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Earlier this week I shared with you a sneak Peak of just a few things coming in the New Spring Mini Catalalogue.

Today I have another!

Christmas!!!!!!

Christmas stamps, Christmas DSP and Christmas ribbon.

This was great timing for me as I have been busy preparing for my Christmas in July Workshop on this Friday and it meant I could use some of these fantastic new products in my class.

This is a card I created using the new Ski Slope DSP and ONE of the new Christmas Stamp Sets. Yes that it is right, there is more than one new Christmas Stamp Set in the Spring Mini.

Anyway I hope this has put you into the festive spirit, until next time

Happy Stamping

Our new Spring Mini is nearly here and I thought I would share with you some of the new products that are coming.

One of the advantages of being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator is that you get to pre-order and see new products before they are released to the public.

I have been busy this past month creating many new projects with products from the new Mini Catalogue and today I thought I would share a couple of things with you. (Not too many as I do not want to spoil on the fun)

If you read my previous post you would have seen the gorgeous Note Card Holder I made my friend Rebecca for her Birthday.

I just love the new Walk in the Park Design Series paper and can you believe that I am already onto my 3rd packet. I also love the brand new Scallop Oval punch and matching Stamp Set called Oval All. I was very busy earlier this month making around 50 of these little Love Note Thank you cards for all my loyal customers using all 3 of these products.

Here is an example of them:

I have mailed a Mini Catalogue out to all my customers, if you did not receive one please contact me and I will post one out to you ASAP. If you already have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator be sure to ask her for a copy as you do not want to miss out on all the fantastic new products coming out.

Happy Stamping

My friend and down line Rebecca is celebrating her Birthday today.

Happy Birthday Bec!

Last Friday we got together with our other partner in stamping crime, Louise for lunch and a wonderful day of stamping.

I wanted to give Rebecca a little gift to celebrate her birthday.

I made her a Bag topper and matching card using the Crazy for Cupcakes Stamp Set and some paper from the Candy Lane DSP pack.

Inside her gift bag I made her a couple of handmade gifts using some products from the new Spring Mini Catalogue.

The first Gift was this gorgeous Note Card Holder and set of Note cards. This is an Andrea Walford design. I love her work and if you purchase her tutorials you can use them over and over. This tutorial is called Tart & Tangy and you can find it here. Go to her Sunny Stampin’ Store and you will find all her tutorials for sale.

I have used the new Walk in the Park DSP and matching stamp Set, Great Friend. I especially love the NEW Oval scallop Punch. All of these things will be available to purchase from the Spring Mini from the 1st August until the end of November.

The second gift was a Tissue and Chapstick Holder. I just love these! I made a few of them for my buddies at Convention earlier this year. They are very simple but make the perfect little gift. They are great to keep in your handbag or your desk at work.

I have used some of the new Parisian Breeze Speciality DS Paper. This paper is so fantastic! It is double sided like all of Stampin’ Up!’s DSP but it is thick like cardstock and textured, so it is so versitile and perfect to use to make 3D items.

Happy Stamping

I have been wanting to have a go at a One Sheet Wonder for sometime now. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is when you stamp a sheet of plain card stock and cut it up to make various cards. After looking on the Internet trying to find one I liked I decided that I would make up my own, however I have taken inspiration from various people. One site I particularly liked was Mae Collins. She has several One Sheet Wonder Templates both A4 and 12 x 12 on her site you can see it here.

I used the Wild About You Stamp Set as I wanted to make a set of Children’s birthday cards as I never seem to have any on hand when I need them.

The colours that I used to create my cards are:

Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black.

The first thing you do is stamp up your sheet of plain cardstock. In this case I used and A4 sheet of Whisper White:

Then following the cutting guide I made, I cut up the sheet as follows to make 9 individual cards.

After cutting the sheet into pieces you may notice that you have some spaces or blanks, this is where the little red bird came in handy as he was small enough to ink up and fill in the spaces with.

Next I created my cards. I have photographed them in groups of 3.

Cards 1, 2, 3

Cards 4, 5, 6

Cards 7, 8, 9

Finally I made a Card Folder using the Tutorial on Makeesha’s Site under Make it Monday. You can find it here.

It holds all 9 cards and their envelopes.

What a great gift for any busy Mum!

I hope you enjoyed looking at them as I had lots of fun creating them. I dusted off some of my background stamps and used lots of different punches. My desk was a BIG mess by the end of my creating.

Until next time Happy Stamping

Probably my favourite Stamp Set at the moment is 5th Avenue from Stampin’ Up! I find it such a versatile Stamp Set that can be

used with a variety of colours and DSP as well as some different stamping techniques.

I thought I share with you some of the cards I have been making with it lately.

This first card uses some of the new In colours as well as Basic Grey. My Basic Grey stamp Pad has been having such a workout lately.

I love how you can use lots of different colours with this Stamp Set and it looks so good. This card is one I cased from Marelle Taylor. It uses Red Riding Hood, Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss and Close to Cocoa.

This card is other one I cased from Marelle. It uses the masking Technique to make the Chocolate Chip Rose ”pop” and give dimension to the card.

I just love this card it is so simple yet very elegant. I used the masking technique again and carefully cut around the bottom of the flowers. I added some dazzling Diamonds to give it some bling as well as some Pearls from the Pretties Kit. This card uses Pink Pirouette and Regal Rose, but I have also made it using Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy and another using Ridinghood Red and they both looked as good.

I hope you like them, until next time Happy Stamping

I saw this idea on Inking Idaho’s Blog and although I did not particularly like the colours she used I loved the idea.

I have used Stampin’ Up!’s Candy Lane DSP and created 3 different matching cards to go inside the box (I made 2 of each).

I think it is such a cute idea with the giant cupcake outline cut out of the top of the box. I am sure it would be a fantastic gift to give to someone.

I hope you like it as much as I do

No I have not fell off the face of the earth!

No I have not given birth!

No there are not enough hours in my day!

After a few not so subtle hints from friends and fellow demonstrators I thought I had better pull my finger out and post a couple of things on my VERY neglegted BLOG!

I hope the wait was worth it!