New Sale-a-Bration products and a card using Perpetual Birthday Calender by Stampin' Up!

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It's been a day of highs and lows here today! I had a puncture show it's self on the way home from work late last night and unfortunately car manufacturers don't think we need spare tyres in our cars these days so I spent far too much time wondering what exactly to do! (I called the RAC in the end), sadly they cant repair the tyre so a new one has been ordered but that has put me really behind today, hence the lateness of this post ;-)

On the up side my eldest boy passed his driving test today!!! It was his first time too! Woo hoo!! As you can imagine I'm so proud of him for working towards this goal, it's such a great thing to achieve at any age.

And also in the good news section SU! have added extra Sale-a-Bration goodies to their offering. Whoop! These products are available now for just one month ('till the end of March) and run in conjunction with the original SaB products for the same £45 spend criteria.

 Do take a look at THIS leaflet to see closer what new products you can earn. 

I need that twine!!

 OK, so onto today's card now. this was another class card and I used an older favourite stamp of mine called Million and One. I'm still waiting on Stampin' Up! to make this stamp saying Happy Birthday in this beautiful font!! I teamed it with the Perpetual Birthday Calender stamps in Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana and Sahara Sand to make this card... 

 See - Strawberry Slush thick twine. I love this stuff ;-)

Isn't this font gorgeous?

 And we added a few rhinestones to finish this card off. Because we all need some bling, right?

OK, that's all for today.

I'll be back with a new TMT Video tomorrow so do pop on by if you get a  chance.

Thanks for stopping by today

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Products Used to create this project:

Perpetual Birthday Calendar Photopolymer Stamp Set	Million & One	Million & One	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana	Card Stock A4 Strawberry Slush	Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad
Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad	Strawberry Slush Thick Baker's Twine	Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

Shabby Chic Scrunched Spiral Flower Die by Stampin' Up!

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I'm back today with another Spiral Flower card- but with a totally different look to THIS blog post a couple of days ago! We made this card by die cutting the flowers from card just the same but as you know, if you have been here before, I like to get as many different looks with each product I purchase (like my flip card thinlits), so this is the "Shabby Chic" version of the spiral flower :-) Take a peek...

To make this smaller plain rose we die cut a single piece of Raspberry Ripple card (retired colour now but Rose Red is a good alternative) and spritzed it with a mixture of rubbing alcohol mixed with shimmer paint- you could also use water (sparingly) or plain alcohol too- scrunched it up thoroughly, unravelled it and then rolled as usual while it was still damp. Remember when you roll damp flowers they will not "pop open" like the standard flower does and as you can see this one was rolled quite tightly, I also pressed it a bit flat once it was rolled too.

For this larger flower I die cut a Raspberry Ripple and a Very Vanilla flower,spritzed, scrunched and unrolled as before then layered the  raspberry above the vanilla and rolled but quite a bit looser and again flattening it slightly once rolled. 

If you are interested I can do a little video tutorial with my top tips for the spiral flowers I made? Let me know ;-)

Anyway, this is the finished card again with a few leaves made with the bird punch, a vellum butterfly, sentiment from Million and one (my favourite font remember? We need a birthday version SU!) and plenty of pearls :-))) I hope you like?

Thanks as ever for looking today, I have really enjoyed playing with this die this week.

In other news my long overly contemplated order has also shipped and will be here Monday according to the tracking so I'll have tons of new goodies to play with next week. Excited much??  :-))))

We are off out tomorrow to do some fruit picking at Zack's request and visit with FiL too so I'm going to get off for now, 

Back soon with more!

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Products Used to create this project:

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine	Spiral Flower Originals Die	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock	Rose Red A4 Card Stock	Bird Punch	Garden Green A4 Card Stock
Bitty Butterfly Punch	White Vellum A4 Card Stock	Basic Pearls Jewel Accents	Million & One	Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad	Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhesive

Stampin' Up's Spiral Flower Die and Million and One plus it's Weekly Deals Day too!

Hello there,

So, my card reader has finally turned up so I can get back to sharing the cards I made the last couple of weeks with you again! I had sent these ones so couldn't re-take the pics :-s

I had three birthdays -all last week- so I decided to make the cards all the same just change the colours to suit the recipients. I had designed the first Strawberry Slush and Coastal Cabana card for my Spiral Flower class where I shared how to make three different versions of this flower including this, what I call "the standard" version shown here where you simply roll a single die cut and secure. I'll share the other two with you tomorrow ;-)

So, here's card #1

 White and Strawberry Slush flowers, 

TIP: I use a hot glue gun to secure my flowers as it's quick drying

 Million and One sentiment, I love this font and really hope SU! make a Happy Birthday version really soon! ;-) Basic Rhinestones add some bling to each sentiment

 Now, card #2 uses the new In Colour Blackberry Bliss. I'm not usually a purple kinda girl but I have to say the depth of this colour is stunning and I loved playing with it, I have teamed it here with Pink Pirouette which is a lovely soft pink

 Rolled flowers, they are so dark it was quite hard to get a good picture 

 and card #3 for today is a Soft Sky and Crisp Cantaloupe version

 Cantaloupe and white flowers, all the cards had leaves made using the bird punch and Vellum card, these are a lovely and subtle way to add leaves and keep your colours simple

and the three cards all together

 And lastly I couldn't resist a picture of all the flowers together, I had positive comments from the three ladies I sent them to but what do you think blog readers?

**Edit to say don't forget to check out this weeks Weekly Deals**

My top picks this week are Gold Vellum for just £7.46 and Smoky Slate Chevron ribbon for £6.19

 Ok, I'm off for now but want to say thanks for stopping by today

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Products Used to create this project:

Million & One	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine	Spiral Flower Originals Die	Circles Collection Framelits Dies	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Strawberry Slush	Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana
Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad	Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad	Pink Pirouette A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Soft Sky	Card Stock A4 Crisp Cantaloupe	Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad
Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents	Bird Punch	White Vellum A4 Card Stock