Last card from my class!

Good morning!!! How fast did this week go, cant believe its Friday already!!! I am going to see one of my lovely downline today who has had a knee replacement - the lovely Chris!! Going to fill her in on last weeks training and all the exciting SU happenings!!!!

Here is the other card from yesterdays class using Pocket Silhouettes and the Regals again! The colour combo is Bravo Burgundy, Regal Rose and More Mustard! When I made this card I wasnt sure about it and almost scrapped it but the ladies said they loved it on Tuesday so I am glad I didnt!!

I have stamped the background with Simply Said (this first stamp set I ever bought - along with Cheers to You) and I have treid to make it look like patterned paper. I have used my favourite sentiment from Occasional Greetings and added a flat bow!

I went to town a bit inside and added some More Mustard Designer Series Paper from the great value paper stacks and then I added a panel of Very Vanilla with some more stamping!

Hope you like this one!!

I have a busy weekend (what's new I hear you say) as I have a card class tomorrow afternoon - Butterfly Prints and then on Sunday I am dancing at a competition!!!!

Jules x

Using the leftovers!!!

Hi there

Happy Monday to you!!!!! I am all go at the moment, had a crazy weekend of rehearsals but its going well and we have our last rehearsal tonight before the big opening night TOMORROW!!!!!!

Anyway, back to crafting!!!! Thank you for your lovely comments on the card I made for Lynda for her birthday on Saturday. When I made the card I stamped a whole sheet of A4.

And I made these 2 cards with the leftovers!!!!

This one uses the single stamp Elegant Thank you, which I love, very useful!!!!!! Added some Melon Mambo ribbon!!!!


This is probably one of my all time favourite sentiments!!! Its from Occasional Greetings!!

And here they are together!!

Right I must dash, got to go to Post Office with some of my club orders and then I need to chill out and get in the zone for the last rehearsal!!

Jules xx

Happy Birthday Lynda

Happy weekend to you!!!!

Today is one of my lovely downlines birthday - the lovely Lynda!!!

Lynda is one of my local demos and has been with my team about 8 or 9 months. She is a very shy lady but we are bringing her out of her shell now!!!!!

Happy Birthday Lynda!

I decided to go bright and summery and wanted to use Simply Said as I think this is one of the first sets Lynda ever bought!! The colour combo is Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry and Summer Sun.
I randomnly stamped all over with the various flowers in the set to make it look like patterned paper. I actually stamped a whole sheet of A4 and have got some leftovers so I made a couple more cards which I will show another day.

The ribbon is of course Melon Mambo and the flowers are from the Best Wishes and More set, sentiment from Occasional Greetings.

Thats it for me for today

Back tomorrow

Jules xx

A lovely week of classes

Apologies for the higgeldy piggeldyness of todays post, Blogger was being a bit naughty this morning!

Yeah its Friday!!! Yipppee!!

I have had a really lovely week so far this week!! Managed to get quite a bit of wedding work done aswell!

On Tuesday night I had 8 lovely ladies attend my Love You Much class, see pic below which is my room all prepped and ready!!! We had a laugh as usual aswell as making our projects. At the moment the Tuesday night classes are FULL, but sometimes the odd place may be spare, I will update my calendar if this is the case.

OK so this is my new layout for 8 people at my classes, its very cosy but we managed!

At the moment on a Thursday I just had 3 lovely ladies attend! One of them is brand new to crafting - MY MUM!!!!

Never thought she would like it but she has really enjoyed it!

Here she is with her dimensionals!! She keeps getting mixed up with the names of everything and called them Directionals!!

My Mum didnt want to do hearts on the box so instead she used the flowers from Simply Said and made it into a gift box for my Aunty for her birthday! Here are all my Mums projects!

Whilst the ladies were bust making I managed to experiment with a card and I did the mini pocket card but this time I embossed in white onto the Real Red card, I love the brightness of the white!

Yesterday I had a huge Stampin Up order delivered which was for one of my Stampers 10 clubs!!!! Luckily most of the girls live close by so they come and collect but I though you might like to see the huge pile of products I get to sort through!!!


Right its supermarket shop this morning!!!

See you tomorrow

Jules x

Challenge Sketch Card

Good morning, well its back to normal today. I am typing this reallu quickly before I get ready to take the boys back to school. I felt really horrible peeling the boys out of bed this morning, they were both still fast asleep at 7.30 - typical!!

Todays card was made on Saturday evening. I spent a very enjoyable evening on the In Love With Stamping FOrum on the Cup Challenge night. We were put into teams and had a series of 4 timed challenges. THis was the first one which was a sketch challenge. I will show the others over the next few days!

I have gone back to basics and used the set I purchased at the very first SU workshop I went to (almost 2 years ago now) SImply Said. It is an excellent set for creating backgrounds and also main focal images. The colour combo is Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Basic black.

I threaded some ginghma ribbon around the edge of the mat for extra added interest. The background was created by stamping numerous punches from the set all over randomly.

Arty farty angle is back for the New Year!

Right I had better go and get these boys dressed and ready. Its so icy today, it looks treacherous!!!! I hope it doesnt snow anymore today as I have my first rehearsal for Footloose tonight!

