This month the Let’s Get Hopping Blog Hop team are showing our Love for Very Vanilla. I must admit I am more of Whisper White girl but I relished the challenge of mixing things up a bit with Very Vanilla. We do have a couple of product suites to choose from that use Very Vanilla in our catalogues. However, I thought I would try and push myself out of my… Read More »
Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog hop where we are cooking up a storm for the Easter weekend. You are very welcome, here with Eimear at Stamp in Colour. I am a demonstrator in Wiltshire, just outside Swindon and I do love to bake as well as craft with paper. Having said that, I would love to take credit for the bake in my Hold on to Hope Pizza… Read More »
I am so glad I purchased the Hold on to Hope Bundle. I originally purchased it to make sympathy cards for my Mum with a further idea for Communion cards for my son. However, I’ve also used the bundle to make a gorgeous piece of home decor earlier this month and today, I’ve used the Hold on to Hope bundle for a beautiful Easter card. I’m afraid as I looked through… Read More »
It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK on Sunday so, of course, I had to make my own amazing mother a special card. I wanted to use the Celebrate You Thinlits which are FREE with a £90 purchase until the end of this month. This set is so versatile with three really useful words; You, Celebrate and Amazing in three different fonts. Here, I’ve used the Celebrate You Thinlits to… Read More »
Are you a ribbon hoarder like me? I started a little project earlier in the week and due to our un-seasonal snow, I have finally had a chance to complete it today. An In-Color ribbon hairband!! I do tend to stock up somewhat on ribbon and I love looking at it, but it needs to be a special project to use it. This has somewhat backfired for me as now… Read More »
I have a treat for you today! A treat box tutorial to be precise! It was my daughter’s 10th Birthday party this weekend and we had a small group of friends round for a ‘pamper party’ . As her actual party was over 3 weeks ago, she didn’t want a cake – we had to make ‘crazy milkshakes’ instead! But as there was no cake going home in party bags,… Read More »
Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where we are bringing you Inspiration from the Garden. I have used all the L’s in my project today with the Lots of Lavender FREE Sale-a-bration set and gorgeous texture with the Layered Leaves Dynamic Embossing Folder. You may well have arrived from Mikaela – weren’t her objects just gorgeous? – or this may well be your very first stop, but either… Read More »
Some of you who follow me on other social media outlets may know it was my daughter’s birthday this week. I’m still in shock that she is 10 years old – quickest 10 years ever! I thought I would share the card that I made for her together with a little gift box using the fabulous Picture Perfect Birthday. 10 candles for her 10th birthday! They’re not perfectly placed,… Read More »
One sketch – Two versions – that’s the challenge for the Let’s Get Hopping team and we hope to inspire you with our His and Hers card sets. I’ve used Bubble Over from the Spring Summer catalogue to make Pink Lemonade for the ladies and a Birthday Brew for the lads using the exact same layout sketch! So without further ado, here is my Pink Lemonade card. Aren’t the… Read More »
Welcome to the first Stampin’ Creative Hop of 2018 where our theme this month is Love and Appreciation. We are delighted to welcome the first of this year’s guest hoppers, the lovely Laura Mackie from the UK, and Linda van Wely from the Netherlands. You may have arrived from the very lovely Mikaela at the Crafty Oink Pen, where I’ll bet you were wowed with her beautiful ideas. I hope… Read More »
I’ve been scrapping with my friend again and this time I wanted to create an Epic Celebrations Scrapbook page to scrap a fab Chic concert from last summer. My sister treated me to the gig in London and we had Triple A passes – hence the close-up photo of Nile Rodgers! No long lens needed, we were that close! I followed a sketch – well, let’s rephrase that… when… Read More »
Don’t you feel that everything stamps better when it’s FREE, same with Designer Series Paper – you just craft better when it’s FREE!! The Bubbles and Fizz FREE Sale-a-bration paper is no exception and makes wonderful cards – even a Birthday Boy card – not a beer bottle in sight! The recipient of my card was my second child who turned 8 today. He had asked for a skateboard for… Read More »
I have been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for almost 5 years now and I have never made a traditional scrapbook page… until now! I love Memories and More and am more of a pocket scrapbooker but my friend Vic, set me a challenge to complete a traditional scrapbook page… and I did it. I piked a DSP and stamp set that I felt complimented my photos and my Pick a… Read More »
Time is ticking on and it’s almost time to close booking on our WLCR Crafty Escape to the Country Spring Retreat. This is the fifth retreat that Caroline and I have run our WLCR Crafty Escape together and we are back at Lydiard House by popular demand! Our first event was way back in October 2016! You can read all about it here. Here is what we got up to.… Read More »
You may have seen my recent post where I showed you a gorgeous Thank you card using Sprinkles of Life and the co-ordinating Tree Builder Punch. Today, I wanted to show you my ‘Crafting with Children’ endeavours where, together with my children, we made a batch of Thank you. These were to thank friends and family for all the Christmas gifts showered upon my children this season. Each child wanted… Read More »
SPRING SUMMER CATALOGUE PRODUCT SHARES Have you had a chance to peruse the catalogues with all the fabulous new products available now in the new Spring / Summer catalogue? Do you wish that you could have a taster of all the new products? Well, read on because I’m bringing you some Product Shares of all the new Stampin’ Up! goodies! What is a Product Share? It would cost you… Read More »
We have some fabulous sets coming your way in Stampin’ Up’s brand new Spring Summer 2018 catalogue and Picture Perfect Birthday is no exception. When Jen announced Celebration as the theme for this hop I really wanted to use this set. We received it during our Onstage gathering in April and I especially love this sentiment . It was used as a table decoration at our Silver Elite and… Read More »
I’m so excited to announce the the Spring Summer 2018and Sale-a-bration catalogues are LIVE. As demonstrators we’ve been able to order from these since the beginning of December; earlier if we attended our Onstage gathering in November, so to finally be able to share the spoils with our customers is so exciting! To shop online, just click on the image below: Or you can browse the full catalogue in all… Read More »
I’m taking part in a Global Blog Hop this morning with some very talented demonstrators where we all want to show you some of the fabulous FREE stamps you could earn yourself during Stampin’ Up’s Sale-a-Bration 2018. Every spend of £45 can earn you 1 x level One product or a £90 spend could earn you 2 x Level One products or 1 x Level Two product. The Sale-a-Bration 2018… Read More »
Welcome to the final Stampin’ Creative Hop of 2017 where we are giving you a Sneak Peek of the upcoming Spring Summer 2018 catalogue. There are so many good things coming your way, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek of one product in particular, the Lots of Happy Card Kit. Every time I buy one of Stampin’ Up’s kits, I think they can’t top it and then… Read More »