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Happy New Year to you all !! I have some lovely news for you ..........The highlight of the Stampin' Up! calendar is here and today launches two ***NEW*** catalogues, the Spring / Summer seasonal catalogue and Sale-A-Bration brochure.Sale-A-Bration is my favourite time of year as I love seeing my customers enjoy earning a FREE Sale-A-Bration craft item of their choice from the brochure for every purchase of £45 or more you spend. The best bit ..... number of free items you can earn.there...
CRAFTING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
MorningI know it's only been 4 days away but it's amazing how us crafters miss getting inky fingers and creating something ????Julie and I had an amazing time on the Magellan, visiting Amsterdam and Antwerp. Part of our break included staying over the night before so, cruising from Tilbury, we 'had' to spend some time doing some 'retail therapy' at Lakeside before or trip. Yes, slightly mad contemplating a major shopping centre and retail outlet business park, the last Saturday before...
STAMPIN’ UP! ON STAGE @ Telford
MorningWhat a fantastic time we had at Stampin' Up! On Stage event at the weekend. A huge gathering of over 400 Independent Demonstrators, converging at Telford International Convention Centre. Here are some of the 'early birds' waiting for the barriers to be released. Let the party begin !Next years April and November dates are already secured in my diary ! Such a great Networking event with fellow Demonstrators, plus bonus of seeing exciting new...
MORE FESTIVE SWIRLY SCRIBBLES …..
I've been such a busy bee this weekend ..... lots going on but also managing to chill out and have 'me' time in my craft studio. With my NEW Swirly Bundle still on the table, I just had to make another festive card.The owl critter I made earlier, just went festive ! Here I added some snow, using the small splatter stamp from the Swirly Birds stamp set, with White ink. Tombow adhesive was dotted along the 'branches' and covered with Dazzling...
SWIRLY BIRD / SWIRLY SCRIBBLES GOES FESTIVE
Whilst creating with the Swirly Birds / Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies recently, I could just see some Christmas ideas forming..... This was my first very simple Christmas Wreath using the largest swirl and leaves die cut in Always Artichoke card and the smallest flower die as holly berries, in Cherry Cobbler. I added a festive greeting from Wondrous Wreath, stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink and a little glitter from Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. A gorgeous card featuring in my...
DEMO’s JUST WANNA HAVE FUN !
Continuing my suite of projects created with the new Affectionately Yours suite from Stampin' Up!, today I have finally finished the scrapbook page below. I really am quite slack with my scrapbooking but as I had a few photos printed for another project, I added a few extras too. Sitting on the scrapbook shelf, they were in need of some TLC and I am in LOVE with the Swirly Bird stamp set and Swirly Scribbles Framelit Dies. Those who know my Craft Studio,...
*** NEW *** ANNUAL 2016/17 CATALOGUE IS HERE
The NEW Annual 2016/17 is finally here ! I have added the link to the sidebar but this is from the Stampin' Up! Demo site so doesn't appear to be working for the general public. It's so early, Stampin' Up! haven't yet got the links transferred across to our Online Shops (link below) at the moment, but I'm sure it will appear there very soon. I'm off to work now but will be checking links and get everything fully working this evening, including the fabulous...
JUST HAD TO HAVE A GO WITH THESE !!!
Evening fellow crafters What a lovely day it's been again today, for the long Bank Holiday weekend. David has been out with our local Goldwing club, displaying our fabulous machines at a charity fund-raising event ...... and me, well, I stayed home with a couple of overnight visitors this morning and an afternoon home alone, crafting ...... a wonderful way to spend the day. For my 'play-time' today I wanted to christen my Swirly Birds stamp set and Swirly Scribbles...
TISSUE BOX – Affectionately Yours Suite
Another paper from Affectionately Yours Designer Series Paper pack, used today to bring Friday's Tissue box up-to-date with NEW Designer Series Papers available in the 2016/17 catalogue, from 1st June. This is the project I designed for my ladies private class on Friday, learning three different way to create handmade flowers. Here I have just used different sized scallop circle punches, cutting into a helter-skelter and rolling into small...




