Picture Perfect Party candles

Pick a piece of Picture Perfect Party candle paper... and look at the project samples as shown on page 4 in the Spring Summer (Occasions) catalogue (as image below)

Cut the paper to a size not quite intended to CASE said sample!!! Oops!

So add a couple of mats in Lemon Lime Twist and Bermuda Bay...

Add a small piece of 1/8" Bermuda Bay Sale A Bration ribbon to replace the Fringed Ribbon in the sample (which is unfortunately not available)... but this 1/8" ribbon can be yours for free with a £45 order as it is a Sale Bration promotional item...

And here you have it... a bright and cheerful simple birthday card to get in the post in a flash...

And here are the other fabulous Picture Perfect Party projects made by the Stampin Up concept team...

Using the bright and photo-realistic Picture Perfect Papers ....

And lovely Picture Perfect Birthday stamps...

Picture Perfect Birthday Class Favourite....

I think a new phase has entered a couple of my card classes... as we go small!!

So this simple dinky little 3" Square card to pop in one of the carryover 3" Square Envelopes... was one of the Picture Perfect Party class favourites this week... and this was the other one out of interest...

And I had to laugh as these are both just stamped... and before Christmas I had promised them faithfully that I would use more papers as per their request.... lol! Like that turnabout myself!!

And I also laughed at the fact that these were stated to be the favourites... but (as usual) it was the 2 simple but Fancy Fold ones that had their attention (as they flicked them back and forth proudly) at class close-up...

Stampin Up Products used
Stitched Shapes Framelits dies
Picture Perfect Birthday stamps
3" Square Envelopes
Stampin Spots - Picture Perfect Party, Tutti Frutti 

Recipe 
Thick Whisper White 3" square Card Blank
Bermuda Bay mat 7cm Square
Die cut Stitched Square 6.5cm Square

Merry Medley Stamped Candle

Take a lovely church candle, tissue paper, a heat gun and the background Merry Medley stamp... and here is what you get...

Finished off with Burlap Ribbon, Rope Trim and a couple of Mini Jingle Bells tied up with Linen Thread...

And the daft story behind this.... I have had these candles for at least 2 years... my ladies have been promised that they were doing stamped candles and have been waiting ages for this project!!! I just never seemed to find the time (20 minutes or so) to actually make one before they were here for a class... such is the life of a demo that LOVES making lots and lots of Christmas stuff!! Well now they are finally candle-fulfilled! 

You Are Loved Valentine Ensemble

Happy Valentines Day!!

Here is a set of items we made for Valentine's Day - a Tunnel Fold Card, the tin I posted about yesterday and a decorated tea-light candle.

The tunnel fold card is a very simple but effective card to make. I used the tutorial here along with my trusted Top Note Bigz Die. All of the stamps used are from the You Are Loved stamp set.

And the Liebe, Love, Amour A La Carte stamp made decorating the tea-light candle a breeze!!! Along with the new 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch ( and a non SU! 2" punch I  have in my stash) More details about decorating the tea-light candles on my earlier blog post here.

Here is another photo  - this time showing the front of the card where I used the Top Note die shape I had cut out for the Tunnel card format inside.  The HUSBAND stamp is from the wonderful For My Family stamp set - a real have-to-have stamp set.....

Un-Convention Challenge Gift Set - Tag and Top Note Box

There is a suite of challenges been organised on In Love With Stamping for those of us demos not in Disneyland, Paris sharing in the annual European Stampin Up! Convention at the moment..... The first challenge was to create a gift set... so with Christmas in mind.... I created a tag and a Top Note box containing 4 decorated tea - light candles.

I have used the PINES & POINSETTIAS stamp set in both of these projects.  This is a stamp set that I cannot stop using ( and it didn't appeal to me at all to start with!! But I am so glad that I bought it!!) There is also the label frame from the WELCOME CHRISTMAS stamp set on top of the box.

The Two Tags die was used to create the Tag and the Top Note die to create the box lid and base. I have also used the Holly Berry Speciality Papers and some of the new Chocolate Chip Scalloped ribbon.  There is also double embossing used on the Tag using the Square Lattice embossing folder  - and then the oval frame embossing folder.

The candles were decorated by wrapping a strip of paper around the side and by stamping an image on tissue paper and then punching out using the 1 3/8" circle punch and the circle hand punch in the centre for the wick to go through ( TIP - make sure you use some scrap paper behind so that the punches can work!!) These discs were than laid on the candle and I used a heat gun to melt the wax into the paper. Very clever and  GREAT FUN!!! ( oh and I can just see a bit of Sticky Strip clinging to right hand front candle in the photo - how annoying!!!)


Next challenge - Repetition - I know exactly what I want to do  - but time and light for any photo has failed me for today. Back to the challenges tomorrow afternoon I hope!!!