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.

A Pink and Gold Christmas

Thanks for visiting today. Thought I would share what I did this past weekend with you, on Saturday I met up with a lovely group of fellow demonstrators from all over Northern Ireland.  Our UK manager Paula Gorry come over especially to spend time here and chat with us all.

We had great fun doing a "shoebox swap", I'm sure many of you crafters out there know what that is but if not, we basically all designed a card, (we made Christmas cards) we then made packages up for everyone else and include everything in our box to make that card.  Each box is then past around so we all ended up with 18 different projects! Paula even joined in with that, in fact it was the first time she had been involved in one. It was a bit manic but we all laughed and enjoyed ourselves, drank coffee and ate cake too. It's always super fun when us crafters get together!

I decided to make mine a bit different so I chose to make a latch card in a very modern colour scheme, I thought it would make a nice style to send to a girlfriend or daughter. I just loved this peachy pink with the gold. What do you think?

Then on Sunday, fully inspired by all we did on Saturday I made the little matching lantern.  I made my little lantern out of the Bakers Box, it was quite a quick make using the die.  I plan on making a more traditional lantern using the same die, so come back soon to see that. Bye for now.

New Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue

Yay! The new catalogue is now live. Click on the picture of the catalogue on the right to view.  If you would like a physical copy to pour over having a coffee (my favourite way) then contact me and I'll post one to you.

My favourite set this year is Home for Christmas, a very retro style, love the little deer!

If you're not ready for Christmas yet then there is the beautiful Autumn set Into the Woods.

Or how about getting ahead with Halloween with the fantastic Happy Haunting range. There is even a great Home Decor Witching Kit to make a great centre piece, check it our on page 7!

I'll be back soon with some of the projects I have made myself, see you soon.

August thank you cards

I have been busy working on Christmas projects, which I won't share yet, it is a little bit early! However Stampin' Up's new mini seasonal catalogue goes live on the 1st September and I am holding a couple of launch parties for my customers to let them see the new products. Being a demonstror I get the new catalogue early and to pre order lots of the new stuff! I can tell you that I am very excited about what we are offering this year, I think the best yet! Once my launch parties are over, I promise to share what I've made on here, so watch out for that.

In the meantime here are my thank you cards for August and the thank you gifts my hostess club members got.  When I was on holiday I spotted these metal letters so I picked up a bunch of them for everyone in my club, I made an envelope type wrapper for them.  Think they went down well, I could picture them hanging in everyone's craft space!

Thanks for visiting today, hope you all have a great week.

Two babies!

My neighbours lovely daughter give birth to twin boys while I was on holiday and they are gorgeous!  I didn't want to make the usual type of card with welcome twins on it, so I came up with these.

I can't remember where I got this original template from, sorry but I've had it for years. I resized it in my photo copier to get the size I wanted. Then I decorated it with Stampin' Up dsp and the cardstock colour is Soft Sky. I then doodled the stitching around the edges with a Night of Navy marker and used the Little Letters thinlits to cut out the babies initials in Night of Navy to match.

The new Mummy loved the cards and they will take pride of place in the nursery. Don't you just love the reaction you get from handmade items! 

I'll be back soon with some more cards I've made, I haven't been working on classes during the summer so everything I'm showing you is cards I've made for family and friends.


I'll be back soon with more. Thanks for stopping by today.

Watercolor Wishes Card Kit by Stampin’ Up!

Hello everyone, sorry I haven't posted on here for awhile but I've been on holiday. I had a great time but I missed crafting so I took advantage of a nice sunny afternoon when I got home and took the Watercolour Wishes card kit into the garden and had lots of fun making all the cards.  I really love this kit, think it is my all time favourite, you get everything to make twenty different cards, with lots of bits and pieces left over.  You also get a stamp set which is exclusive to this kit, it has a beautiful font and will be very useful for lots of other cards. You get two mini stamp pads and the clear block to put the stamps on and it comes in a lovely presentation box, so great to give as a gift too.

So if you are looking for a compact, on the go craft kit, this is the one for you. Take it into the garden, on a break away, to the caravan or just have a ready to use kit to make with a friend,children or grandchildren.  You get everything for only £31.50 and for a limited time I'm offering free postage (if you live locally to me) and a thank you card from me.

Have a look at Stampin' Ups video below to see everything that 
comes in the kit.
                                            

Thank Yous for June

Hello everyone, isn't this a busy time of year?! Here in Northern Ireland it is coming up to schools finishing for summer, colleges are already finished. I no longer have these things in my life, both my children are grown up but I have been busy anyway, winding up my own classes for summer and getting ready for summer holidays.  It will be nice to get the break from routine, helps recharge batteries and for me, lets me get a chance to just play around with my papercrafting and come up with new ideas. Is it the same with you?

I did make my June thank you cards and gifts this month and as everyone has now got theirs I thought I would share them with you.  The cards are similar to the ones I designed for our Stampin' Up training in Telford and the little bags I made using vellum paper from SAB and I made these using the Mini Treatbags Thinlits. This die made them super quick to do and I loved how they turned out, I popped some sachets of glasses wipes in them, perfect for your  sunglasses at this time of year.

Thanks for popping by today and I'll be back soon with the projects we made in my last class.

Sheltering Tree Screen Card

Good morning from a lovely sunny Northern Ireland where I think summer is finally making an appearance! Temperatures are not exactly warm but at least it's bright and sunny. Sorry I haven't been posting so much recently but life is busy with Catslogue launches, classes and generally just trying to get things cleared up before the summer break. 

Last week I held an evening class and we made this little screen card using the lovely Sheltering Tree stamp set (page 89 item no. 137163).  I had made a similar card for a Christmas version so I used the same measurements to make this seasonal one.  It went down well in the class but as it takes quite along time to make, the girls said they would only part with it to a very special person or perhaps just keep it for themselves!

I'll be back soon with a delightful little mini album so I hope you come back to see that.