Convention 2014 General Swaps

Well today is the last day of convention - but I'm stopping in Brussels until Sunday afternoon to have a look round and shop!

My general swaps are small and simple for a number of reasons...

• I had to transport them here to Brussels in one piece on an aircraft
• I wanted to make as many as possible to swap
• My general crafting style is simple so these reflect that
• I wanted to be able to carry them round in as small a container as possible once I got to the convention centre so I had room for all the freebies!

I think they are just perfect little gift tags don't you?

I used the Scallop Tag Topper Punch and the little saying is from the Something to Say stamp set.

Well I'll be back in Blighty tomorrow with all my goodies and will hopefully share some with you!

Pxxxx

Pillow Gift

By the time you read this I will be in Brussels, Belgium. I am bursting with excitement and wanted to spend the next 3 days sharing some items I prepared for convention.

It is a Stampin' Up! tradition to make a 'Pillow Gift' for your room mate. Now the lady I share with is super talented so it is really hard to think of things for her. This year these are my gifts...

I made the two little boxes and decorated them with Designer Series Paper, little flowers from Something to Say and Pearls coloured with my Blendabilities.

The first box contains 4 packs of mini Tic Tacs and the other a candle I decorated with the same DSP

It's a little hard to see but this box is double sided with the other 2 packs of Tic Tacs on the other side.

The patterned paper is Speciality Designer Series Paper - Gold Soiree and I just love this pattern!

Back tomorrow with one of my swaps!

Hope you'll stop by!

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

Butterflies

I know - I am so rubbish! Can't believe it's been 4 days since I posted. I have loads of new goodies from the upcoming new Autumn/Winter Seasonal catalogue and haven't even opened them yet!

If you would like £150 of product for just £99 - You need to get in touch now as you only have from tomorrow until the 29th August to take advantage of this joining offer - And no further obligation though I can guarantee you'll love being part of my team and the wider Pink Ladies!

I have just been so unbelievably busy, rushing round like a loony. I was going to go away in my caravan for the weekend but decided I need to prep for Tuesdays class and get on with my Project Life album - I was up until midnight last night printing off over 200 photo's.

Sometimes although I have new stash - I like to fish out some old favourites and make something... it's warm and comforting like an old jumper.

Papillon Potpourri and Gorgeous Grunge had an outing the other day.

I started with this one and used the sentiment from Something to Say and the embossing folder is Decorative Dots. I was really pleased with the result and it's amazing how the neutrals - in this case Crumb Cake, give a card something.

Anyway - I was on a roll so decided to step it up a bit and made this one too...

I gave the sentiment more depth by mounting it on Dimensionals and added a flourish with the Linen Thread.

Isn't it amazing how much difference a tiny adjustment can make - all the products I used are shown below and are available from my on-line shop?

Well I'm off to start cutting out those photos and play with my Project Life goodies.

Back Soon! xxxx

Gorgeous Grunge

£21.95

Gorgeous Grunge

£17.95

Papillon Potpourri

£16.95

Papillon Potpourri Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£13.95

Something To Say Wood-Mount Stamp Set

£26.95

Something To Say Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£19.95

Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

£7.50

Elegant Butterfly Punch

£14.25

Bitty Butterfly Punch

£14.25

Word Window Punch

£14.25

Banner Punch

£11.50

Linen Thread

£3.95

2013-2015 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack

£19.50

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Pinkies Blog Hop - 2014 Annual Catalogue

Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop. We're showcasing lots of gorgeous projects using products from the new Stampin' Up! annual catalogue. Simply use the buttons at the end of each post to keep hopping!

I hope you are enjoying the hop so far, if you are starting here please check out the rest of the Hop!

I have so much gorgeous new product that it was hard to choose what to focus on - I have chosen Hot Diggity Dog as it is what we're using for our August class!

The first card features the Scotty dog, I coloured his jumper with Stampin' Up! Blendabilities, the apertures were cut using the Ovals Framelits and the mat was embossed with the Woodgrain embossing folder.

I used the Stampamajig to get the head positioned perfectly and then the sentiment was punched out using the Word Window and Modern Label punches.

If our Scottie dog wasn't cute enough here is a super simple card made using the Dachshund... and when you open it up!

That was so much fun to make and took minutes! The last card is one of my Pop Up cards, I did a tutorial for these - this one however has a twist! I used the Poodle this time, the star stamp from Something to Say and the co-ordinating star punch from the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack. The decoration on the belly band is punched with 3 different size Circles and one of the Scallop Circle punches.

So here's the surprise - can you see what I've done?

I've reversed the images - come back Monday for the first of two techniques in my Back to Basic series that show you how to stamp mirror images.

Hot Diggity Dog Wood-Mount Stamp Set

£26.95

Hot Diggity Dog Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£19.95

Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Daffodil Delight Assortment

£10.95

Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Coastal Cabana Assortment

£10.95

Ovals Collection Framelits Dies

£22.95

Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

£7.50

Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

£10.95

Word Window Punch

£14.25

Modern Label Punch

£15.50

Something To Say Wood-Mount Stamp Set

£26.95

Something To Say Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£19.95

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

£15.50

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Framed Prints...

If you recall I was asked to be part of the design team for the Stampin' Up! Regional Training in the UK...

Here is a little something I put together... so I have had a couple of stabs at scrapbooking... It's just this was on a very small scale to showcase the new stamp set - Something to Say and the Itty Bitty Accent punches that coordinate with some of the images in the stamp set.

This was another of those Box Frames that I bought. Do you notice how I was able to stamp in Versamark on the frame and heat emboss those cute flowers?

I used the Ovals Collection framelits too. As well as a Scallop Circle and Circle punch.

I love the shape of the little heart - and the new big Sweetheart punch is a similar shape.

I'll be back soon with a picture of my Dad's Birthday Card.

Open House...

Well we had a brilliant time at the Open House today, I think because there was no pressure to finish the projects in a given time everyone had a chance to chat and stroke their new catalogues and the new products.

I bought Macaroons and fresh fruit... we never did make it to the cake... though apparently I make nice coffee.

As it was a smaller group than I expected I gave each of the ladies a photopolymer stamp set to try out with a pack of ribbon with matching buttons. I think they were a bit surprised but hopefully in a nice way.

We used the new Something for Baby set - which will be available from the 1st of July, we also used the coordinating framelits as well as the Hearts Collection framelits and Decorative Dots embossing folder.

Here are a few of our creations.

The sentiment is from a new set too... Something to Say. Hope you like them!

Back tomorrow with some Project Life!

It's Here!

Well the brown boxes arrived on the brown van yesterday but unfortunately I had to rush one of the dogs to the vet as he got bitten out on a walk... unfortunately I got in the way too... not too badly bitten but I have a bruise to be proud of!

So... I just unpacked them and look what was inside...

In amongst all my new goodies! Don't forget if you book for the Open House by the 10th of June you'll get one free!

I have my Project Life kit and have ordered a swanky new Laserjet Printer for all those photo's I'll be journalling!

I haven't had time to play but here is a little something I made for display as a Sneak Peek at Telford.

How cute is he? Here are the tags close up - using the Something to Say stamp set!

The little flowers were from the same stamp set and punched out using one of the 3 co-ordinating punches... Itty Bitty Accents.

Click on the image below to e-mail me and reserve your copy of the catalogue!