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Celebrate….

Stampin' Up! UK Celebrate Suite Sayings Birthday Blooms

Over the past few months I have been trying to make cards with bright colours (trying to stave off the winter blues!) but I found myself making a monotone card last week. Does this happen to anyone else, when a project just arrives fully formed on the desk and you have no real idea how the hell it got there! It doesn’t happen often, but its wonderful when it does

Stampin' Up! UK Celebrate Suite Sayings Birthday Blooms

I spotted a card on Pinterest a few weeks ago that just used this one flower from Birthday Blooms. I have to admit that I had to go and look for the stamp, because I had completely over looked it! Shocking! I love a simple line image, and this is just perfect stamped in Early Espresso and blurred slightly with a blender pen.

You might recognise the sentiment, its from Suite Sayings (again, I know, I’m in love ok!), the stamp usually reads Celebrate You but I masked off the You with some of my trusty sticky label tape before inking in Early Espresso. I love this way of getting more out of your sentiment stamps, but y remember to remove that stick label before stamping or you may end up with an inky mess

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms monotone card

Even though the rest of the card is Early Espresso and Very Vanilla, I think the addition of the Typeset map paper matt really adds to this one. I’m still working my way through a backlog of Designer Series Paper, I do have a plan for most of it though, just got to find the time to make a heap of cards!

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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge Blog Hop – The return!

Stampin' Up! UK Sketch Challenge time for tea

Stampin' Up! Sketch Challenge

Well, I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas / New Year break. I have been super busy with the day job, things are a bit insane over Christmas (I think I managed to get 3 days off over the festive fortnight!) but everything is dying down again now, and I’ve had this past week off to recover!

I’ve missed doing our fortnightly challenges (although I have no idea how I would have fit them in!) and am so pleased to be back blogging with these wonderful ladies again.

Stampin' Up! UK Simply Sketch Saturday Challenge

This wonderful sketch has been set by the lovely Cat Burchmore, and was definitely a tricky design recreate.

Stampin' Up! UK Sketch Challenge time for tea

I hadn’t realised quite how many different bits and bobs I had used on this card until I sat down to write this post. Initially I set out to make a card using the A Nice Cuppa stamp and die bundle. But it turns out that although I used the tea pot die, I haven’t used anything else from that suite of products! Instead I have jump all over the Spring / Summer catalogue to collect items for this card!

The Designer Series Paper is called Birthday Bouquet, and features some gorgeous birthday themed and floral prints. The Happy Birthday is taken from Balloon Celebration, another stamp set that comes in a bundle (a fabulous balloon punch!) and then there is an embossing folder, sequin trim and metal rimmed pearls!

Oh well, I love it!

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They say its your birthday….

Stampin' Up! UK Flower Patch Suite Sayings

A few weeks ago I made a heap of cards whilst catching up on some very important TV (so important I can’t remember what I was watching!) and this card was the outcome!

Stampin' Up! UK Suite Sayings Flower Patch Birthday card

I don’t usually craft in front of the TV, and so I’m blaming distraction for the slightly imperfect stamping!

I’ve been totally inspired by Pinterest and the flood of Pins using the Brand New Botanical Blooms stamps and dies, however, even as a demonstrator, I can’t have everything and this set hasn’t found a home on my stamp shelf just yet. But I do have the Flower Patch stamp set and matching Flower Fair dies. Stampin' Up! UK Flower Patch Suite Sayings

The sentiment is from another new stamp set, Suite Sayings.

I love a bright and colourful card on a gloomy winter day, don’t you?

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Love Ya

Stampin Up! UK Everything Eleanor Valentines

With the end of January fast approaching, its almost time to start thinking about Valentines day! Here in the UK we only send one Valentines card (along with a gift, maybe) to our most loved one. I remember as a kid sending anonymous Valentines cards to my latest crush via a school post box that was rolled out for occasions such as Valentines and Christmas. Saying that I have made several Valentines cards so far this year, a girl has to have options!

Stampin Up! UK Everything Eleanor Valentines

This card was inspired by a gorgeous Valentines Project from one of this years Artisan Design Team, Steffi Helmschrott, from Germany. I loved her use of watercolour to create a soft background for her card, and took layout inspiration too

Steffi used the gorgeous First Sight stamp set for her card, but I have yet to get my hands on that, so I grabbed for my ever faithful Everything Eleanor instead. I love the swirl stamp in this set, its lovely for wedding stationary and wedding congratulations cards.

