Newbury Show thank you cards

Hello everyone,

I am back again second blog post this week, I hope you are enjoying my posts!  If you are, please leave me a comment and let me know.

I have heard now that the team of independent Stampin' Up demonstrators on the stand at the ArtStamps show in Newbury talked to more than 300 ladies - wow!  No wonder I'm exhausted and a little "hoarse".  Apparently not many ladies though from the Abingdon/Oxford area, where were you?

Oh well, I have sent out mini catalogues and hand made cards to the ladies who visited the stand from my area, I hope you enjoy leafing through the Mini and whilst looking at the card, it brings back happy memories of a lovely day (at the races!) at the craft show.

My photography still is pretty bad and I'm sure my cards looked much better than this in real life but here is a photo of the card each lady will receive:

All items used to make this card are by Stampin' Up and mostly from the Mini catalogue.

Happy craftng.

Carole
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Toilet paper butterfly

Hello Everyone,

I had a fab day at Newbury craft show yesterday chatting to lots of ladies about Stampin' Up.  I gave out a few of my toilet paper butterflies and thought I'd post a card I made using one.

The supplies I used were:

Whisper White cardstock
Rose Red Designer Paper
Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon
Modern Label Extra-Large punch
Word Window punch
The greeting was from Occasional Quotes

The beautiful butterfly was made using two sheets of Andrex toilet tissue folded to make four layers, which I spritzed with water and re-inkers (So Saffron, Rose Red & Pumkin Pie) and whilst still wet I put them, into the Elegant Bouqet embossing folder and ran it through my Big Shot.  After leaving them to dry I die cut them using the Beautiful Butterflies exclusive die for Stampin' Up from Sizzix.

All the above products are available from me, please email me with your order.

Have a great day and happy crafting.

Carole
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Newbury craft show

Just a quick post from me to remind you all that I will be on the Stampin' Up stand at Newbury this Saturday. Please come and say hello.

Happy crafting until then.

Carole xx

Lap of Luxury Designer Paper

Hi Everyone,

I love the way that Stampin' Up co-ordinates everything across their whole range.

I won some papers last month and decided to chose papers I hadn't bought yet.  I chose:

Lap of Luxury
Love Letter
Sweet Stitches

Here are a couple of cards I've made using Lap of Luxury.  They are cards that I did have to spend a little more time on, but I am really pleased with how they turned out.

It has been such a lovely morning here with the sun shining, so I decided to take the photos outdoors.  I just wish I could have cropped the photos........note to self.....learn how too!!!

Enjoy your weekend.

Happy crafting.

Carole
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Another month passes me by!

It really doesn't seem a month since I last posted, I don't know where the time goes!

Oh well.....I am sure you are far more interested in seeing a few projects I've made, rather than hear my pile of excuses, so here goes...........enjoy!

I love this stamp set, it has to be one of my favourites of all time - Nature Walk by Stampin' Up.  I made a pleated style card, using the Designer Paper that matches the stamp set Botanical Gazette.

On this Sympathy card I used the Scallop Trim Border Punch, together with our new Stampin Up Decorative Label Punch and Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.

We were invited to a wedding earlier this month and this was the card I made to use as our reply.  I've used the Top Note Die from Stampin' Up, together with the So Many Thanks stamp and embellished with Basic Pearls and Kraft Taffeta ribbon by Stampin' Up.

I loved making this card fom my dear friend who recently turned 21.  I used the stamp set Party This Way, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Extra Large Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch and on the front I used part of the Top Note Die, Fun Flowers Bigz L Die, Word Window Punch and Modern Label Punch.  The paper is from the Nursery Suite Speciality DP from Stampin' Up.

I actually had a bit of fun creating this album page today.  Whilst surfing the net, as you do ;)  I caught this layout and had to give it a try.  The base card of this 12 x 12 album page is Stampin' Up Crumb Cake and I've used Stampin' Up Designer Paper from the Regals Stack.  I've used Stampin' Up Chip Board Alphabet and Stampin' Up Punches for the embellishments.  I splattered the whole page (covering the photos for a minute) with white acrylic paint to finish it off.

I made lots of these cards for a Pink Ladies team swap to swap at a reward day I went on.  I used the Flower Daisies Die and the Beautiful Wings Emosslits Die.  The Stamped sentiment came from a very useful set, in my opinion, Perfect Punches by Stampin' Up and I used the perfect punch to go with it Extra Large Oval.  The ribbon is the Stampin' Up 1-1/4" Striped Grossgrain in Early Espresso.

Wow, what a post, hope you found it worth waiting for!

Email me if you would like any more details of supplies or stamping classes  and scrapbooking crops in Oxfordshire.

Most of the supplies are from the Stampin' Up 2010 - 2011 Idea book and catalogue, or the Stampin' up Mini catalogue 1st April - 30th September 2011.

I'll order your products and have them delivered directly to you or you can pick them up from me.

I accept PAYPAL these days, so email me with those orders.  I will be giving away lots of bits and bobs as treats for all orders placed in June :) !

Have a great June and happy crafting.

Carole
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