Goodies

I realised I never showed you the bunch of goodies that came in my Stampin' Up! Starter kit. So here is a piccie of them in their box (less the ton of brown paper it was stuffed with).

Here are the contents once I'd unpacked them.






Don't forget I will be placing an order over the weekend so if you would like to add to it and save on postage then please email it to me Saturday midday at the latest.
:-)
ally

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Stampin' Up! here I come!

Well I am pleased to say I have joined Laura and become one of her downline in Stampin' Up!

I got my fab starter pack last weekend and it was like Christmas in my craft room. It was quite a big box but of course it was mostly packaging, but the suspense while I pulled all the crunched up brown paper out was worth it. Having thought there would be some things I would be less pleased with I can honestly say there isnt a thing I dont love and wont use. So check back and see what I do with my starter pack goodies.

In the meantime, I am organising a ribbon share. There are 4 options - the Gosgrain Stripe, the 0.25" Plain Gosgrain or the lovely Seam Binding Ribbon. You sign up for wichever you like (or all three for a discounted price) and receive a meter of each colour along with a colour project leaflet. Spaces are limited and I will be ordering at the end of July if enough spaces are filled.

If you are interested please email me and I will send more details.
:-)

CR84FN colour challenge

I came across this colour challenge site - I've been lurking a while, and decided to join in this week.

There's quite a bit of white on my card cos I don't have much pink card in my stash - not sure if that's cos I've used it all or dont buy it much - probably both :-)

So here was the challenge over on http://cr84fncolorchallenge.blogspot.com/

and here's what I came up with:

I used papermania cupcake stamps, which are singular cucake stamps and I arranged them to look like a pile. Coloured them with my Copic pens and added some ribbon - very simple but very pink!

:-)

Grrr

What do I have to do to stop the stupid big gaps between lines in my posts? Answers on a postcard (or by email) please!

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

And I must have been cos one minute I blog and its December and next its the end of June - where has the time gone?

So a quick update. The Slice went back to the shop cos as soon as I said how lovely it was it stopped being so lovely and refused to cut properly. I did some more Copic classes for Kraft Crazy in Tidworth, got a new camera whcih I am seriously in love with. Went the annual SF ball in Bournemouth, went on a fab holiday to Rome and a Supernatural tv show convention where I met the very lovely cast. Went on another shorter holiday to the South of France by train, came home and 2 Scrapladies Mid Summer Madness Card Marathon was upon us.

So I was busy but yes its been fun and I have a ton of photos to crop as the ladies at my two crops will vouch.

Next up is the 2 Scrapladies Calendar Class and more imminently I am going to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, which brings me to my photo. Since I have yet to get my starter kit, and I only have very few SU bits and bobs, I was quite pleased to be able to produce something using only SU products.

I made the card on the right for an ex boss. He has bees - hence the bee and honeycombe paper. It was the first time I have pleated ribbon on anything, and the seam binding ribbon made it so easy. I liked the card so much I made another almost the same to keep. Once I get more stamps I'll put a better one in the middle - or maybe not, I'll see - what do you think?

So for these cards I used:

Botanical Gazette paper (the bees are one side the honeycomb the other)

So Saffron cardstock

Certainly Celery Inkpad

Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding Ribbon

1 beige Spring Time Vintage Big Designer button

(all the above are from the Mini Catalogue)

Just For You Stamp from the Sale a Bration Punch Bunch set (I think no longer available)

For the card I am keeping, I used almost the same, obviously no stamp and the buttons are from the Designer Series in the Main Catalogue with a large Jewel stuck in the middle.

Definately going to be doing some more cards with ribbon on, I've fallen in love with it all over again.

:-)

Post Christmas sales

Well they don't wait till January now do they? Christmas day wasnt even over and the shops were announcing sales.

Well I resisted until yesterday and then gave in and went to Hobbycraft to see what goodies they had and if there were any bargains to be had.




And see what jumped into my basket? It was all alone on the shelf so I couldn't leave it there could I?

So today I have been playing with it. I really like it and think I might have to go back and get some more cards for it!



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Testing, testing, 1234...

Just a little test cos I finally got round to downloading blogpress so thought I'd test it.
The piccie is of some parcels I've wrapped using brown paper I stamped with snowflakes. I always fancied using stamped brown paper as giftwrap and did it this year.

Have a great Christmas everyone!




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