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There’s Snow Place Like Home….

Stampin' Up! UK Snow friends Penguin Watercolour

It’s no secret that I love watercolour techniques, and I’ve been at it again on this card. Actually the first time I made this card I managed to get the paper too wet, by adding far too many layers of watercolour and had to start again!

Stampin' Up! UK Snow friends Penguin Watercolour

Mr. Penguin was stamped in Archival Basic Black Ink onto Watercolour Paper. The new Archival inks are great for watercolour as they don’t react with water, meaning that the ink stays where you put it and doesn’t bleed. His feet and beak are coloured using a Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write Marker.

I have mentioned before about how much I love Stampin’ Up!® for coordination; and this set is no exception as it comes bundled with matching framelits, making cutting out Mr. Penguin’s ear muffs, ice cream and bow tie a breeze!

My favourite bits of this card is the background. After I had Mr. Penguin stamped (but before he got dressed!) I masked him off with a piece of Post-it tape to protect him and created this watercolour background using Soft Sky ink. I put several layers of watercolour here, to create a textured effect. The floor is Tip Top Taupe. For extra texture I added some Wisteria Wonder splatters using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.

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Watercolour Thank you

Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour Thank You mens card

This past few weeks have been completely crackers, between new jobs, On Stage Live, family stuff and keeping up with the blog, life has been pretty insane! But never too busy to say a great big Thank You to some of the most important people; you! (and some people that helped me along the way)

Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour Thank You mens card

I sent this card out last week following my amazing experience in Brussels. The wonderful Sam Hammond Donald threw us a wonderful evening off chat, food and wine on the Friday evening. We were joined by Sam’s lovely parents, and I send them this card to just say thanks for a lovely evening.

I LOVE spending time with other demonstrators, discussing crafty makes, business bits and just generally having a great time. The girls I met (some of them for the first time) in Brussels are true friends, that I am so excited to see again in Telford in April at the next Stampin’ Up!® On Stage event. You can join me at that event, just as about joining my group of Stampin’ Friends

The card uses two stamp sets; Gorgeous Grunge and Watercolour Thank You, and three colours of ink; Night of Navy, Mint Macaron and Pool Party.

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Endless Birthday Wishes

Stampin' Up! UK Endless Birthday Wishes Cake Card

It was my mum’s birthday last week, I almost always buy my mum the same thing for her birthday. With it being close (-ish) to Christmas she doesn’t want much, but she always needs slippers by this point in the year – usually because she’s spent the summer mowing the lawn in her last pair! Mum also always wants the same pair, so about a week before the big day I pop off down to Marks and Spencers for the same slippers she had last year, usually in a different colour, but always the same style. This year, I called in to my Auntie’s in London on my way home for Brussels, and picked up Mum’s birthday present from her too – the matching Pyjamas!

Mum’s birthday card however, is always a tricky one for me. My mum appreciates the effort of a handmade card, but more than once has described my cards as dull. So now, I go all out to grab out my brightest coloured card stock, and fun stamps

Stampin' Up! UK Endless Birthday Wishes Cake Card

I will admit to pulling this stamp set off the shelf, and searching Pinterest before actually making anything. I love this colour combination; Pink Pirouette (although I think I grabbed my Blushing Bride pen by mistake when colouring the cake), Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay. It so bright and fun!

The stripes are a piece of Silver Designer Series Paper from the Neutrals paper stack, cut to 14.2 x 10 cm. With a matt of Whisper White (12.2 x 8 cm), stamped with the dotty stamp in the 3 colours. I’m trying really hard at the moment to use my stash of ribbon, and this card features a piece of Melon Mambo 1 cm Stitched Satin ribbon with knot tied in it. I attach ribbon to the back of card stock using Fast Fuse, and then add more Fast Fuse over the top to help stick the card stock down.

Stampin' Up! UK Endless Birthday Wishes Birthday card

My favourite part of the card is that lovely banner piece, Bermuda Bay and Whisper White. The cake is stamped in Basic Black and coloured using the Stampin’ Write markers.

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Let it Snow!

Stampin' Up! UK Snowman card

I’m a little bit late with this weeks news – the Christmas retiring list has gone live! There are so many awesome stamps we are about to say Goodbye to, go and check out what is left!

