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Apologies if you've tried to leave me a comment today, DH has been playing with the blog (as you can see) and this somehow upset the capture entry box, he's fixed it now ...

Thanks Sara for letting me know :O)

SWU - Sketch Challenge.

This weeks Stamp With Us challenge is a sketch challenge, we had a sketch (see below) to work from, once again I've reached for one of my stampin up stamp sets, whimisical wings (hostess set) and worked in one of my favourite colour combinations regal rose and chocolate chip, here is my card ...



Recipe:
Stamps: Whimsical Wings (L2 hostess), circle of friendship
Cardstock: Chocolate chip, regal rose, whisper white
DSP: chocolate chip patterns
Mediums: Chocolate chip, regal rose
Embellishments: Latte designer buttons, Ribbon from stash! Should have been 5/8” regal rose but I’ve run out!
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, 1” circle, 1-1/4 circle, 1-3/8 circle, circle scallop, eyelet border punches. Mat pack & Paper-piercing tool, stamp-a-ma-jig.

What do you think? Do you like it?

This is the sketch ...


Why don't you join in? All you need to do is use at least one Stampin' Up! product, you could use cardstock, papers, an image, a punch or even a piece of ribbon, so why not come and Stamp With Us?

Hope to see you soon

xoxo

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Medallion ...

I’ve been playing with my new Stampin Up stash …. The Medallion stamp … its GORGEOUS, its definitely my favourite :O)


Stamps: Medallion, Oval All
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip,
Mediums: Close to Cocoa

Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Large Oval and Scallop Oval punches


I could play with this stamp all day ...

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PTI Notebook

As some of you know I was chosen as feature stamper over on A Passion for Papertrey for January and one of the responsibilities of feature stamper is to take part in the challenges. Well the first challenge has been set for 2010 and the challenge is to create a card or project with an embossed image, this is what I made ...

Stamps: Giga Guidelines, Take Note Cardstock: Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet

DSP: Bitty Dots, Everyday Blessings

Mediums: Staz-on, Chocolate Chip (SU), Embossing Stamp pad

Embellishments: Aqua Mist button, Berry Sorbet ½" luxe satin ribbon

Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Heat gun, Clear embossing power.

I really love making these notebooks, I not made one yet that I've really not wanted to give away ...

For this one I started out with a piece of dark chocolate cardstock, measured 21.5cm x 20.5cm scored at 7cm, 7.5cm and 14.5cm (along the 21.5cm edge). I then use a small plate to mark a nice curve for the inside pocket and cut. Nichol Heady has a template here but you might have to fiddle to get the measurements to fit.

For the front cover, I stamped one of the images from giga guidelines with versamark ink onto berry sorbet, and then sprinkled liberly with clear embossing powder. Heat set with a heat gun. I then sponged chocolate chip ink in small circular movements over the image (remembering to wipe the images clean). This really makes the images pop! I then cut another piece of berry sorbet 21cm x 6.6cm for the mat layer on the front cover, and stuck this down. I cut my embossed cardstock to size along with some bitty dots designer paper and adhered those to my mat layer. I cut a piece of Everyday Blessings to size and adhered that into place.

I inked up 'notes' from the 'Take Notes' stamp set with chocolate chip and stamped my image down the side for added interest.

The ribbon was tied 'a la Monica' but instead of using a brad I sewed on an Aqua Mist button.


Inside the notebook I decorated the pocket with the left overs/scraps from the front cover, to add interest I stamped a paperclip and a pointing finger, then all I had left to do was adhere the pad to the notebook.

I really enjoyed my first project as feature stamper, I hope you like it - please leave me some feedback - let me know what you think.

While I'm at it, Why don't you join in? All you need to do is use at least one PTI product, you could use a stamp, cardstock, papers or a piece of ribbon, so why not come and join us

See you soon

xoxo

A Layout!.

I know it doesn't happen very often, but I've actually created a layout!!

One of my resolutions this year was to get scrappin again, one of the ways I knew I'd do this was to follow the weekly challenges over on UKS. This week was set by BeckyG1, and as it was the first challenge of the year she kept it nice and simple - She chose a Shimelle sketch from SI for us to work from, asked us to use celebration photo(s) and to include ribbon. Here's mine


Not the best photo I'm afraid (I'll upload a better one tomorrow)

Stamps: Celebrate from Wonderful Words
Cardstock: Pink Passion, Black CoreColor from Coredinations
DSP: Pink Slice (Colour Theory)
Mediums- Pink Passion
Embellishments: Large brad from hodgepodge hardware
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Mat pack & Paper-piercing tool, stamp-a-ma-jig.

So I've collected full points for my UKS team, Rockin Ribbon Raiders:

Used the sketch - 10 points
used celebration photos - 10 points
used ribbon - 10 points
layout - 10 points

Also managed to make a few cards with my new Medallion stamp, will post those tomorrow

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Good Neighbors - Sale-A-Bration.

One of the perks of being a demonstrator for Stampin Up is being able to get our hands on the stamps before everyone else, I was a little late ordering and decided to wait and actually earn my free sets*! well the wait nearly killed me, watching all my fellow demos using their sets early ...

Well my first free set is finally here, despite the snow! - Good Neighbors

I chose good neighbors because, well I don't know why, I just loved it and could see a use for it straight away, although I can see a use for all the Sale-A-Bration sets - so much so I can't wait to place my next order ...

My first card made with Good Neighbors is an easel card, its not my first easel card (you'll see that later in the month) but I'm hooked, they are sooo easy to make but look complicated.

