Comfort Cafe Scrapbooking

Hello and Happy Weekend! Today I have my Scrapbooking club plus 2 lovely ladies are coming to make the Christmas ornament so its busy busy!!!

I have been really organised this month and my layout was done by Monday and emailed to my ladies. We decided at the last class to use the Comfort Cafe papers as I fell in love with them when my talented downline Allie did a wonderful Inspiration Station with them (see below)

I wasnt sure which photos to use and then I found these comedy photos of my boys in the outdoor hot tub in Wales in 2011!! We have been to the same cottage 5 or 6 times and love it but this was the first year they had the hot tub and the boys christened it!! I have added the photo of the hills to show people how high up it was and how cold, wet and misty it was too!! The boys didnt care!!!

I cut the papers into various strips and gave them a good inking with the Crumb Cake ink and a sponge dauber. The word Welsh is from the Letter It alphabet and the Jacuzzi is from the new Simply Serif Mini Alphabet.

My ladies got 3 sheets of the papers included in their kit along with some Midnight Muse ribbon and some ribbon sliders from the Seasonal Catalogue

 I wanted to create some "bubbles" so I used the circle punches to make them in various sizes.

You can see on the next photo just how bad the weather was.

 I was really pleased with this bit of layering up. My ladies also got some of the Vintage trinkets included in their kit, which is where the safety pins came from

I hope you like my pages. I dont consider myself a scrapbooker by any means but I was pleased with these pages!

Julie x

Supplies Used: (All Stampin Up! Unless Otherwise Stated) 

1. Card – Very Vanilla, Summer Starfruit, Midnight Muse, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze, Pool Party

 2. Papers – Comfort Cafe

 3. Stamps – Letter It, Simply Serif Mini Alphabet

 4. Embellishments – VIntage Trinkets, Midnight Muse ribbon, Ribbon Sliders

 5. Tools – Apothecary Accents Framelits, Modern Label Punch, Circle punches

 6. Mediums – Crumb Cake ink, Midnight Muse marker

Attic Boutique Scrapbooking

Good morning and happy Sunday to you! This morning is "ironing morning" - uurrrggh don't you just detest it????

So yesterday I held our monthly scrapbooking club and due to holidays lots of my ladies could not attend so I had the pleasure of 3 lovely ladies scrapping with me at my house!

Today we used the gorgeous Attic Boutique papers from the Summer Mini. I must say I have only used one of the designs up until now and I saw a page my lovely friend Jo did and had to use them. They do lend themselves to scrapbooking really beautifully and the colours we used were Soft Suede, Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Whisper White or Very Vanilla.

SO here is my first page. I have to say (before anyone else does) there are not supposed to be 2 of my black hairs making a feature on my page!!! They must have dropped out as I took the photo!!!!! When I noticed last night it was too dark to take another photo!!!

I showed the ladies how to make these spiral flowers, June and Ellie had not made them before and I think they are now addicted, as am I!! You will see further down, I could not stop making them and adding them to my pages!

As you will see the pages document our recent trip to Vienna with Stampin' Up!!!  I have loads more photos to scrap and haven't even dared to touch the Segway photos yet!!

This is the second page and I went a little bit mad with the spiral flowers on this one!

I chose to do spiral flowers because of the red flowers in my hair, I thought it would pull it all together!

I also made some flowers using the scalloped circle punch for a different look, the large Pool Party flowers have been made with the scallops, you can particularly tell on the one on the right

I will share a few of my ladies photos

Above are June's flowers, she stuck to just using Pool Party and Soft Suede - doesnt it look stunning?

The next few pages are Ginnette's pages. She had a few printer problems and her photos came out cloudy but she brought them and cut them up and used them as templates for when she gets them printed out!

Love these flowers!

And then finally my dance friend Ellie's pages. Last weekend Ellie's Mum re-married and Ellie was keen to get some photos used! On this page you might see that I am on 2 photos as I was honoured to be invited to the night do! My friend Ellie is easy to spot, she features in all 4 photos!

Lovely photo and lovely flowers Ellie!

Sorry for the lengthy post but I wanted to show off all the lovely pages and flowers!! I had so much fun making these and preserving yet more memories!!

If you would like to join in then please get in touch. Our class is in Pudsey, West Yorkshire and we meet once a month!!

Jules x

Supplies Used: (All Stampin Up! Unless Otherwise Stated) 

1. Card – Poppy Parade, Soft Suede, Pool Party, Whisper White, Very Vanilla

 2. Papers – Attic Boutique

 3. Stamps – Apothecary Art, Letter It

 4. Embellishments – Pool Party Seam Binding, Pearls

 5. Tools – Framelits, Circle punches, Bird punch, Scallop Circle punch

 6. Mediums – Soft Suede ink

New Team Member packs!

Good morning to you! During May I was delighted to welcome new team members to Julie's Jems! All of the girls who joined receive a welcome pack from me which should now be with them so I am sharing them with you today

I decided to make the same card as the one for my All Day Event but I didnt use the Crystal Effects this time. I send my girls a colour chart, a handmade welcome card, a Handbook of useful information to get them started and a decorated notebook for all their notes from training etc!!!

Here are the notebooks in more detail, using the Sweet Shop product suite with the Letter It alphabet stamp set and the Blossom punch.

Closer detail showing the Jelly Bean Brads

And of course a matching card too!!!!

I really enjoyed making these cards!

I hope you like my makes and a big welcome to Ali, Claire, Karen and Amanda!!!

Jules x

Supplies Used: (All Stampin Up! Unless Otherwise Stated) 

1. Card – Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, Pool Party

 2. Papers – Sweet Shop

 3. Stamps – Sweet Cake, Mouthwatering, Letter It

 4. Embellishments – Jelly Bean Brads, Pool Party ruffle ribbon

 5. Tools – Oval punches, Edgelits, Adorning Accents

 6. Mediums – Lucky Limeade ink, Wisteria Wonder marker pen, Calypso Coral marker pen, Crumb Cake marker pen

Dancing Scrapbooking

Good morning. This is a scheduled post as I am trying to make best use of my time these days and get a bit more organised.

This is the kit we worked with yesterday. Its a SImply Scrappin Kit called Tickets and Tags on page 101 of the Main Catalogue. These are really great kits if you are just starting out and want to dip your toes in the scrapbooking water so to speak!!

You do get a lot in a kit and my ladies were given half a kit each which I also used and I have LOADS left over

As you can see I chose to scrapbook my dancing photos from this years Blackpool Grand Finals.

I used the Letter It alphabet for the first time and also love using the Bigz letters for the word "finals". The colour combo here is Baja Breeze, Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake and Basic Grey and it lends itself to feminine and masculine designs.

As you will get from the title of the kit it comes with lots of adhesive tags and tickets which you can fold over your photos and use for journalling.

Hope you like todays pages

Back tomorrow with something from Sale a Bration I think!!

Jules x

Supplies Used: (All Stampin Up! Unless Otherwise Stated)

1. Card – Baja Breeze, Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake, Basic Grey

2. Papers – Tickets and Tags Simply Scrappin Kit

3. Stamps – Letter It

4. Embellishments – Crumb Cake Taffeta

5. Tools – Big Shot, 1 3/4 Circle punch

6. Mediums – Poppy Parade ink, Crumb Cake ink, Baja Breeze ink, Basic Grey ink