The Tags this year!

Well I had a wonderful project to share with you today... But the photos I took were awful! And they are all wrapped up now... so that one will have to be another day...

So instead... I will share my tags for this year...

The one Christmas make I ALWAYS forget... and end up making very last minute... in a huge rush!!

So...nothing spectacular...just quick, easy and simple...

Amazing how quick great tags tags can be made armed with a Tag Topper Punch & the Triple Banner Punch!

Weekly Deals 3-9 June

Now I know you are all excitedly perusing the BRAND NEW 2015-16 Catalogue…. but don’t forget this Weeks Weekly Deals too – items at 25% off…Offers apply for orders from today up to 9th June.

I think some have been especially selected for you this week as they co-ordinate well with some new products!

And these can all be part of your starter kit if you are wanting to join with Stampin Up!

Edited to add: after a few emails coming in over the last half-hour!... the Fun Flower Punch co-ordinates with 2 stamp sets.

Firstly ... Beautiful Bunch on pg.92 (£25W/£18 Clr)
Note that there are bundles including the punch to be had which work out cheaper than the discounted punch & stamps separately

Beautiful Bunch Clear-Mount Bundle Price: £28.75 Beautiful Bunch Wood-Mount Bundle Price: £34.75

And secondly... the single Bloom For You pg 78 ( £9 W) No bundle available so Weekly Deal a great Deal!

Bloom For You Wood-Mount Stamp Set Price: £9.00

Dashing off now ...as having been to my Monthly Training today...I feel inspired to create!! Just one new tool out... can you guess what it is??? Watch this space....

Tickets 4 ways? A tutorial & Project Life Great Ouseburn Spring Festival

Tickets anyone? A quick tip or two for you today…. and a Project Life page too….

Whilst I was crafting away on my last series of Project Life pages…. I had a bit of a ticket theme going on… The  Ticket Duo Builder punch and the That’s The Ticket stamp set were out and in full use!

But then I realised that I had other images/greetings I wanted to use but that did not fit into the 2 ticket sizes in the Punch (which are those to bottom and to right in the image above)… so my brain started thinking…. and here are a couple of other ticket ideas for you….

First up - using the Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits dies – cut the frame then re-cut as wide as you need….. love that you can also get a cotton reel using this method!! (see centre)

But this one I LOVE!!! And it happened totally by accident…..

I was punching a Tag using my brand new Ornate Tag Topper Punch… the punch wasn’t open properly so the card did not go in all the way to the top – so I ended up with a semicircle notch at the top….

And then the idea dawned on me! So I cut off the rest of my Tag, stuck my card piece on a Post It Note and inserted the other side into the punch – lining up half way across the little circle and punched.

Et voila! A REALLY great ticket shape…. Love it when a punch does something you don’t expect it too…..

So cut a piece of card just 5cm (2”) wide by 2.7cm (1 1/8”) long – but of course you can use any length you need...! Then….

1. Place card piece on a small Post It Note – make sure the sticky side is face up… otherwise it will stick to the punch when you insert it!

2. Insert into punch.

3. Turn punch over so you can see the card piece… Line up about half way across the circular hole…and punch!

4. Pull out the post it note/piece of card…

 

5. Turn the card piece around the other way and place back on the post it note

6. Line up as before and punch…

7. Et voila…one ticket with notches either side

Or 3 in a row….

But before I go…a quick one pager Project Life share…. and a plug….

Our village – Great Ouseburn- between York & Harrogate in North Yorkshire - runs a fabulous Spring Festival fundraiser each year… this year it is BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY… 4th MAY 2015.

 

With some fabulous Open Gardens, Scarecrow Trail, Craft Fair, Plant Stall, Duck Race, Produce stall, Homemade Food Cafés, Barbeque, Pimms Bar & Posh Tombola on the Vicarage Lawn, Ice Creams, Church is Open, Woodland Walk, Nuzzlets animal rescue,  Morgan Car & Vintage Tractor Display, Raffle, Free shuttle bus, Free Parking.

A really lovely day out for all the family…

And this Project Life page is showing some photos from a year that we opened our Garden. I remember that it was one of those strange April days – gloriously sunny for most of the day with a lovely shower at the end – which ruined all my display samples!! You will notice that I sneaked in a Display board or two on the patio! Though I had to giggle at some of the projects on there…I have to admit that my crafting has come on a bit since those days!

But before you ask… no sadly our garden is not open this year…. so we will be busy elsewhere in the village this year…

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