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Freshly Made Sketches #219

Stampin' Up! UK Freshly Made Sketches 219 Joy Fold Card

So the blog post I had planned for today had to be postponed at the last minute, I promise you will see the next Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge really soon – it just needs a little more cooking! The wonderful Sam Johnson has been working super hard on this challenge, and we cannot wait to show you!

In light of that, I thought I would show you a different sketch challenge today. I’m LOVING using sketches again at the moment, I mean, 3 sketches in a week! And I haven’t taken part in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge in a while.

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This sketch screamed fancy fold to me, a Joy Fold Card to be precise. I really enjoyed making this card, and cutting into some more of the back stock of Designer Series Paper. I struggle to use Designer Series Paper on cards at the best of times, but when its black I find using it almost impossible. However, I don’t think this effort is too shabby! The Designer Series Paper here is called Pretty Petals, and I have a whole pack of it waiting for the next person to join my team of Stampin’ Friends!

Stampin' Up! UK Freshly Made Sketches 219 Joy Fold Card

A Joy Fold card is super simple to make too, as its more about the cutting of the card stock, than the folding.

Measurements:

  • Black card stock – 10.5 x 22.3 cm. Scored at 10.5 cm
  • Black Designer Series Paper – 14.3 x 10.5 cm
  • Mint Macaron card stock – 7.5 x 21 cm. Scored at 10.5 cm
  • Floral Designer Series Paper – 7 x 10 cm
  • Very Vanilla card stock – 6.5 x 9.5 cm

I’ve also used two different stamp sets on this card; Garden in Bloom and Perfect Pairings for the sentiment. Perfect Pairings is a great sentiment set available for FREE during Sale-a-bration.

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Rose Wonder

Stampin' Up! UK Rose wonder birthday card

I’ve recently volunteered to make the birthday cards for the residents in the nursing home where I work. We have up to 69 residents at one time, so I probably should get cracking! There are also a heap of family birthdays in January, so you may well be seeing a whole heap of birthday cards on the blog in the coming weeks!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder

I am loving the Rose Wonder stamp and die bundle! The dies are so pretty and delicate, and the stamp set includes a host of really handy sentiments including birthday, wedding, and sympathy.

The Rose is totally the star of this card – to create this particular rose I die cut the flower from Lost Lagoon card stock and a matching piece of Designer Series Paper from the Going Places stack. I did the same with the leaves, using Mossy Meadow card stock and a similar piece of Designer Series Paper. I have been experimenting with adhesives to stick these dies down, I’m not normally a wet glue gal, however, I love using Tombow or the 2-way glue pen on these die cuts. I stuck the rose down to a piece of Very Vanilla card stock, and then inlaid the die cut pieces of the Designer Series Paper. This allowed me to fussy cut the rose and pop the whole thing up onto dimensionals. The leaves are stuck directly onto the Very Vanilla card front.

Stampin' Up! UK Rose wonder birthday card

The strange patterns on the card stock of the rose was a bit of a mistake, but by the time I had got the rose assembled I wasn’t about to start again! Once I had stuck all the pieces stuck I ran the Rose back through my Big Shot, this proved to be a mistake, as my rather battered big shot plates embossed their marks into my rose! oops!

The card was just a little plan, and so I added some Delightful Dijon ink onto the Very Vanilla card front with a sponge.

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Watercolour Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom

As I’m sure you are aware, I love playing with watercolour, and this week has been no different. I’ve actually watercoloured so many cards this week that I’m having to hold onto them or you guys are going to get really sick of seeing watercolour cards!

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom

I’ve been working really hard over the past week to regain my crafty mojo. Does this happen to anyone else? where you are suddenly just not creative. at. all?! Where do you turn, I have to admit Pinterest it my fall back. I can spend hours (if I let myself) scrolling down pages and pages of card designs. I actually can’t remember what inspired this card, other than something similar on Pinterest (which I forgot to Pin and so cannot find!)

Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour with stamping

The flowers are taken from Garden in Bloom, stamped and heat embossed onto Watercolour Paper. The watercolour here is super simple, I grabbed two small paint brushes and a dish of water. One of the brushes is water only, and I use this to ‘paint’ the water onto the image. Then using the other brush to drop the ink into the water, magic happens as it dries I promise. The colours here are Pacific Point, Mossy Meadow and Crushed Curry.

I wanted a birthday card, and although Garden in Bloom is lovely, it doesn’t come with a birthday sentiment, so I reached back into my stamp collection and found this sentiment from Birthday Blossoms.

