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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – Forever Begins Today

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings Wedding Card

Stampin' Up! Sketch ChallengeHello Everyone! So glad you could join us for another week of the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! This weeks sketch comes from the lovely Justyna.

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I love this sketch, it totally pushed me outside of my norm, and allowed me to create something very different for me. I have to admit that I also took inspiration from the ever so talented Teneale Williams for this one, particularly stamping on coloured card stock – definitely something I shall be doing more of!

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings Wedding Card

I of course had to turn the sketch this time. I haven’t rotated a sketch for a while – I love taking a sketch and editing it to suit me. So this time I turn it sideways.

I really don’t use a lot of coloured card stock, I buy heaps of Whisper White but a pack of a colour can last me years! This particular colour I didn’t think was one of my favourites, but now I’ve used it in such a big way it is starting to grow on me. Actually I use so little of this colour (Soft Suede) that when I came to stamp I realised I don’t even have the coordinating Ink! Shocking! So to get the tone on tone effect I jumped to another brown, Crumb Cake instead.

I’ve also used Crumb Cake to stamp and watercolour the Bloom in the circle. Can you believe that that is one ink colour?! its super pretty in real life, my camera work just has not done this one justice. The flowers from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack are also sponged in Crumb Cake.

Stampin' Up! UK Sketch Challenge Wedding Card Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings

The only other ink colour I have used here is Early Espresso for the sentiment, taken from Suite Sayings, and perfect to send as a wedding congratulations.

Have you spotted the gold glitter? Its actually a tape! and its currently FREE during Sale-a-bration! Awesome. Remember Sale-a-bration ends on the 31st of March, so don’t wait too long or this beautiful tape may have just already left us. To get this lovely tape for free you just have to spend £45, and the choose the tape as your free gift!

Thanks for stopping by today, and don’t forget to hop along to see what the girls have made with this sketch

Til next time

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Product List

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Suite Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£19.00

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

£6.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

£7.25

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

£15.50

Circles Collection Framelits Die

£24.00

Metallics Glitter Tape

£0.00

 

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Make It Monday – My Heart Smiles ….

Stampin' Up! UK Suite Sayings Endless Thanks Card

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Welcome, to a brand new series on my blog – Make It Monday!

Each week on a Monday I’m going to guide you through making a card (or some other papercrafting project!) in either photos or maybe even a video. I’ve got out of the habit of filming my makes over the past few months and really need to pick it back up again.

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I thought I would start this week by showing you my little work space. I actually had to tidy before I could even start to create today, I’m a naughty crafter and I don’t always tidy up when I’ve finished making something! I haven’t actually stepped foot into my craft room / office for well over a week and so the remnants of crafty 2 weeks ago where still on the desk! oops! Oh well, it’s tidy now… ish!

Make it Monday

I needed to make a card for my Granddad (Pops) today, the reason I haven’t crafted in over  a week is because we went to visit him last week. Pops lives about 300 miles away and isn’t all that well at the moment, but we had a lovely few days with him and I love sending a card to him once we get home to let him know.

So, I needed a manly-ish card today, and grabbed for Suite Sayings for the sentiment. I have been wanted to play with small stamp stamping again recently, so also selected Endless Thanks, before selecting four colours; Pacific Point, Watermelon Wonder, Crushed Curry and Garden Green

Stampin' Up! UK Using the Stamp-a-ma-jig SAMJ

I love this sentiment, and know that it something Pops feels too. I spent a lot of time with my grandparents when I was very small and I know that Pops remembers those years fondly, we love reminiscing about things we used to get up to; dressing the dog in Grandma’s beads or walking to the park at the end of the street.

In order to get the sentiment straight on the card I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig. I love this tool, and use it so much more than I thought I would. Its super easy too. I have a video on using the Stamp-a-ma-jig on my YouTube channel.

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One of the joys of Make It Monday is being able to show you some of my Stampin’ Top Tips! I love using photopolymer stamps, but they tend to go missing on my messy desk, so…. I stick all the stamps I want to use on a dedicated clear block, that way they all stay together. I also use this idea when using alphabet stamps, and use a clear block to arrange my letters (and check my spelling!)

