Stamp to spend?

Some of my fellow demonstrators are taking part in a Stamp to Spend challenge, which you can either use as a way of controlling your spending, or as a way of justifying your addiction – whichever way you want to look at it!

The idea is that, for every project you create (card, scrapbook page, altered item etc), you “earn” a certain amount to spend on more crafting supplies. This is both a great way to get you using your current supplies and makes you feel a lot better about spending when you do splash out. And every card you make and send is at least £1.20 (and usually much more than that) that you’ve saved on a shop-bought card.

You could go for a simple £1 per item, or a less straightforward system, such as:

£1 per card
£2 per altered item
£3 per scrapbook page

Some are going for more generous budgets (£5 per scrapbook page) or more ambitious targets (£15 for every 10 cards made). Just change the numbers to suit your budget.

I haven’t decided if I’m taking up this challenge just yet but if I did, I could have earned myself a couple of quid to spend with this easy peasy altered candle-holder. In fact, rub-ons are soooooo easy to use that I can’t imagine there being a difficult rub-ons project. The glass candle-holder was really cheap and came from Home Bargains or Wilko (I can’t remember, have been hoarding it a while). The rub-on went on very easily and should stay there as long as I don’t do anything stupid to it like stick it in a dishwasher. And there's little chance of that as I don't have one! 

Supplies: Hidden Garden Blossoms rub-ons

All products by Stampin' Up! Please email me to order a catalogue, or click the picture of the catalogue on the right to view it online.

Altered diary

Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? Every year I vow to be more organised – and every year I fail. But this time at least I have a diary to help me along! Santa didn’t bring me a diary so I went out to buy one and was surprised how expensive they were. The groovy retro striped one I fancied was a fiver and I couldn’t bring myself to pay it so, cheapskate that I am, I bought a plain silver one from WHSmith.

Once I got home I regretted my “boring” purchase, so set out to alter it. A few Stampin’ Up!® rub-ons later and here is my diary – it’s certainly unique. I doubt very much that the rub-ons will stand up to being bashed around in my bag for 12 months but I can always scrape them off and start again. Plenty more rub-ons where they came from! You get two sheets in a pack; in this case one sheet of white and one of Chocolate Chip.

So here is my diary, ready and waiting to be filled with lots of Stampin’ Up! workshops – why not book yours today?

Supplies: Hidden Garden Blossoms rub-ons

All products by Stampin' Up! Please email me to order a catalogue, or click the picture of the catalogue on the right to view it online.