Last Few Days to Join the Paper Party

It's just a few more days to join in the paper party.  Here is the wonderful selection of papers you can choose from.  Buy 3 papers from these and you get to choose a 4th paper pack for FREE! 

How will you possibly be able to pick from this selection? I am loving the Twitterpated and Attic Boutique papers from the Summer Mini which are included in the offer! Remember Mini Catalogue items are available for a limited period only.

To Place an order, email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

Father's Day Makes

We had a fabulous day out as a family yesterday, but I wanted to show you all the cards we had to celebrate!  The ideas all came from other crafters from pinterest posts so I cannot claim the designs to be all my own work.  I did make some changes and embellishments as once the creative juices were flowing I started adding bits here and there.

The first card is a simple punched card and layering card.  I used the little leaves die for the Big Shot to make this card.  Colours were the Certainly Celery from the subtles with Early expresso, but I also added in the Pool Party and Calypso Coral from the new In Colours for a light summery feel. 

This card design I found on line with just the background cutout images (the leftover cuts from using the die), but I added the cut leaves images over the top as a shadow effect with the colours mixed round.  As my die has had some use the foam cushioning has lots of indentations which left a patterning on the background images, but I think this looks quite like the natural detailing on a leaf.

The second card was from a boat design I have seen posted around.  I used a bowl to draw round for the base and then just created triangle shapes - No punches or Big Shot required here!  This is a simple design that just works as it uses the DSP papers, buttons and brads to embellish.  I used the recently retired sale-a-bration papers for this one as I still have some to use up.













The best 'til last!  The Pirate Boat. The Boat I made from the top note die for the big shot and I made 3-D with a little nip and tuck and a layer between the two top notes to make it stand off the paper .  I also made the sea waves 3-D with a little Dimensionals to lift the layers.  I loved playing around with this one for a fun card and it would be great for a young birthday boy card too!

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Sweet Tweets!

I have been busy with my newest edition of stamps - Aviary - for the family birthday run.  I don't know about you, but in our family we have all the birthdays come at once so having crafting kit to hand to produce lovely handmade cards is such a bonus.

The Aviary set is one I just could not wait to get hold of since the new catalogue was released and luckily for me during the last Sale-a-bration period demonstrators were able to earn a free stamp set so it was top of my list!  What more reasons do you need to become a demonstrator yourself than free stamp sets and product?

I just love the cute birdies in the set. Even better, there is a co-ordinating DSP paper - Nursery Nest - which makes it so much easier to create lovely cards or items.  As this card was for my niece all it needed was some ribbon and sparklies to make it all girlie and job done.

The second card was for another little one for a 2nd birthday.  Less stamping needed, but a little help from the stamp-a-ma-jig to get the line (created with the cage stand stamp laid horizontally).

To place your order for any of these items or a catalogue, email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

I'm Back ! - So Much News to Catch Up On!

Wow - what an amazing month of May!  I have been away a while due to wedding madness taking over.  So many wedding items to make for my lovely day and I did it!  I was so pleased with my crafting results and received lovely comments all day for my efforts including special mention from my new hubby in his speech.  I have lots of photos to share later, but there is so much to catch up on for Stampin' Up news they will just have to wait.  I hope you sitting comfortably with a cuppa as this is going to be a long post.

There's been so much happening over at Stampin' Up it is almost as exciting as my wedding - well....almost!  Whilst I have been away the new Summer Mini Catalogue launched and I can't believe it has taken me until to tell you all about it.  Don't wait too long to go take a look, as with all the mini catalogues, the products are only available for a limited period and there really are some lovely sets to get your hands om.  There's not only new stamping sets, but new tools too!  I can't wait to get get my hands on a scoring pad tool and play!

To View a Copy of the Mini Summer Catalogue online- click here

If you just can't wait to place an order and take advantage of the current offers? - Just email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

Well, not content in enticing you with a new mini catalogue of product, Stampin' Up have launched two offers during June and July. 

For June it is time to join in the 'Paper Party'.
Whether you are a scrapbooker or a card maker or love playing with paper to enhance your 3D items - during June, get a FREE package of Stampin’ Up!’s exclusive Designer Series Paper—a £9.95 value—when you buy three from selected packs! See here for the included designs.

Choose from a wide variety of designs and colours available in the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog and 2012 Summer Mini Catalogue.  For more details click here.  What a great way to club together with crafting pals and arrange to buy 3 between you and get a 4th pack free!  A minimum of £29.85  works out at £7.47 each for a pack of DSP papers, each containing 12 sheets!

