by Barbara | Jul 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
I love this suite! There are so many usable elements…from the lovely Stamp set Rooted in Nature, the co ordinating dies, and DSP along with gorgeous twine and leaves trinkets. To see them all, take a look in my shop …..look for the Nature’s Poem suite.
So, this is what we did at this weeks Coffee and a Card.
It was cased from a Card on Pinterest designed by Sam Hammond. The card base is Blackberry Bliss, as is the ink and twine. The DSP looks hand printed and to add to the design, we hand stamped some leaves in Petal Pink and Blackberry Bliss on a panel of Whisper White for inside the Card.
The second card is using the same stamp set but with a more masculine feel, and this time I used a Very Vanilla card base and DSP from the wood textures set. I used Crumb Cake ink and burlap ribbon to embellish.
Anyway…. that’s me for a few weeks while I’m away in Denmark visiting my lovely sister in law.
Be back in a few weeks, in the mean time;
Happy Crafting x
by Barbara | Jul 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a little lax with the blog for the last couple of weeks, but I feel I’ve a good excuse….4 extras in the house, including two of my grandchildren, and however much I love crafting, I love my grandchildren more!
Visitors also took over my craft room, so ‘me time’ has been very sparse! But middle of next week is lots of me time….I’m going on holiday again!
So Back to crafting…or more precisely, card making.
Coffee and a card two weeks ago we made two cards using the Sea of Textures stamp set and paper from the Tranquil Textures DSP pack. Although the sentiments were not to everyone’s taste, so I took an alternate Happy Birthday stamp from Perennial Birthday Stamp Set. These cards are relatively easy to do but look fab!
Tranquil Adventure
Tranquil Birthday
So, then came my Catalogue Launch Party! Yes, I know it was a month after launch and lots of people already had their catalogue, but for me, it was any excuse to show some of the lovely new products off!
I made a display board to show off some of the different suites that I had some or all the products for!
The room I hired was perfect…very roomy, space for displays, make and take tables, space to sit and peruse the catalogue or try your hand at either the scavenger hunt or the anagrams of Stampin’Up! colours! Hot drink and Cake was bountiful… only issue was it coincided with the England World Cup game against Columbia! Inevitably there were not too many of us, but I think I can say we all had a fab time and I got new customers too!
This is the make and take card that everyone did;
So, on to this weeks Coffee and a Card….. it was Christmas week again….seems to come round very quickly!
Our first card used the Colorful Seasons stamp set, using the lovely snowflakes on a Night of Navy background and silver card.
Merry Snowflakes
The second card used the Softly Falling embossing folder on Whisper White card and then we used a die which is NOT Stampin’Up! It’s a Tutti Designs die that I have had for several years, but I’m still anxiously awaiting this years Stampin Up Christmas lines and hope there is something as beautiful as this! The card base and tree are die cut on the new Shaded Spruce card stock and stamped in the coordinating ink and embellished with the lovely new Basic Red Rhinestone Jewels
Anyway…need to get on and prep for stuff after my holiday.
Look out for next weeks blog, my last until mid August!
Happy Crafting!