Beautiful Botanicals

I'm loving everything from Stampin' Ups botanicals range, check out pages 26 & 27 of the Spring catalogue. Below is a display from my launch party and also a close up of some of the projects I made too. 

It has been snowing here in Northern Ireland, we don't get much snow here so we're not used to it and don't cope very well getting around in it.  Good excuse to stay in and craft today! Hope the weather is not too bad where you live. Keep warm and have a great weekend.

Launch party day

Hello everyone, just dropping by to thank everyone who attended my Spring catalogue/ Sale-A-Bration launch party yesterday, it was great fun and everyone loved all the new products. I'm sharing some of my display areas today but over the next week or so I'll be posting individual photos of everything.

Thanks for looking today and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Every girl needs a new handbag!

Good morning, I'm so looking forward to my launch party tomorrow and seeing all my customers! I have been working on lots of projects for my display using the fantastic new products from our Spring catalogue. It was an easy task as I love everything! The most difficult part was deciding what to use first...

I used paper from a lovely new paper pack called Birthday Bouquet and the brand new pink glimmer card. The photo doesn't do it justice as it is very sparkly in really life.  I got the original idea for this handbag from a fellow demonstrator from the U.S. called Becky Roberts, have a look at her blog called Inking Idaho
Becky sells PDF templates that are really good.  Anyway I bought the handbag template from Becky some years ago but have since went on to resize it bigger and smaller, the one on the photo is a larger version. It is a useful little gift bag for holding jewellery or chocolate, what girl doesn't love a little bag containing something lovely?

I'll be back soon with more samples from my launch party, I hope you come back for those.

It has arrived! Brand new Spring/Summer Catalogue

Some of the beautiful new items from our Spring/Summer range. Check out the new catalogue by clicking on the photo on the side bar.  If you would like a paper copy sent to you by post then please email me your address and I will be happy to to that.  

I'm busy making new things for my catalogue launch party this Friday and will be posting them on here very soon so please drop by to see those!

Beautiful festive flower

Hello there, are you all super busy trying to get everything sorted out before the big day?  I always feel like I have loads of time then realise I haven't and end up rushing everything!

Today I'm sharing another make from my last class which featured gift wrapping.  We used Stampin' Ups take out boxes, they come flat but are so easy to build up and they are a really good size. The beautiful flower on top was made using a large leaf out of the leaflets framelit dies, I cut out silver glimmer card and music note paper from the Home for Christmas dsp.  The smaller centre was made using the festive flower punch and finished off with a large pearl bead. I attached it using a silver mini peg so the recipient doesn't damage the flower when opening the gift.  It would look fab attached to a gift bag too.

I'll be back with another project from the class which was a great box that holds a mini bottle of wine or a nice Olive oil or vinegar so I hope you can come back to see that.  Good luck with the shopping!

Year-end Sale

Hi everyone, just a quick post to let you know that the year-end has started but be warned it is while stocks last and the most popular things will sell out FAST so don't hesitate if there is something you want! Click on the button "shop on-line" and this will take you to my shop, then you can click on the top right hand side for either the weekly deals or the year-end sale.

Thank you

Christmas thank you

Hi everyone, thought I would share my hostess club thank you. I created the blue and gold card using a sky blue card base then cut a strip from the lovely vellum papers in the Christmas catalogue and added the reindeer clip as a little extra. 

I like to give my loyal customers of my club a little extra at Christmas and this year they all received the metal rimmed pearls.  The square pillow box was the perfect size to hold them. I cut the two pieces for the box out and using the large Dots for Days stamp, I stamped in versamark and added gold embossing powder. The effect this created was lovely and glossy but unfortunately it doesn't show up so well in the photo. I also embossed the wooden Thanks and added it to the box with some seam binding ribbon and gold cord.

I'll be starting a new hostess club in 2016 and if you would be 
interested in hearing more about joining in please contact me, I 
would be delighted to have you join us.

I'll be back soon with some gift wrapping ideas from a recent class I held, please come back for that.

New twist using the Woodland Embossing Folder

Good morning everyone, I'm sure all you crafters are busy working away on all your Christmas projects. I have been busy designing all my Christmas classes and I have been loving the Woodland embossing folder, just can't stop using it! However today I wanted to share a card using it that is not for Christmas! 

My lovely downline, Gillian, recently promoted and I wanted to make her a really special card to celebrate all her hard work and here it is.

Would you like to know how I created all the sparkle and Shimmer? Great, it's so easy! Firstly I swiped my Versamark pad across the inside of the folder, on the side that has the writing on the front. Put my piece of Pink Pirouette card into it and ran it through the big shot then I sprinkle it with Iridescent Ice embossing powder and heated with my heat gun.  The little wooden congrats sentiment was also given the embossing treatment, I again used Versamark, I pressed the congrats into the pad this time, then I sprinkled it with our Heat & Stick powder and heated it. This makes the surface nice and stickly, so when I sprinkled the very sparkly silver glitter on it, it stuck really well. I  then finished it off with another blast of the heat gun to heat set the glitter so it doesn't fall off.

Hope you give this technique a try and see how easy but affective it is, try it using card in other colours! I'll be sharing my October thank you cards and gifts soon, please come back to see those.

Hide and Seek Christmas Elf

Good evening, I'm just back from a little break in sunny climes to set myself up before Winter here in Northern Ireland begins. Although at the minute it is still very nice, cooler but lovely bright and sunny days, long may they last!

I got the inspiration for today's card from some fellow American demos, don't know if they were shown this at their convention but it's a great idea, I'll be sharing a few other ideas soon. This one uses the Woodland Textured Impressions embossing folder (139673) and it is a large size folder too and only costs £7.75! A bargain because there is so much you can do with it, obviously it makes a great background but it can be used for so much more, watch this space!

Basically you stamp directly onto the embossing folder (on the side that has the writing on the front) pop in your piece of card, run it through your Big shot and the image comes out looking like it's behind the trees, easy, try it! I choose to use this wee Elf image as it looks like they are playing hide and seek amongst the trees.  I coloured them in afterwards and used sponge daubers to get colour on the trees and background. I used the new fine tipped glue pen around the branches and sprinkled on lots of glitter, sorry that doesn't show up well in the photo.

I'll share some more ideas soon, using this great embossing folder, so please come back and visit for that.

September thank you

Hello everyone, I am trying to get into the habit of posting more often, sorry it's not working, life just keeps getting in the way! I'll keep trying, I promise...

Today I'm sharing with you my September thank you cards and hostess club members little gifts.

Don't forget, everyone who places an order with me, gets a handmade thank you card, whether you order on line or directly from me.  To go to my shop just click on the link on the right side of this page.  Thanks in advance and I'll be back as soon as I can with more craft ideas.