Colourful creation

Just a quick card for you this morning

I made this card using the Greenhouse garden stamp set which if you purchase it before the end of february Stampin' Up!  will donate £1 for each stamp set sold to the red cross international fund,

so I just think these flowers are gorgeous and wanted to share this card with you,

I used:

Card stock: Basic black,Whisper white,
Ink: Pink passion, Pixie Pink and Rose Red
Stamp sets:  Greenhouse garden and whimsical words s-a-b set

Thanks for stopping by!!

Abi

Really getting into this scrap booking now!!!!

Ok so I seem to be getting through my scrap book back log quite well  I have a few different photo's to choose from for these pages and I haven't quite made my mind up yet possibly some convention photo's......

Any how these are my pages for this weeks FUNKY FRIDAY challenge it's a sketch this week which I always find perfect for scrap booking as I do struggle  and I know i'm not alone in that with deciding what layout to create and where to put things.

I used:

Card stock:  Kraft, Naturals Ivory and Regal Rose oh and  vellum
Accessories: Rhinestone brads, chip board on boards loads of letters and batch of blooms, Chocolate Chip gros grain, butterfly punch,
Stamps: Friendly background, flight of the butterfly,
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose

So pop on over to the challenge blog and join in a challenge we'd love to see what you create!

don't forget you can mix and match challenges my entry also fits with the totally paper crafts challenge this week too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

Stampers 10 thank you's !

Just some little Thank you gifts which I made for my stampers 10 group ladies which finished this week end  My new group starts at the beginning of February ( If you have emailed me about a place and have not yet returned your agreement please do so quickly or your place will be given to a reserve member)


So I made this little thank you's Using one of the sale-a-bration stamp sets called Happy Moments every one got a different design in their favourite Stampin' Up! colours.  You can click on the image to make it bigger.

I've really enjoyed the last 10 months and can't wait for the new group to start!  for fun, learning and sharing,

I'd Just like to say a BIG Thank you to the members of the last group and a warm welcome to my new group!!  roll on february!

Abi

Thoughtful flowers

Just a quick card today that I made recently for a swap, we had to choose our favourite Stampin' Up! colour combination and I have so many favourites that I really had trouble choosing but went with this one.

Rose Red, Kraft, Chocolate Chip and white.

I used:

Stamp sets: A flower fro all seasons, Whimsical words sale-a-bration set  ( ask me how you can get this set free!)
Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Whisper White, Kraft
Ink: Rose Red, Sage Shadow, Creamy Caramel, So Saffron, Versa mark.
Ribbon: Rose Red stitched Gros grain
Accessories: Late designer button, Linen thread, white embossing powder.


Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

Sale-a-bration blog hop!

I'm joining in the Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration blog hop this morning if you have just arrived on my blog with the blog hop then you'll know all about it, but if you haven't then let me explain......

at the bottom of this post you'll find a link to the next person on the hop the idea is that you follow the link to the next blog and check out every one else's creations....

here are mine

this card is super simple I used the happy moments stamp set with Whisper white  and pink passion card stock,

Cadbury's treat pull to match the card, My lucky stampers 10 ladies all made these yesterday!

I've seen a few of these recently over the internet but mine has probably one of the biggest post it note draws ever, seriously I have never seen post it notes this big they were about 4.5" square HUGE!!

Any how I used the Whimsical words stamp set with Bella Bleu paper and the flight of the butterfly stamp set I used Kraft card stock with whisper white and Bordering blue card stock and ink.

(to see more  of my sale-a-bration creations you can click the label at the bottom of this post)

If you have any questions about how to get these gorgeous FREE stamps then let me know by emailing me or click the link in the sidebar,

                                             The next stop on the blog hop is Teri here  have fun!


Abi

Help Stampin' Up! Help Haiti

On January 12, 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, leaving in its wake devastation so overwhelming that the Haitian people and their leaders can only look for help from the outside to cope. As a crafter you can help make a difference in the lives of those who continue to suffer from the effects of this earthquake by purchasing,  the Greenhouse Gardens stamp set.

From now until 28 February, 2010, £1 from everyGreenhouse Garden stamp set purchased will be donated Red Cross’ International Response Fund. The Red Cross is already well-established in Haiti, and this money will be used to provide immediate relief and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance and other support to help those in need.