I’m really hoping that there are some of these cute snowmen left for you, I love these and will be so sad to say see ya!

Stampin' Up! UK Snowman card

These are stamped in our new Archival Basic Black on Whisper White and die cut with the coordinating Framelits. This is one of the things I LOVE about Stampin’ Up!® – coordination – there is so many products that are either matching colours, or have a matching die or punch, or have coordinating fonts and images. Stampin’ Up!® make creativity easy, saving you time by ensuring that your projects are totally awesome!

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Crazy in Love

Stampin' Up! UK Valentines card

It’s never too early to start thinking about the next holiday, and although I’m in full Christmas mode now, I’ve started to plan things for Valentines (I wish I was always this organised, I’m sure I’ll still be panicking about a card 2 days before Valentines!)

Stampin' Up! UK Love You Crazy About You card

This simple 4 x 4″ card (4 x 8″ scored at 4″) is in Thick Whisper White. I’m loving the Gold Foil at the moment and a hint of gold just sets this card off. The sentiment is from Crazy About You, stamped in Melon Mambo and cut out into individual words, layered onto a heart of Pink Pirouette.

Stampin' Up! UK Valentines card

One of my most frequently used design tricks is the Magic of Threes – 3 of something, usually in a sort of triangle on the card. Here I have created a trio of trios – 3 little peals in a triangle, repeated 3 times

So cute!

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On Stage Live | Swaps

Stampin' Up! UK On Stage Live Swaps

There is nothing us demonstrators like more than swapping ideas and inspiration! I’m away this week at On Stage Live in Brussels with hundreds of other demonstrators from around the world getting ideas and inspiration, as well as some sneaky peaks of things coming in January!

Stampin' Up! UK On Stage Live Crazy About You

I had great fun making 50 of these cards. A swap is usually just a card front (although this one is a full card, and was my prototype!), and some demonstrators go further and swap little bags or boxes. I made some cute little bag swaps for Regional Training back in May that contained little chocolates, but seeing as I was travelling this time (and on the train) I decided to keep things simple and do a card.

I really do apologise for the quality of these pictures, white on white photography is hard and I definately haven’t mastered it yet! Any tips anyone?

The panel on the front is embossed with the Large Polka Dot embossing folder and popped up on Dimensionals. I had a great inky time ink blending the tags with Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Pool Party ink and my sponges. I had a full assembly line going for these, making each component individually before final assembly. Cutting and embossing, Die cutting the Hello thinlit, stamping and punching, Stamping the You with White Craft Ink (and allowing heaps of time for it to dry) etc. etc.

Stampin' Up! UK On Stage Live Swaps

The sentiment is from Crazy About You, along with the flower / scalloped thingy. I can’t believe I managed to tie 50 reasonable bows with linen thread either!

Hope everyone who received one loves them as much as me! I have kept some back though, especially for my wonderful customers – place an order with me either via email or using the hostess code before the end of the month and I’ll be putting on of these in the post for you

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White Snowflakes

Stampin' Up! wooden elements Christmas card

I was trying to make a one layer card when this card was born! They card base is Sahara Sand,  with Sahara Sand trees from Wonderland stamped across the bottom to create a woodland scene.

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Stampin' Up! wooden elements Christmas card

But the card looked too sparse, it needed something extra. So I began to rummage in my craft room draw of goodies; this draw contains buttons, ribbons, embellishments, and some other odd bits and bobs. These snowflake wooden elements jumped out at me, but they didn’t look right in their ‘naked’ wooden form. So I coloured them with Whisper White Craft ink.

This was quite a task I have to say, I placed the wooden pieces on the ink pad, and covered them with a larger piece of scrap paper. Pressing the wooden elements into the ink pad to ensure they had a good coating of ink. They problem then was getting them off the pad! Paper piercer to the rescue, and they were laid on the same piece of scrap paper to dry. This ink always take a while to dry but on the wood it took even longer. Without using my heat gun to speed up the process (because it is about to die after a long and painful ill period!) I think it took about 24 hours for these pieces to to dry enough to  be stuck onto the card, and even then they were still tacky!

