year, I can’t believe its a year already since we were partying into the night at a Castle in County Durham, I also can’t believe that it is now almost 8 months since our wedding, crazy!

I had intended to get this card up a little sooner, as it does now feature some retired product, that gorgeous glitter tape – please Stampin’ Up! bring it back…..


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Happy Birthday Husband

Stampin' Up! UK Mans birthday card Guy Greetings

It was James’ birthday on Good Friday, but what with the end of Sale-a-bration rearing its head I didn’t get around to posting the card until now.

James is always very supportive of my card making, but I think he gets a little nervous when it comes time for me to make a card for him. James is a manly sort of bloky sort of fellow, he doesn’t do flowers or pink or ribbon or anything remotely feminine at all (I am solely responsible for anything remotely ‘homely’ in our house, he would have a sofa and a fridge and a TV and call it home!) so cards aren’t really something he would spend time or effort in choosing, let along making for anyone!

Stampin' Up! UK Mans birthday card Guy Greetings

I love creating super simple cards for James. He has started to make cards for me (just because he knows I like a handmade card) and always goes to town on ink blending and punches, he actually bought his own card blanks because he was too scared to touch my card stock (rightly so!). So, when it comes to make a card for James I like to keep things simple, in the hope that one day he might calm down on the ink and punches!

Anyway, this card features the stamp set Guy Greetings and Going Places Designer Series Paper. I love the travel theme of this paper, its a full stack of 6 x 6 papers printed with maps and street plans, along with some great marble type prints – all of which are great for guys.

Stampin' Up! UK Guy Greetings Going Places Designer Series paper

‘Husband’ fits perfectly into the Washi Label punch, while I grabbed my Circle collection framelits and my big shot for the anchor. Both stamps are from Guy Greetings and are stamped in Lost Lagoon. I remember a few years ago watching Shimelle Lane on YouTube create these great Scrapbook layouts using masses of Patterned Paper and she ALWAYS inked the edges to get the to ‘go together’ and I thought I would use the same technique here, so once I had all my pieces I grabbed out my Sahara Sand ink and a sponge and inked all the papers – I love the effect

Even James said it loved it!

Success at last


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What I Love

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Blackberry Bliss

Yesterday I featured 3 Sale-a-bration products for Make It Monday, today I thought I would make 3 cards all featuring another one of our Sale-a-bration stamp sets – What I love

Sale-a-bration is the greatest sale of the year and it ends on Thursday! During Sale-a-bration you get to choose a free gift each time you spend £45, you get an extra £20 in Stampin’ Rewards when you order over £200, or you get an extra £30 worth of goodies if you choose to join my team of Stampin’ Friends!

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Blackberry Bliss

So, This is the What I Love stamp set, and it is completely FREE if you spend £45 in my store before Thursday!
All 3 of these cards feature the masking technique, all using my beloved sticky notes! For this card I stamped the sentiment first in Blackberry Bliss before covering with a piece of sticky note tape.

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration What I Love Blackberry Bliss]The flowers are stamped in Perfect Plum and Blackberry Bliss. I love a great layering stamp set, and this one is awesome! The flower is made up of 3 stamps, two more solid stamps and one ‘outline’ stamp, and it makes you look like an artist just with stamps and ink! Love that!

Stampin' Up! UK Thank you card What I Love

The second card features the smallest stamp in the set. This cute flower stamp fits on the smallest Stampin’ Up! clear block and is so pretty. Here I stamped the ‘Thank you’ first in Mint Macaron, before covering it was a mask punched out of sticky note (I used the type that has sticky all over it here) and then stamping the flowers around the circle. The colours used here are Mint Macaron, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay.

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The final card used the negative of the mask used on the previous! After stamping the flowers and leaves I added Blackberry Bliss ink with a sponge, and coloured the leaves and flowers with Blackberry Bliss and Mossy Meadow ink and a blender pen

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I hope you have loved Sale-a-bration as much as I have. Along with the end of Sale-a-bration I’m re-evaluating my business, I’ve had a heap of stuff going on over the past 6 months and have not been able to dedicate as much time to you guys as I would like. So, until things settle down my live events are on hold. I love holding classes and events, but I’m just not able to guarantee time to prepare properly and I don’t want to short change anyone on my events. However, my blog will continue as is, posting 4 -5 times a week and my (almost) weekly newsletters are also here to stay. Hope you guys are all well, and I’ll see you again on Thursday!


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Make it Monday | Reactive Watercolour

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Hello! Welcome to another week of Make it Monday! I hope you are enjoying this series of posts as much as I am. Last week I made a card an photographed each stage, but this week I thought I would make a video. I haven’t made any video tutorials for a while so I am a little rusty, so please forgive any mistakes or issues. I had so much fun making this card, using some of those great Sale-a-bration products for the last time!

