Sunday Suite - Beauty of the Earth

Another gorgeous new suite... Beauty of the Earth ... especially for those of you that love all things in nature, trees, birds... as well as easy makes for the menfolk... and/or the autumnal/ winter seasons... though usable for all year round makes...

First up a video run through for you... just click on the arrow below to play...

Then we have the product images... starting with The Whole Suite Collection - buy it all in just the one click...

Which comprises of the Beauty of Friendship bundle ( with 10% of the component parts)

Which in turn is formed from the of the Beauty of Friendship stamps...

Along with the Beautiful Trees dies

Then we have the Beauty of the Earth papers... Click HERE for the sheet by sheet shots...

And .. last but not least... the Bark 3D Embossing Folder...

And rounding up with some inspirational projects for you... although you can also CLICK HERE for the Google search round up....

Tuesday Trio of Thoughts from Friends #2

Another trio of beautiful cards from fellow friends, team members, customers and demonstrators...  In no particular order... and again thank you all for your thoughts at that time....

Nic Baker's beautiful Centre Pop Up Notecard featuring the So Shelli Paper Pumpkin kit... which is no longer available in English... but is available (in UK and Europe) in French or German ... and even reduced to £15 in German... and I reckon you will already have greetings to use instead of those German language stamps!

 Kate Martin's stunning Heirloom Frames & Frosted Bouquet dies A6 card

And Julie Wade's gorgeous A6 card with Four Petal punched Pop of Petals flowers with Rooted in Nature greeting...

PS All is still perfectly OK post-op... but I have to "take it easy" and not lift, bend or stretch etc "much" for another week or so... so "grabbing" my crafting supplies is a temptation I need to avoid... so I am taking the opportunity to share some lovely creations made by friends... Normal Service will resume soon... 

PPS At Home classes will continue as planned... I was ready for this month's classes pre-op so nothing to stop those... 

A trio of thoughts from friends #1

Sharing some beautiful cards I received earlier in the year... from fellow friends, team members, customers and demonstrators...  In no particular order... and again thank you all for your thoughts at that time....

Uma Kathirgamanathan's gorgeous Pop Up Front Step Panel Card.... featuring Garden Lane papers and Rooted in Nature stamps... Tutorial for this card here...

Sarah Lavelle's beautiful A6 card featuring Pretty Label punched Label Me Pretty & Flourishing Phrases greeting... with Floral Essence flowers...

 And Caroline Merrick's super Botanical Blooms (retired) A6 card...

PS All is perfectly OK post-op... but I have to "take it easy" and not lift, bend or stretch etc "much" for another week or so... so "grabbing" my crafting supplies is a temptation I need to avoid... so I am taking the opportunity to share some lovely creations made by friends... Normal Service will resume soon... 

PPS At Home classes will continue as planned... I was ready for this month's classes pre-op so nothing to stop those... 

Merry Monday - Farmhouse Christmas Trio... Lit Box Frame, Bridge U Fold Card & Bakers Box Light

I have had a lot of Tutorial orders over the past few days for the Trio of projects I made last year using Farmhouse Christmas along with Winter Woods, Rooted in Nature and Merry Christmas To You... (all of which have stamps and co-ordinating dies but only available separately now)

So I have realised that most of the products used are still available OR replaceable... so I thought I should share the information again in the one place... with pointers for creating something very similar this year... 

Just click on the Add to Cart button below to order and pay for the Tutorial bundle. This covers the Box Frame, Bakers Box and Bridge U Fold card  - and is a 15 page pdf document with lots of photos. Payment and currency conversions handled by Paypal. No Paypal account needed as Paypal or major credit cards can be accepted.

Edited 11am UK time to add: the "Paypal button glitch" has now been sorted! Thank you for your patience...

But firstly, Farmhouse Christmas is sadly no longer available (unless you are lucky enough to have it on the Clearance Rack in your territory! Even if you only have the dies for those fences!)

But an alternative tree or a deer would look nice instead.... or we have a few houses around... albeit mostly smaller... such as From Our Home to Yours...

Or Still Scenes

Or Rustic Retreat

Or even Grandmas House...

And you could even make a simple "Hygge" style one of your own! And there are lots of stamp sets with bare branch trees around... Natures

Here's the card example with a couple of Dashing Deer deer instead of a house... yup that would work nicely!