I think it was worth the effort though, because the card is so pretty. I think these snowflakes would also look gorgeous dipped in versamark and heat embossed in white, or silver, or gold…….. *runs back into the craft room to play some more!*

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Happy Birthday! (the awkward family member edition!)

Stampin' Up! UK Crazy About you birthday card

I love my family, I really do, but there are certain family members who cause me a stupid amount of stress when it comes to birthdays!

This past weekend it was James’ youngest sisters 16th  birthday, cue a full week of stress about birthday cards, presents and wrapping! I love my sister-in-law, but making a card for a 16 year old girl I swear is harder than making men’s birthday cards!

Stampin' Up! UK rainbow birthday card

I think I was channelling my inner Laura Bassen when I made this card, I LOVE watching her waffle whilest she is cardmaking on her YouTube channel. Laura makes a heap of cards with rainbow colours, which I don’t do very often. My mum once commented that all my cards were dull, well Mother, this one will knock your eyes out!

I grabbed my Brights collection ink pads; Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise and Rich Razzleberry, to stamp this leaf from Crazy About You. The sentiment is also from the same stamp set, birthday stamped in Rich Razzleberry and Happy die cut from Melon Mambo card stock using the coordinating framelits!

There is a little extra detail on this one, but the camera hasnt’ picked it up very well. I scored a line 0.5 cm round the edge of the stamped piece before attaching it onto a card base of Thick Whisper White with Dimensionals

Stampin' Up! UK Stampin@Home class kit Christmas Cards

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12 Weeks of Christmas | Diorama Card

Stampin' Up! UK 12 Weeks of Christmas Wonderland Card

Stampin' Up! 12 weeks of Christmas

I can’t quite believe it, but we have hit the half way through this years 12 Weeks of Christmas Series!

This week I have a card for you, but it is a fancy fold 3D card!

Stampin' Up! UK Christmas Diorama Video Tutorial

This card looks really impressive but its super easy to make, Check the video tutorial and measurements at the bottom of this post.

I have used the Circle Collection Framelits dies to create the holes in my Diorama card, but this would look lovely if you used Deco Label Collection of Lots of Labels Framelits

Stampin' Up! UK 12 Weeks of Christmas Wonderland Card

Measurements:

Card Stock – 1 piece of Very Vanilla (for the back) : 19 x 10 cm, 1 piece of Night of Navy (for the front) 19 x 10 cm, 1 piece of Night of Navy (for the middle) 10 x 15.9 cm

Score the front and back pieces with the long side at the top at 3 and 16 cm

Score the middle piece with the long side at the top at 1.5, rotate and score the other end at 1.5 cm

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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge #2

Stampin' Up! UK Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge

Stampin' Up! Sketch Challenge

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*.  Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

Stampin' Up! UK Simply Sketched Challenge Week 2

I REALLY REALLY struggled with this sketch! My brain doesn’t copy well with wonky angles, and the angles on the sketch were too much for my little brain to handle. I actually made two cards this week, I might blog the first card I made later in the week. I changed it on Friday when I started writing this post, because I’m not sure if I like it!

Stampin' Up! UK Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge

I am much happier with this card. I changed the shapes on the sketch from rectangles to circles (and so got rid of the wonky angles!). The Designer Series Paper is from the English Garden Designer Series Paper Pack, and although there are some lovely floral patterns in this pack, I really wanted to keep the patterns simple on this card.

The card base is in Soft Suede, with the card stock circle in Old Olive. I have to admit this is not a usual colour palate of mine, but I am trying to push myself on a Saturday and make something a little out of my comfort zone. All three pieces (the two DSP, and one card stock) are paper pierced to add some extra detail, along with the trio of Candy Dots in Soft Suede

Stampin' Up! UK English Garden Birthday card

I needed to introduce a horizontal element onto this card (as suggested by the sketch) but didn’t want to cover the circles too much. I have also recently found a love for vellum, I have always liked putting vellum on cards but at the moment I am having to stop myself from putting Vellum on EVERYTHING! The Vellum is stamped with a sentiment from the Garden In Bloom stamp set – which coordinates with the Designer Series Paper – stamped in Early Espresso.

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