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12 Weeks of Christmas – Hello December

Stampin' Up! December Daily

Stampin' Up! 12 weeks of Christmas

One of the greatest things about Christmas for me is getting to spent time with our extended family. 2015 has been a really big year in our family, with Weddings, new babies, house moves and many other exciting events. Stampin’ Up!® have partnered with Becky Higgins Project Life to create a great memory keeping system, not just for Christmas but for all year round.

I have just started to print photos and plan my wedding album using the Project Life system. I adore memory keeping, and really looking forward to spending some time over the Christmas season to sit and make a good start on my album.

Stampin' Up! December Daily

This year I am planning on documenting the Christmas season using the Project Life by Stampin’ Up! Hello December 2015 (This is about to retire, so please grab the card kit and accessory pack quickly!)

The kits make it so simple to organise your photos and document those memories. I have already completed most of my album, ready to slip the photos in and add my journalling!

Stampin' Up! UK Memory Keeping Christmas project

Stampin' Up! Hello December Project Life

How are you documenting this holiday season?

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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge #3

Stampin' Up! UK Simple Sketched Challenge Season of Cheer

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!

 

Its time for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! and another sketch which caused my great difficulty!

Simply Sketched Saturday Stampin Up! Challenge

I very rarely use ribbon on cards, and tying a big bow on the front of a card definitely isn’t me! I did consider changing the bow for a different image, but then couldn’t think of anything to change it to! But I still didn’t want to use ribbon, well then Stampin’ Up!® came to my rescue with the Bow Builder Punch!

Stampin' Up! UK Simple Sketched Challenge Season of Cheer

There are some retiring products on this card, and I really hope you can grab them before they sell out! I’ve LOVED used the Season of Cheer Designer Series Paper featured on the bottom half of this card, its a perfect blend of colours and watercolour effect for the perfect Christmas feel.

The sentiment comes from the Festive Fireside stamp set, also on the retiring list, stamped in Cherry Cobbler, surrounded by a Wreath of Mossy Meadow

Before I go, I have a few Bow Builder Punch Tips!

  • punch all your pieces first (that’s two punches!) and curl them with your bone folder to prevent creases in your bow
  • stick your bow together with glue dots, but attach the completed bow to your project with Tombow Liquid Glue. I also find that my bow holds together better if I add some Tombow to the underside of the bow before I stick it down
  • Stampin’ Up!® have a great video on the assembling the bow on their YouTube channel

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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!

Have you started thinking about events after Christmas yet?

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Christmas in Bloom

Stampin' Up! UK Christmas Cards Cherry Cobbler

I love a good Christmas stamp set (of which we have many in the Autumn / Winter catalogue this year) but I always enjoy finding an alternative use for a non-Christmas themed set. A few weeks ago Garden in Bloom found its way into my craft room, and I don’t know whether it was just my excitement about Christmas but I saw Poinsettias amongst the flowers – maybe I’m just crackers!

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom Season of Cheer

Those flowers are stamped in Real Red, with the outline in Memento Black. I fussy cut the 3 flowers (or Poinsettias) it didn’t take all that long actually, they are quite simple shapes, plus the Stampin’ Up!® paper snips make fussy cutting super easy with their sharp to the tip blades and easy hold handles.

The strip of Designer Series Paper is taken from Season of Cheer, and the edge finished with a 0.5 cm strip of Gold Foil Paper.

Stampin' Up! UK Garden In Bloom Christmas Card

Now, the only problem with using a non-Christmas themed stamp set for Christmas cards is the lack of a good sentiment. So I reached into my stash of Christmas stamp sets and chose this sentiment from Festive Fireplace.

Do you like finding alternative uses for Stamps in your collection too?

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

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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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On Stage Live | Team Gift

Stampin' Up! On Stage Live team gift

Hello!

As your reading this I am in Brussels at this years On Stage Live event with Stampin’ Up!®. I have been looking forward to this since last November! I love attending Stampin’ Up!® events, they really know how to throw a great party!

I am posting heaps of pictures of my travels on Instagram and Facebook, so pop over and take a look

Stampin' Up! UK On Stage Live swaps

I’ll be sharing my main swap tomorrow, but today I thought I’d share my little team gift. Us demonstrators love to share, and swap ideas and inspiration. I’ve made a few of these simple gift bags using the Gift Bag Punch Board for some of the girls in the same team as me (plus my wonderful upline Pootles!)

They just contain a few mint sweeties (all the excitement, we are going to NEED some extra sugar) and are super simple to put together, In actual fact I cut and scored these at home, ready for a bit of hotel room crafting on arrival in Brussels – don’t think these would travel well.

Stampin' Up! On Stage Live team gift

The bags themselves are all made from the Neutrals Designer Series Paper stack, and tied with a piece of Delightful Dijon (Gold!) Dotty Lace Trim. The tag is a piece of Whisper White cut to 2 x 3 1/2″ punched with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch.  The bag is the small sized gift bag, as the instructions on the Gift Bag Punch Board suggest, with Designer Series Paper cut to 6 x 10″ (15 x 25.5 cm)

I’ve pulled out my favourite Christmas stamp set again – Santa’s Gifts – and stamped Santa in Cherry Cobbler, with a Delightful Dijon present, and Soft Sky Star.

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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.

They sentiment and snow is taken from Jingle all the way. This month my newsletter projects all feature the Jingle all the Way bundle, subscribe using this link.

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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Sketch Challenge reject

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom birthday card

I am loving being part of the Simple Sketched Saturday Challenge Blog Hop once a fortnight, the hop this past Saturday was awesome! but the sketch really stretched me, it took me ages to be break it down into something I could make. I have started to change the way I look at a sketch, breaking it down into components, rather that seeing it as a ‘map’. But for some reason the first card I made for this challenge, looked just like the sketch, and I’m still not sure I like it all that much!

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom birthday card

This card uses the Garden in Bloom stamp set and coordinating English Garden Designer Series Paper. The stamps have been used on the top layer to create my own Designer Series Paper, and this is the point when it goes a bit strange in my head – I think it’s the colours, maybe even just that butterfly, but its just not balancing

Stampin' Up! Sketch Challenge Garden in Bloom

The sketch called for a horizontal layer, so I’ve added a vellum strip with the sentiment stamped in Memento.

I’m still not sure, what do you think is wrong with this card!

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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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