Summer Days! Stampin' Up! Garden in Bloom

It seems Summer has arrived in the UK this week in style! My thermometer read 28 degrees in the shade (That's Celsius - 82 degrees F!!).

It made me feel all bright and so I got out my Garden in Bloom set and created a couple of lovely cards, I also designed the cards for June's classes!

I love a bit of 2 or 3 step stamping and I love that a simple single layer card can look so gorgeous.

One of the things I love about Spring/Summer is the blossom and the bluebells in the local woods.

This tree is just on the green by my house. Isn't it gorgeous?

And this is my bestest boy - the lovely Blaze in our local woods... I wish I could share with you the smell of those bluebells - it just fills your nose as you walk through!

I'm off for my supper now... a salad - well it's just too hot for a Sunday roast!

Paula xxx

August Classes

I hope your week is going well! I've taken a few afternoons off work as we were supposed to be going to Wales but we need to get on with the studio and wouldn't have been able to relax if we were away.

I have had lots of accessories for the studio delivered and cannot wait to start dressing the room - I have dates for delivery of the furniture, the tables will arrive next week and the chairs the first week of September. I'm so excited!

Here are a couple of the projects for the August class and the last date to book is the 31st July, we are using the Garden In Bloom stamp set and matching English Garden DSP.

Inside is a lovely fancy fold using the DSP - Such a clever little card and so cute

Another of the cards is this - it's a completely different fancy fold with partial cuts.

I hope you'll join me for a class - just £11 per person in Princes Risborough - message me on Facebook, email mailme@paulaknall.co.uk or call 07786 860438. Lots of dates available!

Studio Update...

Well I had a lovely weekend away in the caravan last weekend - can't believe it's been a week already!

I did get the chance... in between the hilarity (We were playing games, drinking, dancing and it was fabulous!) to do a little crafting - well why wouldn't you? And I CASEd a card from the catalogue.

Sometimes you see so many lovely projects with a stamp set, that really get your creative juices going and I ended up with another 6 stamp sets last week! Ooops!

So here is the one I CASEd and I'm IN LOVE with the paper stack!

Isn't it super cute? The stamp set is Garden in Bloom and the DSP is English Garden.

On to the Studio... we had some significant delays with the contractor and so progress has been slow - in fact hubby was finishing the base earlier this week!

Now the base is finished and the roof is all prepped under the tarpaulin.

The back panels are here - and the rest should arrive in the morning...

In the meantime I have been shopping on-line and my loft is full of boxes of exciting and pretty things for the Studio... Can't wait!