Make it Monday Using Small Stamps

OK, so the card. Once I had stamped the sentiment in the centre of the top two thirds of the card, I started to add a ring of small stamps around it, forming a loose wreath design. You could draw a faint circle in pencil as a guide, but I prefer to free hand stamp. Here I stamped the yellow flowers first, then the blue, before adding the leaves. These things also look better if each stamp is stamped in odd numbers, so there are 5 yellow flowers, 9 blue and 7 leaves. Then I go back and add in smaller pieces to add detailStampin' Up! UK Make it monday

It’s it cute! I’m sure that Pops will love it!

Stampin' Up! UK Suite Sayings Endless Thanks Card

I hope that you have enjoyed this first Make It Monday, I will be back with anther next Monday probably slightly fatter from eating too much Easter chocolate! I would love to hear your thought and suggestions, or something you would love to see on Make It Monday, just let me know in the comments section below.

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Product List

Suite Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£19.00
Endless Thanks Photopolymer Stamp Set

£14.00
Pacific Point A4 Card Stock

£6.50
Pacific Point Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

£11.00

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Celebrate you

Last week I shared a whole heap of Birthday cards, and while I haven’t got a birthday card to share with you today, I have got a card to share that I made for a very special lady that’s going through a rough time. I’m hoping that she has received this card by now….. oh well, I’m sharing it anyway!

Celebrate you

I really enjoy sending ‘pick me up’ cards, you know those card sent for no reason other than to say, I’m thinking of you or It’s gonna get better. I thought about using one of those sentiments on this card, but really I wanted a You’re Awesome! card, a card to simply remind the person that they need some ‘my time’ and time to Celebrate you! I’m waffling …. maybe I should stop ….

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The stamps used here are Perpetual birthday and Suite Sayings. I’m sure I took inspiration from a card I spotted on Pinterest for this one, but I have no memory of who or where I found it seeing as this photo has been sat on my PC for weeks and the card is long gone lol. I do remember the colours though; a set of my favourites – Bermuda Bay, Pool party and Mint Macaron. So pretty

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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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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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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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Sale-a-bration Sneak Peak – Birthday edition

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Before Sale-a-bration launches on Tuesday, I have a couple of sneak peak cards featuring one of the packs of Designer Series Paper that you can earn for FREE when you spend £45 between January 5th and 31st March 2016

Stampin' Up! UK Wildflower fields birthday Sale-a-bration

This paper is super pretty, the pack contains 12 Sheets, 2 of each of 6 designs, of 12 x 12 papers, and features some of my favourite colours. I love using Designer Series paper for colour inspiration, and this pack is going to inspire me for a while I think; I’m loving the colour combination; Basic Black, Blackberry Bliss, Calypso Coral, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Old Olive and Whisper White.

The sentiment is taken from the same Suite Sayings stamp set as yesterday. This set is available in the Spring / Summer catalogue, which launches on 5th January 2016.

I’m really pleased with the way the bow turned out on this one. I adore the Bow Builder Punch, but it can be a little awkward to assemble. I usually use Mini Glue Dots to make the bow, but this time I made the effort and took the time to use Tombow glue, it was so worth it. It takes longer to use a wet glue, as you have to hold the pieces together until they are stuck, but the bow is less bulky, and super pretty once its done.

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Sale-a-bration Sneak Peak!

Stampin' Up! UK WildFlower Fields Designer Series Paper Sale-a-bration 2016

I’m Back!

I hope everyone has had a lovely Christmas and saw the New Year in safely. I decided to take 2 weeks off over the Christmas / New Year period this year, as my day job goes completely crazy over this time (I’ve managed to get 3 days off in the last 2 weeks), but I’m back to regular posting from Monday.

Over the weekend I have a series of 3 posts featuring some of the new Sale-a-bration papers, a sample of which I have been putting into my catalogues before mailing (I still have some left, please use the Get a Catalogue button if you want one!) and thought I would give you some ideas of how to use them!

Stampin' Up! UK WildFlower Fields Designer Series Paper Sale-a-bration 2016

The Designer Series Paper is called Wildflower Fields, and its one of the 11 items you can earn for FREE by spending £45 between 5th January and 31st March 2016. I have only used a tiny piece of it on this card, but I have two other cards coming over the weekend which feature a little more. The banner was cut using the Triple Banner Punch.

The stamp is also new, its from the Spring / Summer catalogue and is called Suite Sayings, I’m in love with this one, it features a great host of different sentiments, but they all coordinate with other stamp sets in the catalogue! Awesome!

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