Greenhouse Gardens

113824

£22.95

In the past, when terrorists attacked the Twin Towers, when a tsunami struck Indonesia, when a hurricane destroyed New Orleans, and when wildfires ravaged Australia, Stampin' Up!  customers and demonstrators have stepped forward and showed their commitment to making a difference in the lives of others. This time is no different.




Stampin' Up! has also been assembling hygiene kits to be sent to Haiti which shelli gardener has blogged about recently you can see them at work here

To purchase this absolutely gorgeous stamp set and help the red cross help Haiti just send me an email to place your order! 

email me at abi4380@gmail.com


Keep checking for more details of My coming Haiti relief class in February all profits to go towards the redcorss international response fund!

Thank you!

Snow pages

I've been scrapbooking again and about time too I have so many photo's I really must get cracking,

These are my scrap book pages for the Funky Friday challenge the theme was snow and the colours were blue and white.

I haven't added my photo's yet but I will, If you check out the challenge inspiration you'll see one of my photo's our snow castles we had fun making those,

I've popped in a couple of close ups for you so you can see the details, I used white craft ink and heat and stick powder for the word snow and added some dazzlin' diamonds,  the word days I used Brocade blue ink and white craft ink for the type.

And last but not least these are my clear buttons, it really is amazing how many different looks you can create with them, here I used my white craft ink with clear embossing powder and snowflake stamps.

Here's what I used:

Card stock:  Night of Navy, Whisper white, Brocade Blue

Ink: Versa mark, White craft, Brocade Blue,

Stamps: Polka dot background, en francais background, snow burst,

Accessories: Dazzlin Diamonds, Heat and stick powder, Silver elastic cord, eyelet border punch

Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

THE STAMPIN' UP! EXPERIENCE and my tin challenge

SAVOUR THE STAMPIN' UP! EXPERIENCE

If you enjoy crafting, you’ll savour the experience of a Stampin’ Up! Experience event. This exclusive event gives you the opportunity to create a number of projects with Stampin’ Up!’s products, enjoy the company of others who share your interest in crafting, and win products through a prize draw—all at no cost to you!

Join us for a Stampin’ Up! Experience event at one of these venues.

PLYMOUTH     April 10th

Sheffield        March 11th

Glasgow        March 13th

Coventry        March 18th

Reading        March 20th

You'll need an invite to attend so If you would like to Join us and have a great time crafting and trying new products then contact me for  more information and an invite TODAY!

and while I'm here my stampers 10 group last year were set a challenge by one of the members ( Amanda soon to be a demo hi amanda! ) to decorate a tin can here's mine!  thought I'd make it into something I will get chance to use.

To decorate the tin I used:
Bella bleu designer series paper, Latte designer buttons, silver hodge podge, ink and some chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by!


Abi

Trendy trees

Here are my tree cards I made them to go in a set  just like the one I made for my class last week with a flower for all seasons I love the colours and the layout, just thought I'd share them with you all!

Stamp set:  Trendy trees
Card stock: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, Sage Shadow, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow, Regal Rose
Ribbon: Chocolate Chip gros grain, Caramel gingham


Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

Masculine velentine

Just a quick male card idea, most men that I know aren't so keen on the frilly type of valentine so I had a bit of a play with some dazzlin' diamonds and my sticky cut shapes.

Here's what I used:

Card stock: Chocolate Chip

Ribbon: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue,

Accessories: Rhinestone brad, Sticky cuts sweet, Dazzlin diamonds, black marker, paint brush.

Ink: Brocade Blue

Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

Stampers 10 group last few places!!! this post will stay at the top please scroll down for more recent posts

Hi Every one!! would you like to be able to work your way through your Stampin' Up! wish list while earning free products? and have the chance to meet with other crafters?

or maybe you live a little further away from Cornwall but would enjoy an online class and the chance to be a hostess receiving great Stampin' Up! product by post and still earning all the great free benefits you would receive if you were a party hostess with none of the work!

well then this club is for you it's starting in February!! so make sure you contact me today to save your place!!

What does it involve well you spend a minimum of £15 ( before p&p) each month on the fantastic Stampin' Up! products which if you don't live in the area you will receive by post along with the materials to complete all the months club projects, the instructions will be on the exclusive club blog for members only,

If you live nearby then you will be able to attend the exclusive club classes and complete the months projects learning new techniques and getting great project ideas.

You'll also receieve your own FREE copy of the Stampin' Up! idea book and catalogue along with any other catalogues Stampin' Up! releases during the club.

Each month one member of the club acts as hostess and has the opportunity to receive a minimum FREE level 1 hostess set and minimum £15 free to spend in the catalogue.

