June and July's Stampin' Up! Hostess Offer!!

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Stampin' Up have announced a great new special offer. Host a home workshop during June or July and if your party reaches £325 you will receive an extra £30 in hostess benefits, taking your "hostess pounds" up to a massive £80!! Plus one half price item too!! How amazing is this offer??

Just contact me and we can sort out suitable dates ~ quick and easy!!  OR if you have a group of crafting friends, then why not collect all their requirements and send through 1 big order so that you can still get these additional benefits.

Contact me at my email address,  techiebell@hotmail.co.uk, if you have any questions regarding booking FREE workshops or placing a big order on behalf of you and your friends.

Look forward to chatting with you ... xx

Stampin' Up's June Designer Series Paper Promotion

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Stampin; Up have announced that for JUNE ONLY if you buy 3 packs of  selected DSP you will receive a 4th pack absolutely FREE - YAY!

Ideas Book & Catalogue 2011-12

Pg 97 Pg 97	122367 122357	Paisley Petals  Beau Chateau
Pg 97	122342	Beyond the Garden
Pg 98	122355	Domestic Goddess
Pg 98	122351	Frightful Sight
Pg 98	122352	Timeless Portrait
Pg 98	124339	Just Add Cake
Pg 99	122347	Nursery Nest
Pg 99	122348	Big Top Birthday
Pg 99	122359	Well Worn
Summer Mini Catalogue Pg 13	125406	Twitterpated
Pg 18	125407	Attic Boutique

Remember, if you book a workshop or place an order for more than £325 you also get your additional Hostess Pounds to spend - double YAY!

Colourful "Get-Well" wishes

My poor Sister-in-law has recently had a fall and broke her hip so I wanted to make her a colourful, sparkly and cheerful card.

I actually had a couple of these butterflies sitting on my crafting desk for a few day and was wondering what to do with them as I knew I wanted to do a 'rainbow' of butterflies but wasn't sure how I would display them, but when I came to putting a card together for her it all just fell into place beautifully.

I love the few lines of little hearts that the "Textured Impressions" embossing folder add, it's a nice, subtle detail that adds a lovely finishing touch.

I hope she liked it, chat again soon ... xx



Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Sincere Salutations"
Card stock : "Naturals Ivory"; "Basic Black"; "Whisper White" "Daffodil Delight"; "Tangerine Tango"; Old Olive"; "Real Red"; "Pacific Point"; "Rich Razzlebury" & "Concord Crush"
Accessories :  Antique Brad & Rhinestone jewels
Colour:  StazOn In
Tools : Tape runner adhesive;  Glue dots; Big Shot machine; "Textured Impressions" Embossing Folders; & "Beautiful Wings" embosslit die.

Quick and simple card making

Morning,

Quick post today, I just wanted to share this card with you.  It's an unusually size as it is 3" x 6".  It's a great size card to make if you have any 12"x12" cardstock as you can get 4 cards from it with no waste.

It's makes the perfect quite and simple card if you have to make a batch of "Thank You" cards or invitations or you want to make a few matching cards for a gift.

I used the wonderful stamp set "Mixed Bunch", which I absolutely love all the images and having the matching punch just makes it easy-peasy to create great cards.

I stamped and punch out an addition centre and popped it up and added lots of glitter to create a lovely sparkly centre.

Hope you like it, chat again tomorrow when I'll be back with another very colourful card. ... xx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Mixed Bunch" & "Tea Shoppe"
Card stock : "Pool Party"; "Poppy Parade"  & "Whisper White"
Accessories : "Dazzling Diamonds" glitter
Colour:  StazOn Ink; "Poppy Parade" & "Daffodil Delight"classic Ink pads
Tools : Tape runner adhesive;  Dimensional adhesive; 2-way glue stick & "Blossom" punch

Special Birthday Card

Hello,

It was my little baby nephew's 1st birthday yesterday, so obviously I had to make him a special card, it's the first time he's got any!!

I used the "Up, Up and Away" stamp set as I think it has great images for small people, especially if you used lovely bright colours.

I used the "Timeless Type Junior Alphabet" die for the big shot to cut out the letters of his name.  They cut really well and, I think, make the card a little bit more special when it is personalised, also, this is a great way of using up cardstock scraps as you need so little to cut out the letters.

I love the little clouds that are also in the "Up, Up and Away" stamp set.

I'm defiantly in a colourful mood lately which is not like me at all, it must have something to do with the sun coming out again, oh well, it will soon pass ;-)


 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Up, Up and Away"
Card stock :  "Whisper White" & "Basic Black" (Card base - from personal stash)
Colour: "Melon Mambo"; "Real Red"; "Tangerine Tango"; "Marina Mist"; "Old Olive" & "Night of Navy"
Tools : Tape runner adhesive; Tombow Mono Liquid Adhesive, Big Shot machine & Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies.

Father's Day Projects ~ No. 6

Happy Father's Day.

Very quick post as I am running very late.  My share is a last minute Father's Day project.  It's little 'Match-book' brag book, perfect for Dad's briefcase or back pocket.

It's only 4" x 3" in size and opens just like a match book.

Photo's need to go in here, but I haven't put in any yet as I made this for a friend and they'll do that bit for themselves, the photo's will be 3" x 3"

You can put in as many sheets as you like, you could even put in plain "Whisper White" sheets so the kids can do a little drawing or write little messages.

I thought it would be perfect as a project to make today so that you can put in any photo's of your actual Father's Day activities so it really will be a "Father's Day" father's day gift.

take care ... xx

Team Swop cards

Yesterday there was a Stampin' Up team meeting at my lovely up-line's house, unfortunately I wasn't able to attend this one, but I still wanted to make a few swop cards for my team mates.

I used the Notelet cards, again, (I love these), and my paper is from the Patterns DSP pack in Brights, well, it is Summer so bright and cheerful colours seemed the order of the day.

All the cards where monochromatic but I used 6 different colours from the "Brights" collection so that my team makes could choose which colour they wanted.

I also made an envelop to go with them.  For this size card you need to start with a piece of cardstock, (or whatever your envelop medium is), that is 7" x 7" and Stampin' Up's "Simply Scored Scoring Tool" and the "Diagonal Plate"  so that you get the perfect scoring alignment.  Using these tools I  scored at 2-3/4" on opposite sides and then 3-3/4" on the remaining two sides.

I used the stamp set "Delicate Doilies" for the main focal image and punched it out with the "Blossom" punch,. Whilst this stamp it too big for this punch I still think it still produces an attractive image if you line up the punch correctly.  I also used the 1" punch to punch out the center of another image from the same stamp set and I added "Dazzling Diamonds" glitter to and popped it up with dimensional adhesive.

Hope they liked them, have a great day... xx


 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Delicate Doilies"
Card stock : "Melon Mambo"; "Real Red"; "Daffodil Delight"; "Tangerine Tango"; "Tempting Turquoise"; "Rich Razzlebury" & "Whisper White"
Accessories : Patterned DSP from the "Brights" collection;  "Dazzling Diamonds" glitter & Notelets
Colour: "Melon Mambo"; "Real Red"; "Daffodil Delight"; "Tangerine Tango"; "Tempting Turquoise" & "Rich Razzlebury"
Tools : Tape runner adhesive;  Dimensional adhesive; "Blossom" punch; 1" Circle Punch; "Simply Scored Scoring Tool" & "Diagonal Plate"