So pretty

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Dear Friend…

Stampin' Up! UK Circle Card

I’m live blogging again today, before I spend a large part of the rest of my day scheduling posts for the next few weeks! I’m slowly getting back on schedule after a crazy Christmas, I’m sure everyone else is still in a period of adjustment after the New Year too (please say I’m not the only one!)

This past weekend I hosted my first event of 2016, we had a great time stamping and chatting – you can see what we made by subscribing to my Weekly Newsletter.

Stampin' Up! Uk Birthday Bouquet Dear Friend

I was totally inspired by a card I found on Pinterest for this one. I couldn’t wait to cut into this gorgeous Designer Series Paper here either, this is the brand new Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper; featuring a lovely mix of florals and small patterns, and some gorgeous balloons that I haven’t been able to cut yet!

Stampin' Up! UK Circle Card

Did you see that bow?! I know, I am totally shocked too! I love this ribbon, even someone as bow challenged as me can manage to tie this stuff, and it is SO pretty!

The Dear Friend, is taken from the Birthday Blooms stamp set (another new stamp set that I can’t put down!), stamped in Pool Party to coordinate with that ribbon and the lovely Designer Series Paper.

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Sketch Challenge| Global Design Project 018

Stampin' Up! UK Just Saying Hello

Hello!

Sorry for my slightly late post for today, been trying to catch up on photographing my projects this morning, and time sort of ran away from me a little bit! I’ve actually been quite prolific this weekend, and have made a stack of cards – which makes me feel so much better as I was beginning to think that my crafting mojo had up and left! but a stressful weekend of work On Call has led me back to my crafty stress relief!

Anyway, I thought I would take a sketch challenge today, I’ve been following the Global Design Project for a little while, but actually jumping in and creating anything for one of the challenges has been somewhat of a challenge in itself! Well, this week I’m on holiday from my day job (thank goodness!) and so am taking time to craft and blog. So this morning I was having a little browse through Facebook and was reminded of this challenge by the lovely Michelle Last.

So here is my take on this weeks Global Design Project Sketch Challenge!

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I love a good sketch challenge! speaking of which the Simple Sketched Saturday Challenge Blog Hop is back this week! Yay! I have been sitting on my project for this weekend for a while, I can’t wait to share! anyway, getting back to THIS sketch challenge…..

Stampin' Up! UK Global Design Project Sketch Challenge

I’m still trying super hard to cut into my packs of Designer Series Paper. I am determined not to have heaps of the stuff left at the end of the this Annual catalogue (unlike last year!) and so am trying to use papers more on cards. Now, I know I have sinned here; layering two patterns one on top of the other without card stock between, but somehow I think it works. I love this paper in particular; its the English Garden Designer Series Paper from the annual catalogue, it is gorgeous! I’m a sucker for colour and at the moment I am totally in love with all things Rose Red.

Stampin' Up! UK Just Saying Hello

The ‘Hello’ is taken from the Hello Stamp Set (in this years Sale-a-bration offering) along with that cute smiley face. Hello is stamped in Rose Red and fussy cut with my paper snips. I am not a world expert at fussy cutting, but I give it my best, and I’m fairly pleased with this effort. The smiley face and ‘Just Sayin” (from Crazy About You) are both stamped in Marina Mist, as is the flower stamp in the background.

I loved creating this card, and will certainly be taking the Global Design Project challenge again!

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Pootlers Sale-a-bration Blog Hop!

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Oh yes, its that time again! Time for a Pootler’s blog hop. This week we are celebrating the launch of Sale-a-bration – the biggest promotion of the year – where Stampin’ Up! gives you a free gift for each and every £45 you spend! (in one order!). Plus there are great deals for hostesses and new team members too!

So, please hop around our blogs today, the girls have worked so hard to create some great projects featuring our free products, use the next and previous buttons at the bottom of this post to hop along to Anna and her wonderful project

SAB blog hop

I will admit that thought I organise the Pootler’s blog hops, this time for me it has all been a bit of a mad rush. Over the 2 weeks of Christmas I managed to get 3 days off, and so my business has had to take a bit of a back seat. However, things are slowly getting back to normal, and with the launch of the latest catalogue and start of Sale-a-bration I’m all yours again.

This card features two of the Sale-a-bration products for this year. The Designer Series Paper is called Wildflower Fields. I love the colour combination of this paper, Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral, Hello Honey and Old Olive, just gorgeous! I featured this paper last week as well, during my Sneak Peek feature, as I included some samples of it in my customer catalogues.

The Hello is taken from one of the limited time products also called Hello, only available until 15th February, this adorable stamp set would be perfect for children’s birthdays or new babies.

