Mix It Up Monday: Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits gift bag

It’s Mix It Up Monday again I’m getting to the end of the Peekaboo Peach colour combinations from my In Color charts, which is quite exciting for me, as it’s no secret that it’s not my favourite colour. 

But it’s ideal for creating prototype projects, which is what I did here; this is a ‘first draft’ of a project for my upcoming All-Day Craftathon. I combined a few products – Marquee Messages for the greeting, Awesomely Artistic for the foliage, along with the ever-popular Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits and, of course, the Gift Bag Punch Board. 

The Metallic Ribbon is a Sale-a-Bration item – you get 6.4m each of white with silver, and vanilla with gold, and it’s beautiful. Definitely worth getting if, like me, you’re running low on ribbon, as it will go with everything. 

Hey, Chick! It's Friday!

We couldn’t head into the weekend without another chicken card, could we? This was the Make & Take from my team meeting recently; I wanted to show the team the amazing versatility of the new Dynamic Hexagons embossing folder.

Yes, the chicken wire is made with the embossing folder - simply ink it up and press directly onto your cardstock. I love this embossing folder – it goes with everything! Masculine, feminine, chicken wire, honeycomb... if you don’t have it yet, it would be a valuable addition to your next order! Bump it up to £45 and you could choose this fabulous chicken stamp set as your free gift!

And if you fancy joining the fun and becoming a demonstrator, I’d love to welcome you into my team. There are so many advantages to being a demonstrator that I won’t even try to go into them here, but if you have any questions, please do drop me a line. And if you’re ready to take the plunge, just click the image below!

Mix It Up Monday: Inside the Lines DSP

A simple project this week as we’ve all been under the weather this weekend, so I made this yesterday and then retreated to the settee with a poorly daughter and an opportunistic black cat. 

If you like colouring, you’ll love the new Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper. It’s part of the Sale-a-Bration promotion, which means you can, if you wish, choose it FREE with a £45 order.

It’s perfect for a colour challenge, as you can make it any colour you wish. So I thought I’d give it a go for this week’s Mix It Up Monday project, using another colour combination from my In Color charts.

This is a bright and cheery colour combination, which uses two of the latest set of In Colors; Emerald Envy and (my favourite) Dapper Denim. The Daffodil Delight IS there, it’s just not easy to see in the photo. The Stylized Birthday stamp makes the greeting the focus, and goes with just about everything, making it a useful addition to your stamp collection.  

Hey Chick, with watercolour pencils

Some of the most popular new products are showcased here: Hey Chick, the gorgeous Sale-aBration set, the Dynamic Hexagons embossing folder (which goes with EVERYTHING) and the Watercolour Pencils, which are causing big ripples of excitement.

We’ll be using these pencils tonight at my February Hygge Night - the focus is on colouring.

And this DSP - Affectionately Yours - features the same colours as the SAB paper, Carried Away, which means you can use the same pack of cardstock!

Lift Me Up Make & Take

This is the lovely Make & Take from a party earlier this month, which uses the fab Lift Me Up bundle from the Spring/Summer catalogue, and the free Carried Away Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-Bration catalogue.

And the clever people at Stampin’ Up!® have even made sure there’s a cardstock assortment that goes with it... it’s the Affectionately Yours one from p172 of the main catalogue.

The circle is cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits, a really useful and versatile addition to your craft stash. You won’t find them in any of our catalogues until June, but they are available to buy now, at £27, using the code 145372.

Last chance for FREE Sale-a-Bration products!

Do you have everything on your Sale-A-Bration wish list? Tomorrow is your last chance to  earn free Sale-A-Bration items with every £45 purchase. Drop me a line or order online using the special code below to qualify for an extra free gift! 

The code is: 

A7BCZMGC

(Order £25 of products before 5pm on Thursday, using the above code, to qualify for a free gift from me, posted to you during April. Don’t use the code if you're spending £150 or more as you'll get Stampin’ Rewards!)

