Basket Bunch Mini Egg Carton... and Happy On Stage!

Another day... another wrapped Mini Egg Carton... another Basket Bunch bunny... Can't you just tell I love this image!! 

15 drops of Bermuda Bay ink in a spritzer for the colouring... Scoring & wrapping recipe and details here... Greetings from Perfectly Wrapped (this is the HAPPY DAY I chopped in half and the 2 halves have never been put away in the craft room since!) and Crazy About You 

And a quick message for all of you demos around the world that are setting off on your travels to the Stampin' Up! On Stage events this week... have a wonderful time... I SO wish I could be with you guys and gals in Amsterdam... until next time!! I will MOST DEFINITELY be thinking of you all!!! 

Now why didn't I think of making a HAPPY On Stage version for you all... maybe I can catch a creative minute or two before running my class tomorrow!!?? In fact I know the very thing..... mmmm...

Stylish Stems Easter Card

Ah! This makes me so much happier! But my other one just had to match the trug basket!!

Those of you of you that visited yesterday will understand! And for those of you that didn't...please feel free to click and visit here to see the alternative and the details of what I used...  and hop around for some fabulous Sale A Bration glimmer paper pack colour inspiration from the Jems team....

Jems Monthly Blog Hop & Colour Challenge

Hello and welcome to The Craft Spa in the UK from Amanda Bates.

Time for the Team March Blog Hop today - so please join my lovely and very talented fellow team members and have an inspiring hop around... you won't be disappointed...

This month's blog hop theme is inspired by the gorgeous new Sale A Bration Glimmer Papers- you know the ones- the pack of 3 colours of shiny glimmery glittery gorgeousness that has virtually every demo (and customer) visibly drooling!

And available for free with a £45 order... what's not to love! Want to see more of the shine? Then click here to see them in video action

So the pack inspired a Colour Challenge for our theme... so I bring you Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Sweet Sugarplum... oh what a shame... 3 of my current favourite colours!! Perfect for Easter makes... And I went with a glitter theme!

First up... the Easter Trug basket... I picked up these boxes when I dropped off an order yesterday!! Wonder if Heidi will now want them back!! We reckon they are from Hello Fresh or Gousto or takeaway deliveries - so please let me know if you recognise them...as I would like some more!!

So a bit of up-cycling! Stamped a few Kraft card panels with the Hardwood stamp, cut to size and voila! Perfect...

Die cut a few Stylish Stems flowers and leaves using all 3 colours of the Glimmer paper and white or same colour cardstock.

Stamped the plant labels for the greeting using Thoughtful Banners (HAPPY) and Circle of Spring (easter) stamps - and then punched with the Classic Label punch ...

And a quick card to go with the basket... this HAPPY being from Perfectly Wrapped (this is the stamp I cut up into HAPPY and DAY!) and the stamped mat is a Stitched Shapes die cut square...

So that is it from me for today...

Time to pass you onto Karen Watt's Krafting K blog ...

OR Katy Harrison's The Stamping Shed blog if you are going in reverse  - or have missed one!

And as just requested - here is a list of all our participants and all their links...

1. Sharon Glynn 

2. Sarah Lavelle 

3. Gill Arnold 

4. Karyn Davies

5. Katy Harrison 

6. Amanda Bates (You are here!)

7. Karen Watts 

8. Linda Ellis 

9. Julie Wade 

10. Allie Jolliffe 

Cupcakes & Carousels White Gift Box Gift Card Holder

Another quick easy make using the Large White Gift Boxes.... making up the box as described here

But this time I have turned the box into a Gift Card Holder by adding a simple insert... using the method described here (in points 13-20) but with a 10.5 x 6cm (4 1/8" x 2 3/8") piece of card onto a 7.4cm (2 7/8") square base piece

Using the lovely Cupcakes & Carousels 6x6 Paper Stack... and a few bits from the Cupcakes & Carousels embellishment pack. Both of which I highly recommend. This was a paper stack that grew on me very quickly as I used it as the colours are lovely, bright & fresh .... and the embellishments make life (and decoration) easy! In fact I have just bought some more.....

 

And the Sale A Bration promotional stamps Any Occasion (Yours for free with a £45 order) came in very useful for decorating my banners on the back and insert.... 

I just needed to "straighten" my stamps slightly to make them work as I wanted... easiest way to do that being to lay them on the paper as required and then quickly stick the clear block on top

Also used... 

Layered Circles dies

Stitched Shapes dies

Perfectly Wrapped

2" Circle Punch

Double Tri-Display Card

Time to bring you my my latest card invention! Another World Exclusive (I believe!) 

A total re-design of my uber-popular Large Square Double Display Card to incorporate 6 panels with Large Letters die-cuts on... 

Amazing what happens when I have a supply of 12"x 12" card again.... thanks to the Falling in Love Cardstock Pack (which I didn't realise was 12 x 12 until it arrived in the special Demo Bundle that Stampin' Up! put together for our pre-orders!! Oops nearly missed it....)

So by popular request - most of my classes this month are concentrating on Mother's Day cards ( as Mother's Day is 26 March in the UK - rather than the the 14 May in the US) & Wedding/Wedding Anniversary cards  - and the Falling in Love papers & Suite called out to be used. As well as some specific requests for Dragonflies!

I hope to be able to re-make, photo and write up a tutorial in the next week - or two... but in the meantime... a bit about the decoration of this version...

Dragonflies care of Dragonfly Dreams... left hand one cut out of watercolour paper... watercolour washed using the Aqua Painter with Blushing Bride and then Sweet Sugarplum and popped onto a solid Copper Foil die cut. Right hand one copper embossed, wings and body stamped with Blushing Bride - and then wuiped off with a tissue paper before cutting out the solid shape

Mother care of the Large Letters dies and Very Vanilla cardstock...and then 2 of the letters (O,E) stamped in Sahara Sand using the flower stamp in the Window Shopping stamp set. And 'S at the far right hand side (of the R) care of Brushwork Alphabet

Copper embossed greetings of Happy & Day care of the one Happy Day stamp I mutilated (cut in half!) in the spirit of easy stamping!! From the Perfectly Wrapped set

Fancy Fold Friday - Double Z Joy Fold Card

You didn't think I would leave a series without having a Fun Fold card to show you did you!!?

So my Butterfly Basics class this week was a re-run of my June Beginners Class. But this time we had some experienced stampers... so I had a great excuse to carrying on making some more cards!! And to start to use my pack of Serene Scenery papers too...

And I had a couple of people who were missing form my last class so I thought I had better show them how to make my new Double Z Joy Fold card before they spotted them all around the room!! Go here if you wish to make one for yourself... and don't fancy the trip to sunny Yorkshire in the UK!!!

Spot the add of the postmark to the circular patterned paper in the middle... and the copper embossed butterfly and wording... oh and the butterfly antenna are just done by hand...

Greetings from a variety of stamp sets!! Congratulations and Wedding Wishes from Floral Phrases. On Your from hostess Time of Year and Happy Day from Perfectly Wrapped

And for tomorrow... something completely different to butterflies!! And the monthly Blog Hop too... See you then...