Using up the scraps!

Hi there! We have been in our new home a week now and we are all settled in and getting used to the changes! The craft room is working well and I made a card in it yesterday using some scraps and spare bits from my Dress Up Class!

This was my favourite card from my Dress Up class and I had the bits left over so I made another version!

And here it is! I am still experimenting with where to take my photos so they arent as good at the moment! I used some different stamps for this one - Flowering Flourishes - had to mount them up as I was naughty and hadn't used them yet!

Papers are from my faves - Tea for Two!

Love love love the Crumb Cake Seam Binding ribbon

Inside I combined 2 sentiments  - Curly Cute and Amazing Family

Do you remember these cards? Well I have had a request to run this class again from home and I have 2 places to fill. The class date is Saturday 1st June at 2pm.The cost is £26 and includes the clear mount stamp set (pay £4 more to get wood) or you can take the class without the stamp set for £15.00. Come along and learn some cool new techniques. If  you would like to book on and come and join me in my new room please email me.

 Card – Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral

Papers – Tea for Two

Stamps – Amazing Family, Curly Cute

Embellishments – Crumb Cake Seam Binding

Tools – Dress Up Framelits

Mediums – Lucky Limeade ink, Early Espresso ink, Crumb Cake ink, Calypso Coral ink

Collage Curios

Hi there and happy Friday!! I finally managed to get some crafting time in on Wednesday night and took myself off up to my little room (the dungeon!!). I have got quite a few male themed projects to design this month so thought I would have a little play around with a few products.

I used the Collage Curios set from the Spring/Summer Seasonal. Its a really cute little vintage style set and co-ordinates with our circle punches. I used the scripted background in Crumb Cake and then stamped on top with the hot air balloon in Island Indigo - one of the In Colours that will stay with us in the Regals colour family!

I used the very popular Honeycomb Embossing folder and swiped over it with the Crumb Cake ink pad. The hot air balloon embellishment was punched out with the 7/8 inch Scallop circle punch and then layered onto one of the new silver buttons - the larger of the two. I then added a 1 1/4 Scallop circle punch in Crumb Cake behind it!

The sentiment is from Curly cute! 

Right I have to dash as I have more crafting to catch up on for my upcoming classes at the end of this month!

Card – Island Indigo, Crumb Cake
 Papers – 
 Stamps – Collage Curios, Curly Cute
 Embellishments – Silver Buttons
 Tools – Honeycomb folder, 7/8 Scallop Circle punch, 1 1/4 Scallop Circle punch
 Mediums – Crumb Cake ink, Island Indigo ink

Workshop thanks

Another week gone by and half way through March already!!! Did you know there is only 1 WEEK LEFT of our Sale-A-Bration promotion!! We are in the home stretch!!!I have been so pleased that I have done lots of lovely workshops this year and I love to meet new people and help create new Stampin Up fans. A lot of the workshop orders get delivered straight to the hostess but sometimes I have them delivered to me if its more convenient! This means I get chance to pop a little thank you card in! This time I went for a tag! I saw this lovely idea on Pinterest and made some quick and easy tags to tie to the bags.

These were the tags from Beryl's group last week and I delivered them on Wednesday, think the tags went down well! Thank you ladies for your orders.

I have used the Stippled Blossoms stamp set with Baja Breeze and Midnight Muse and the sentiment from Curly Cute.

And there they are all bagged up ready to hand out!

Would you like your own Stampin' Up Party?? I am now taking bookings for Summer and Autumn parties and would love to come and demonstrate for you and your friends in the West Yorkshire area.

Julie x

Supplies Used: (All Stampin Up! Unless Otherwise Stated) 
1. Card – Very Vanilla
 2. Papers – 
 3. Stamps – Stippled Blossoms, Curly Cute
 4. Embellishments – Midnight Muse ribbon
 5. Tools – Stamp a ma Jig
 6. Mediums – Baja Breeze ink, Midnight Muse ink, Wild Wasabi ink

Stamp a Stack part 1

Good morning and Happy Monday to you!! I thought I would share the Stamp a Stack cards from last Fridays event with you this week. These cards have to be quite simple but still a quality card as my ladies have half an hour to make 2 of them! They do 12 cards in 3 hours!! I must say they all finished on time this month so I may need to make the cards harder next time!