Jules xx

Good News and a card

Happy Bank Holiday weekend!!

I received some fab news a couple of nights ago telling me I had made the Stamp With Us design team!!!

I am going to be sharing the role with some very talented ladies, so well done to you all too! Bekka, Jo, Kim, Kate, Steph, Sara

ON Wednesday evening my team held another Cyber night and we had 2 card challenges. This one was to make a card inspired by a room in your house! The easy option for my would be to do my lounge and use my favourite browns! So instead I went for my craft room which is lilac and turquoise as it used to be my son's nursery!

Here is the card I made. It was made for a special person Elaine, one of my downline. Her daughter was involved in a very bad car crash, but is thankfully going to be OK. I know Elaine has received this now and also our best wishes and love for her and Helen for a speedy recovery.

The card is made with Tempting Turquoise and Lavender Lace, the background stamped with the flower from the Best Wishes and More set and the little flower from Simply Said. The ribbon is Non SU!! and I have used my nesties. Thinking of You is from the Sincere Salutations set.

The butterfly is from the LEvel 2 hostess set and is cut out and added for some dimension. I also added some flat back pearls from the precious Pretties Kit!

Wishing you a good Bank Holiday everyone

Jules
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Bright and Cheery

What a gorgeous day it is this morning!!! Feels like July! Lets hope it stays like this!

Here is another card we will be making on Saturday!! I went all out on this one and its very busy and bright! Its a joy fold card using the Simply Said stamp set.

I have randomly stamped the card in the background with different flowers from the same set using a colour conbo of Pixie Pink, OLd Olive, So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie!. The flowers are from the Simply Scrappin Kit called Petal party. Used my trusty Circle of Friendship set layered up with the circle punches and the Scallop Circle punch.

Inside the card I have used the Frames with a Flourish set to use as a place to write your message.

Back tomorrow with another class project!

Jules
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Jem's Challenge night and a DIY challenge!

On Friday night my SU team (Julie's Jems) had a challenge night on our own forum that we have. We have lots of chit chat but we also do little challenges!! The first one was for us to use the very first Stampin Up set we bought!!! Now me being greedy me bought 3 sets on the first party I ever went to so I had to make a choice and I went for Simply Said!

I used all the different flowers to create a background to look like patterned paper and decided to use the Bold Brights as I dont use them enough, I am more of an Earth Elements type!!! The colours are Pixie Pink with Tempting Turquoise and some black as a contrast!

The sentiment is from the same set and I have used the brand new oval punches. I have found that lots of sentiment fit inside these which is fab!. Ribbons and scallops to finish off!

On Saturday I spent most of the day sorting out my little boys bedroom and building him a new bed!!! I built most of the bed myself and just called upon hubby when I need 2 pairs of hands or a bit more strength!!! Here is the finished product!!!

And here is one happy boy giving it his seal of approval!

Back tomorrow but not from my normal location!!! I am going on a road trip!

Jules

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Mojo Monday Number 76

Back today with a challenge card for the Mojo Monday blog! My sister asked for a card for her husbands sister so I decided to combine the two!!! Not much stamping on this card, wanted to make a feature of her name!

The papers are the retired Petals and Paisleys which I got about a week ago and cannot stop using them! They are still available to order, think I will have to get me another pack!!! The little flower stamped behind the name is from Simply Said stamp set.

Colours are Regal Rose, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink. Flowers punched from my retro flower punch and ribbon is SU Regal Rose.

Hope Amy likes it!!

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments recently, I really love reading them and am so pleased with how many blogging friends I have made!! You're the best!

Jules
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Mojo Monday Challenge 73

Here is my effort for the Mojo Monday challenge. It is similar to a card I made last week with the Simply Said stamped background but I wanted to try a new colour combo. I saw a lovely card my friend Sally made using these colours (I think!!), Sage Shadow, Bashful Blue and Cameo Coral. The background is randomly stamped with Simply Said and the main image is the flower from True Friend which I coloured in with my markers. I havent used this set for ages!!!!

Sentiment is from Pocket Silhouettes set. The ribbon looks a bit naff as the legs of the brad are showing up behind it but never mind!!!

Jules

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Papertake Weekly Challenge - Hearts and Flowers

This weeks challenge on Papertake is to use Hearts of Flowers, or both on your cards. I have dug out the stamp set that I purchased at the very first Stampin Up party I went to, which is almost a year ago. It's called Simply Said and I don't really use it enough at all. I have stamped the background with various stamps from the set to make it look like patterned paper. I saw a lovely card that a fellow Demo Shaz had made for Valentines day and she had used this technique.

I used colours from the Soft Subtles family as I don't use them often enough either!! Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery and Pretty in Pink

The main image was stamped with Stazon and coloured in with the inkpads and a blender pen. The butterflies are from the Cause for Celebration LEvel 2 hostess set and I have cut around these and made them 3D by glueing with the Tombow glue.

Another load of snow fell last night, my boys have never seen the snow this deep, although they are gutted that school is still open!!! I had promised to take them sledging if it was shut!!!

Jules

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