New New New!

As the title suggests there are LOTS of lovely new things happening in the Stampin' Up! world at the moment.

Yesterday saw the release of our new annual catalogue and it's our biggest ever!

New tools, new in-colours, new stamps and some beautiful accessories. 

Here is a lovely card that I made for a shoebox swap recently.  Although it's not immediately obvious, the strip of wisteria wonder across the middle of the card is actually a small strip of the gorgeous Flirtatious fabric!

This stamped image is from quite possibly one of my favourite new hostess sets, Four Seasons.

One of the best things about being an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is that we get to see catalogues before anyone else and pre-order goodies to play with a whole month before!

 Now is a fantastic time to join Stampin' up!  Not only have they made it even easier and quicker to join with the new online sign-up system, they have also got an amazing promotion running from 1st October - 30th November

That’s right! Get FREE Designer Series Paper for SIX MONTHS when you become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator during October or November.
As a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, you’ll enjoy exclusive benefits such as

• A 20 percent product discount!
• A free subscription to Stampin’ Up!’s demonstrator magazine!
• Access to a thriving online community of stampers and paper crafters from around the world!
• An open invitation to fabulous Stampin’ Up! events!

Don’t wait to get started—contact your demonstrator today! Don’t already have a demonstrator? Use our Demonstrator Locator to find one near you.

If you would like more information on how to become an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator than pop over to the 'Join the Sparkly Stampers' tab at the top of the page. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Belated Birthday Cards

So, quite a bit later than I had originally planned, here are the two birthday cards made for Alastair's dads birthday back in April.  The first is the card that I made for Grandad from Phoebe:

Recipe

It uses Bashful Blue, Rose Red and Very Vanilla cardstock.

Teeny Tiny Wishes, Oval All and Button, Button stamp sets

Brights buttons

Melon Mambo Ink

This is the card that Alastair and I sent him:

Recipe

Soft Sued, Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla cardstock.

Baja Breeze and Soft Suedeink

Twill Tape

Oval All and Circle Circus stamp sets.

I have had loads of birthdays over the last few weeks so will share some of the cards over the next week!

Enjoy your weekend.

X

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 :)

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 :( !

I have blogged 2 days in a row! Oh my gosh! Can you tell daddy is 'working' from home so giving me some Phoebe-free time!

As promised here is my current personal project that I am working on.  I am making a present for my Nan, now a great-nan, that's a bit different from the normal photo albums.  I have been quite busy doing things with Phoebe and her daddy or crafting in some way or another recently so haven't seen my Nan as often as I would have liked.  Her other grand child, my cousin Francis, is a marine engineer and is off at sea for long periods of time and she always complains that she will soon forget what we look like!

Honestly, I will have to get a photo of my Nan's collection of pictures next time we visit so you can see that she is exaggerating slightly and that it would be impossible for her to forget us- we are everywhere in her lounge!

So, I have started making her this exploding photo album.  I love our new in colours, especially wisteria wonder. The Flirtacious speciality DSP is pretty yummy too! The base is made from 12x12 wisteria wonder cardstock and decorated with 3 1/2" square pieces of DSP which will provide a background for my pics!

I have stamped the outside using an old favourite, the Circle Circus stamp set!

This is the box just before it 'explodes'!

I will hopefully have this finished just before Christmas and because my nan hates technology I will be able to show the finished product before she receives it!

Take care and see you tomorrow.

Hello! Back again!

As promised earlier, here are a few pictures of the cards we made at my Christmas class on Saturday.

First is this sweet little gift card card/holder. Super quick to make using a whisper white note card, the Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel, inked up on a marina mist ink pad and some tombow and dazzling diamonds for the front.

 Plenty of space for a gift card inside

 I used the Christmas greeting from perfect pairs as a nice surprise when the recipient removes their gift card

The next card is one of my favourites, it has lot's of elements but is actually very simple to make.

 It uses crumb cake, very vanilla and soft suede cardstock. The stamp sets are delightful decorations and serene snowflakes. The card uses one of my favourite toys, ahem, sorry, business tools- my Big Shot.  This time I used the textured impressions designer frames embossing folder. You get 2 folders in the pack-a rectangular frame and the oval one that I have used. I used the lace ribbon border and ornament punches, a couple of dimensionals and an adhesive pearl to finish of the card and give it some depth.

