Pootlers Blog Hop | Special Reason

Pootles Papercraft Team Blog Hop project using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

Pootles Stampin' Up! Team Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Wow I am so proud of all the girls this month. As you may know I organise and run this blog hop, and we hop as a team to celebrate the launch of a new Stampin’ Up! catalogue. We haven’t hopped since September last year, and with the start of the year being so busy I wasn’t expecting to have such a big hop…. well these girls are awesome, we have 20 lovely ladies sharing their projects with you today. Check out the end of this blog post to find a list of all the ladies and links to their blogs, please check them out and leave them some comment love!

Pootles Papercraft Team Blog Hop project using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

I thought I would challenge myself to use a stamp and die set that I haven’t spent much time with, but also to use a new (to me) colour combination. So I grabbed the Special Reason stamp and die bundle, and the colours Night of Navy, Emerald Envy and Crushed Curry for this card.

Pootles Papercraft Team Blog Hop Spring Summer Catalogue using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

I have added an extra stamp set in here, I recently found a home in my craft room for Touches of Texture, but I hadn’t had chance to use it either. So I’ve added a splatter of Crushed Curry, behind the die cuts and sentiment.

Before I go, I would also love to remind you that we are in the middle of Sale-a-bration! and so can get a FREE Sale-a-bration item everytime you spend £45 in a single order, and if you grabbed everything I used to make this card you would get to pick TWO freebies! Yay!

I hope you have enjoyed this project, now please do click on to the see the other projects in our blog hop!

Sam Hammond Donald

Jill Chapman

Lynn Ellis

Anna Sposato

Lisa Emslie

Laurie Jennings

Heidi Smith

Justyna Cieslinska

Jerim Dickens

Fiona Whitehead

Hannah McCurley —- YOU ARE HERE

Jillian Selwood

Keila Carver

Dee Copus-Read

Anna Krol

Helen Griffin

Karen Taylor

Angelina Clark


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Sale-a-bration Wednesday | So Very Much

Thank you card usng So Very Much from Sale-a-bration 2017 Stampin' Up! UK

Oh Yes, I’m blogging on a Wednesday for the next 3 months during Sale-a-bration! Have you checked out the awesome Sale-a-bration deals yet? You totally should…. after looking at my card for today though!

I had a nightmare with this card! Last week I hosted a Sale-a-bration launch party over on my Facebook page, now normally I’m super organised, with projects made and photographed weeks in advance, but I just haven’t quite got back into the swing of things after Christmas yet, and I was running a little behind my usual ‘ahead-of-time’ schedule. Which left me needing to photograph my party projects the morning of the event…. and this was of course the morning my lights decided to die! Anyway, one of my lovely Stampin’ Sisters came to my rescue and totally saved the day….. and I learned a valuable lesson about being more organised!

Thank you card usng So Very Much from Sale-a-bration 2017 Stampin' Up! UK

This card uses the totally stunning So Very Much stamp set – Free with a £45 purchase during Sale-a-bration! – and it is stamped in Early Espresso ink onto a piece of Designer Series Paper taken from the Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack. So pretty.

Sale-a-bration has 3 parts; shop, host and join, and while you can shop as normal and earn free products (shop) or do a super spend of £200 and earn extra Stampin’ Rewards (Host), its the joining offer that has me most excited! Now, the Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit is always a best deal; choose £130 worth of Stampin’ treats, pay just £99, and then get 20% discount! But during Sale-a-bration it gets even better because you can add TWO stamp sets to your kit for FREE! now, that’s not stamps from the Sale-a-bration brochure, that’s stamps that you would normally have to pay for from the Annual or Spring Summer catalogues… for FREE! Loving that!

Some of the stamps you could get for free…

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Men’s Cards | Nailed It!

Men's birthday card using Nailed It from Stampin' Up! UK

My goodness, yesterday was busy here on the blog. I was at work, and my phone would not stop buzzing, took me til after teatime to get to work out what was going on…. turns out that THIS CARD I posted last week had won the Global Design Project Challenge for last week. I am totally stunned! I am hoping to get a card made for the challenge this week, but its not going to be today

Guys Birthday Card using Nailed It Bundle from Stampin' Up! UK

I will of course admit that this card is CASE’d from the insanely talented Rochelle Blok from Australia.

