Happy Holidays!

Well folks - I am off on holiday tomorrow - luckily I have friends staying at the house to look after the menagerie! It looks like, as I leave, the good weather is arriving in the UK - so enjoy it and please save me some!

I am scheduling a couple of posts so you don't miss me too much!

But for today I'm sharing the card I have made for my Dad for Fathers Day - don't worry - he's not the most 'web savvy' and probably doesn't know what a blog is... let alone that I have one!

I realised after I made this, that everything I used apart from the card stock, ink and the 1" Square Punch, is retiring - so if you see anything you like - order it now before it's gone!

The background stamp is from the Day of Gratitude set. The alphabet is the Lovely Letters Alphabet, punched out with the 1" square and mounted on punched out shapes using the Extra Large Tag. The tiny tags were stamped using the Tiny Tags Stamp Set and punched out with the co-ordinating Punch.

The array of words and letters were then hung on Lucky Limeade Bakers Twine and the three letters had dimensionals (which aren't retiring) stuck on the back so they would stay in place.

I hope you like it... I think I'm going to share it on the Stampin' Up! Facebook page as I really LOVE this card.

I hope you'll like what I'm sharing whilst I'm away - I think I'll go and pack my suitcases now... I have so much to do!

Paula xxx

Stampin' Up! Scrapbooking

I hope you enjoyed this weekends Pinkies Blog Hop!

Before I started using Stampin' Up! products I had never heard of Scrapbooking, let alone tried it!

So here I am ten months later and I have created my first Scrapbook page!

One of my dogs won a class at an Agility competition that meant he has been promoted to the next level. He is now Grade 5. The highest is Grade 7. So as you can imagine I was so proud. So I decided my first tentative steps into the scrapbooking world would be to create a page in celebration of Blaze.

 

 

Don't you just love the detail on the Butterfly?

 

 

 

I used -

 

Colours - So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Lucky Limeade

Punches - Elegant Butterfly, Scallop Edge Border, Blossom, 1 3/4" and 1 1/4" Scallop Circles

Stamp Sets - Flowering Flourishes, Papillon Pot Pourri, Mixed Bunch and Lovely Letters Alphabet

Embellishments - Pearl Basic Jewels, Brushed Bronze Designer Buttons and some Bakers Twine

Designer Series Paper - Twitterpated

 

I would love your thoughts on my attempt so please leave a comment!

 

If you would like to buy Stampin' Up! products I can take your order and have it delivered to your door! Just give me a call on 07786 860438

 

Paula xxx

 

 

 



Punch Art and Embroidery

Last week a very good friend of mine had a birthday. Now this friend collects Elephants and I don't have an Elephant stamp so I wracked my brains, trawled Google and CASE'd this card... with a few tweaks. (I can't remember whose Blog it was on but there were a couple of versions.)

As well as a selection of Stampin' Up punches I also used my Adorning Accents Edgelits and my Little Leaves Sizzlits.

The 'E' which is my friends initial is stamped with the new Lovely Letters Alphabet Stamps.

Then to co-ordinate with the card I embroidered another little elephant with a lilac butterfly on to a cotton tote bag.

I do embroider these bags to order and they are available in lots of colours at £8.50 per bag plus P&P.

Having posted every day last week I thought I would add a little suspense... and stop bombarding my friends with FB links to my Blog. So this week I have been a little more selective. But check back each day just in case there is something new to see.

There will also be a Pinkies Blog Hop coming soon!

For those of you who haven't heard of this, it's a post with a link to the next Blog... then the next links to the next and so on. So you are taken on a tour of Pinkie Blogs. I hope you enjoy it.

The first Blog in the Hop will be the lovely Michelle Last... who is our wonderful Upline though you can start anywhere on the Hop as it will link in a continuous loop.

Hope you are having a good week!

Paula xxx