Hello,

Wow! What a weekend I have had! I have spent a lovely weekend up with Julie, and what a lovely weekend it was too :0)

Julie had an all day paper craft class on Saturday, we made a box, a pouch (a bit like the ones I made for convention swaps) and then in the afternoon we covered a tin which was supposed to contain 8 cards, now I made the boxes but well, there were 5 other people who came to the day who are demos or were demos so we just chatted most of the day! I made just 1 card **oops!**
I will share the projects with you later on as I haven't photographed them yet :0)

So here are Siobhan and Niki,

And then Sarah B, Nicci and Jeannette,



And here we all are at the local Indian Restaurant where we went for tea, yummy!

I had the best weekend, Thank-You all ladies, it was a joy to see you all again xxxxx

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So onto a card I made a couple of weeks ago, it uses the SAB set Whimsical Words, this set is only available now until the end of Feb so you haven't got long to get your mitts on it!!

Here is a close up of the little train, Choo Choo, I inked it with my markers to get the multi coloured look, the wheel is called Right on Track,

and look, the small wonder words fit perfectly in the oval punch, SU! think of everything!!

Well, that's all for today, I hope you are still with me?? and don't forget you can still enter my little give away for a lavender sachet, see THIS post for more details :0)

Have a great day and I hope you are enjoying the school holidays,

Bye for now, Hugs S.J. xxx

Stamp with us Challenge

Hello again,
Just a quick post this time, I have been looking at the new blog Stamp with Us which is going to be fab, it will be doning lots of cool stuff but using mainly (or any!) Stampin' Up! products. Here are the two cards I have made following the first sketch.

For this first one I have used the lovely new Train and the smoke from the stamp set called "Choo Choo" (how sweet is that?!) and wheel "Right on Track" with the lovely Washington Apple papers (did I mention I love these papers?) , Bashful blue striped grosgrain ribbon and the essential oval punches all from the mini catalogue. I also used some Kraft card, Bashful blue card and scalloped circle punch from the main catty. Sentiment says "Congratulations.....on the birth of your beautiful baby!" and was a SAB free stamp set.

For this second card I used the lovely Summer picnic papers with the Cheers to You stamp set and co-ordinating wheel 'cheers'. I coloured the drink with my ink papds and a watercolour brush and all the small bits on the glass and wheel background with ink pads and a blender pen. I also layered the umberella and cherry on the glass. All matted onto Real Red cardstock. Corners on the base were done using the 1/2" circle punch which, when you turn it over, has a handy cross shape to line up your paper ( I will get a photo of it if anyone wants to see?) Scalloped circle punch used for the glass.

Thats all folks !

Not really very quick post at all in the end was it ? Thanks for sticking with it! assuming your not already asleep!! LOL!!

Hugs and have a good weekend, Sarah-Jane xx