Secondly, the Twinkle Twinkle papers are not around... but there is a fabulous copper foiled stars on Night of Navy sheet in the Brightly Gleaming pack... so that's a really easy replacement...

Incidentally  (as I write this post) Brightly Gleaming has just come back into stock in the UK and so is orderable for us again (in Europe) though I have just checked and it is already on back order... but you can still order it now and it will arrive separately when it is back in stock...

And the Bakers Boxes are still available...

Or you could easily produce a 12x12 background sheet using inks as I did for the Bridge U Fold Card

The wood Merry & Noel embellishments are not around either... but easily replaced with about 5 die-cut Merry Christmas "merry"s - all stacked on top of each other to add the depth...

And last but not least... those die cut fences... I'd just go with an extra snow bank...but...

A picket type fence could be made using the Classic Label Punch and scraps of Whisper White card... shorten the punched shape down to about 1" with the point left to form the top of the picket fence...and stick onto thin strips of white card... with about 1/8"-3/16" gap in between. They won't be as intricate as the pictured fences... but they will do the job...

These projects were incredibly popular last year in classes... and I am definitely glad this is a set I wrote up the Tutorials for... though that was a "labour of love" last year I can tell you!!!

And I am now really looking forward to getting these all out again this Christmas... though I am quite tempted to make the alternative I have just described!! 

Merry Christmas to You and Yours...

I hope that you all have the loveliest of days... spent with the people most precious to you... doing things special to you all...

We for one will be "en famille complete"... brother over from the US... son back from university... and all of us over at my mum and dads...where I have to pretend that I do know how to operate their oven properly!!

Though I did learn years ago... to take everything for the meal over on trays and in pans etc so I don't need to spend hours searching amongst every cupboard in the house!!!

And I am REALLY hoping to be organised enough this year... and the timings right... for us younger ones to go out and get a lot of fresh air around the Harewood estate!!

So this is the Farmhouse Christmas Box Frame variant I have made for my mother... as she does prefer her neutrals...

Papers flipped to the Grey Granite stars side... And the addition of lots of red gemstones onto the large christmas fir tree at the front... wish I had thought of this detail for the rest... but hey better late than never...

Recipe and more information on the Tutorial for this make can be found here... 

Simple Sunday Snowman card

 

Or should I call this... Want to build a snowman?

I love this card... though it is probably one of the quickest ones I have put together this year!

Put together being the operative wording... as all the parts were leftovers from other projects that just magically went together... as you do...

Quite  lot of products used though... Farmhouse Christmas bare tree, Rooted in Nature fir tree duo, Santa's Workshop papers snowman and elf... and greeting and snowflakes from Snow is Glistening (which was only available in November)

Spot that the last 2 photos are of an even more simple version...no snowflakes in the air! Though I think they are necessary bearing in mind the Snow is Glistening greeting!

Sunday Shiny Share...

So we are doing some more of these today... and these... and these...

Love it when a project makes my ladies this happy! And yes this photo is for you Elaine... as we did miss you so... and I hope you have been able to finish off your projects from your kit...

And here we are all set up for today... with extra stove cards at the ready if I have speedy crafters!

As I don't know if my ladies today are speedy or not! As I have the rare treat of meeting a couple of groups of my blog followers...for the first time... They are all travelling over 2 hours to make these projects... I think it is going to be a special day for all of us! And I really hope that they go home very crafty happy!

 

And for those of you not near enough to craft with me... then tutorials are available for you for these projects... just click here for more details... or these can be yours for free if you are in the UK and order £25+product... and what a great time to do so when there is a Sale on! Click here for the Sale items & the Online Store... Remember to quote the Host Code showing at the top RHS...

Skater Snowman on Saturday!

 I just couldn't resist... got to love a happy skater boy snowman card...

Care of Spirited Snowmen, Winter Woods & Rooted in Nature mainly... with a touch of white embossed Lovely as A Tree trees and Hearts Come Home to finish off...

5 amazing stamp sets to create the greatest of scenes!! And not just for Christmas... well, apart from the Spirited Snowmen and some of Hearts Come Home... and I think that the last 3 of these sets might just be in the Extravaganza come tomorrow!

Rest of the card details as per this card shared earlier here...

And talking of the Extravaganza... 

Don't forget 10% off lots of card, paper and embellishments today... and click here to see my "free postage" offer for online orders if you are in the UK...