I’ve added a few sequins from the Brights Sequin Assortment that the lovely Sam (aka: Pootles) sent me last month, not only are they great colours (of course!) but there are several different shapes of sequins in the pack, circles, hearts and stars. And who doesn’t love a couple of sequins!

Hope you’ve enjoyed our hop today, see you again in 2 weeks for some great Spring / Summer catalogue inspiration

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Louise Thomas

Camille Moriaty

Heidi Smith

Kathleen Rintoul-Waite

Jerim dickins

Lea Denton

Angelina Clark

Hannah McCurley

Anna Krol

Karen Taylor

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You are my greatest adventure….

I’m sure that no one except me is already thinking about Valentines day…. It’s not something we particularly celebrate (one of us is usually at work! and I am NOT paying all that money just to have dinner out!) but we do give each other a card.

Going Places valentines

Manly looking Valentines are hard though, really hard! But this year it is a little easier thanks to Stampin’ Up! and the Going Global stamp set and Going Places Designer Series Paper. I’m loving the current selection of Designer Series Papers, Did you know that if you join my team during Sale-a-bration I will send you a 6 x 6 pack of Designer Series Paper for free!

This card uses a couple of punches; the Sweetheart punch coordinates with the stamp from Going Global, while the 3 smaller hearts are from the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack.

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Picture Perfect….

The brand new Spring / Summer catalogue launched in the early hours of this morning, and I’m totally in love with all of it! There is definitely something for everyone here, from cute images and dies that are great for children’s parties, to birthdays, and more thoughtful occasions, We have it covered this season

I have another reason to celebrate today, its my Birthday! and I have to say I have been well and truly spoilt by the husband; three new dresses, a mountain of bubble bath and bath bombs, chocolates and a new daylight lamp for my craft room. I am a lucky lady!

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I have had my hands on some of the new products for a month now, and a couple of bits and bobs a little longer (It was killing me not being able to show you what I brought home from Brussels!). This stamp set jumped out at me from the moment I saw it back in November; although one of my fellow demonstrators thought this gorgeous rose looked like a cabbage! I love it!

I’m a totally sucker for all things technique-y and this set is designed for 2 step stamping – layering one stamp over another – the rose is actually 3 different stamps, and the leaves are 2. There is also a beautiful bird stamp and a really unique starfish in this one too.

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The rose is stamped in Wisteria Wonder, some layers stamped off more than others. While the leaves are actually in Mossy Meadow, and both leaves and the rose are fussy cut (it didn’t take as long as you might think!) I pulled out my most loved embossing folder for this one, Lovely Lace, and embossed a piece of Wisteria Wonder card stock, before mounting everything together onto a Pear Pizzazz card base.

Have you got your copy yet, I’m off to Staples to get some more envelopes (bad planning, more catalogues then envelopes!) and I will be popping some more into the post later on today

Have a great day

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Spring Summer Catalogue!

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Stampin' Up! Uk Spring Summer catalogue 2016 free

Welcome to a brand new Stampin’ Up! Spring / Summer catalogue! It’s launch day and I have a heap of exciting bits and pieces for you

I thought I would kick off the day here on my blog with a quick post to say that the new catalogue is now live, and that there are some awesome products in there! I did film an open box, but managed to forget to turn the sound on on my camera 🙁 however, I will try and get it up over the weekend.

If you live locally I have an Open House event on Saturday with great Make and Takes, samples, snacks and chat. I would love to see you there. Drop me a message for more details.

 

There are some great products in this catalogue, here is a sneaky peak of my favourites!

 

Have you got a copy of the catalogue? not yet? Download a copy or order one for FREE, I can’t wait for you to see it!

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Sale-a-bration Sneak Peak – Day 3

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2016 Wildflower Fields

Sale-a-bration is the biggest event on the Stampin’ Up! calender, its a great time for both Customers and team members to earn a heap of free goodies just for shopping! This year there are 11 products to choose from, with 3 leaving us early around Valentines day (but I know that there are some more to come!). Each time you spend £45 you get to choose one of these great items, but it gets better, because if you spend £90, you get to pick 2 products! and 3 items if you spend £135! Awesome!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2016 Wildflower Fields

This cute card uses both sides of the same Designer Series Paper, Wildflower Fields, one of the items you could choose for free! I’ve been sending a sample of this paper out with my catalogues this year (use the Get a Catalogue button if you still haven’t got one!).

I hope you have enjoyed a sneak peak of Sale-a-bration, and have some ideas to use up that Designer Series Paper too!

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