Snow Festival Tree

Hello there

I hope all your Christmas preparations are coming along nicely?? I have still got l-o-a-d-s to do!! Anyway, I have a card to share with you using the most popular tutorial on my blog, the folded Christmas tree (link at the end of the post or in side bar <<)

To change it up I have used the new Snow Festival DSP from the Autumn/Winter catty. I am placing another order in the next couple of days if you would like to add to it from either catalogues and can collect from me then there will be no postage costs or alternatively you can have any amount of items delivered directly to your home for a flat fee of just £4.95. So, back to the card, I made the tree from half a scallop circle and added it to a layer of crumb cake embossed with the perfect polka dots folder which I inked with white craft ink for a snowy feel ;-)

I finished the card off with another layer of DSP and a limeade bakers twine bow with tags from Tiny Tags stamp set. 

AND HERE IS THE LINK TO THE TUTORIAL :-)

Well, I hope you like today's card and I will be back soon with lots more Christmas craftyness :-)

Thanks for visiting me today and 

Stampin' Hugs from me today

More Bright Blossoms by Stampin' up!

Hello there,

Well, the sun is shining and all is so much better here just because of that! I am indoors but have the windows and doors open, I just love the summer :-)

SO, today I have some more cards I made using the lovely Bright Blossoms stamp set, I used some of the gorgeous New Sweet Shop DSP to pretty up the bottom half of these cards, I love the In Colours this year!

 Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon was tucked under the stamped image

and some matching bakers twine with a tiny tag :-)

A couple of things before I go, remember there is a craft fayre at Beaulieu Village Hall on Saturday and I will be there with lots of other lovely, talented crafters, please do pop along and say Hi! And also I have  just THREE places left for my new Stampers 6 club starting in June, message me to join or go HERE to read a bit more about the club.

Right, that's me for today, I'm off to make more mess *ahem* create something pretty I mean ;-)

Thanks for stopping by today, I really do appreciate it,

Happy Birthday Neil!

Hello there,

Yesterday was my lovely hubby's birthday, I was V-E-R-Y behind and hadn't even made his card but luckily (for me) he had to take his car to the garage and so I made this card for him yesterday morning! On the face of it it is a really quick and simple card, however it took me an absolute age to make, mostly because I had a complete mental freeze and couldn't think of any men's style cards to make! I am quite happy with the end result but anyway, here it is for you to judge...

I stamped the Outlined Occasions (Free SAB set) with versamark and heat embossed it with silver powder, once this was melted I coloured the letters in with a Versamark Pen, a great little tool every crafter should own ;-)

I used Not Quite Navy card with Basic Black, and made matching tags with more silver embossing powder tied onto some more of the lush wide striped grosgrain ribbon

the inside was finished with the matching sentiment from Outlined occasions, I love this font!

Well, I am off out today, don't know where yet hubs is surprising me (I hope!)

Thanks for visiting today

Stampin' Hugs,

Everyday Enchantment with Elementary Elegance

WOW! That's a lot of E's!! but for today's card that's just what I used, the gorgeous FREE stamps and papers available exclusively during sale-a-bration (untill the end of March)

I made a square card with a very basic layout but with a lot of details on each section so plenty of pics for you today ;-)

Fun flowers die made the flower with an antique brad in the centre

a mini vintage tag filled with the friends stamp from the tiny tags stamp set

some crowns....

and butterflies...

and the frame and sentiment, all from the Elementary Elegance SAB stamp set,

Poppy Parade twill ribbon ruffle across the centre adds a splash of colour

and another fun flower inside to finish

Well, that's today's card for you,

If you are interested in coming along to a class (last day tomorrow to book for Feb all day class) and playing with some stamps, placing an order to get your own FREE stamps or thinking about joining SU! and getting even more FREE stamps then please email me sarah-janerae*at*sky*dot*com for more details or just a chat. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks for visiting today, I love that you visit me :-)

Stampin' Hugs for today,

Button Tree

Hello!

I am back, two days in a row! Get me!! lol!

So, I have another Christmas card as promised today with a colour combo of Crumb Cake and Wild Wasabi with the Jolly Jingles wheel and Versamark to make the background

I used some some of my buttons from my stash to make the tree with oodles of gold glass glitter filling in the gaps with the help of some crystal effects,

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch (page 116) was used to make the trunk

 with scalloped dotty ribbon decorating the side with tiny tags too,

and some more roller inside to finish,

well, that's today's Christmas card for you, back tomorrow with some Christmas gift boxes

Stampin' Hugs for today,

Side Stepper card for a Baby

Hello,

Apologies for not blogging but I am just so crazy busy here, prepping for next weeks classes, getting ready for Christmas, blah de blah! How are your Christmas plans coming along??

