Sale-a-bration is here

Its thats time of the year for the Sale-a-bration promotion. This entitles you to free products from a choice of 17 if you place an order with me for over £45.00.

I have had the opportunity to play with some of the new freebies on offer and Sycamore Street designer series papera are so lovely. I have made a card using more of the freebies in the promotion...Maddison Avenue stamp set, Sycamore Street ribbons and buttons and the Vine Street Textured Embossing folder. The sentiment is from the Pretty Pretties stamp set and the matching punch Petite Curly Label....also both in the promo. The decorative border is from the Finishing Touches edgelets in the main catalogue. I used my new scoreboard to emboss an border.

 

 

I love the colouring in the collection, Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, Island Indigo, and Rich Razzleberry.

 

Details of the Sale-a-bration can be found on the side bar and the promotion lasts until 22nd March. Your choice of 17 products to choose from free and all except 6 items will not be available again.

 

If you would like to order anything please get in touch, remember the Autumn/Winter catalogue finishes on the 31st Jan.

 

 

A few new promotions to kick the crafty year off

2013 celebrates 25th Anniversary of Stampin'Up and there are plenty of wonderful new things coming your way. The year kicks off with My Little Valentine promotion. A stamp set by the same name has been designed exclusively for this promotion and consists of 4 pieces. Buy this set between now and 21st January and you get the sealed with love simply sent collection of note cards ( and embellishments free worth £8.25 FREE !! Below are the details and as this is an exclusive stamp set it will not be available again after the 21st Jan.

 

 

 

 

132242  My Little Valentine (English; clear-mount)  £9.95   FREE   autumn/winter catalogue 126923 Simply Sent £8.25       Next we have the introduction of Talking Tags, details below and if like me  you like video tutorials I have added one at the bottom 10 tags are £7.25 129723 If you are interested in any of the above please get in touch.

                 

 

Happy New Year

I hope you all had a wonderful New Year and that 2013 will be a happy, healthy and prosperous one for you all.

Stampin'Up will have alot of fab new products heading your way very soon, January 22nd to March 22nd sees the launch of the 2013 SALE-A-BRATION promotion. This gets you free goodies with every order over £45.00. In past years you have had a choice of 4 items, this year its 17 and some of those are in the current catalogue. Just after SAB starts the new Spring/Summer catalogue will launch and that has some wonderful new products in it. More about that nearer the time but time is ticking for any orders from the current Autumn/Winter catalogue, so if you want anything please let me know asap.

Now that Christmas is over and peace is restored I will making some cards with SAB products. The craft room has had another major sort out and Christmas stash put away so I now have no excuse to get crafting.

Take care and enjoy whats left of the bank holiday

Ornament Keepsakes

Here are a few different colour combos on some of the cards I sent out this year using the Ornament keepsakes stamps and the Holiday Ornament die set. I did use some Wow powder on the first one as I dont have many SU embossing powders. The other colours on the top one are Basic Grey and Cherry Cobbler, on the second one Lucky Limeade and the third one Pool Party, Island Indigo and Midnight Muse. I just added some elastic and various ribbons from my stash. Some have gems and glitter glue ans the third one has added dimension with some of the other stamps in the set.

 

 

 

 

I hope you have a wonderful christmas and I leave you with a little video from everyone at Stampin'Up

 

 

 

Merry Christmas

 

 

Another Holiday Frame card

This card is the more clean and simple version of the Holiday frame card I featured in my last post. Not the best photo but you get the idea. The cardstock and embossing powder is Cherry Cobbler, the "Noel" is from the Joyous celebrations stamp set. The oval is the extra large punch and the embossed shape behind is one of the labels framelits cut in Cherry card and then embossed with the oval embossing folder from the Designer Frames Folder set. Some white ribbon and some gem stones in each corner to finish. I have also spritzed it with some of the Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz, but unfortunately its not showing in the photo.

Back tomorrow with different versions of my main Christmas card I made this year, featuring the Ornament stamp set and dies.

I hope you are safe and warm at home and not out and about in the christmas maddness!!

Holiday Frame Christmas card

 

 

Cards are all done and posted so hopefully I will now have more time for blogging. This is another card I made for a class recently. I used the Holiday frame embossing folder with the new Coredinations cardstock in Early Espresso. This comes in 12x12 sheets and Stampin'Up have a sanding block and cleaner to remove the dust. The stamps come from the Joyus Celebrations set and the frame is stamped with Cherry Cobbler ink and the reindeer in the Early Espresso ink. The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set and the cardstock is Cherry Cobbler and Gumball Green. Punches used are the new extra larger oval punch and the Modern Label punch. Finished off with some Cherry Cobbler seam binding.

Back next time with the same embossing folder but a completely different look.

Ornament Keepsakes

I had a class with a lovely craft group the other week and we did 3 Christmas cards, heres the first one. The set is probably the most popular stamp set ever, gorgeous baubles with co-ordinating dies. I went with a slightly diferent colour combo that the usual Early Espresso, Pool Party and Island Indigo. The sentiment is from the Curly Cute stamp set. The main baubles were stamped and then die cut on White cardstock. The centres were stamped and the circle punched with a circle punch, the oval one was cut with scissors. The small brown bauble was stamped onto the cardstock directly and the centre stamped and punched out again and attached with foam pads.

There is alot happening within Stampin'Up at the moment and the new year will see lots of exciting things coming but one of the most eagerly awaiting is the Stampin'Up trimmer. I have a basket full of trimmers from several companies I have collected over the years but they all have the same fault....the extension hinge folds between the 5" and 6" marks. so cutting to any increments inbetween is difficult. The SU one has a larger cutting area and is £22.95 and is available to buy now, if anyone is interested heres a little video.



 

 

Back tomorrow with an embossed card