Happy New Catalogue Day... and Classes & Kits...

The Spring Summer (aka Jan - June) mini catalogue is now live...  Lots of fabulous new products for the Spring, Summer and other occasions in the months ahead... just what we need in the New Year to lift our mood...

Along with the Sale A Bration promotion that runs for the months of Jan & Feb...

Just click on the front cover images above to download your own copies... or click here to email and request hard copies from me if you have not already received them... and /or click HERE for the Online Store... 

Sale A Bration... You know the one... free products earned with each and every £45 purchased...

And when placing a qualifying £275+ order... 

Or when joining the Stampin' Up! club membership scheme (aka becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator)

Don't forget to add my current Host Code 2M9J6VDH when ordering to earn an extra gift(s) from me...

And oh... as I know a lot of you have it on your Wish List... the New Horizons paper pack (157768) is not available to order until next week... and bear in mind that the ordering systems do not accept back orders anymore... Sorry for these complications at this time... 

And last but not least... I am now busy planning class kits and bundles - and will be back with you very shortly with more details... 

In the meantime... as I am always asked! I have for my immediate use... for a real landscape fest...

• Grassy Grove bundle... Simply stunning IMHO...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On the Horizon bundle (but awaiting the papers! So February kit... Can't wait to create with these...)
  
  
  
  
  
• Oceanfront stamps
  
  
  
  
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  Cloud Punch (I nearly missed this little beauty!)
  
  
  
• Sale A Bration free Driving By stamps
• Sale A Bration free Friendly Hello bundle (stamps & papers)
• Sale A Bration free Sunshine & Rainbows papers

So for January... I will be focusing on a Grassy Grove free Class in the Mail with bundle purchase... though I think you may see a bit of Oceanfront and clouds too...

And I do have a few immediate plans for the Sale A Bration Driving By stamp set too!!! Remember we are a VW obsessed family! 

Then for February… an On The Horizon Kit & Class - and Free Class with bundle... though please feel free to get your bundle orders in early... as I think this suite is going to be VERY popular... and I do plan to start using the stamps and dies during January... 

Sorry for the delay in providing all the details... but a few technical issues thwarted me! Though I think I have sorted them out now! Until the next one... lol with clenched teeth!!!

New Catalogue... Sale a Bration... and videos...

So today is the day for lots of bright and cheerful new stuff and news ...

First up... the new Spring Summer catalogue is now live. 

Click here to download your own copy... or ... if in the UK... click here to request a hard copy in the post if you have not already received one from me... and you would like me to be your Demonstrator...

Secondly... the Sale A Bration promotion is also now live... 

You know the one... a free and exclusive gift for every £45 product ordered... plus another £20 for orders over £200... and - last but not least -  the best time to join our Stampin Up family!

Click here to download the leaflet with all the details... and  showing the exclusive free products

And exclusive at The Craft Spa... Want to maximise your Sale A Bration rewards without placing a very large order in one go? Why not join my Sale A Bration Club? A 3 month club at a budget to suit you... Click here for more details...

But in summary for the Sale A Bration promotion...

SHOP : Earn a free exclusive product for EVERY £45 ordered.
eg one Level One for £45 - or one Level Two for £90 - or two Level Ones for £90 etc etc etc

 HOST: Earn another £20 free product for orders over £200

JOIN: £170 product for £99 OR £170 product plus TOTE bag for £125

Here is a picture of the wonderful Tote bag and/or click here for more photos & more information on the Tote bag (RRP £47)...and do spot how beautifully it co-ordinates with the Stamparatus bag too...

Yes I am very biased!!! As I do so love a good craft Storage bag (or two!)

I will be back with a lot more to share from these 2 new publications... but in the meantime... hows about some videos of 5 of the free and exclusive Sale A Bration products... just click on the picture or title to play...

• Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper (item 149622)

• Lovely Lattice Stamp Set (item 149730)

• Tea Time Framelits Dies (item 149697)
• See co-ordinating Tea Together stamps on page 49 of the Spring Summer catalogue... 
• Oh and ... hot off the press... please note that these dies will be carrying over into the 2019-20 Annual Catalogue!!

• Grapefruit Grove & Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets (item 149712)
• Urm... How popular are these foil sheets going to be around here!

• Precious Parcel Card Kit (item 149750)

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Small Square Springtime Foils Z Fold Card with Tutorial

So back to this card shared earlier and the details for you... as per a number of requests...

It has proven very popular via Pinterest...and "in the flesh" so I am happy to say that it will be one of the cards being made in March classes at The Craft Spa... just hope I can get enough Springtime Foils paper for everyone... as these are exclusively available for free with a £45 order...

So the card is a Small Square Z Fold card... though I had to tweak the measurements so that the paper sizes were the same as the Double Gatefold card shared here with the Tutorial... to keep class prepping easier...