This is the first card I created for the event using the Dress Up framelits - told you I loved them!

The colour combo here is Pool Party and Rich Razzleberry with a hint of Crumb Cake!! The background has been stamped with the Distressed Dots background stamp (another fave) and the sentiment is from Curly Cute.

The papers for the dress are from the FREE Sale-A-Bration papers - be quick as you only have another 18 days to earn these!!! The ribbon around the waistband is retired and the flower is from the Boho Blossom punch.

If you would like to take advantage of Sale-A-Bration and bag yourself some free items then please do get in touch. I will be placing an order at the end of this week.

Julie x

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

1. Card – Rich Razzleberry, Pool Party, Crumb Cake

 2. Papers – Sycamore Street

 3. Stamps – Curly Cute, Distressed Dots

 4. Embellishments – Rich Razzleberry ribbon, Rhinestones

 5. Tools – Dress Up framelits, Boho Blossom punch

 6. Mediums – Pool Party ink, Rich Razzleberry ink 

Wedding Card

Hello there. Its Saturday apparently!! I am all mixed up with my days!!!!!

Here is a card I have been making for a couple of days! I say a couple of days because I made 15 Spiral flowers for the card and the matching gift - which I will show you tomorrow.

The colour combo on this card is Perfect Plum and Very Vanilla. The stamp sets used were Apothecary Art and Curly Cute.

I love making these flowers, they are time consuming but I think they look great. I will upload a video on how I make them in the next couple of days.

Lots of pearls used in this card too with some Perfect Plum taffeta ribbon (which the bride and groom used on their wedding stationery)

The bird punch was used to add leaves to the card.

Hope you like it and I hope the Bride and Groom do too!

Julie x

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

1. Card – Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum

 2. Papers – Perfect Plum DSP

 3. Stamps – Curly Cute, Apothecary Art

 4. Embellishments – Pearls, Perfect Plum Taffeta ribbon

 5. Tools – Labels Framelits, Bird Punch, Various Circle punches, Boho Blossoms punch, Itty Bitty punches

 6. Mediums – Perfect Plum ink

Monthly Training projects

Phew its Monday again!!!! I am probably one of the few people who like Mondays! I get the house back to myself all day and Monday night tends to be a night that I am always in! No workshops/classes/dancing on Mondays so I enjoy my Mondays!!!

I wanted to share with you some projects from our Julie's Jems Training session from the beginning of November. At these sessions we always focus on projects for workshops/parties. This month we focussed on the Elegant Butterfly punch and Papillon Potpourri. The card on the left is also the card that I have been demonstrating at November's workshops/parties. The elegant butterfly punch has been very very popular at these events.

This was a little simple treat box that Charlotte demonstrated at Convention and makes the perfect little box for a Christmas gift of some jewellery or something small in size!

 The colours we have used are Midnight Muse, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede. I love the smaller Scallop Circle punch shown here, its so dinky and cute!!!

This was the stepped up card that I showed the customers! I like to show them how they can enhance their projects with a few added products.

And here is the card the ladies made!!!

Hope you like my makes! I am running out of things to show so I had better get crafting!!!

Julie x

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

1. Card – Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake

 2. Papers – 

 3. Stamps – Apothecary Art, Curly Cute, Papillon Potpourri

 4. Embellishments – Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Pearls

 5. Tools – Labels Framelits, Elegant Butterfly punch, Small Scallop Circle punch

 6. Mediums – Midnight Muse ink, Soft Suede ink

And then there were 3!

Hello there! I feel like I have been up hours and its only 10.25, loving the extra hour! Got all my ironing done before 11.00 - now thats rare!!