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Sale-a-bration ends on March 31st (that’s Thursday!), but until then you get to choose from 11 gifts when you spend £45 (and you get to pick extras each time you hit that £45, so you get 2 free things if you order comes to £90!) or you could get the best deal ever and join my team of Stampin’ Friends for just £99 and choose £160 worth of great Stampin’ goodies! Awesome!

Reactive Watercolour is a great technique, and its super simple too! Just stamp your image in Stampin’ Up! ink and spritz with a little water – then sit back and watch the ink move and bleed. The more water you add the more the ink moves.

On this card, once the ink had dried I over stamped the images again as I may have gone a little over board with the water the first time around!

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Finished with a stripe of the Metallic Glitter Tape in Silver and this card is done!

I hope you enjoyed this weeks Make It Monday, and I’ll see you here again next week for another great project! Don’t forget to place those last Sale-a-bration orders soon, or your favourite items may already have sold out!


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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – Forever Begins Today

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings Wedding Card

Stampin' Up! Sketch ChallengeHello Everyone! So glad you could join us for another week of the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! This weeks sketch comes from the lovely Justyna.

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I love this sketch, it totally pushed me outside of my norm, and allowed me to create something very different for me. I have to admit that I also took inspiration from the ever so talented Teneale Williams for this one, particularly stamping on coloured card stock – definitely something I shall be doing more of!

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings Wedding Card

I of course had to turn the sketch this time. I haven’t rotated a sketch for a while – I love taking a sketch and editing it to suit me. So this time I turn it sideways.

I really don’t use a lot of coloured card stock, I buy heaps of Whisper White but a pack of a colour can last me years! This particular colour I didn’t think was one of my favourites, but now I’ve used it in such a big way it is starting to grow on me. Actually I use so little of this colour (Soft Suede) that when I came to stamp I realised I don’t even have the coordinating Ink! Shocking! So to get the tone on tone effect I jumped to another brown, Crumb Cake instead.

I’ve also used Crumb Cake to stamp and watercolour the Bloom in the circle. Can you believe that that is one ink colour?! its super pretty in real life, my camera work just has not done this one justice. The flowers from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack are also sponged in Crumb Cake.

Stampin' Up! UK Sketch Challenge Wedding Card Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings

The only other ink colour I have used here is Early Espresso for the sentiment, taken from Suite Sayings, and perfect to send as a wedding congratulations.

Have you spotted the gold glitter? Its actually a tape! and its currently FREE during Sale-a-bration! Awesome. Remember Sale-a-bration ends on the 31st of March, so don’t wait too long or this beautiful tape may have just already left us. To get this lovely tape for free you just have to spend £45, and the choose the tape as your free gift!

Thanks for stopping by today, and don’t forget to hop along to see what the girls have made with this sketch

Til next time

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Almost time to say goodbye ….

Stampin' Up! UK Best Thoughts Card

As we approach the end of Sale-a-bration it is time to start looking to the year ahead, almost time to prepare swaps for On Stage in April, almost time to start saying goodbye to retiring products before saying HELLO! to the new things coming our way in May/June! I know that March is early to start talking about things retiring and going from our lives forever, but I really don’t want you to miss out, so over the next few weeks and months I’ll be guiding you through things that you just can’t live without…

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These five colours will certainly be retiring in May, These are one of our current sets of In-Colours; Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Tangelo Twist and Mossy Meadow. In-Colours last for 2 years, but we get a new set each year. These gorgeous colours though are the now ‘outgoing’ set, I know that the second the retiring list is released these colours will disappear which means that you secure yours you need to get them now! That includes the inks, card stock, ribbons and other embellishments….

Stampin' Up! UK Best Thoughts Card

This stamp set is ready to leave us too. Best Thoughts is one of this years Hostess Exclusive stamp sets, available only to party hostesses or those who spend more than £150 in a single order and therefore collect Stampin’ Rewards.

I have added a touch of Gorgeous Grunge to this card(s) too, just because why not! every card is better with a touch of Gorgeous Grunge (I am praying it doesn’t leave us this year, I love it too much, I think I might need therapy if Gorgeous Grunge retires!)


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One Layer Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK One Layer Birthday Card

My crafty mojo is still missing, and so I’m still sharing the stack of cards that have been abandoned on my desk. Stampin' Up! UK One Layer Birthday Card

This card was made purely to test out a colour combination. I do this quite often, make a quick card or panel in a couple of colours to see how well it works. I love the simplicity of this card, one layer is something I just don’t do, but I might have do start doing more often.

