3 for the price of 1!!

Hey there! I ran out of time to post this morning! We have a little further to travel to dancing now so we had to be off before I had the chance!

I thought I would share 3 cards today from the Stamp a Stack from last Friday! Hence the 3 for the price of 1 title!!! Just one photo of each one today!!

The LEGO card. This one took a long time as the ladies had to make 2 and yes I am not a perfect stamper all the time and I suffered a little "ghosting" on the edge of my stamp on this card!

This one was CASED from a lovely swap from the lovely Bev in our team. I loved how she stamped the Need for Speed vehicles and then punched them out with the square punch and then added the scallop square - very clever! Colours are Bashful Blue, Pacific Point and Pumpkin Pie.

And finally one that uses up your scraps of paper. Again a simple design. The sentiment is from Memorable Moments and the little ties are from A Fitting Occasion. Colours are Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso!

That's all from me today. Will be back with some floral cards tomorrow!

Girlie Chalkboard!

Hey there and Happy Friday!

It's the last week day of the school holidays and we have had a lovely relaxing week this week. Robino has been back at work and its just been me and the boys, chilling out and enjoying each others company! My eldest son has had a LOT of homework and GCSE coursework (he is only 13!) so he has spent a lot of time up in his room working!

So here is the girlie version we made on Tuesday night. This uses one of the retiring colours - Regal Rose - which is the darker pink. If you do want to stock up on your favourite colours please do get in touch as I head yesterday that 3 colours of card are already out of stock! Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze and Bravo Burgundy!

The sentiment on the middle of the card is from Delightful Dozen, the FRIEND is from For my Family, the owl and butterfly are from A Fitting Occasion and the Happy Day is Ciao Baby!

Here are both of the cards together!

 Card – Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White

Papers – Brights DSP stack

Stamps – Ciao Baby, A Fitting Occasion, For my Family, Delightful Dozen, Woodgrain

Embellishments – White Bakers Twine, Pink Pirouette Taffeta ribbon, Daffodil Delight Stitched Grosgrain ribbon

Tools – Large Oval punch, Petite Curly Label punch, 3/4 Circle punch

Mediums – Regal Rose ink, Daffodil Delight ink, Versamark, White Embossing powder

Last of the Tuesday makes!

Hello there, I am posting bright and breezy this morning!! I'm looking forward to my Stamp a Stack tonight as I have 17 crafters joining me to make 12 cards each!!!!! I am all prepped and raring to go!

Here is the last card from Tuesday evening. The photos are a bit blurred as they are taken on my phone as I cannot find the charger for the camera battery!!!!

This was my favourite card of the evening! I have been wanting to feature one of these bows since watching a US demos video so I decided to go for it and add one in Cherry Cobbler! I just love the look of it!

The paper is from the Be of Good Cheer set and the tree from Scentsational Season stamped in Gumball Green! The sentiment is from Delightful Dozen, stamped in a new In Colour - Primrose Petals and rolled out on the Big Shot with the new Apothecary Accent Framelits

A couple of arty farty angles for you! I only have one Bronze button left now! Must rectify that immediately!!

And here are all 3 cards together!

Right thats me off, busy busy day today and a busy evening too!!!

See you tomorrow

Julie x

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

1. Card – Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla

 2. Papers – Be of Good Cheer

 3. Stamps – Delightful Dozen, Scentsational Season

 4. Embellishments – Bronze button, Linen thread, Glimmer paper

 5. Tools – Bone Folder, Holiday Collection Framelits, Merry Minis punches, Apothecary Accents

 6. Mediums – Primrose Petals ink, Gumball Green ink

Gift Voucher packaging

Hello there. How are you doing?? I am out and dressed ready to go out for a much needed day of Retail Therapy with a good friend!!! So I thought I would pop on with a little blog update before I go!

This year we gave quite a lot of vouchers for presents. The ones below were Amazon vouchers and you print them off!! They were a bit boring so I made a holder for them. All of them were slightly different.

The stamp sets used are Winter Post and Delightful Decorations and a colour combo of Cherry Cobbler and Crumb Cake.

