Lift Me Up & Away - Happy Birthday to me...

And the last of my birthday card shares... I did get quite a few more!...but most were not handmade... and the other handmade ones were retired SU! or not SU!! Shock horror...

And so now we have the lovely Uma Kathirgamanathan's card... using Lift Me Up (available in wood and clear mount) and the co-ordinating Up & Away dies... which I haven't used in a while ... so I thought I should share this lovely card with you....

Click here for Uma's blog... she has been busy making and sharing projects with the new colour combinations provided by Stampin' Up! when the new in-colors were launched back in June...or just click here for the details on this card...

Love the colour combination Uma has used... Soft Sky, Sahara Sand, Fresh Fig & Basic Black... work really well together... and the large balloon at the front really pops off the card in the flesh...

And 2 special facts about the lovely Uma...

(1) She shares her birthday with me
(2) I still can't pronounce her surname!!

Avant Garden Palm Trees Duo

 

Couple more quick card ideas using the Avant Garden Palm Trees for which I posted the details for yesterday.

Edited to Add - but also click here  to see my favourite card using this concept...

First up a simple Small Square card with a panel trio... with wording from the Lift Me Up stamp set... seemed relevant!

The card is a 21cm (ie A4wide) x 10.5cm Thick Whisper White panel scored LANDSCAPE in half at 10.5cm to make the 10.5cm card blank... 

With a 9.3cm wide x 9.9cm high Soft Sky mat... which is stamped as yesterday's and then trimmed into 3 x 3.1cm wide panels. 

Unfortunately I had to drop this card format as my finished swap card as I realised the time!! Or rather lack of it... sorry girls! 

Second up... a Small Square Pop Out Z Fold card - for which the tutorial is posted here... though I stuck down the left hand side on this version....

Sale A Bration Carried Away Papers

A few projects to share with you using the Sale A  Bration Carried Away papers. Yours for free with an order of £45 or more... These have been proving very popular amongst my ladies!

The first card is one we made at our Team Training at the beginning of the month... almost dream like! Balloons over an English patchwork field network!

And the following creations are ones that Stampin Up! and the Design Team made earlier (said in true Blue Peter fashion!)

These papers co-ordinate fantastically with the new Lift Me Up Stamps and Up & Away dies - bundled in both Wood Mount and Clear Mount for you...  

And guess what... buy these in the Wood Mount (or buy in Clear Mount - with a Tombow too!) and you get the Carried Away for Papers for free as well...

And... in order to keep all these balloons together... here are some more projects made earlier by the Stampin' Up team with the Lift Me Up stamps & Up & Away dies... 

And there is even a video for you here too... click on the pic to play!

Lovely little set of products... well worth a crafty play!