Stampin Up! UK Valentines card 2016

You all know how much I love watercolouring, and adore our Watercolour Paper, but for this card I wanted something a little softer and so opted for Shimmery White card stock instead. I heat embossed that swirl in Clear Embossing powder, before adding washes of Blackberry Bliss ink with a large flat paintbrush. This card took a while as each layer dried, but the effect was totally worth it.

The ‘Love Ya’ comes from a Hostess Exclusive set, Floral Wings, from this years Annual catalogue (which is still have left, if you want one let me know!). Stamped in Blackberry Bliss ink and repeatedly heat embossed in Clear embossing powder (I think there are 3 layers of embossing here!) and the card is finished with a Sweetheart (punched) in Blackberry Bliss and some loops of Whisper White bakers twine

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Watercolour Birthday Blooms

Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour birthday blooms

I have mentioned before how much I love playing with inks and water, but doing actual watercolouring is usually a bit beyond me …. or so I thought! Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour birthday blooms

I’ve been loving Rose Red over the past few weeks, and the colour totally inspired this card. I love how you can change the intensity of Stampin’ Up!® inks by adding water, and so when you’re using the inks to watercolour you get all sorts of variations in colour. The flower is coloured using only Rose Red ink, but you can see how many shades of pink there are in that one flower, with just one ink! Awesome!

The flower is stamped in the Archival Basic Black ink, which is great for watercolouring, although it will stain you stamps more than the traditional Classic ink. This is now my go to black, its beautiful, crisp and a true black.

Stampin' Up! Uk Birthday Blooms Watercolour

The leaves are watercoloured with Pear Pizzazz ink, and a halo of blue added around the flower with Pool Party

The Happy Birthday, taken from Butterfly Basics, is stamped onto Vellum, and added to the card by wrapping the vellum around the card stock.

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Pootlers Blog Hop – Spring Summer edition!

Stampin' Up! UK Aged birthday card Blog Hop

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Hello! and welcome to another Pootler’s Blog Hop! I know, two hops in one month! we’ve all been super busy creating awesome projects for you this week, and I know the girls have all worked super hard, so please remember to leave everyone some comment love on your tour around the hop! You can hop forwards or backwards along the chain by using the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ buttons a the bottom of this post! Happy hopping!

I’m sure I mentioned this in a blog post recently that January is FULL of birthdays in our family, and this past week we had a super special one. James’ Great Nanny turned 95!!!! She is just the most awesome lady, and I need to make a super awesome card to go along with whatever rubbish James has bought her this year (I don’t usually give James gift buying responsibilities for such important events, however, I have been super crazy busy this week and just completely ran out of time!)

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For such a big birthday Numbers are important! and so I grabbed for the brand new and completely lovely ‘Number of Years’ stamp set and die bundle for this one. The numbers are large enough to be the focal point of the card, and they have a lovely watercoloured effect too (my favourite!). Now, my memory says that Nanny loves green (but it may well be playing tricks on me) so I selected Pear Pizzazz and Mossy Meadow, and Elegant Eggplant for a little contrast.

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In addition to the numbers the stamp set comes with some lovely sentiments, but I have kept it simple here with Happy Birthday. The die set also includes that great banner piece that coordinates with a couple of other stamp sets in the catalogue.

I did initially try to watcolour a background for this card, but something happened and it looked awful! So, I started again, with Shimmery White card stock and my collection of Stampin’ Sponges and added a mixture of Pear Pizzazz, Mossy Meadow and Elegant Eggplant ink to the left hand side, before stamping over it with some of the floral stamps from the same stamp set.

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I could probably have stopped at this point, however, I had just received a brand new boxes of stamping goodies including the Wink of Stella Glitter Brush in Gold, and HAD to use it! So I flicked some of the gorgeous gold glitter across the card, before adding dots of Crystal Effects and a scattering of Jewel Rhinestones! Probably overkill but I don’t care! I love it!

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Balloon Celebration

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

A slightly different card from me today, one without a sentiment (because I quite simply couldn’t decide what I wanted to say or where I wanted to put it!)