Anyway a friend requested THREE baby cards this week, not a problem you say, but the minor complication with these cards were they were all for the same baby!! So I had to make three completely different cards ;-)
I will share them with you through the rest of the week but for today I have a stepper style card as my first offering ;-)

There is a full tutorial on how to make this shape card HERE, Main sentiment is backed with a die cut scallop circle, and the small scallop circle is cut using the Perfect Pennant Bigz die from the flirtatious papers,

Tags are from tiny tags ;-) and punched using the Jewellery tag punch, secured with a gem brad

and the rattle is from my new set Button Buddies, there is also a video tutorial for the bow HERE

Right, that's me off for today, I have lots of jobs still to do today but first I am going for coffee and cake with the girls, but I will be back soon! I hope you have a great day too,
Stampin' Hugs,

Clean and Simple Aviary

Hello,

I hope you had a nice weekend? We have spent it getting ready for Halloween, amongst other things, including trying to get my shed load of swaps made for Convention, Classes prepped and organised...

Anyway, I do have a quick little card for you today using 2 of the fab new In Colours and Aviary (again)

Pool Party card base with a Calypso Coral Lace Trim Border strip behind, I love these colours together ;-) The scalloped circle is from the Pennant die, so versatile this one!

This would make a lovely little card for almost any occasion, if you would like to order this set (or anything else from the current catalogue) then please drop me a line, I am placing an order Tuesday (1st Nov) :-)

Super quick post today as I have Zoe off tomorrow (inset day) and still have to decorate ready for the witching hour! Gonna be a long day tomorrow ;-) Night peeps...

Mwwwaahhhhh hhhaaaa hhhaaa hhhhhaaa!

Wishing you all a

Happppy Hallloooweeennn!!!!!

First Part of June's Class

Hello,

Well, it has just absolutely thrown it down! and being so close to the I.O.W. I truly feel sorry for the poor folks at the festival this weekend, I hear it isn't going to get much better either!! and now it is heavy hail stones too, eek!

Anyway, this morning I have been finishing off my designs for this months class, my regular ladies wanted a techniques class so I have incorporated 3 ribbon flowers, heat embossing and dry embossing.

It promises to be great fun and I have had a couple of spaces become unexpectedly available too, so contact me now reserve your space!

So, onto the first card, I am using the lovely In Colours for this months class and this pretty pink is called Blushing Bride and I have used the colour coach to team it with Sahara Sand and Perfect Plum, 

I embossed the patterned paper with the Vintage Wallpaper folder and used the gorgeous Stitched Poly Ribbon for the flower centre,

There will also be enough matching paper for you to decorate the inside,

and second project today is a little pillow box with another cute ribbon rose, this time using seam binding ribbon and again the Vintage Wallpaper folder,

I used Tiny Tags to decorate the Rose Red box, there is also an abundance of shimmer spray this month too ;-)

so, that's two of the projects for this months class, I will be back on Sunday with the other one as tomorrow is of course Simply Stampin' Challenge day and it's a goodie again, do come and see and if you get a chance we would love you to play along,

Thanks for stopping by today,

Stampin' Hugs,

Less is More Butterflies

Hello there,

I wanted to enter the Less is More challenge again this week not least as it really does push me out of my comfort zone ;-) the theme this week is butterfly(ies) and so I made a mini card, it is just 7cm square,

Crumb Cake base with a layer of Baja Breeze. I used the Beautiful Butterflies Die and cut out smallest butterfly twice which I then embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder before sewing it onto the card front,

mat pack used to add a perfect straight line along the bottom as well as Tiny Tags stamp set with the matching Jewellery punch for the sentiment,

and a little decoration inside, this little butterfly is from Itty Bitty Bits,

Well, that's today's post for you, all supplies used here are SU! and available through me,

sarah-janerae@sky.com

 I have got Zack's celebration of work at school this morning and a couple of cards to make later, I hope you too have a lovely day, whatever you are up to :-D

Thanks for stopping by today,

Stampin' Hugs,

Eva's Birthday

Good Morning to you today,

As promised I have the birthday card I made for Zack's friend Eva who's party we went to on Sunday, she was just 6 so I went with the traditional girly style and the pretty colours of Daffodil Delight, Pretty in Pink and  Marina Mist, a colour combo from the Colour Coach,

Stamp set used was On a Pedestal I haven't used this set in ages and had almost forgotten how lovely it was! I used my markers to ink the stamps up,

I used some of the super soft Daffodil Delight satin ribbon to make a lush bow and hung some tiny tags punched with Jewellery punch, another set I haven't used for a while,

and added rhinestones to the corners

lastly inside with the lovely sentiment from the new mini, the level 2 hostess set called Something to Celebrate, if you need this gorgeous set then message me to arrange a date for a workshop ;-)

Well, thanks for stopping by today, I have another busy one ahead more getting ready for Sundays craft show plus a list of cards I need made today!

Hope you have a great day,

Stampin' Hugs,