Here is the last card from our Tuesday Club makes and it uses the remainder of the One Sheet Wonder we created to make the previous card

The large circular flower stamp was stamped and then punched out with the Blossom punch and we added a button from the Brights collection.

The sentiment is Curly Cute stamped in Rich Razzleberry.

And here are all 3 matching cards from our class. Our next Tuesday club is this coming Tuesday (30th) and we will be tackling Mens Cards. If you want to join us just mail me at julie.kettlewell@ntlworld.com

Have a nice (longer) Sunday!

Julie x

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

1. Card – Lucky Limeade, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White

 2. Papers – 

 3. Stamps – Betsy's Blossoms, Curly Cute

 4. Embellishments – Button, Daffodil Delight ribbon

 5. Tools – Blossom Punch, 3/4 circle punch

 6. Mediums – Rich Razzleberry ink, Lucky Limeade ink, Tangerine Tango ink, Baja Breeze ink, Rose Red ink, Daffodil Delight ink

Betsy's Blossoms

Good morning - its a wee bit chilly today! We havent got snow though - just a lot of ice by the looks of it! We had a lovely Stamp a Stack last night - thank you to the ladies for attending, 2 new ladies too!! And thanks to Fay for baking parkin for us, how lucky were we?

Here is another card from Tuesday night which uses the Betsy's Blossoms stamp set and lots of lovely colours from the Brights colour family.

The lower portion was stamped all over to make a one sheet wonder effect and then some additional flowers were stamped and cut out and layered up. The colours used on here are Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, Rose Red, Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade.

I added a cute little bow in  Daffodil Delight and then inside got a little bit of treatment too!

Hope you like this little make. The bright colours certainly cheered me up!

Back tomorrow with the last card from the set

Julie x

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

1. Card – Baja Breeze, Whisper White

 2. Papers – 

 3. Stamps – Betsy's Blossoms, Curly Cute

 4. Embellishments – Daffodil Delight stitched grosgrain ribbon

 5. Tools – 

 6. Mediums – Baa Breeze, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Rose REd, Tangerine Tango inks

Team Congratulations

Urrrgghhh who turned off the lights?? How dark is it this morning! Just rubbish!!

On Saturday I had the pleasure of handing out a few cards to our team for their recent promotions! I love to make these sorts of cards!!!!

Here is a little selection, I had another style too!

 I have used Summer Starfruit and Primrose Petals with the Papillon Potpourri stamp set and the Curly Cute sentiment!

I even added one of the new In Colour Dahlias on the butterfly. I was lucky to get these given to me in Vienna as one of the spin the wheel prizes! I'm also loving the Chevron Embossing Folder which I used in the background of the card along with the Apothecary Accents framelits

Here they are together

And here is one I sent to our lovely Sarah-Jane for getting top sales in September! Well done Sarah-Jane! I like to send a little card and a small prize to our top sales girl and the best thing is its usually someone different each month!

Back tomorrow with some more Team Congratulations card.

Julie

x

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

1. Card – Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White

 2. Papers – 

 3. Stamps – CUrly Cute, Papillon Potpourri

 4. Embellishments – In Colour Dahlias, Primrose Petals Stitched Satin ribbon

 5. Tools – Chevron Embossing folder, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Elegant Butterfly punch

 6. Mediums – Summer Starfruit ink, Primrose Petals ink

Christmas Favour

Hi there! How dark and cold is it again this morning! Boo to this winter weather creeping up on us! I don't like it one bit! Last night I did a talk at a local WI meeting and met some lovely ladies there. I t was great to talk about Stampin UP and papercrafting and they all got to make a simple gift tag! Thank you for asking me Sharon!

Here is a Christmas Favour that I demonstrated at Susan's workshop a couple of weeks ago. The project is made by scoring 2 of the Labels framelits and adhering them together. Some gorgeous designer paper is then added (this one is from Festival of Prints from the Seasonal catalogue) and I punched through both layers and tied them together.