Each month you will also receive a free gift from me for joining in!!

So what are you waiting for join my club to day and learn some great new techniques! space is limited so contact me today!

Bashful Blue

Just a quick post for today,    I love clean and simple, it always looks so fresh, so thought I would share this card with you today.

I backed the clear button with some of our new speciality paper  which is absolutely gorgeous it comes in white black and cream, I have the white but wanted blue so I used a sponge dauber with Bashful blue ink to colour it and then wiped the excess ink off with a tissue and wa-la  I have blue speciality paper cut it to size then used it behind my  clear button = pretty button and it's such a great idea because now I can have buttons to match any project I do.

Here's what I used:

Card stock:  Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Stamps:  Whimsical words sale-a-bration set
Accessories:  Eyelet border punch, Bride speciality paper, Clear buttons, silver elastic thread, dimensional foam pads,
Ink: Bashful Blue

Thanks for stopping by!

Abi.

Just reminding you.......

SALE -A-BRATION IS HERE IT'S RUNNING FROM DEC 30TH - FEB 28TH

and it's a great way to earn FREE stamps  and who doesn't love FREE stuff??

You can earn free stamps by pacing a qualifying order in that time or hosting a workshop

OR

You could become a demonstrator and join the Stampin' Up! family

receiving exclusive demonstrator discount on all your purchases and the chance to earn some extra cash or pay for your hobby along the way.

I Love being a demonstrator meeting new people and sharing my love of crafting and I also love being one of the first people in the country to see new products and to be able to buy them at a discount,

So if all this sounds like a great idea to you and you'd like to earn some free stamps then contact me for more information,

Funky Friday time again!

Ok so here is this weeks colour challenge  you can join in with this challenge  and see what the inspiration team have created by clicking here 

Here is what I made with the challenge colours this week.

I'm have a clean and simple month I think at the moment, I have the urge to de-clutter everything and it seems to be rubbing off on my crafting too.   Look out house and family!!

Here's the inside of my card, yes they are punched heart hole in the back of my card and yes they are meant to be there!! he he

Here's what I used:

Stamps: Love you much, Hearts o plenty roller, whimsical words (free s-a-b stamp set ask me more about this)

Card stock: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Garden Green, Rose Red,

Accessories: Heart to heart punch, Earth elements and designer buttons, scallop edge punch, Linen thread,

Ink:  Rose Red, More Mustard marker, Garden Green marker, Black Stayz on.

Hope you like my card, come and join in the challenges and see what you can create!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a creative day!

Abi

Regal Rose gift set!

Ok so i think by now we have gathered that i don't really use an awful lot of pink I think since September I have only used my regal rose ink pad 4 times, NOT because I don't like it but because when I was younger I was totally obsessed with pink and got a bit fed up with it ( if only I could do that with chocolate!) So now having realised that it's one of those colours that I rarelly use I am going to try and use it more often ( not all the time you realise) just more often,


So here's my little gift set,  not sure who will receive this yet but I thought I would make use of some scraps I had left over from Christmas cards that I made using the medallion stamp, I added colour to the medallion stamp scrap using the emboss resist technique which i also used in this tutorial here.

here's what I used with it:

Card stock:  Basic Grey, Going Gray, Very Vanilla,
Ink: Regal Rose, Versa mark,
Stamp sets: Boroque motif, Medallion stamp, Sale-a-bration set whimsical words ask me how you can get this set for free!
Accessories:  Regal Rose gros grain, Pretties kit, scallop circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, Heart to Heart punch, sponge dauber, very vanilla love note envelope, scallop edge punch.

Thanks for stopping by!

Flowers for all seasons

Well the country is still covered in the white stuff, I actually bought a new spade so I could dig my car out of the drive and I don't know about the rest of you but I'm now ready for spring!

Last week I had to cancel all of my classes due to every one including me being iced in but as long as the snow doesn't return it's back to business this week so here are the projects from my class which we will be doing at some point, ( hopefully this week thurs 7pm my house)

Here's what I used:

Stamps: Flower for all seasons

Card stock: Kraft, Whisper White, Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip and Regal Rose,

Ink: Stampin' Write markers,

Ribbon: Chocolate Chip Gros grain, caramel gingham.

Accessories: Silver brads and Silver elastic thread.

Hope you are all starting to thaw out! thanks for stopping by leave a comment!

