Butterfly bundle offer - save 15%

Papillon Potpourri is one of our most popular stamp sets - but if you're one of those who doesn't yet have it, why not get it this month while you can save on a product bundle?

Until the end of September, you can save 15% when you purchase Papillon Potpourri (page 90) and co-ordinating Bitty Butterfly punch (page 183). This offer is available on both wood-mount and clear-mount options:

Wood-mount bundle - 135311 - £26.52 (a saving of £4.68)
Clear-mount bundle - 135312 - £23.97 (a saving of £4.23)

Interested? Just email me to place your order!

I'm back with a Santa's List card

I’m back! And all of a sudden it’s Christmas! Well, not quite, but we do have a brand new Autumn/Winter catalogue to enjoy!

In ordinary circumstances, I’d have been whetting your appetite with projects made with new catalogue products for the past week or so. But no, I have had no internet and, at times, no phone, for what seems like ages now and it has been so frustrating – not least because the people at the call centre unswervingly follow a script, even if your problem isn’t an exact fit.

But I won’t bore you; I’ll just show one of my first projects made with a gorgeous new Christmas stamp set called Santa’s List. Check out the new catty, here. Or download the PDF file here.

Stamps: Santa’s List

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Paper: Season of Style

Ink: Black Stazon

Accessories: Chevron Embossing Folder, Scallop Circle Punch, Old Olive Simply Styled Embellishments

Booking for Christmas class

(Updated so that it makes sense and doesn't read like the English policeman who thinks he can speak French from 'Allo, 'Allo!)

I still have no phone line and therefore no internet and am very conscious of time slipping away from me. Most notably with booking for my Christmas class! I can't open booking in the usual manner so please email me at allthingsstampy@gmail.com to book ASAP so that I can order by 7th Sept.

Details:

Christmas is Coming Stamp-a-Stack

Saturday, 21st September, afternoon, 1.30pm-4.30pm

Usual venue in Horsley Woodhouse

We will be making 10 cards - two each of five designs 

Your kit will include products to the value of £10 including festive washi tape

The price is £15 - just £10 for club members!

This event replaces my traditional catalogue launch so attendees will get a new Autumn/winter seasonal catalogue.

Typing that on my phone was exhausting!

Hope to hear from you soon! Places limited!

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I have no internet at the moment, please bear with me while we wait for an engineer.

Caturday: Rusty

Tiny little Rusty was found wandering the streets at a VERY tender age – far too young to be out on his own. But now he’s safe at the shelter and apparently very vocal. I haven’t met him yet but daughter has –and is already smitten.

Happy Day box and two announcements

A couple of updates before I show you today's project:

World Map 

This fabulous background stamp is now available. Unfortunate wording removed and now safe to use!

Clear-mount: £12.95, code 130345

Wood-mount: £15.95, code 130342

Wood-mount cases

While there's still a delay on the half-sized cases, the full-sized wood-mount cases are now available to order. Use these to transfer your old wood-mount stamps into lovely, matching cases which stack perfectly against your clear-mount cases. Or simply use to store other craft items, such as markers, punches etc. You get four cases for just £6.25. Code 127551

And now for today's project...

Remember this box? Here it is again, revamped with brand new papers and stamps. Crisp Canteloupe is a surprising colour for me – I really didn’t think I’d like it but I really do, especially with Early Espresso as it is here, with the oh so gorgeous Soho Subway Designer Series Paper.

Stamps: Happy Day

Cardstock: Crisp Canteloupe, Whisper White

Paper: Soho Subway

Ink: Early Espresso, Crisp Canteloupe

Accessories: Cute Clips

Wetlands with "painterly" background

Last night was my fur and feathers fundraiser and it was a lovely relaxing evening. I and the cats at Woodland Nook Cat Rescue are very grateful for the donations of food and cat litter, which were the "tickets" for the prize draw. And £5 from every registration fee will be donated to the shelter, too. Thank you!

We made two cards, each using a different background technique, plus a box of notecards. I was a bit unsure that everyone would get finished but they all did – with time to spare!

This was one of the cards we made, shamelessly CASEd from demonstrator Nicky Dexter. The technique is a little daunting but I urge you to have a go.

All you do is take a piece of Whisper White cardstock and “swipe” your ink pad across it. It’s actually easier with the old-style pads but you get some lovely effects with the new firm foam pads, too. Here I’ve used Soft Sky (what else?) for the sky, a swipe of Smoky Slate across the centre and some Crumb Cake or Sahara Sand (sorry, can’t remember) across the lower section of the card.

It looked HORRIBLE but I persevered and stamped on the sandpipers… and then all of a sudden it had a painterly quality and looked exactly like a beach with clouds in the sky. Great for a masculine card, I think – or if you want to send one to me, as I absolutely love beach scenes.

Stamps: Wetlands

Cardstock: Baked Brown Sugar, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Soft Sky, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake (probably), Black Stazon

Accessories: Linen Thread

Wildflower Meadow pouch

This little pouch was inspired by a swap I received at last year’s Convention. I am sorry I can’t remember who made the original, but I know she was German, which doesn’t really narrow it down much as most of the demonstrators there were German, as it was in Frankfurt!

This is my take, using Crisp Canteloupe cardstock (good colour!) and the Wildflower Meadow stamp, inked in the same colour.

Happy Day provides a suitable sentiment, stamped in Early Espresso. Should have used Early Espresso Baker’s Twine, too, but I don’t have any – eek! 

Please don’t ask for measurements as it would mean I’d have to take the whole thing apart!

Stamps: Happy Day, Wildflower Meadow

Cardstock: Crisp Canteloupe, Whisper White

Ink: Crisp Canteloupe, Early Espresso

Accessories: Very Vintage Designer Buttons, Crisp Canteloupe Baker’s Twine, Corner Rounder, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Basic Pearls

Baby celebration with Wildflower Meadow

I made this Wildflower Meadow creation in girlie pinks to celebrate the birth of a new baby girl. It's not a traditional baby card as I was sending to the proud grandparents. I stamped the main image in Pink Pirouette onto cardstock of the same colour and then ran it through the Wildflower Meadow embossing folder to highlight the design.

I stamped the image again in Melon Mambo onto Whisper White cardstock and carefully cut out the flowers and bird, which I curled and stuck down, finishing off with some pearls.

Stamps: Wildflower Meadow, Happy Day

Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Melon Mambo

Ink: Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Wildflower Meadow embossing folder, Whisper White Baker’s Twine, Basic Pearls

Caturday: Dennis

Lovely, lovely Dennis.

Woodland Nook resident Dennis is so shy that he hides – sometimes on a shed roof, sometimes in the rafters. But we have discovered that, at about lunchtime, he has started coming down for a nap in the wendy house, curling up in one of the cat beds.

Best of all, while he’s in bed, he’s very happy to be stroked and fussed – he even rolls over for a tummy rub! If you’d like a lovely black cat who is sure to get over his shyness when he’s in a loving home, you know what to do. All the Woodland Nook cats currently up for adoption are now listed on CatChat.