The Christmas tree is from Scentsational Season which was stamped in Gumball Green and the sentiment is from Curly Cute.

I have used the new Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details which I just adore and at £2.25 its a bargain to spruce up your Christmas makes!!!

Talking of Christmas Favours how would you like me to do you a favour at Christmas??? 

Did you know I offer a gift list service (not just at Christmas)?

If you email me at julie.kettlewell@ntlworld.com I will send you a Gift List online and you can add your Wish List items to it. You then pass my details on to your family and friends when they ask you what you want for Christmas - then I do the rest! I even gift wrap it for them!!!

Gift  vouchers also available

Back tomorrow folks 

Julie x

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

1. Card – Gumball Green, Crumb Cake

 2. Papers – Festival of Prints

 3. Stamps – Curly Cute, Scentsational Season

 4. Embellishments – Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding

 5. Tools – Labels Framelits dies, Holiday Collection Framelits dies,

 6. Mediums – Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Cherry Cobbler ink

Fancy Fan Butterfly

One thing I love about the New Catalogue (and there are MANY things I love about it) is the large increase in the Embossing Folders offering! Embossing folders are such a great purchase, really reasonably priced and make such a difference to your project.

One of the new and popular ones is the Fancy Fan folder which I have used here. The colour combo for this card is Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit, Raspberry Ripple and Whisper White.

I love the look of the Fancy Fan folder and I have teamed it with one of the new Delicate Doilies Sizzlits and the Papillon Potpourri stamp set with the matching punch.

Curly Cute was used for the sentiment and then I finished the card off with a Primrose Petals bow with a Vintage Faceted button.

Hope you likey!

Thats me off for today, got another busy week, well busy few weeks really if I am honest!! Back tomorrow with another project.

Julie x

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

1. Card – Whisper White, Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit

 2. Papers – 

 3. Stamps – Curly Cute, Papillon Potpourri

 4. Embellishments – Vintage Faceted button,  Primrose Petals ribbon

 5. Tools – Delicate Doilies Sizzlit, Fancy Fan folder, Circle punch, Elegant butterfly punch

 6. Mediums – Raspberry Ripple ink, Summer Starfruit ink

Thank you lovely ladies!

Wow its a gorgeous sunny day here! I am going to get my ironing done quick smart and then might nip out for a little walk in the sunshine!

Yesterday I held my New Catalogue Launch and Pre Love stamp sale which was a huge success! Thank you to all the ladies who attended and an extra special thank you to my ladies who helped with drinks, make and takes and clearing up! 

The most popular item from the new catalogue to sell yesterday was the Northern Flurry Embossing folder! Its a gorgeous snowflake folder and it leaves a space for you to stamp a sentiment or an image! This card is totally CASED from the catalogue 

And yes us demonstrators do make stamping mistakes too!! I got a little keen with the ink and have some "ghosting" from the stamp!!! The image stamp is from Greeting Card Kids which I just LOVE!!! AND we now sell a single marker pen called Blush Blossom which is perfect for colouring some skin tones.

I added some of the new Dazzling Details to the little girls attire!! It is Christmas after all!

I also wanted to thank my lovely hubby Robin (or Robino as I like to call him!). He baked over 2 dozen scones for me on Friday on his day off and they were DELICIOUS! He doesnt read my blog so probably won't see this but here are his lovely makes!! If only he could make cards as good as scones, I would have the perfect assistant!!

Back tomorrow!

Enjoy the sunshine!

Julie x

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

1. Card – Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Lucky Limeade

 2. Papers – 

 3. Stamps – Curly Cute, Greeting Card Kids

 4. Embellishments – Vintage Faceted Buttons, Dazzling Details

 5. Tools – Northern Flurry embossing folder, Scallop Trim Border punch

 6. Mediums – Basic Grey ink, Baja Breeze ink, Cherry Cobbler ink, Lucky Limeade ink