Mix It Up Monday: Last chance for Flowering Fields

It’s Mix It Up Monday and time for another colour combination from my In Color charts.  And this is a combination which takes me way out of my comfort zone; it’s clean, it’s subtle, it’s tasteful. And, most of all, it include grey; not really my thing at all! But I’m reasonably pleased with the finished project, which also serves as a reminder that time is running out for you to earn this beautiful, delicate stamp set FREE. 

Yes, Sale-a-Bration is coming to an end on Thursday, so if you want any of the fabulous SAB freebies, I recommend you act fast. Please consider ordering through my online store - as a thank you, I’ll send everyone who spends £25 or more online as uses the code below a small gift in the post in April. Don’t use the code if you’re spending £150 or more, as you’ll earn your own freebies that way!

The code is: 

A7BCZMGC

Please use the code before 5pm on 31st March to qualify. Thank you! Oh, and if you missed my Mum on the radio today, please see yesterday’s post for the link to listen.

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141303] £0.00	One Big Meaning Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139420] £17.00	Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] £6.50	Marina Mist A4 Card Stock [121682] £6.50
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Marina Mist Classic Stampin' Pad [126962] £6.00	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [131179] £6.00	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [138326] £6.00
Mint Macaron 1" Dotted Lace Trim [138424] £5.50	White 1-1/4" (3.2 Cm) Jute Ribbon [137904] £8.25	Very Vintage Designer Buttons [129327] £5.50	Paper-Piercing Tool [126189] £3.75

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Mix It Up Monday: Balloon Celebration floating seeds

It’s Mix It Up Monday and time for another colour combination from my In Color charts, a little late in the day perhaps but still Monday nonetheless.

I’m still recovering from a weekend of intense crafting with some of my stamping buddies. We hired a cottage for the weekend and spent the whole time making projects, eating and laughing. Ok, and perhaps some drinking. Certainly not enough sleeping, and I’m paying the price now!

I threw this project together quickly on Sunday afternoon and I have to say, you can tell that not a lot of thought went into it. I added some bling (including some Wink of Stella on all the seeds, which you can’t see in the photo) when I got home but I still can’t say I’m completely happy with it. Lovely colour combo though – but if you want to play around with this combination you’d better hurry up and start stocking up on Lost Lagoon, as it will be retiring at the end of May.  I know a lot of people will be very sad to see it go, and I will be one of them.

Balloon Celebration Photopolymer Stamp Set [140675] £23.00	Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140517] £18.00	Tip Top Taupe A4 Cardstock [138343] £6.50	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] £6.50	Lost Lagoon A4 Cardstock [133686] £6.50
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £7.25	Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad [133644] £6.00	Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] £6.00	Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments [119246] £4.50	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] £7.25

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Party Pop-up Stair step card

These Party Pop-Up Thinlits dies are not just for pop-up cards, oh no. The beauty of them is that, if you want to create a pop-up card like this one, you add the score-line yourself, by scoring your cardstock first then lining up the line with the guides on the die. 

That gives you the flexibility to create projects like the one above, where the Happy Birthday is used on non-scored cardstock to create a fabulous cut-out design element. I’ve added just a hint of yellow ink to the candles and saved some of the die-cut pieces from previous projects to use as additional embellishments. I keep the leftover pieces in an old button pot  - don’t throw away those tiny stars and streamers as they’ll come in useful next time, for projects like this and this.

The DSP shown here is FREE with a £45 order but only until the end of the month. It’s a really nice set of designs, in some of my favourite colours; in fact if you purchase the Farmers Market cardstock assortment you’ll find it co-ordinates perfectly. Top tip there. No charge. 

Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies [140620] £27.00	Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock [133682] £6.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper [141022] £0.00
Sponge Daubers [133773] £4.50	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad [133643] £6.00	Big Shot Die Brush [140603] £10.00

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