The stamps are from Perpetual Birthday Calender and Rose Wonder, the colours are Mint Macaron, Watermelon Wonder and Blushing Bride

Stampin' Up! UK One layer Birthday card perpetual birthday

However, once I had ‘finished’ it was a  little too simple, and so I added a splatter or Wink of Stella in Gold, and a trio of Crystal Effects spots.


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Flowering Fields

Stampin' Up! Uk Congrats Flowering Fields Perfect Pairings

I will be honest with you, I wasn’t going to share this card. I had a plan and it didn’t really work, and so once I had photographed it, this card has sat on my desk quite lonely as card after card has passed by. However, I have sort of ran out of cards …. my crafty mojo has up’d and left, and I have been left with crafters block! and so I’m sharing this card today, in the hope that my mojo returns soon and that you aren’t left hanging without some inspiration, if this card inspires you at all please do let me know, I would love to see your creations!

Stampin' Up! Uk Congrats Flowering Fields Perfect Pairings

This was the final attempt of many, I initially intended to stamp each flower in versamark and heat emboss in clear before adding a wash of colour over the top (which I may still do) but something went wrong (not that I can remember what) and I then tried to stamp in colours adding water to see what happened!

Well, it turns out, not much. I think this is more because most of my ink pads are a little dry and in need of re-inking, or maybe that I picked the wrong colours. The colour bleeding worked well with the Crushed Curry and Melon Mambo, but not so much with paler colours like Pear Pizzazz or Pool Party (which is so faint that you can barely see it!)

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So, maybe I’ll try this card again and see if my mojo returns ….


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A Nice Cuppa Thank You

A few weeks ago my lovely husband, James, asked me to make 2 thank you cards to say Thanks to the team at one of his placements. James is a student nurse (apparently my horror stories haven’t put him off!) and he has now finished his first year of study, which means saying goodbye to the ward where he has been based for the past 9 months. Now, as a nurse I know that there are few things that nurses like more than a ‘hot’ cup of tea or coffee, and so the ‘A Nice Cuppa’ stamp set and coordinating dies seemed perfect

Stampin' Up! UK A Nice Cuppa Thank you card

I actually made two cards, one for the ward team, and one for James’ mentor. I’m loving using up my Designer Series Papers at the moment (as I’m sure regular readers are well aware) and this card was a great excuse to get out the Birthday Blooms Designer Series Paper and use it for a non-birthday themed card. I often use Designer Series Paper as colour inspiration, and so looked through the colour list for a coordinating card base colour and came up with Soft Suede.

The Cup and tea bag were die cut from Whisper White card stock and, although you can’t see it in this photos, sponged in Crumb Cake ink. I love adding a bit of sponging to the edge of items like this mug, just to give a little dimension, and take it from a flat piece to something special. I have also curved pieces like this before, but left it flat this time around.

Stampin' Up! Uk A Nice Cuppa Thank you card cherry on top

The second card was for James’ mentor, and so I wanted to make something that reflected James – bright and colourful! This of course meant changing Designer Series Paper and so here I have used the Cherry on Top DSP stack. This cute stack of 6 x 6 papers features some really bold and bright colours that you may not have first thought of when thinking about a cup of tea!

This card uses a piece of Shimmery White card stock, and I have added a wash of Pool Party in the background before adding 1cm strips of Designer Series Paper and the tea cup. The sentiment on this one is taken from the Sale-a-bration set Perfect Pairings – I will be so sad at the end of the month when this set retires as I have used it so much!

I know that both these cards were well received on the ward, We love sending Thank You’s at the end of a placement or work place. Believe it or not we don’t get much thanks, and so its always lovely to get a hand-made thank you.


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Irresistible Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Colour me irresistible boys birthday card

Over the next month I’m planning a series of cards purely for the guys in your life. We all struggle with cards for our husbands, sons, dads etc. for me the key is keeping things simple.

Stampin' Up! UK Colour me irresistible boys birthday card

I sent this card to my brother for his birthday last month, it was super quick and simple to make, mostly thanks to Stampin’ Up!®

The main focus of this card is the Colour Me Irresistible Designer Series Paper (LOVE!) which comes in 12 x 12 sheets of white card stock with a resist pattern, as well as some sheets that are pre-coloured. This card uses a white sheet with a woodgrain resist, that I have inked with my Stampin’ Sponges in Chocolate Chip and Early Espresso to create a realistic wood effect.

Stampin' Up! UK boys birthday cardI grabbed for my sponges again for the sentiment strip blending Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay, adding a Happy Birthday from the Perfect Pairings stamp set (free during Sale-a-bration!).


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