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Showing posts with label flower dies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower dies. Show all posts

Friday, 1 January 2016

Flowering Fields Sale-a-Bration sneak peek



Happy New Year everyone! I hope you spent the evening doing exactly what you wanted to do, whether that was out partying, quietly at home or tucked up in bed. 

Here’s your first Sale-a-Bration sneak peek from me, featuring a delicate floral stamp set called Flowering Fields. I made this card for my friend, and former downline, Judie - as she’s one of several stamping buddies of mine who has a Christmas birthday. 

I took the photo outside on a sunny day, but it was a bit too bright (who’d have thought we’d be saying that at this time of year?) and the pearls have bleached white in the picture. 

Die-cutting those circles was harder than I expected, probably because I didn’t measure anything and just went by eye, but it worked out ok in the end. I was hoping to make an aperture card so you could see through the vellum to the inside, but I was a bit too stressed out by then and simply layered a piece of DSP behind the vellum instead. This allows you to see the subtle white colouring of the flowers; I did this with a chalk marker on the reverse side of the vellum so that I wouldn’t cover up any of the finer details. 

This stamp set is free with a £45 order during Sale-a-Bration, which runs from 5th January to 31st March.  Every £45 order gets a freebie, no matter how much you spend, and there’s a wide variety of free products to choose from, including stamp sets, Designer Series Paper and Project Life goodies. It’s the most wonderful time of the year and I’ll be back with more information when the promotion begins. 



Monday, 14 December 2015

Sneak Peek: Botanical Blooms bundle from the new Spring/Summer catalogue



It’s Mix It Up Monday again and time for another colour combination from my In Color charts.

And today I have a Sneak Peek for you from the upcoming Spring/Summer catalogue and, drum roll please… Sale-a-Bration!


When I first saw the Spring/Summer catalogue, I diligently made my wish list on a spreadsheet and began working out class ideas. The Botanical Blooms didn’t even feature on the “might get” list. 

But then, as is so often the case, I changed my mind. I kept being drawn back to these wonderful tropical flowers and, in the end, I caved in. It’s so easy, see? Buy the Botanical Blooms bundle of stamps, dies and Designer Series Papers… and get a co-ordinating stamp set free. So that’s what I did: because Sale-a-Bration starts early for demonstrators to give us time to prep samples to tempt you.

If you can’t wait until 5th January for Sale-a-Bration and the new Spring/Summer catalogue to begin, you could always join my team and start the party early. Get in touch if you have questions or, if you’re the decisive type, just click here to get ordering. 


Catalogues will be winging their way to my hostesses shortly… as soon as I’ve written (made) their Christmas cards. If you’d like a catalogue, too, just shout up please!

I can’t give you product images as they’re too new but I used the following on this project:
  • Botanical Blooms Bundle
  • Botanicals For You stamp set (SAB)
  • Pool Party cardstock
  • Island Indigo cardstock
  • Early Espresso cardstock
  • Delighful Dijon cardstock
  • Very Vanilla cardstock
  • Pool Party ink pad
  • Island Indigo ink pad
  • Delightful Dijon ink pad
  • Early Espresso ink pad
  • Sponge Daubers
  • In Color Markers, 2015-2017
  • Island Indigo marker
  • Basic Rhinestones
  • Home for Christmas enamel dots

Monday, 28 April 2014

Retro Fresh flower frame


At a (fairly recent) get-together with some of my stamping friends, we all made one of these frames. The interesting thing was seeing just how different everybody’s was. I chose to use Retro Fresh Designer Series Papers and various other elements. The great thing about getting together with other crafters (apart from the actual getting together, of course!) is they way everybody is happy to share their supplies, so you get to play with tools and embellishments you don’t have. Naturally, afterwards we just have to have them… so go home and order them for ourselves!

This could just as easily have been a scrapbook page, but we used Ikea box frames. A tip for scrapbooking if you have papers you really want to use but don’t have a photo to “match” is to print your image out in black and white. It goes with everything!


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