WOW Card Class

Hi there and a Happy Sunday to you!! Yesterday afternoon I held my WOW Christmas Card class with 13 lovely ladies attending. I have had this event planned in for a long time as I received lots of lovely comments on the cards below that we made at our training in July. Thanks to my downline Sally Jo for the original idea!

Guests were provided with enough product to make 2 cards, one of each colour

The colours used are Always Artichoke and Cherry Cobbler from the Regals Collection

I will share some of the photos of the afternoon with you! Elaine and Lisa. Elaine on the left has just become a Grandma for the second time and we are all so pleased for her. She also baked lots of lovely cakes for us too!!!

Nikki and Rebbeca.

Nikki's creations in progress

Rebecca's lovely inking!

 Karen had a flower factory going on!

 A huge thank you to my supportive ladies for attending this afternoon. I will be doing another video in the next few days showing you how to make the spiral flowers.

There are no Saturday afternoon classes in December so the next class will be on Saturday 12th January where we will be making this gorgeous Gift bag with 4 notecards. You can choose the Primrose Petals or Midnight Muse and the class includes half a pack of the Natural Composition papers and a pot of buttons. The cost of the class is £20. Places are booking fast!

Julie x

Happy Weekend

Good Morning and happy Saturday to you!! I am feeling a little tired this morning after a wonderful Stampin Up party at Elaine's last night. It was lovely to meet some new ladies who were new to stamping but did a fantastic job of their make and take card - waving HELLO to the new ladies Lucy, Sharon, Ann and Linda!!! Elaine was delighted to get loads of free product last night including a whole set of Subtles ink pads free in addition to the usual hostess benefits. This offer finishes on 16th December.

This morning I want to share a card that I cased from a young male demonstrator called Martin, I have just discovered his blog and he has an amazing talent. Have a look HERE   Thank you for the inspiration Martin and I hope you dont mind me caseing!

We received the wonderful Papaya Collage set FREE at Convention a couple of weeks ago and I decided to put it to good use. Saying that however, I have actually used quite a few different stamp sets on this card so will try to explain how I made it. The background on the Very Vanilla card is made using the French Foliage stamp set. On the Always Artichoke card I stamped the rose from the Papaya Collage set in the same colour in as the card

I added 2 roses stamped in Rose Red and cut them out. The frame stamp (my favourite from the set) is also from the Papaya Collage stamp set, I cut this out and cut the middle out with a craft knife.

The Happy 70th Birthday is from Memorable Moments stamp set and stamped in Rose Red and Always Artichoke and the Mum stamp is from the very useful For My Family stamp set.

I hope you like this make - its a little different for me and I want to thank Martin for the inspiration!

Yesterday was a momentous day as I recorded my first ever video tutorial. Its a very bad attempt and the sound goes off near the end but I wanted to share with my customers how to make the double card bow like on the the front of the Annual Catalogue!!!

Enjoy and please be gentle with me!

Off to dancing with Evan now for 2.5 hours of sitting down - bliss!!!

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

1. Card – Always Artichoke, Rose Red, Very Vanilla

2. Papers – 

3. Stamps – Papaya Collage, For my Family, Memorable Moments, French Foliage

4. Embellishments – Rose Red Seam Binding, Basic Pearls

 5. Tools – Large Oval punch, 

6. Mediums – Crumb Cake ink, Rose Red ink, Always Artichoke ink

A CASED card with a splodge!

I recently became the owner of the Pleasant Poppies large background stamp after seeing so many lovely creations online! One of the cards that umped out at me was by cardmaking goddess Teneale Williams from Australia, if you havent already seen here awesome blog check it out here

The papers are the Natural Composition papers which I cannot stop using at the moment, just love them. The colour combo on this is Pool Party for the card blank, Always Artichoke for the ribbon and the layering and also some colouring and I coloured the flowers with Cherry Cobbler ink using the ink pads and a blender pen.

I highlighted around the flowers to make them pop with some Pool Party ink and the sentiment is from Field Flowers punched out with the largest oval punch together with a large pearl!

I was so pleased with the card and when I stood it up to my dismay I noticed the big splodge on the left!!! Have you ever had that? Where the heck did it come from  - arrrgghhhhhhhhh!

Hope you like my CASED card, splodge and all!!

Today I am getting ready for a party at Elaine's house tonight. I am looking forward to demoing our wonderful products and hopefully earning Elaine lots of free goodies!

Julie x

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

1. Card – Pool Party, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

 2. Papers – Natural Composition

 3. Stamps – Pleasant Poppies, Field Flowers

 4. Embellishments – Crochet Trim, Large Pearl, Always Artichoke ribbon

 5. Tools – Piercing tool and mat, Large Oval punch

 6. Mediums – Always Artichoke ink, Pool Party ink, Cherry Cobbler ink