But in hindsight ... I will just use inches for my next classes... but as this inches conversion (3 1/2" square) as shown in blue text is slightly smaller than my actual 9.8cm (3 7/8") square card.... I will go up to a 4" Square card for this one and use the 12x12 cardstock version for the Double Gatefold.... hence the 2nd inches/imperial measurements shown in green for you here! Yup.. that is definitely easier...

But if you like a smaller card... just follow the blue text instead!

Now in class everyone gets to choose the colour of the card blank... as long as it co-ordinates with one of the current Stampin Blends colours... so I used Calypso Coral...

Craft Spa Recipe
A4 Calypso Coral 19.6 x 9.8cm (7" x 3 1/2") or (8" x 4")
Paper Dots 4.5 x 9.3cm (x2) (1 1/2" x 3 1/2 [x2]) or (1 3/4" x 3 3/4" [x2])
Paper Flowers 9.3cm Square (3 1/4" Square) or (3 3/4" Square)
Thick Whisper White 6cm (2 1/2") Square (for die-cutting the Stitched Square)

Dies - Stitched Shapes Framelits
Stamps - Picture Perfect Birthday
Ink - Versamark & Copper Embossing Powder
Embellishments - Tutti Frutti sequins
Ribbon - Silver Metallic Edge (16"). Though the Gold/Vanilla one would probably work better

Craft Spa Tutorial
1. Score LANDSCAPE Calypso Coral at 4.9 & 9.8cm (1 3/4", 3 1/2") or (2" & 4")
2. Bone Fold as a Z Fold (ie mountain/peak for front (1/4 way) score line and valley for central/half-way score line

3. Copper emboss the greeting on the Whisper White panel
4. Die cut as 2nd largest Stitched Shapes square

5. Colour flower papers as desired using Stampin Blends
I used the Dark and Light Calypso Coral and Old Olive Blends... and found that part colouring the image with my Light Blend, then adding some Dark Blend on top as a highlight... and then blending out in a circular motion with the thin end of my Light Blend worked best for me... and the paler flowers were just coloured using the Light Calypso Coral marker...

6. Add Stampin Blends spots to the spotty papers...
I used both Dark & Light Calypso Coral Stampin Blends... thin end...

7. Colour length of White Metallic Ribbon...
I carefully and lightly dragged the thick end of my Dark Calypso Coral Stampin Blend along the length of the ribbon... only one pass required...

8. Colour Tutti Frutti sequins with Stampin Blends... delicate touch with brush end easiest...
I used the Dark Calypso Coral & Dark Old Olive on the yellow sequins - 3 Coral and 2 Olive)

9. Adhere papers
10. Adhere Stitched Square (think about where you don't want your glue!)

11. Cut Ribbon in half... wrap one half around left hand side of card... starting at the front from the  the top left corner of the Stitched Square...
12. Make a bow and cover where you started...
13. Add a coloured sequin to the centre of the bow...
I used a Calypso Coral one on my card...so you probably can't see it!

14. Add the other sequins to your card...
Mine has 2 on the Stitched Square and 2 on the flowers paper to the top and right so you can see them when the card is closed...

Springtime Foils ...

You will get used to that as part of the title over the next fortnight... as I really can't get enough of these beautiful Sale A Bration Springtime Foils papers... and even better I now get a pack for free with every £45 ordered... and so you can you!

Very simple card to create with the Stitched Shapes dies... just 2 of the largest stitched squares die cut from each of 2 of the papers...

Have I ever told you that these are my favourite... never-put-away-dies!!

Plus another plain Whisper White for the greeting panel... set on a 7cm Square Pink Powder mat... I used Copper Embossing Powder for the greeting as it is similar to the rose gold foiling on the papers...

Oh and the greeting is a chopped clear mount stamp from the very useful Perennial Birthday... comes long & thin and gorgeous... but I needed it to fit in my square... so I cut the stamp in between the 2 words!!!! And mounted one above the other on a clear block.... I can always mount my part stamps side by side when I need the lovely original long greeting.... as bottom left in the image below...

A bit of Stampin Blends colouring  in Bermuda Bay and Pink Pirouette for the flowers... and Old Olive for the leaves...

And blink and you will miss it... some foiled dot colouring too with the Bermuda Bay and Old Olive Stampin Blends too... careful how you go though... easy to do... but precise colouring action in a small area required!

And more Stampin Blends action on the white Silver Metallic Edge Ribbon... a quick and light colour with one sweep of the brush tip of the dark Bermuda Bay Blendy... Lightly (and as horizontal as you can) does it to protect your brush tip! And dark so it colours in one swoop... whereas the light Bermuda Bay needed a few sweeps...

Large Square card this time... so 14.8cm Square (5 7/8") from A4 Thick Whisper White cardstock... with a 13.8cm ( 5 3/8") Square Bermuda Bay mat... So you could just squeeze one onto a 5 1/2" Square card blank if using US Letter sized cardstock... but I would go for a 6" Square from 12" x 12" cardstock instead...