The next one was a holder for one of my loyal customers and a good friend. Her Brother in Law contacted me to buy her a voucher - how cool is he!!!! Colour combo of Bashful Blue and Night of Navy and the stamp sets used are Serene Snowflakes and Contempo Christmas.

And finally a smaller holder for some theatre tickets for my Mum and Dad. We got them tickets to go and see Blood Brothers - my Mum has always wanted to see it. The colour combo is Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler and the stamp set is Delightful Decorations.

Hope you like my little gift voucher packages

Jules xx

Christmas Gift projects

Good morning. Last night I had a lovely scrapbook class with Lynne and Sandra, looking forward to repeating it with all the other ladies on Saturday! Our theme was "School Days", I will show you the layouts later on in the week

Today I thought I would show in more detail some of the gift ideas you may have seen from my displays on the photos of our Team Training last weekend.

Here is a project that was inspired by my lovely lovely friend Jo Dumbleton, thanks Jo. Its a great size box for a gift and I love the paper bow on the top!

Next up is another one of the bags that I make a lot, this time in a Christmas theme - watch out for a teacher gift bag later on in the week.

All the colours in these projects are Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Crumb Cake with Very Vanilla to stamp on.

Love this little box, its from a tutorial available to purchase from my downline Sarah-Jane

The paper around the box has been crimped with the Paper Crimper to give it a different look.

And both the boxes together

Hope you like the boxes and they have inspired you to make your christmas projects early!

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

1. Card – Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Old Olive

2. Papers – Jolly Holiday

3. Stamps – Delightful Decorations, Contempo Christmas, Season of Joy

4. Embellishments – Old Olive ribbon, rhinestones, flower brads, striped grosgrain ribbon, silver cord

5. Tools – Ornament punch, Crimper,

6. Mediums – Cherry Cobbler ink, Old Olive ink

Cards in bulk!

Good morning, not long to go now until the big day!!!

I had to make a lot of cards this year for friends, family and customers so I made lots of this style in bulk. They are great for posting as they dont have lots of layers

I have teamed Baroque Motifs withe Delightful Decorations after seeing some lovely cards on my downline Becki's blog. Thanks BEcki. The colour combos are Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze and Old Olive.
They were really quite quick to do and I did them in various colours so it wasnt as monotonous!!

I love the Scallop Trim punch, have used it loads and it just finishes them off nicely!!!

Back tomorrow with more to show!

Jules

My convention presentation

Hi there

Had a busy last couple of days as I had 2 lovely training sessions with my lovely team. We have been following up our enthusiasm from convention by getting together this week as we usually do every month. We would love to have some new members!!!!! If you do fancy joining Stampin Up and my team then please do get in touch!

Ok, back to business. Here is a photo taken by my lovely Sarah of me during my presentation on Friday. I think this was near the beginning as I still look quite serious!!! Believe me, the humour and comedy came out shortly after this!!

Here is the first project that I demoed. I did my demo in a Workshop Style as if I was in character at a workshop. I have demoed this project at all my October workshops so I am safe to show it now!! It is a gift card holder which uses Crumb Cake card, the Ornament Punch, Contempo Christmas. I cased this gift card holder from Heather Summers in Canada (with her permission - thanks Heather)

Here is a blinged up version using our fabby new rhinestones.


I then showed how you can use the Ornament punch not just for Christmas. Here is a little card with the Ornament punch as a vase with the point cut off. I have added the Boho Blossom punch to create the flowers and the Old Olive marker to draw the stems. You can now buy some of the markers individually at £2.95 and Old Olive is one of the colours.

Next up is a quirky little card using the Delightful Decorations set and its been turned into 2 "loved up" fish!!!! The fins and tail are created using the 5 Petal Flower Punch and the lips are the small heart punch.

Check out those eyelashes!

And finally I made a flower for the top of a box with the Ornament punch as the petals. I have inked each petal and curled them to make the flower. If you would like to learn how to make this I would love to come and do a workshop for you. Have your friends round for a fun night of crafting! You provide the friends and I'll provide the fun!!!

Thats all for now, hope you enjoyed my projects

Jules x