Abi

WOW 2 post's in one day! he he

Two posts in one day can you tell we are snowed in! well i'm to scared to drive on the ice any way and yep right there in the picture proof that we have snow, that's my wall it's been cleared a couple of times for the snow man and yet again there's about 2" on the top, the kids are loving it though.

I was checking out Kristina werners site again ( no I'm not a stalker lol) and saw that she'd posted a colour inspiration challenge!!! so here's my card, I used the Funky Friday challenge sketch i'm loving the layout and what the team created with it so thought i'd give it a go.

products I used yeah you guessed it all Stampin' Up! :-

Stamps: sale-a-bration Whimsical Words, Polka dot background

Card stock: Whisper White, So Saffron, Brocade Blue, More Mustard, Rose Red, Regal Rose.

Ink: Brocade Blue, Versa mark,

Ribbon: So saffron striped gros grain,

Accessories: Heart to Heart , clear embossing powder, heat gun, white gel pen.

Thanks for stopping by if you have any questions let me know!

Abi

p.s make sure you check out my other post today too!

Funky Friday scrap book pages

So it's the New year and the Funky Friday challenges have re started this time with a Sketch due to popular demand   and also  return with a new design team check out the team and their creations by clicking here

This  sketch challenge was set by Rosina  and we were able to use this sketch to produce any project we wanted not just cards!   Now it's been a while since I have done my scrap booking and I do have a little bit of a back log on the photo front so I decided to use this sketch to my advantage

I haven't added my photo's to it yet  but I will, these pages are for my brother in laws wedding the bride wore a gorgeous red dress and my eldest son was dressed as a page boy ( although he didn't really want to play the part)  but the photo's will look great with this speciality paper, when i can get through the snow to get them printed.

Here's what I used:

Everything is from Stampin' Up!

Card stock:  Basic Grey, Basic Black, Whisper White, speciality paper in white,

Punches:  Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle punch, heart to heart punch,  1/6" circle,

Ribbon:  Whisper White and Basic Grey Taffeta,

Stamps: Wonderful Words stamp set,

Ink: White craft ink.

Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

Designer paper Jewelry

I had so much fun making these for Lisa ( yes this is what was in her birthday gift) It's been such a long time since I've had all my Jewelry making kit out I don't think have seriously sat down with it all since I was at school and that was over 14 years ago ( shock horror!)These are the earings which I made to match the neclace I used washers after seeing some on split coast and on this lady Kim's blog here I did look for the tutorial but I couldn't find one, i should have made 2 in the first place. cos I loved this one so much.
So here is Lisa's neclace, I used Tea Party designer series paper and crystal effects the Jewelry findings and cord were from a craft stall, I'm really pleased with the way they came out,
If you pop on over to my tutorial page you can see how I made all my washer necklaces,   click here

Thanks for stopping by!

Abi

Making the most of sale-a-bration

OK so you wanna take advantage of the great sale-a-bration promotion and the opportunities that this opens up..........

well the best way isn't to just place an order but to become a demonstrator, It's so much fun and you get to attend all sorts of exclusive training and fun events just check out the video below it's really funny and sums up convention perfectly...

by becoming a demonstrator during sale-a-bration you will have the chance to attend the SECOND EUROPEAN Stampin' Up! convention, the last one was so much fun!!! you don't want to miss it! you'll also get discount on all your Stampin' Up! supplies and earn some extra cash at the same time, you'll meet great new friends both demonstrators and customers and learn so many new techniques you'll be bursting with ideas.

By joining during sale-a-bration you will earn one free stamp set for joining and then have the chance to earn tons of free stamp sets too! so contact me today to join my team, as a team we love getting together for fun crafting and joining in our team activities online every week, My girls are great and I'd love for you to join us too,

send me an email at abi4380@gmail.com to find out more.

The next European Stampin' Up! convention is During November 2010!

Seriously cute sab stamps

well I think we all know by now that I love Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration who doesn't love FREE stuff??? yay and this year is no exception the stamp sets you can choose from are so cute I really love this sentiment set which you can earn FREE by spending £45 on anything in the current catalogue click here to see the free stamps then contact me to place your order this month I'm offering free postage on on line orders of £45 or more.

This is the birthday card I made for Lisa's birthday :)

I used:

Stamps: Crazy for cupcakes, whimsical words

Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Very Vanilla

Accessories: scallop square punch, Stampin' write markers

Ribbon: Chocolate Chip gros grain

Thanks for stopping by I love reading your comments!!!

Abi