Crafting With You Pillar Fold Card

Going out with my thank you gifts this month.. a simple but effective Pillar Fold card with a 3D'd die cutting machine!

Featuring the lovely new Crafting With You bundle... such a great set for projects for so many of your crafting friends... be they papercrafters, knitters, sew-ers or artists... and I can't tell you how much I have used that flower spray image...

Along with Well Suited retired papers for the grid mat... although I was going to use a bit of grid paper until I spotted these papers in my stash...

Huge apologies for the delay in sharing projects recently... life keeps getting in the way! Quite a lot of cards made over the past few months... but no time for photo editing and writing tutorials up etc so I just never got to share as I would normally do... aka I didn't share any of them!

So instead of just not sharing... I'm going to (quickly) share images of cards made... with or (probably) without tutorials etc... and please bear with me as August and September are also looking even busier... but then winter comes and more time may come back on my crafty side...

 

Stamp Sale - 24 hours only - 15% discount...

For 24 hours only... 15% discount on all the stamps in the Annual Catalogue (just not Host Sets)  

Starting (for the UK) from tonight, Tuesday 18 July at 11:00 p.m.. Ending Wednesday 19 July at 10:59 p.m. 

Click HERE to go and order online... and don't forget to add the Host Code ED7JZQNQ for an extra free gift from me...

Oh... and a quick reminder of other things going on or refreshed this July...and/or CLICK HERE for more details before you buy!

Misplaced your catalogue? Click HERE to download a copy...

July Round Up...

Lots going on this month! 

So a quick round up for you.. Please click on the image to see more information on that particular aspect... 

1) Clearance Rack refreshed... up to 60% off original prices... only while stocks last 

2) On Line Exclusives refreshed... some lovely new products... while supplies last though some may be replenished... 

Lots to look at but do check out the One Horse Open Sleigh papers and bundle that are proving ever so popular! Hope they get more in! 

Oh and the Trucking Along punch & stamps...

3) Bonus Days promotion... £4.50 coupon (code) to spend for free in August for every £45 ordered during July...

4) 2 new Kits...

5) New Host Code... use for an extra free gift for shopping with The Craft Spa (UK)... 

WOW! My 15 years Stamp-a-Versary...

Little did I think that I would still be here doing this 15 years ago! 

Like most people I originally signed up with Stampin' Up! just for the discount on my personal crafting supplies... but ended up with so so much more! 

So many really good friends made with class and online customers, blog followers, other demonstrators all round the world and Stampin' Up! staff.. as well as still keeping in touch with school-year friends and neighbours that became class mates/crafters... So so many good times and tears (mainly of laughter I hasten to add...)  

As an aside here... a huge thanks to all of you that follow and read my blog posts - whether that be since August 2009 when I started... or just a few days ... I hope that you still find all the tutorials useful... and I still hope to resume with more... as I am still creating a few cards per month to share... 

And a particular thanks to those of you that have purchased tutorials - there aren't so many of them (as they are somewhat longer tutorials that take a huge amount of time to produce) - but those purchases have enabled me to remain a demonstrator for the last 3 years... as they have funded my orders whilst classes weren't possible...

Plus... craft inspiration and "learning on the job" in bucket loads... and then the true honour of using all that in turn to inspire and instruct others... whether via this blog online or face to face...  I still laugh at my comment a few years in that " I used to spend all my time researching , shopping and then storing and logging my crating purchases...but not much creating... Then after joining Stampin' Up! I spent all my time learning, experimenting & creating as well as sharing those creations... much more satisfying... and a lot cheaper!"

But I can honestly say that I never dreamt that my brain would be able to design new card folds and packaging ideas! Or blog... or write tutorials for others to follow... and definitely not stand up in a room presenting to lots of fellow demonstrators (though admittedly these times have been few and far between as that is not in my comfort zone at all!) And oh... I could never imagine running a "Health improving service" for fellow demonstrators either!! Amazing what happens after you lose 5 stone yourself...

Oh and a lot of crafting supplies earnt over the years! Effectively all earnt for free! 

Here's to the next 15...

But before I go... and I may be in trouble with some of these!! Just a few recollections over the years! In no particular order...  If you know... you know! Good times! Mostly!