And for June thru to July inclusive, to show our hostesses our love, Stampin' Up! are offering £30 extra in FREE products when you host a £325 party or more!   With sales starting at £325 for example, you would receive a whopping £80 hostess pounds and also have 50% off 1 item of your choice (normally £50 hostess pounds plus 1 item of your choice at 50% off). With a brand-new mini catalogue, there’s never been a better time to party that celebrates your and your friends’ creativity!

Even more good news....... If you love the products so much and you are looking for a part-time business opportunity then this news will interest you - Stampin’ Up! have launched a new lower priced starter kit. The new kit costs £99 and is fully customisable with any items from current catalogues, including the Summer Mini too! You can sit down with your catalogues and browse to your hearts content, choosing £130 worth of products for the £99 you pay! It's never been a better time to buy as you will also receive a business kit worth £45 that will help you get started with your business.  

So you are thinking of joining - then drop me an email and I can arrange to call at a time convenient to you to talk you through what it involves. If you do then decide to join, you will join my team and you will also get me to help support and guide you during your Stampin’ Up! journey, but also join a fabulously strong up line group of truly inspirational crafters to help guide and support you!

Last Chance for Mini Catalogue Orders

Who doesn't love Easter?  Well today's post are all about Easter. Here's my gorgeously cute Bunny Basket.  Made using the punches from Stampin' Up! I saw this on a post from another demonstrator on deliaspaperworld.wordpress.com and just had to get my punches out to try it. I did not have all the punches used, but used a little alternative to the decorative bauble punch, but it worked. I filled them with mini egg goodies for my nieces and they were super impressed!


The following two are the lovely Easter makes I made at a workshop recently. 



The stamp set of course for the card, is the Easter Blossoms set from the mini catalogue.  The colours are Elegant Eggplant and Perfect Plum a fabulous combination.

I loved using the scallop edge ribbon which made such a quick difference to a simple stamped card.  The eyelet border punch also made a delicate edge to layer the card. You cannot see so well in the picture, but the middle egg has a pearl in it to decorate the egg; you could even add a second layer on a dimensional pad to raise the middle image if making this for yourself.

I am a perfectionist at heart and so the eggs on the card were lined up using the Stamp-a-ma-jig tool  to make sure they were straight.  I probably should have used a glue and a ruler to secure the ribbon as it has slipped slightly on the glue dots under it!

 Another project I demonstrated to the group was the gift bag shown here.  It was cut and scored from a simple template I found online (sorry I have lost the link to credit it). Just one sheet of card and of the oval punches were used to create the handles and again some decoration added with the You Are Loved and Easter Blossom stamp sets.

The corner punch, which I could not be without, makes the corners look softer and gives a professional finish to the top of the bag.  This is just the right size for Easter goodies or sweet treats at other times of the year too!

Both stamp sets are featured in the mini catalogue and are available only until end of April so if you want these sets, be quick! You will need to order them without delay to make sure you get them!  I have used them for Valentine's, Mother and Easter makes to show how versatile they are.

Don't miss out, to Place an order, email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

Free Designer Papers!

What a fantastic March celebrating with my customers with their free product, I hope you are all enjoying your new stamps and designer paper.  Great news! Stampin' Up! are still treating  you for spring as from 1-30 April 2012, you can get one free pack of a selection of the gorgeous Designer Series Papers when you spend £45 on Stampin’ Up! products*.

Choose from the following:

Item	Description
122350	Berry Blossom Designer Series Paper
122342	Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper
122347	Nursery Nest Designer Series Paper
122354	Pocketful of Posies Designer Series Paper

*Limit of one gift with purchase for every qualifying order.

Contact me TODAY to get FREE Designer Series Paper with your qualifying purchase of £45 in Stampin’ Up! products. To Place an order, email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

Only 5 more Sale-a-Bration days to go!

Don't miss out, there's still time to place an order and enjoy a Sale-a-bration!  Last order date for this exciting order time is this Saturday 31st March. Remember, the exclusive stamp sets and paper pack that are part of this years Sale-a-bration offering will no longer be available after this time. Some of my customers have been enjoying their free product through this month and some, more than once!  Don't forget to look through my previous posts to see the lovely stamp sets and papers in action.

If you don't have a wish list long enough to benefit from the Sale-a-bration (hard to believe), but want to order something and save yourself the normal delivery cost (£4.95 per order) by picking up from me in Church Crookham, Fleet then don't delay, get in touch.  Have you wanted a new marker pen or some ribbon to co-ordinate with paper you already have in Stampin' Up! colours? Then just let me know as no order is too small.

