Quick post

Hi, just photos today due to tummy bug! Loads more to follow when I'm feeling better.

Take care

Lou x

I found my camera!!

I really quick post of some cards I did the night before last. They were so quick. I used the Season of Joy set with Creamy caramel card stock, White and Real Red ink and 1 1/38" and 1 1/14" circle punches and twine. Yum!
More Christmas cards to post as soon as I can (probably over the weekend).
Lou x

Happy Monday

I can't believe it's Monday already. Where did the weekend go? Half of my weekend was spent feeling sorry for myseld lying on the settee with a hangover. Doh! That's it now, I'm never drinking again (until next weekend). I do need to be a bit healthier than I have been lately though, so it's back on Weight Watchers and back in to running again from today. Might even track it on here so if anyone wants to join me......


I took photos of the cards I'd made over the last 2 months on Friday to post on here so will get a few up each day if I can. Since I last posted saying I'd lost my Mojo I've been crafting like mad!! It's great how a bit of inspiration and a sketch can do that for you.

I've made my December Daily Album after checking this post out by the fabulous Ali Edwards. It's a record of the lead upto christmas completed each day with either journalling or a photo. I liked the idea and have made mine with bits that I already had in. I din't buy anything to make it. It was quite theraputic and i was like a mad thing trying to finish it on Fraidy night. There was no way I was going to bed until I finished it. So at nearly 1am I fell into bed with inky fingers and gluestuck to my arm but happy my Daily December album was ready. Carol this is definately one for you.

Right, I need to go and feed my kids and get ready for work. See you tomorrow with more photos.

Louise x

Rain rain go away!

How much more rain can we have? I'm waterlogged now and it's affecting my dog walking routine. Never mind I guess I'm indoors more and get to craft more (remember Look on the Bright side!)
Any way I' made these two cards the week before last. I have seen them somewhere on a blog or gallery but not sure where.
I masked off an area on a piece of Whisper White card stock. I used Garden Green chalk to colour in the unmasked area then daubed a bit of Garden Green ink around the edges. This was then matted on Garden green card stock and put on the base card. I used one of the stamps out of the retiring hostess set - Oh, so lovely in Close to Cocoa just on the left edge of the chalked area. I added Chocolate chip Taffeta (Yum yum), added a greeting and Bob's your Uncle! a really quick and easy card that could be used for loads of occasions and would look good in different colours too.

I added a Sizzlet photo corner to this one.

If you have a go at this technique post a link to a photo of it on your blog or public gallery so we can all have a look. I'm going to have a go in oranges and yellows next I think.

Come on Linz and carol it's a challenge!!!


Happy crafting!

Louise x

My next workshops details are in the left side bar.

More cards!

Hello again!
Just posting a few more cards I've made recently.

This first one is made using the Loads of love stamp set. I really love this set. I originally thought it would be great for male cards, but I think it's fab for more girly cards too, like this one.
I used the colour combo So Saffron, Cameo Coral and Only Orange.

The colours haven't come out to good on this next one. I made this one for this challenge on ILWS.

It's hard to see from this photo but the base of the card is actually Bashful Blue. I used All the Best retired set and clear embossed it onto Basic Black cardstock. Matted it a few times and added Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon and the sentiment.

A non Stampin' Up! stamp next. This was a sketch challenge on a blog somwhere, sorry can't remember where though. I've coloured the image and layered him up and added the sentiment from the Cheers and wishes set. The card stock is Creamy Caramel and Certainly Celery. There's some MM paper there too. I also used the Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder too.Happy crafting peeps!

I had a lovely day at the craft fair at the National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield on Saturday. It was unusually quite but I met some lovely people. I did a door prize draw and the winner is Mrs E Bromby who has won £10 to spend in the Stampin Up! catalogue. Congratulations! Your prize will be posted out to you tomorrow. Thanks to everyone else who took part.

I made these super quick cards last week. I just love the spiral punch. I've used creamy caramel and Bashful Blue card stock for the base of the cards. I cut a small piece of Whisper White and used the spiral punch along the top edge. The Circle of Friendship stamps were stamped in Close to Cocoa and punched out with the 1" circle punch. Then more layers were cut using the 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch and Scallop circle punch. Dimensionals were used to pop these and then added to the card. Some Bashful Blue Taffeta ribbon was added and voila, done! Piece of cake. I did these in lots of other colour combos too. Old Olive and Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Creamy Caramel, Certainly celery and creamy Caramel. I think these would make a great card to demonstrate.

I'm having problems uploading today and unfortunately this is the only one I can get to upload. will keep trying as I have stacks to show you!

Happy crafting!

Lou xx

Busy Weekend!

