Tuesday 10 April 2012

A bit late but....

I am just putting the finishing touches on Alastair's dads birthday cards but as he is a bit of a silver surfer i can't show them until tomorrow (his birthday) in case he sees! So, i thought that today I would share a couple of up-to-date photographs of Phoebe.



 Sorry for the baby-pic heavy post but will be back tomorrow with cards and stamping!


Have a great day :)

Sunday 1 April 2012

New Things!

It's the start of a new month and Stampin' Up! have a fantastic new promotion! 


We’re celebrating spring! From 1-30 April 2012, get one free pack of our gorgeous Designer Series Paper when you spend £45 (plus P+P) on Stampin’ Up! products*.

Choose from the following:

Item Description
122350 Berry Blossom Designer Series Paper
122342 Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper
122347 Nursery Nest Designer Series Paper
122354 Pocketful of Posies Designer Series Paper
*Limit of one gift with purchase for every qualifying order. 
This is a wonderful promotion, especially if you love your DSP as much as I do! Also, this is the last month of the spring mini so don't forget to have a look and make sure you have got all the goodies you want before it's too late.

Something else NEW! I have 2 new all-day classes listed on the 'classes' page! 
April's class is a Birthday Bonanza where we will be making at least 5 projects including cards for a mixture of ages and 2 3d items that you can fill with birthday goodies!

May's class will be a mini craft extravaganza.More details to follow soon!

Yesterday was our 'a card for all occasions class' where we made 6 cards, decorated envelopes and a box to store them in. Here are a couple of the cards:


Using a combination of the Hello friend stamp set and one of the sadly now no longer available sale-a-bration stamp sets, we created this very quick and simple birthday card. The colours used are rose red, so saffron and wild wasabi.


Some ladies didn't get a chance to make this card at a previous class so requested it this time. We used a rich razzleberry, melon mambo and very vanilla colour combination for this card. Using the Hopeful Thoughts stamp set, we 'inked' the stamp with a selection of stampin' write markers. We then used some of the fantastic scalloped polka dot ribbon in melon mambo and an adhesive pearl to finish it off. Simple but effective (and super quick!).

This was another card that we made using rose red/so saffron/wild wasabi colour combination. We used the hello friend stamp set again and added a sentiment from the teeny tiny wishes stamp set. It's one of the best sentiment sets I have seen in a long time and I use them on most of my cards.We added a little extra to the card with a scalloped border, there were also adhesive rhinestones on it but I took this photo before Jess had had a chance to add them!


I hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather, a day of sorting the garage beckons :( !