I followed the tutorial I found on ILWS written by Melanie Reid.

I also made this card with the colour inspiration challenge in mind over on Kristina's blog, Kwernerdesign.com, it was great to see that she had posted a 'one off' colour challenge. Anyway here's the card


And the colours Kristina gave us to play with:


I had to substitute some of the colours as they are not available in the UK ...

Stamps: Good Neighbors, 'New' Sentiment from Seasonal Wishes, 'home' from stash
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Cameo Coral, More Mustard
DSP: Pink Flamingo
Mediums: Ruby Red, More Mustard, Bashful Blue, Cameo Coral, So Saffron markers, Versomark
Embellishments: Bashful Blue 1/2" striped grosgrain, More mustard 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, bashful blue soft subtles brads.
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Large Oval and Scallop Oval Punches, Paper piercer, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Nestabilities (standard circles large).

So what do you think?

I'm off to play some more with the other goodies that the lovely UPS man brought yesterday, I can hear that Medallion calling ...


* 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!

Contact me now to place an order

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ILWS January Cup Challenge - Card 4.

ILWS last Challenge on Saturday night was set by Karin, it was a combination challenge, the first part was 'masking' to make something that had some kind of masking element to it, and the second part was to 'recycle' a regular a household item into it.

I had no problem with the first part of the challenge, I used Stampin Up's 'All in the Family' stamp set which I've recently borrowed from a fellow demo, Deborah for another project.


Stamps: All in the Family
Cardstock: Broacade Blue, Whisper White
DSP: Bashful Blue
Mediums- Brocade blue, bordering blue, ballet blue, creamy caramel, close to cocoa, basic black
Embellishments: Vintage brads, bashful blue 1/2" striped grosgrain grosgrain ribbon
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Mat pack & Paper-piercing tool, stamp-a-ma-jig, Nestabilities.

When I was putting the card together I completely forgot to add my 'recycled' item!!

The 'All in the family' set are ideal for masking. I started by stamping the cat and the dog on my cardstock, I then stamped them again on a post-it, cut out the image from the post-it note, masked my image (covered) and continued stamping, this time with the little boy and girl. Again once on my cardstock and on a post-it note, cut out the image on the post-it note, masked my image and continued stamping .... Once you've finished stamping you take off the post-it notes and colour.

I hope you liked my cards, I enjoyed the challenge evening and look forward to the next one, I hope you will join us ...

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ILWS January Cup Challenge - Card 3.

ILWS Challenge 3 was another set by Monica, but we all thought she'd gone mad ... it was a colour challenge the colours being:

REGAL ROSE
CAMEO CORAL
PRETTY IN PINK
APRICOT APPEAL
OLD OLIVE
BASHFUL BLUE

We had to use ALL of these colours! We could add any other neutral colours if we wished but HAD to use all the above together.

You'd think I'd find colour challenges quite easy when I've set them for most of last year!

First thing I did was pulled out a piece of card of each of each colour .... then I stared at them for 15 minutes ..... then I panicked

This is what I came up with, not sure I'm happy with it


Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Cardstock: Cameo Coral, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue
DSP: Bashful Blue, Sweet Always (Pretty in Pink), Haiku (Old Olive)
Mediums- Basic Black
Embellishments: Vintage brads,
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Paper Piercer, Scallop Edge, Scallop Circle, 1-3/8 circle, 1-1/4 circles punches, stamp-a-ma-jig.

At 10pm it was the last challenge, this one was set by Karin and my favourite of the evening, I'll post more tomorrow ...

Have a look at the ILWS gallery, see what others created for the same challenge.

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ILWS January Cup Challenge - Card 2.

ILWS second challenge on Saturday night was set by Monica and she wanted us to go right back to basics and choose just one stamp set, ink and card stock and we were not allowed to use any embellisments! No brads, no eyelets, no flowers, no ribbon, no buttons. We were allowed to use punches and piercing tools but no embellishments!



Stamps: Wonderful Words, Wild About You
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Pink Passion, Whisper White
DSP: Love Stories
Mediums- Basic Black, Regal Rose
Embellishments: None
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Scallop Edge, Scallop Circle, 1-3/8 circle, 1/1-4 circle punches, stamp-a-ma-jig.

I only cheated a little (I used two stamp sets), I didn't read the challenge properly!

Challenge 3 was also set by Monica, we all thought she'd gone mad .. come back tomorrow see what I mean :O)

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ILWS January Cup Challenge - Card 1.

Saturday night was Challenge Cup over on ILWS, we had to register at 5pm at which time we were automatically assigned teams and had to be ready for 7pm to begin the first challenge ....

I wasn't at home at 5pm so had to register from my MILs via my mobile, that was a challenge in itself, I'm really not very technology advanced ... I managed it ... eventually. But then had to leave almost straight away to be home with time to eat and be ready to start at 7pm.

I couldn't believe how many people were logged into ILWS, it was a fantastic turnout!

The first challenge was posted promptly at 7pm, a sketch challenge, we had one hour to create and upload a card to the ILWS gallery, this is my card


Stamps: Mr & Mrs
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Whisper White
DSP: Love Stories
Mediums- Basic Black
Embellishments: Bashful Blue brads,blue/white polka dot grosgrain ribbon (stash)
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Oval scallop and Oval large punches, stamp-a-ma-jig.

and the sketch



The second challenge set was a back to basics but you'll have wait until tomorrow to see what I created (unless you find it on the ILWS gallery).

If you get a chance have a look on the ILWS galleries there was some AMAZING work created on Saturday night.

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