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

I’ve been playing about with these balloons from Balloon Celebration for a couple of weeks, not coming up with anything I really loved. But the addition of the embossed background and dotted circle stamp on this one really won me over.

The background was a piece left over from my Brussels Swaps, I added the dotted circle stamp and some sponging in Soft Sky, before adding all the balloons. The balloons are stamped in Soft Sky and Rich Razzleberry, and punched out with the coordinating punch (got to love those bundles!).

I did think that the card was finished at this point, but the balloons appeared to just float in mid air, and looked a little odd – so I added some strings of Linen thread to ‘ground’ them a little. Strange to think that floating balloons looked so peculiar!

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There’s always time for tea

Stampin' Up! UK A nice cuppa

Oh dear, I appear to have got my paper snips out again, time for some more fussy cutting!

Stampin' Up! UK A nice cuppa

I won this stamp set, A Nice Cuppa, at Stampin’ Up! On Stage Live back in November, and when it first landed in my hands, I really wasn’t so sure about it. But actually it’s had more use that I was expecting. The large ‘Theres always time for tea’ stamp fits very well on the front of a jotter note book, and the surrounding stamps are sweet. There is a matching die set available too (which I HAD to buy, thanks SU!) but I am struggling to find a project that requires a die cut knife and folk – but I know I’ll find one!

Stampin' Up! UK Theres always time for tea

I love the soft colours on this project; Blushing Bride, So Saffron and Wisteria Wonder. I’m not a super bright colour gal really, I much prefer pastel tones (unless it’s purple, then its a loud and bright as you like!), so this card is perfect.

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Wedding Wishes ….

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Wedding Card

I’m LOVING playing with the new Wink of Stella Glitter Brushes in the Spring / Summer catalogue, and just HAD to combine the clear pen with the Rose Wonder stamps and die bundle!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Wedding Card

This whole card is in Sahara sand. The rose and leaves are both die cut using the Rose Garden thinlits dies, and attached to the card front using my trusty 2-way glue pen. I’m still trying to decide how I prefer to attach these intricate dies, some days I use Tombow and others I seem to prefer the 2-way glue pen – so gutted that the adhesive sheets were retired last year, they would have been perfect!

The Wedding Wishes sentiment is taken from Rose Wonder, and is stamped in Crumb Cake – I wanted a colour of a similar tone but a little darker – and then the edges of the die cut are sponged in the same. I did originally just add the die cut straight onto the card, but it looked a little too plain, so I went back and added some loops of Silver Metallic thread, and a Vintage button tied with a bow of Linen thread.

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Wink of Stella

I’m hoping that this photo does some of the sparkle of the Wink of Stella Glitter Brush some justice. Each of the petals and leaves of this gorgeous die cut have been ‘coloured’ with super fine glitter, and it real life this card just sparkles – perfect for a wedding congratulations! – James bought me a new photography bulb for my birthday so I’m trying out new ways of taking my photos. I’m hoping that my photography skills are improving, but trying to capture the sparkle of this glitter is tough!

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Peek-a-boo to someone new …

Stampin' Up! UK New baby card

I am a clean and simple card maker at heart, and this card just sings Clean and Simple; saying that it uses two stamp sets and 3 colours of ink, but I think it also shows off white space at its very best

Stampin' Up! UK New baby card

This card uses Flowering Fields, one of this years FREE Sale-a-bration choices! Sale-a-bration is awesome, each time you spend £45 you get to choose another stamp set, Designer Series Paper or Project Life card collection from the Sale-a-bration brochure for FREE! This year there are 11 options for you, with 3 leaving us early on the 15th February (although there are some more stamps coming to replace them!). I am loving this Flowering Fields stamp set, its great for quick and simple stamping, or you can layer and layer with it to create something just awesome.

Here I’ve selected one of the lovely floral stamps and stamped it in Rose Red. I’m not sure how well you can see, but there is a Pink Pirouette butterfly stamped just to the right of the flower head too.

Stampin' Up! UK Suite Sayings baby card

The sentiment is taken from Suite Sayings, a great sentiment stamp set from this years Spring / Summer catalogue, stamped here in Tip Top Taupe (a great neutral) to finish a super simple new baby card. Saying that, I think this card would be great for many occasions, just switch out the sentiment

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