New Sale A Bration Springtime Foils papers

What can I say... these Springtime Foils speciality papers are SO stunning... hope Stampin' Up! have lots and lots in stock...as I have a feeling these are going to be enormously popular!

EDITED TO ADD... Card Tutorial now posted here... 

Exclusive to the Sale A Bration promotion... so earn one pack for free with every £45 ordered... Just pop to my Online Store to earn yours straightaway and be at the front of the queue...

Use them plain... or colour them up as I have here... what is not to love!

And here are the 4 patterns for you... 3 sheets of each in a pack...

I will be back with the details of this card another day... and hopefully a better photo... sorry really must dash today!

And the second release of Sale A Bration is now live!!

You may remember that Stampin' Up! promised us some more products to be added to the Sale A Bration promotion as a second release... well today is the day that I can share them with you... and say that they are now live for purchase...

Click on the cover picture below to see the leaflet for the 3 new items... as well as a quick reminder of the other items available...

So these items will be available from now until 31st March. One free for every £45 you order... apart from the three Level 2 items... which are free with a £90 order...

I will be back quickly with some projects using some of these new items... loving them!!

And please do not forget the other parts of the Sale A Bration promotion...

An additional TWO extra free stamp sets in your Starter Kit when you join the Stampin' Up! family...

So that makes £130 product plus the 2 free stamp sets for your £99 investment... Any current stamp set- of any value- applies... but not Sale A Bration promotional items... and not Bundles for those extra freebies...

I welcome any "type" of demonstrator ... whether for own purchases ... or for building the biggest crafting business in the world!! Email me here if you would like a chat or more information... or go here to sign up as part of my team... I will have an extra gift for anyone joining my team during February

Or an extra £20 in Stampin Host Rewards (aka Free Product) for an order over £200...

And just in case you need reminding of the existing promotional items... click on the picture below for the full details/leaflet of the first release...

Or click here to go straight to the Online Store and see everything together... don't forget the current Host Code to add to your order if under £150... (See top right hand side of this blog page)

New Sale A Bration promotional items - Third Release

Second post today... Scroll down or click here for my earlier creative share...

Ooh how exciting! Just popping on to share eight more items just released by Stampin' Up! that you can select for free when you order £45+ Stampin' Up! products during the Sale A Bration promotion which ends 31st March.

These are items in the Annual or Spring Summer catalogues... but please enter the item codes shown below to get them for free... ie not the item codes shown in the catalogues!

Need the full picture of what you can select? Click here for the round up on the first and second release Sale A Bration items

And for those of you new to Stampin' Up! and/or Sale A Bration... this is how the Sale A Bration promotion works...  

Earn Free Product in any (or all) of 3 ways... until 31st March 2017...

SHOP: For every £45 you spend (before shipping), you get a FREE Sale-A-Bration product. Spend £90 get 2 free SAB products... and so on... with no limits...  Choose now from a total of 15 items.

JOIN:- Get an extra TWO STAMP SETS for FREE. Choose the standard £130 product plus 2 more free current stamp sets (could be an extra £93 for free!! Yes...up to £223 product). Pay just £99. Ships for FREE too...

HOST:- Order over £200 or... host a qualifying party with at least £200 in sales... and you'll earn £20 more Host/Stampin' Rewards. You can even use the Host/Stampin Rewards towards a Demonstrator Starter Kit. Example: For a £200 order... earn £40 total Host/Stampin Rewards during Sale A Bration 

Second release of Sale A Bration items... now live!

Three more products added to the Sale a Bration promotion today. 

Click here to see these second release items. And/or click here to see the first release items which are all still available too... 

Here is a sneak peek of some projects...

And here are some quick pics of the 3 items...

First up the absolutely gorgeous Glimmer Paper Multipack... 4 6" square sheets each of Mint Macaron, Sweet Sugarplum & Bermuda Bay... what's not to love!

Second up ...Make A Medallion...

 And last but not least... Reverse Words....

And here are a couple of creative shares from our last Monthly Training using the Reverse Words stamp set...

And click here for more details on this previously shared project showing off the 3 gorgeous colours of the Glimmer Paper! 

Oh and for those of you new to Stampin' Up! and/or Sale A Bration... this is how the Sale A Bration promotion works...  

Earn Free Product in any (or all) of 3 ways... until 31st March 2017...

SHOP: For every £45 you spend (before shipping), you get a FREE Sale-A-Bration product. Spend £90 get 2 free SAB products... and so on... with no limits...  Choose now from a total of 15 items.

JOIN:- Get an extra TWO STAMP SETS for FREE. Choose the standard £130 product plus 2 more free current stamp sets (could be an extra £93 for free!! Yes...up to £223 product). Pay just £99. Ships for FREE too...

HOST:- Order over £200 or... host a qualifying party with at least £200 in sales... and you'll earn £20 more Host/Stampin' Rewards. You can even use the Host/Stampin Rewards towards a Demonstrator Starter Kit.

Example: For a £200 order... earn £40 total Host/Stampin Rewards during Sale A Bration