Remember too, this is the last few weeks to order from the Spring Mini Catalogue!  The products from this are only available until the end of April.  The Easter Blossoms and You Are Loved are two of my favourite stamp sets and I just had to order them when I saw them.  As you can see from my posts they have had some use these last few weeks!
 
So, sit down with a cuppa and your latest catalogues and email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com with your order.

Happy Mother's Day!

What a fabulous Mother's Day I have had!  A lovely time has been spent with the family today.  Whilst I am here I thought I would share the cards I made with some of the current stamp sets for the 3 mother's lucky enough to receive them from our household on this day - yes, that was 3 cards to make!

The first will look very familiar to you all who have seen the mini catalogue already as I have used the catalogue for inspiration.  That is the great thing about the Idea and Catalogue it really is full of inspiration and I love flicking through to see what catches my eye.  When I am not sure where to start from I just look there and play around with one of the ideas using it as a template. 

This time I loved the card so much I made almost an exact replica (what a cheat!). The stamp set is the Easter Blossoms from the mini catalogue for Easter, but I loved the blossom background and the little girl silhouette for this card so I changed the sentiment to make this a Mother's Day card.  The 'For My Wonderful Mother' stamp is part of the Delightful Dozen set - this stamp set is full of useful greetings for the year and I am working my way through them!

I changed the designer paper to Beau Chateau and used the Seam Binding Ribbon ruffled up too as a change to the original design.  To create the ruffle you just need to cut the Seam Binding Ribbon then catch a single thread from the end and pull it to gather the ribbon up.


Colours for the card are Rose Red, Crumb cake, Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla.  The flower is from the Boho Blossoms punch with Certainly Celery and some River Rock scraps, finished off with some pearls for that extra special feel.
 
The second card I made was with the Sale-a-Bration Fresh Vintage stamp set and using Baja Breeze and the 2012-2013 In Colours.  This is a card layered with the Sale-A-Bration designer papers Everyday Enchantment and the Fresh Vintage stamped images.  I used the marker pens to colour the stamps to match the paper design.  I have stuck the images with dimensionals to give the card layering.

The decorative label is an off cut from another recent project, my wedding invitations - it is a decorative label made from Very Vanilla, embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder for the Big Shot and then inked on the edges with Crumb Cake ink  using a sponge dauber.  Watch this space to see pictures of the wedding stationery at a later date!

The third card again came from inspiration from the catalogue.  This is using the You Are Loved stamp set.  The background is Baja Breeze and and I have then used marker pens again to ink the flower and stuck it with a Dimensional pad to lift it from the card. 

Again, I have used the 'For My Wonderful Mother' from the Delightful Dozen set on the tag.  The Satin Ribbon is Certainly Celery and fixed with glue dots in the gathered effect.  Of course, a few pearls here just accent the flower and ribbon to finish the card off - a simply lovely design!

I hope you love the cards, and for all you mother's I hope you have been made to feel truly special today too!

Remember the Sale-a-Bration is only until the end of this month, March and the Mini Catalogue sets featured here are also only available until the end of April. Email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com to place an order or see what dates I have available for a hostess party with you.

Elementary Elements Sale-A-Bration Time

It's a celebration time!  My customers have been celebrating already with the gorgeous free products they have been earning during this fabulous sale time at Stampin' Up!

If you haven't been tempted already here are a couple of cards I have produced with the Elementary Elegance stamp set and the new 2012-2013 In Colours Card Stock. 

The background is my old favourite Crumb Cake, but the accent cards used are Calypso Coral and Pool Party from the new In Colours selection.  The In Colours match up with the Everyday Enchantment Designer Paper from the Sale-a-Bration products - perfect!  I love the vintage prints on the papers too they are so gorgeous!

I just had to use the little stamps as part of the stamp set for the borders.  There is a little bird, a key and butterfly on my card, but the set also has a crown stamp as these all tie in with the new charms and jewellery offerings in the mini catalogue. 

The Happy Birthday Greeting is a fantastic font which I have stamped in the middle of the lovely decorative label.  Don't forget this border stamp also co-ordinates with the curly label punch too for even easier project work!

 There's still some time left to host your own party to earn these and other free Sale-a-Bration products, just give me a call and we can set up a date!  You don't need to host a party either, you can just place your own order and earn the products for yourself.

Remember to email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

Vatlentine Hearts

Yesterday I tried the stepped card for the first time for my You Are Loved card and then as it is Valentine's Day today I used the card layout again.

This time out came the Small Heart Punch and the little heart from the Owl Builder Punch to make this lovely confetti heart card.

The treat cups I bought for a Christmas project to fill with treats, but they don't need to be filled with goodies to be the centre of attention.


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