Here are the other cards we made including a cute little children's shaker card!

I will be back tomorrow with my current work in progress, my exploding box mini photo gift!

Hello everyone in Blog Land. I hope you are all keeping well. I have had a busy few months.  This is why!

On Wednesday 24th August 2011 at 7.23pm weighing 9lbs Phoebe Nicole Cooper was born. Just like her mummy who is generally very disorganised, she was 11 days overdue but well worth the wait.

It's scary to think that she will be 3 months old on Thursday!

 This is the look Daddy has taught her to give me when I am trying to argue the case for a bigger craft room!(photo above)

 I would love to say this is the smile she gives her mummy but in reality it's the effect the monkey on her mobile has on her.

I will be back later today with pictures of the projects we did at my Christmas Crazy class that took place on Saturday.

Is my blog alive..?

This is an attempt to find out if my poor blog is still alive or whether it needs to be ressurected in some other form so here is a brief recap of some of my creations over the last few months! (very photo heavy!)

Day 1 - Thank you card

My aim is to post a project every day this week. Hopefully the scheduling has worked and you are looking at project number 1 for this week, a Thank you card. This is a card the ladies made at card club last week, very quick and very simple.

Recipe

Cardstock - Whisper White, Regal Rose and Rich Razzleberry
Ink - Rich Razzleberry
Stamps - Fine Flourish and Tiny Tags
Punches - large oval, scalloped oval and eyelet border

Thanks for stopping by!

2 posts in one day!!!

As promised, here is something I made for my Nan for her birthday earlier this week. We also bought her a lovely glass lamp from IKEA but she always likes something hand made.

This card was almost 99% CASE'd from one shown to us by my lovely stamping mummy, Amanda at a recent team training day. I tweaked it a little using the rhinestones as I know my Nan loves them!

I also made her a decorated post-it note pad and a little pizza box to gift wrap it in!

Recipe:

Cardstock - Wild Wasabi, shimmer white, Marina Mist So Saffron and textured Baja Breeze
Ink - Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist and Baja Breeze
Stamps - Simply Said, Bella Toile, All A Flutter, Plane and Simple and Dot, Dot, Dot.
Other accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die adhesive pearls, adhesive rhinestones and Marina Mist satin ribbon.

I will be back tomorrow with news of a whole range of new classes and clubs that I will be running over the coming months, plus another project!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend!

Finally back!

Well, after a lengthy battle with blogger am I am back in control of my blog!

I promise you, I haven't been sitting around doing nothing, I have been very busy growing this!:

Hopefully all being well our little lady will be joining me and her daddy at convention in Paris in November. This was taken some weeks ago, I am now 28 weeks and there is no way I am adding any more picture of her until she is born!lol

I have also been busy with a craft room revamp courtesy of my lovely other half:

and now it has been in use for a while....

Whoops!

I have however, created something other than a huge mess in here and will be showing my projects over the next few days!

Convention 2010 Was Amazing!

Well, where do I start?!  I had soo many plans and ideas about blogging whilst we were away which were thwarted by my forgetfulness, left my phone charger at home so I was on limited battery for most of it.  I arrived at Croydon Park Hotel at around 2ish.  I decided to get there a day earlier as my upline, the lovely Amanda Fowler, had arranged a lovely team dinner for us. I went and had a drink and some late lunch in the bar with Jane, Kerry and Caroline.

People gradually started arriving, including this lovely lady:

Hayley Gillie was my very lovely roomie for Convention.  She has the patience of a saint, I am so disorganised!  I am sure that she has gone home a little crazy because of me.  Sorry Hayley!

So, on to our team dinner.  Amanda had her own little mini awards ceremony for all of us Inkee's which was lovely.  Here are some pics:

It was a fantastic evening, it was especially exciting when we saw that Shelli, Paula, Charlotte, Jerome Axel etc. were all staying in our hotel!  She came and said hello which was lovely of her considering how tired they all were.  If we thought we had to get up early for the coach it was nothing to the times that they had to be up and getting everything ready for us.

I will post pics from day 1 of convention tomorrow!