I made this card for my father-in-law’s birthday back in December. He is always a challenge to make a card for, not only because he is a man, but he also has quite specific interests – he’s a VW car enthusiast, classic campervan’s in particular, but we don’t have anything like that in the catalogue, so I have to revert to ‘manly’ stamps! Except when I spotted this stamp and die bundle in the catalogue, I immediately thought of David!

Men's birthday card using Nailed It from Stampin' Up! UK

The ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment is taken from the Sale-a-bration stamp set Designer Tee. You can get this for FREE when you spend £45, or you buy the Nailed It bundle in wood-mount!

The card itself is fairly simple. The hammer and saw are stamped in Basic Grey, and coloured using the fabulous new Watercolour Pencils, and the back ground is the new Hexagon Embossing Folder.


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Sale-a-bration 2017!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2017

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2017I LOVE January, partly because its my birthday month, it’s a fresh start (I’m all for a bit of new year, new you!) but also because its the start of the biggest event in the Stampin’ Up! calendar … Sale-a-bration!

3 months of great deals, chances to earn some free products, and even more reasons to jump on board with Stampin’ Up!

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This is where I start to get really excited about Sale-a-bration!

For each £45 you spend from now (4th January) to 31st March 2017, you can choose a FREE item from the awesome Sale-a-bration catalogue – which you can find HERE!

* £45 must be spent in one order, you cannot split the amount across two or more orders, BUT if you spend multiples of £45 you can choose more gifts; if you spend £90 in a single order you get 2 items, £130 3 items etc.

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Host a qualifying party, or place an order of over £200 during Sale-a-bration and earn an extra £20 in Stampin’ Rewards

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Now, THIS is the greatest offer of the Year!

Join Stampin’ Up! during Sale-a-bration, and not only do you get at least 20% off all purchases while your a member, but also you get to choose two stamp sets for FREE! that’s any stamp sets from either the Annual catalogue or the Brand New Spring / Summer catalogue, for FREE!

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You can find out more about joining Stampin’ Up! and my team of Stampin’ Friends HERE!

I cannot wait to see you all tonight over on Facebook for my Sale-a-bration launch party, you can RSVP and join in the fun over on Facebook, and don’t forget to like my page to stay up to date with all the latest Stampin’ Up! news, ideas and inspiration, and some sneak peaks of upcoming products and projects too!


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Make It Monday | Post It Note Sneak Peak

Make It Monday Sticky Note Holder Video Tutorial using Lift Me Up from Stampin' Up! UK

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Welcome back! I am so glad to be back, have you missed me, I haven’t written a blog post or filmed a video for about 3 weeks, and I cannot wait to get back into the swing of things. I hope you had a great Christmas and a lovely New Year.

I haven’t had the past few weeks off completely though, I have been super busy packing catalogues, planning and crafting ready for the start of the Spring Summer catalogue and the start of Sale-a-bration on Wednesday! I cannot wait, this year is going to be AWESOME!

Make It Monday Sticky Note Holder Video Tutorial using Lift Me Up from Stampin' Up! UK

I always send goodies with catalogues, and this time around is no different, everyone got a super cute sticky note holder ready to mark up their shopping lists! These use the brand new Lift Me Up! bundle, and some Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper. Check out the video for all the instructions…

Measurements: (sorry I only have metric measurements for this one)

Card stock – 9 x 5.1 cm

Score on the long side at 4 and 5 cm

Designer Series Paper – 3.5 x 4.5 cm


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Sale-a-bration ends today!

I have a ‘proper’ blog post coming later, but I just want to let you know that today is the final day of Sale-a-bration. I am so sad that it is over, but cannot believe that we have got through the first 3 months of 2016 already!

I thought I would just give you a quick re-cap of the projects I have made with the Sale-a-bration freebies this year, you could also check out my Sale-a-bration 2016 Pinterest Board for more inspiration!

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Ok, so how can you get Sale-a-bration freebies before they leave forever?!

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Spend £45 and choose a free item, spend £90 and get to choose 2! Awesome!

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Spend more than £200 and get an extra £20 worth of Stampin’ Rewards (in addition to a whole heap of Sale-a-bration freebies) to redeem against anything in either catalogue!

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Choose to join my team of Stampin’ Friends and get to pick £160 worth of Stampin’ goodies and pay just £99


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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!

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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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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!

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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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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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