I've had quite a busy weekend. firstly on Friday night I had a lovely night with Linz, Carol, Cath, Yvonne, Joanne, Leah and Lynn at a workshop at my house. It was lovely to see everyone. I've been totally inspired and have started a mini album in citrus colours hopefullt to be finished later this week. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Will definately be selling it but not sure where yet. (thinking aloud here)! I've been listing some more old non SU! Stamps and craft bits on Ebay today, check it out and grab yourself a bargain!!!

Anyway, we have been thinking about getting a dog for a while now. So, on Saturday we decided to visit a couple of kennels. It was so upsetting to see so many dogs needing homes. We visited the Dogs Trust in Leeds and we all fell in love with 15 month old Spencer, a Patterdale terrier. We took him out for a walk and he is just so lovely that we decided to adopt him!!! We should be able to bring him home with us on Friday. We've walked him again today and he is just full of character and really obedient.

Here he is-

I've just ordered the Tailgating standard wheel to make dog announcement cards to send out!!!

Here's a card I did really quickly last week in my favourite colours of the week - Taken with Teal (Yum), Close to Cocoa (Yum Yum) and Creamy Caramel (Yum Yum Yum).It's the Seeing Spots set randomly stamped across the centre of a 5x5 card front. The corners were softened with a corner rounder. The sentiment is from the Cheers and Wishes set. I used a Creamy Caramel Water Colour crayon and wet it with a paint brush for the smallest stamp that's just visible, then flicked it on to the cardstock for a speckled effect. We were shown this technique at the Leeds SU! Expereince tour.We did something similar to this for the Make and take on Friday night.

This is another quick one from this week. I used the Time for a tree roller and coloured using pencils and Odourles thinners. I matted this on not Quite Navy C/S and ran the Whisper White card base through the Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder. My first Christmas card fof the year! Beter get a move on and do more!

Don't forget to comment on the thread below to take part in my BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY!!!!

Take care

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.

Cupcake Tower

It was my Mum's 60th Birthday yesterday and we had a bit of a party at her house to celebrate. With a lot of help from Leah, my youngest daughter, we cobbled this together!

I made these two cards last week, inbetween baking 80 cupcakes, in my fave colours at the moment - Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla and Close to Cocoa. Mmm, sounds good enough to eat!

The stamp set is the Level 1 hostess set Pretty Posy. The punches are Scallop Circle and 13/8" circle. All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Have loads more to post. Will try and upload more this week.

Make and takes

Here's the make and takes we did at the Leeds Stampin' Up! Expereince tour on Monday night.

Double pocket card

I hope everyone had a great night on Monday at the Stampin' Up! expereince tour. I know I did! Can't wait for the next, especially if it's going to be as close as Leeds. I'll post pics of the lovely make and takes later today.

I've been busy in my craft room again this week, I even give it a good tidy up on Sunday and it's looking lovely now!


My first photo is a double pocket card that I have used as a money wallet.

The two pockets inside are envelopes cut down to size.

I cut two cards and added a round tab punch to each and a strap to one to hold the money in.

The card is held closed with a 'clasp' made by layering up a 1", 1 3/8", 1 1/14" circles and a scallop circle mounted on a dimensional.

I've used Green Galore and Tempting Turquoise card stock, Taken with Teal ink pad, Seeing spots and Circle of Freindship stamp sets. All supplies Stampin' Up!

Please visit this ladies blog for a video tutorial of how to make this card. http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stampin_studio/

Bye for now

Lou x

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.

Baby Cards

I'm still trying to upload more of the cards I've been making over the last few months, so here are a few Baby cards I've made using the Bundle of Joy Stamp set. The elephant on the last card is from a different set - Year after Year.

I'm not going to add the supplies for them. Most supllies are from Stampin' Up! If you would like to know more please let me know and I'll be only to happy to help!

Thanks for looking.

Lou x

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.

Summer by the Sea

The next 4 cards were created using Stampin Up! set Summer by the Sea and Earth Elemnts Water Colour Wonder Crayons. The crayons are just lovley to use. I'm really impressed with them.





All Supplies Stampin' Up!

Card 1 - Cheers and Wishes stamp set, Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla cardstock, Chocolate chip ink pad, Soft Subtles brad, Very Vanilla 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon.

Card 2 - Cheers and Wishes Stamp set the stem from the Mixed Bouquet stamp set (for Background), Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss,

Very Vanilla Cardstock, Chocolate chip Ink Pad, Jumbo Pewter Eyelets, Distressing tool, Certainley Celery Grosgrain 5/8" Ribbon.

Card 3 - Cheers and Wishes stamp set, Very Vanilla, Old Olive cardstock, Certainly Celery 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon.

Card 4_ Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Whisper White, Creamy Caramel cardstock, Basic Black ink Pad, Pewter Jumbo Eyelets, soft Subtles Brads, Bashful Blue Taffeta ribbon, Distressing tool.