and the winner is.............................

Lindsey Williamson

Linz has won the blog candy I had up for grabs to celebrate the hits on my blog!

My little helper Leah picked Lindsey's name out of a hat.

Your Candy is on it's way to you Linz. Enjoy!


Two quickies here to show you. Because I am the super efficient and organised person I am I had to spruce up two bottles of wine for the girls teachers at 8am on Friday morning! So I basically made two tags to tie on to the bottles! I did make a 2,4,6,10 box for one. It didn't go too well but was ok. Unfortunately Faye forgot to take it with her so I drank Mr Rollinson's bottle last night! I did have plans (as always) to mkae a little gift album or similar forthe two teachers but didn't get around to it. All teachers love wine anyway don't they?!

Anyway, I'm off. It's too hot to be inside.

Bye for now.

Lou x

The first photo for tonight is of another of the cards I made, a few weeks ago, to go in the box shown in the pic. It uses the rose in the Mixed Bouquet set. I've layered it up and curled the edges to give it dimension. I used the Sanded background stamps for the background, tied a bit of ribbon around and that's about it. The ink is Regal Rose.

This second photo was inspired by a tag and candle set I saw on SCS gallery. It uses the Pretty Posy hostess set.

Stampin Up! are getting to grips with the advertising and have a couple of promotions in the pipeline. Later this month, Crafts Beautiful will run an exclusive PolyBag promotion through Tesco supermarket stores. The promotion bag will include a complimentary 2007-2008 Idea Book and Catalogue.

Prima magazine will feature four months of editorial coverage about Stampin' Up!, commencing with the August issue. There will also be five months of editorial coverage (from July to November) on Prima’s allaboutyou web site.

***To celebrate my blog having 1000 hits (900 are probably mine)! I have organised some Stampin Up! BLOG CANDY. I will post pics and details tomorrow night.

Boxes

I've had a bit of a thing for making boxes lately. Here's some of my collection!

Most have cards to match inside. I especially like the the YoYo yellow one with the Sanded background stamp on it in Chocolate Chip.

I've finshed the box but need to make a few more matching cards for this one. The papers and Stamp Set are both Cutie Pie.

I'm having a workshop at my house next Friday 18th July 7-10pm. I'm demonstrating a variety of punches and water colour wonder crayons plus other colouring techniques. Everyone is welcome, so if you are interested in coming please contact me for my address. I'm doing a Prize draw and there will be prizes for booking a party on the night plus other one off offers just for that night only.

In Love with Stamping

There's a new website and forum for Stampin' Up! demonstrators and customers called in love with stamping. It's really good and worth a visit or 5! Click here to visit


I've got some free time today for a bit of crafting so I'm going to get on with some of SCS challenges for this week.

I'm having problems with my camera so I'm uploading a few cards I did earlier in the year. All supplies are Stampin up! If you need more info please contact me



Thanks for looking again.



Lou x



I'm so excited that people are looking at my blog and can't beleive the counter is upto 800 already. I'm planning a giveaway for when I get to 1000 posts. More details to follow.

Fathers Day creations!

Just showing what I made for my Dad for Fathers Day. I followed a tutorial from SCS to make the hanging box to go on the bottle of wine. I put in a couple of Caramacs (Dad's favourite) but have eaten them as I'm not seeing him until Wednesday!!! The image on the box is from my new set Loads of love and coloured using the Watercolour Wonder crayons.


I made the card at the Stampin' Up! field training event in lincoln last month it was one of the make and takes.


The tiny takeaway box is stamped up with seeing spots set in close to cooca ink. Lush!

Just heard about another promotion from Stampin' Up! for this month. Anyone signing up as a demonstrator gets to choose a free stamp set upto the value of £41.95 from the current catalogue aswell as the usual starter kit. Wow! If anyone is interested in becoming a demo for STampin'Up! please email me for more info.

Organised Tuesday

Cor! How organised am I today posting this early!!

I combined a couple of challenges here over the weekend. The Papertake weekly challenge was to make a large box from two sheets of card stock. I used Basic Grey, Oh Boy! and Bazzill to make my box.

I then decided to make 5 cards to go inside the box to give as a gift. I again used Basic Grey papers, Bazill card stock, prima flowers, ribbons and magnolia stamps.

The Limited use challenge on Friday over on SCS was to make your own DP. I used Faber Castell pencils, low odor thinners and a stump to make my PP. Not sure how well it actually shows up on this photo. May do a close up if I get time this morning.

My own challenge was to not use my nestabilities! I lent them to Linz and panicked at the thought of not being able to use them for these cards! But I managed with rectangles, cut using my paper cutter.

thursdays ramblings

It's soon come around to my day off again and I've been in the mood for crafting! Well thinking about it anyway. I've seen some gorgeous covered tealights and thought I needed to do some of my own. I bought some Christmas spice red tealights from Sainsbury's earlier this week and made these today. I used MM paper from the Sam range and CB snowflake embossing folder. I added a bit of stickles, sizzix tags, American Crafts ribbon and some bling. I think I'm going to make more for nice little pressies for folk. The spicy aroma is lovely and has got me in the mood to make more Christmas stuff. I can't think what to do with the red lollipops I made the other day. I've got a few ideas, but nothing is just right.

I made this diorama card a while back using a tutorial on SCS. It was a bit fiddly so if I was going to do another it would have to be someone spesh! I used SU Flaky friends set and Bazzill cardstock.

This next card was done for a SCS challenge. We had to use Basic Black, Basic Gray and River Rock. I haven't any SU cardstock so used what I thought were the equivalent in Bazill. I've had this stamp years and hardly ever used it. My watercolouring is not great. I need to work on that a bit (or a lot)

Next is another SCS challenge to make an acetate card. I used delight in life set. You can only just make out that the acetate has been stamped with a background stamp from the same set. I was really pleased with this card. It was very hard to photo though.

I made this little box before work on Tuesday. Ended up being a bit late, but you know when you just have to do something and your prepared to suffer the consequences....

The tutorial is on K werners gorgeous blog.

We cleaned the hammies out tonight and I thought you might like to see them. They are only about 10 weeks old. We got them from my friend Linz. She had to replace a hamster at short notice, as you do, and Bobby 2 was already pregnant. She was only about 6 weeks old. God! and we women think we've got it bad, I'd hate to be a hamster! Anyway, We took two of them, Fergie and Bella and here is one of them. They are more or less identical. Faye is the only one who can tell them apart. They are still tiny and so cute. Here is one of them. I think this is Bella.