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Last weekend I got to spend some time with around 380 UK Stampin' Up demonstrators in Telford, near Birmingham. What a fun weekend we had! We got a great goodie bag and various free gifts including lots of new products. We got an advance copy of the brand new Stampin' Up catalogue which goes live on the 1st June.  It was great seeing all the new products and Stamp sets we will be getting and to watch demonstrations from fellow demonstrators both in the room and by a link to the U.S. It was really great.  It's lovely to see friends and to make new ones too, Stampin Up really know how to put a fantastic weekend together.

Another most enjoyable part of the weekend is when we swap samples with each other, this the one I made this year, I swapped over fifty of these cards and below is a photo of all the lovely ideas I got in return, fab, aren't they!

This last photo is of additional cards I made, this time in a different colour way, these were for my downline and other team members.  I also made little bracelets which I put in these linen bags. I'd stamped on them also to co-ordinate with the card. Yes you can stamp on fabric! They were well received and well worth the effort of making them.

I'll be back soon with my April Thank you cards and gifts,  before April is over!  I've been so busy I had forgotten I didn't share them with you. Please come back for those, I think you'll like them. 

Have a great day. 

Shades of purple

Good morning, following on from my last post I'm sharing this other card from the same class.  As I said, everyone got the wonderful stamp set Birthday Blooms.  But as you can see this one has a totally different look, a very versatile set this and I really love the font.  I don't normally 'do' purple as it's not really a colour I use but I like how this turned out and I know a friend who would love this card as she loves purple.

I'll be back soon with this months hostess club gifts and my thank you cards. Hope to see you for that.
                             

Shimmer and glitter

Good morning, sorry I haven't been around much recently but I was busy with Easter and then a wee trip to visit my daughter in London. However I am back today to share a sweet card and gift bag we made at a recent class.  I used the single rose image from the very versatile stamp set.  Everyone got the stamp set to make a selection of projects which I will share with you over the next week.  If you don't already own this stamp set you should check it out, it has beautiful rose images, sentiments and other little useful images.

We used the beautiful glitter washi Tape that I know a lot of you got free during Sale-a-Bration and my wish is that we get this in our new annual catalogue (coming very soon!) perhaps in different colours! Would love that!  We also used the fab Wink of Stella clear pen on the roses, hope the shimmer shows up in the photos.

I'll be back soon with more from the same class so please come back and visit to see those.  Have a great day.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to you all! Today I am sharing the last Easter class I held this past Wednesday, everyone got a little chocolate chick as a treat. Isn't the little chick house and card really cute. I used the stamp set Honeycomb Happiness which was free with our fantastic Sale-a-Bration promotion.  This is the last week of these wonderful offers so last chance to get a freebie, just spend £45 and make your choice.  Honeycomb Happiness has been one of the favourites amongst my customers and the metallic washi tape is too. So don't hesitate if you would like to take part,  Sale-a-Bration won't be back until January 2017!!

 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today during your Easter Weekend, I hope you all have a lovely time with family and friends. I'll be back next week with some beautiful projects using the stamp set Birthday Blooms which is so versatile for lots of different occasions, hope to see you then.                     

Flowers for Easter

Well, as I promised I'm back with another Easter card not featuring the Easter Lamb! I used one of the lovely flowers from the stamp set Helping me Grow. It really is a fantastic set which includes another flower, various sentiments and little feature accents that just give cards that something special.

My last Easter class is tonight and as a special treat I will be making some Easter cupcakes for everyone.  I'll be back soon to share what we make tonight.

Thanks for stopping by my little blog today.

Happy Spring??

We have had some very "Spring like" days recently in Northern Ireland, dare I say Spring is here? However it probably isn't but I will be happy if these beautiful days last until Easter.

Today I'm sharing an Easter card using the little Easter lamb AGAIN! Sorry, I just love this little lamb, I promise I will use a different stamp set to make an Easter card soon! I designed this card for a class I held last week and the girls loved it. Some decided to use a different sentiment and make the card into a baby card.  Perfect for this, just change the background colour to suit a baby boy or girl.    I used the large stamp called Watercolour Wash, this is a super background stamp and can be used for virtually every type of card background.

Thanks for popping in today, I will be back soon with the other Easter card we made at last week's class and I promise I didn't use the Easter Lamb so please come back soon for that.

                                            Have a great day

                             

Happy Friday

Good morning everyone, don't you just love Fridays, I do. The funny thing is I haven't worked a 9-5, Monday to Friday job for years. Teaching classes and being a Stampin' Up demonstrator means my hours are never the same from one week to the next.  My children have long since left home so there are no school runs to do either but I still love Fridays! 😃

Anyway today I am sharing my March thank you cards and gifts for my hostess club members. I made some more for friends and neighbours gifts too.  I used the little Kraft bags we sell in packs of  ten.  I scored and folded them, 1" down each side one 1" along the bottom to make them into these little gift bags, very easy to do. I am loving the little Easter lamb stamp, I have been using it a lot so will share more Easter cards over the next week with you, I also, used it for a baby card.

What do you think? Everyone was delighted with theirs. Want to know what the gift was? A yummy Easter egg of course!

Thanks for popping by to day, have a great weekend.

Easter Lamb

Just popping in to share another Easter card with you today.  The stamp I used is simply called "Easter Lamb" and is on page 26 of the Stampin' Up spring catalogue. I love everything about it, the cuteness of the lamb and the lovely font of the greeting.  I will be using this for lots of my own Easter projects and classes so I'll be sharing those over the next few weeks.

Thanks for visiting today

Wreaths are not just for Christmas

They are for Spring too! It is only one month today until Good Friday so I think it's time I showed you my first Easter Card. I have used the dies that I used for my Christmas wreath but I have used the lovely Spring stamp set called Circle of Spring (page 77 of main catalogue) this really is the set to buy for all your spring projects (especially if you bought the die set for your Christmas projects) as it covers most occasions. You get the wreath, the little flower and bow and six sentiments. I used the large background stamp Hardwood as my back drop and added a bit of bling with the bow which I die cut from the lovely new Blushing Bride paper.

So for all occasions whether it's Easter, Mothers Day, a spring Birthday or a simple Thank you this set has got it all.  Here's hoping we soon get the Spring weather to match all the lovely Spring projects we are going to make!

A Rose for Valentine's Day

Good morning, just popping in for a quick post to day to wish you all a lovely Valentine's weekend, I know some of you are celebration tonight so I hope you have fun!

Thought I would share this rose I made recently using the Bouquet Bigz Die (page 175 of main catalogue) this is a must have die if you like making flowers.  This makes so many flower and leaf variations (not just roses) and because it's a bigz die it can cut fabric easily too.  Think of flower brooches or adorn bags and cushions with flowers and leaves!! Just put "Stampin' Up Bouquet die" into a search engine and you will be amazed at the ideas that come up!

So here's a Valentine rose for all my lovely customers and viewers-