Thank You Gift

My poor dog was injured earlier in the year and has been having Hydrotherapy from the most lovely compassionate, gentle lady. So I wanted to say Thank You.

I made her a little gift and matching card.

It is a little box (that I made) containing some scented Tealights, I used Chalk Talk for the label and the Itty Bitty Accents flower punch. The leaves were from the Bird Punch. I love the Organza ribbon too - it's such a useful size!

The card was made using the Swallowtail butterfly, sentiment from Sassy Salutations, Apothecary Accents dies and flowers punched from Something to Say, Petite Petals and Flower Shop using the coordinating punches.

As well as a couple of Rhinestones I also added Dazzling Diamonds to one of the flowers... I do love that stuff!

Well tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn I am heading to the airport for this years Stampin' Up! Convention in Brussels. There will be 700 of us all mingling, swapping, crafting and seeing new products and techniques. It's so exciting!

Tomorrow here I'll be sharing the Pillow Gift I have made for my room mate, this is a Stampin' Up! tradition, Friday I'll be sharing my swaps that are just for other members of the Pinkies (Over 70 of us will be there!) and on Saturday I'll be sharing the 'General' swaps I made.

The idea of swapping is to give and receive small items made with current products that you can use as inspiration or to share as samples with your customers. I'm sure I'll be sharing some of those next week! xxx

Classes

I thought I would share with you the cards we are making at my class on Wednesday the 12th February - In case you are interested due to an unexpected problem 2 of my ladies can't make it - so if you are quite near Princes Risborough and fancy coming along please let me know!

The first card is one you have seen before...

The sentiment can be changed to any and we will be using Pink Pirouette (That you will get as part of your kit as well as the stamp set and punch!).

The second is using the same stamp set and the Apothecary Accent die. I have also used the stripes embossing folder but you can't see it clearly in this photo.

Here is a close up of the sentiment - you might see the embossing more clearly too.

Lastly a lovely card - this technique was found by one of my fellow Pink Ladies and the girls made one similar at team training, unfortunately I was unable to go.

This technique uses the new Scallop Tag Punch. Beautiful isn't it? Stampin' Up! make some great products and I love to share them with you, you can see from these three cards how versatile the Petite Petals bundle is!

So if you want to come along on the 12th - get in touch - you can message me on Facebook, call me or e-mail. I am also looking for more lovely ladies to join my team - so if you love crafting, love sharing what you love, would like to get over £50 worth of FREE stuff and great discounts - get in touch too! It doesn't matter where you are in the country - I am here to support you with whatever you would like to get out of Stampin' Up!

Whether it's the flexibility of working your own hours doing something you love and building a business - or if you just want to join a supportive, creative team of ladies with great ideas and benefit from the offers and discounts available to you, without selling to others - I would love for you to join my team.

Paula xxx

All White part 2

Back in October I designed and posted a card on my blog that lots of people have Pinned on Pinterest. It was suggested that it would make a lovely Sympathy card.

So I decided to revisit my design and have, indeed, used a sympathy sentiment from Simply Sketched. This is a hostess set available if you have a party or spend over £150.

Here is the card I made.

I wanted a subtle 'dash' of colour so used Crisp Cantaloupe from the In-Colour selection 2013/15.

The flowers are stamped using the new Petite Petals stamp set and punched out with the corresponding punch.

The aperture was die cut with one of the Apothecary Accents dies.

I also made this one.

This time I used Melon Mambo ink and a die from the Chalk Talk set. I think the pearls really do set off these little flowers.

And here was my original card...

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and will pop back and see what else I have to show you this week! I have been a crafty little bee!

EDIT - Is anyone interested in card classes? This is one of the cards we will be making when the products become available next month. I have 4 spaces and the cost will include refreshments, the stamp set in wood with the matching punch and an Ink Pad - £31.50 please use the 'contact me' tab to get in touch for further information!

If anyone can recommend any photo editing software for my IPad - that can handle layers for my watermark, please comment and let me know! xxx