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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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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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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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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..
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 .....
The challenge on A Passion for Papertrey this time round is bling up our projects. I was already making some notebooks as Thank You/Stocking Filler Christmas presents for family and friends, so thought I'd incorporate bling into one or two of them .... hmmm ....... I really struggled adding the bling ...I've made several of these notebooks, I love them, can't stop making them now :O)The first one is a straight copy from one Lisa Johnson made a few months ago - isn't it gorgeous! The second I just started playing - maybe I'm getting a bit more of my mind back again (maybe)
Notebook 1
Stamps - Giga Guide Lines, Take Note
Cardstock - Basic Black, Basic Grey,
Pattern Paper- From Chocolate Remix Mediums- Versofine Black
Embellishments - True black swiss dot satin ribbon (reversed), Diamontes from stash Tools - Paper Cutter and scorer, Snail Adhesive, stampin' dimensionals, nestability scallop die, nestability circle die.
Notebook 2
Stamps - Take Note
Cardstock - Night of Navy, Bracade Blue
Mediums- Brocade Blue, Bordering Blue, Versomark
Embellishments - 5/8" Brocade Blue & 1/4 Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon, Silver elastic cord, Diamontes from stash. Tools - Paper Cutter and scorer, Snail adhesive, Eyelet border punch, stampin' dimensionals, nestability scallop die, nestability circle die.
I really struggled to find something to post about this week as I haven't been anywhere near my craft room since the flu hit me a fortnight ago! I'm still down with it, going back to the Doc this afternoon in the hope that he can give me some sort of miracle drug that will give me head back!!These are the card fronts DH will put in the post this afternoon for me,
they are part of the Inspired by the Catty Swap being held over on In Love with Stamping. We each got to choose one of the many card samples in the Stampin Up Catalogue and then CASE it, we could change the colours etc, but had to stick to the same layout etc. I chose the card on page 20, using Silent Night. Luckily I'd done almost all the work a couple of weeks ago otherwise there is no way I'd have met the deadline (I swear I've got tissues stuffed in my head at the moment).
RecipeStamps - Silent Night
Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla
Mediums- Chocolate Chip
Embellishments - Chocolate Chip 1/4" grosgrain ribbon. Tools - Stamp-a-ma-Jig, Paper Cutter and scorer, 3/4 Circle Punch, Snail Adhesive. While I was recreating these I also had a few ideas make them better, will post them when I've finished them off - sometime next week ... I hope :O)
The Passion for Papertrey Challenge 17 - Think Christmas - well it took me over a week to complete this card! I can't belive how ill I've been, I picked up a sickness bug last week which I managed to get rid of for the weekend, went away for the weekend, probably wasn't a good idea although it was a great weekend, but then on Sunday afternoon I started with the sniffles, which on Monday turned into something more. I've had something close to flu all week, my energy levels are pretty close to zero, every muscle in my body aches, I am sooo tired, I can't stop coughing - but all I can think about is ... getting back into my craft room .... how sad am I LOLAnyway back to the card ...As soon as this challenge was posted I knew that I had to play with my new PTI stash (as soon as it arrived) .... Holiday Button Bits IS BRILLIANT :O)
RecipeStamps - Holiday Button Bits (PTI)
Cardstock - White linen from stash, whisper white (SU), pure poppy (PTI)
DSP - Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin Pack (SU) Mediums- Green Galore, Real Red (SU)
Embellishments - Real Red 5/8" grosgrain ribbon(SU), pure poppy buttons, rustic jute twine (PTI),
Tools - Paper cutter and scorer, paper piercer, stampin' dimensionals, nestability scallop die, nestability circle die, ,
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