Christmas SWU Challenge.

Today's challenge over at Stamp With Us is a themed one - 'Christmas'. I took this opportunity to make some extra special diorama Christmas cards. As you can see the star dangles freely, what you can't see from the picture is that it's smothered in dazzling diamonds. It doesn't look like it but the whole card does fold flat so you can send it in the post :O)




Recipe -

Stamps: Season of Joy, Spotlight on Christmas, Seasonal Wishes, Snowburst
Cardstock: Bashful Blue Textured & smooth, Very Vanilla
Mediums- Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue, Ballet Blue, Versomark
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Sticky Strip, Snail adhesive, 2-way glue pen, Heat & Stick powder, Dazzling Diamonds, White Stampin Emboss Powder/4", Star punch, 1-1/4" punch, Nestabilities.

To see the rest of the DT samples and for details on how to enter the challenge head over to the Stamp With Us blog. Thank you for visiting me today :O)

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Sale-A-Bration.

Receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set for every £45 purchase you make from the current Idea Book & Catalogue, there are four fantastic sets to choose from.

The Sale-A-Bration promotion is running 30 December - 28th February 2010, so you have plenty of time to collect all four!

The only problem will be which set to chose first ....



Good Neighbours - a fun set of 10 stamps.



Happy Moments - All occassion set, a set of 7, including 3 sentiments.

Vintage Labels - a set of 6 stamps, with 3 frames and 3 sentiments (the ornate circle matches the 1" circle and the scallop circle punches)


Whimsical Words - a set of 6 fabulous sentiments



Contact me now to place an order
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Stampin' Up's Sale-A-Bration Starts Soon ...

A late Christmas present from Stampin Up! .... thats how I see it anyway :O)

Receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set for every £45 purchase you make from the current Idea Book & Catalogue, there are four fantastic sets to choose from.

The Sale-A-Bration promotion is running 30 December - 28th February 2010, so you have plenty of time to collect all four!

You don’t have to hold a workshop to make use of this promotion, I place orders all the time and you can add items to one anytime, but I do plan to place an order promptly on the 30th December for my first SAB stamp set (or two). Contact me for more details...

Click on the brochure below to see the fabulous Sale-A-Bration stamp sets ...


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Mini Christmas Thank Yous.

I had a couple of thank you's to make this week, and as its Christmas ..... I thought I'd combine the two, and what better stamp set to use than Season of Joy, I love that little flower from this set :O)


Stamps: Season of Joy, Baroque Motifs, (Be Merry - SU retired)
Cardstock: Old Olive, Real Red, Pink Passion, Whisper White
Mediums- Real Red, Versomark
Embellishments: 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, real red, very vanilla, certainly celery
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Paper snips, Sticky Strip, Snail adhesive, White Stampin Emboss Powder






There's a little choccie treat or two in each of pillows.

I met up with my SU Mum, Monica on Friday for the first time. We had a fantastic few hours together, lots of laughs, and I think we were very restrained with our shopping


I wish we could meet up more often but the 4.5 hour drive is a huge obstacle, maybe I'll get get back up that way in the Spring :O)


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Swaps.

Remember that sneak peak I gave you back in October .... You know the one of the Christmas Card Swap over on ILWS. Well the cards are on their way back to us, so I can now reveal my cards as everyone in the swap should have received theirs by now :O)


As soon as I saw this stamp set in the new catalogue (way back in October) I knew that I HAD to have it, and I knew I had to create one of these Gap cards with it!


Recipe.

Stamps: Spotlight on Christmas
Cardstock: Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White
DSP: Merry Moments
Mediums- Real Red, Summer Sun, Old Olive
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, 2-way glue pen, Snail adhesive, Punches: Scallop Edge, Scallop Oval, Large Oval, Star, 5-petal flower, 1-3/8 & 1-3/4 Circle.

We only created card fronts for the card swap, the card looks sooo much better with a back, but I can't for the life of me find my sample, will have to make another and photograph it to show you.

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Christmas Jingle Planner.

My Stampin Up Mum Monica, sent out a tongue in cheek request on her blog Tuesday last week for a Christmas planner for her handbag, as she wasn't happy with her old method of lots of bits of paper, and lists on top of lists. So I set to work and made her this one:



and the inside

Recipe:

Cardstock - Real Red, Whisper White
DSP: Christmas Jingle (Kit) , Merry Moments
Mediums- Real Red
Embellishments - Red Gems (stash)
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Stampin dimensionals, Sticky strip, Snail adhesive.

I had to steal the photos from Monica's blog as I forgot to take pics before I put it in the post!

I've been talking/emailing Monica for almost 2 years and I really can't believe that I'm finally going to meet her in person on Friday - Can't wait




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SWU Recipe Challenge.

This is the card I made for the Stamp With Us challenge this week.



The challenge is the last ever recipe challenge and is to include: 3 x brads, 2 x patterned papers, 1 x stamp.

Recipe: (All items Stampin Up)
Stamps - Whimsical Wings
Cardstock - Pixie Pink, Whisper White, Ballet Blue
DSP: Kaleidoscope, Sweet Always
Mediums- Ballet Blue, Close to Cocoa, Pixie Pink, Certainly Celery Stampin' write markers
Embellishments - Vintage Brads
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Eyelet border punch, word window punch, Mat pack and paper piercing tool, Snail adhesive.

Now I have to find some time to go finish off some Christmas Cards, only another 50 or so to go ....



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