Toot Toot - Birthday Blog Candy!!!

THIS CANDY HAS NOW BEEN WON BY THE LOVELY DIANE HOWARTH!!!!!

Its my birthday in 3 weeks time and I am feeling very generous and excited so I am offering a Birthday Blog Candy. Now this is no normal Blog Candy that I am just giving away - sorry! It is to reward all my lovely SU customers and future SU customers!!!

So heres the deal, if you spend over £15 with me on SU products between now and 3rd July (my birthday) I will put you in the draw to win the above, which is drum roll......

• A LEVEL 2 Hostess SET - CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION - only usually available if you host a workshop of over £300
• A Yummy Stamp set - no longer available
• A set of Washington Apple papers - 12 sheets of double sided 12x12 paper

So if you fancy having a go at winning all you have to do is place and order with me of over £15 (not inc P&P) before the 3rd July

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INCLUDES ANY LADIES WHO ARE IN MY MONTHLY CLUB OR HAVE ORDERED WITH ME THIS WEEK*

Any questions just mail me on julie.kettlewell@ntlworld.com

Jules

WOWSERS!!!!!!!

Just popped on before the school run to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who has sent me cards and pressies today.

It has truly been the best birthday ever and I am so lucky to have such lovely friends.

I have uploaded a little video of all the cards I received using my new toy, a FLIP video camera!!

Apologies for the awful Yorkshire accent!!!

I will be back later with my BLOG CANDY and more news!!!

Below are 2 videos, I am still learning how to upload and have somehow managed to upload 2 together!!!! One video is of the cards I received and the other is announcing my BIRTHDAY BLOG CANDY WINNER!!!

I also want to say a special thank you to 10 of my lovely customers who are part of my Stampers 10 number 2 group! VICKI, DIANE, TERRI, ELAINE, LINDA, JO, GINA, TONI, KATIE and SONIA who sent me the most gorgeous bouquet of roses from M&S this afternoon, this was a wonderful surprise ladies, thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! It overwhelmed me when I received these today, you are a very thoughtful lot, thanks again. I will post a photo tomorrow!

Its been the best birthday ever!

A fantastic cause!

Yesterday I went to my lovely downline Elaine's house for a Strawberry Cream Tea in aid of Breast Cancer Care. Elaine does a huge amount of work for charity and is one of the most giving people I know so I was delighted to support this event. My lovely downline Sarah P was there too so it was a nice littel get together, even though Elaine was busy with her pinny on dolloping cream and strawberries onto people's plates!!!! Well it was a huge success and Elaine raised £330, well done Mrs!!!!!

Tonight I am attending another charity event which is for Cancer Research. We will be making some little heart pouches and gift cards which the ladies are paying to do and a percentage will go to the charity, I am also hoping to sell some cards and am doing a raffle to raise more funds! I will post photos of the project tomorrow!

Will leave you with a card I made for the same customer that I showed you last week, she likes simple A5 cards with the name as the feature, this one is for her MUm, you would never have guessed would you!

The infamous arty farty angle, with foam pads a plenty!

Back tomorrow for my BIRTHDAY BLOG CANDY DRAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jules
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Simple Anniversary Card

I had to make a First Wedding Anniversary Card and decided to go simple and stylish! Its made with Very Vanilla and So Saffron colour combinations!

I have stamped all over the front with the lovely stamp from the Mr & Mrs set in So Saffron ink and then added a piece with the couples initials using the letters from the Schoolbook Serif alphabet.

Blinged it up a bit with some adhesive stones and a rhinestone buckle.

HEre we go, the arty farty angle shot!

As it was so simple I decided something needed to be decorated inside so I layered a nestie on and then added the stamp again in the 2 corners.

Just getting ready to go for a Strawberry Cream Tea at Elaines, yummy!!!

JUles

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Sketch Saturday

Here is my card for Sketch Saturday, still trying to fill up my birthday box of cards!

As you will see I have rotated the sketch as it worked best as the image is quite long. Its my favourite Miss Anya (shopping - yeah!) with my favourite papers!!

Papers are Sweet ALways from SU available from me! as is the ribbon, Pumpkin Pie grosgrain and Pretty in Pink taffeta! The sentiment is from a very handy little set called A Bit Of Birthday Cheer!
Anya has been coloured in with my Copic Ciaos (still getting used to them!) and I have used my fave retro flower punch but added some of my new Dew drops!

Here you go - Arty farty angle!

Back tomoz, got a fun day planned tomorrow, one of my lovely downline Elaine is having a Strawberry Cream Tea for Cancer research, oooooo my taste buds are tingling already!

Jules

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Just Magnolia Sketch

I needed some more general girlie birthday cards in my birthday box so I decided to do the Just Magnolia Sketch challenge.

I went for the Tilda with little cherries on and used my Summer Picnic papers from Stampin UP as I knew they would co-ordinate perfectly.

The image has been coloured with a mixture of Copic Ciaos and Stampin Up marker pens. Now I had to laugh when I made this as when I purchased the Sizzlits fruits dies I didnt realise how big they would be!!! These cherries look like they have been grown in organic super powered fertilizer!!!!!!! I inked them around the edges with SU ink pads and then I added some white gel pen for highlights.
The super sized cherries overpowered that side of the card so I had to add the 3 buttons to balance it out!!!!! Sentiment is from the Crazy for Cupcakes set and punched out with.......... yes you guessed it the Oval punches!


Now the "arty farty" angle is getting quite a fan club and I have noticed more and more people are going down this route!! Thats fab, arty farty rules!

Back tomorrow with another card for my birthday box!

Jules

P.S Dont forget my birthday blog candy, ends on Friday!

Stamp with Us challenge

Another Sunday, another Stamp with Us challenge!

This week we are back to a sketch challenge.

Here is my effort! Gone all summery again as the weather has been nice again this week (except for a couple of horrendous thunderstorms). I plumped for Cheers to You set and used the sentiment all over the Pink Passion and the Only Orange card. I stamped the cocktail 3 times with the trusty Stamp a ma Jig and then coloured in with inkpads and blender pens.

The ribbon is from my stash and oooo guess what I have used those Oval punches again!!!!

I stamped the oranges again and added some foam pads for dimension.

I made a couple more cards yesterday so I will be back with them tomorrow!

Have a fab Sunday

Jules

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