Simple For Saturday...

Following on from yeterdays post... another quick and easy card using New Horizons papers, On The Horizon bundle and the retired A Good Man stamps

Decorate your panel...cut into 3 strips and add to a card blank... and finish off with a coloured and hand cut man & child image...

Remember that the New Horizons papers and the On The Horizon bundle/stamps/dies will retire come the end of this month... so if you like them.... please order now to avoid disappointment..

Fun Fold Friday - New Horizons Relax Your Way

Quick share today of another Five Panel card  featuring the New Horizons papers and the Horizons dies ... 

Decorated for the males in our lives that need some downtime... care of the now sadly retired A Good Man... which I know a lot of you bought in the Retiring Sale last month... so I thought I should carry on and post my projects anyhows...

Please note that the New Horizons papers and the On The Horizon bundle/stamps/dies will retire come the end of this month... so if you like them half as much as I do .... please order now to avoid disappointment... 

Right... must dash... creative frenzy in progress!!!

Happy New Year...

Thought I would just try something a little different today!! Just to simply wish you a very Happy New Year and I hope that you have the "very best of years ever" in 2019...

I for one am glad 2018 is over! And just bring on health and happiness in 2019!

So Cheers!

The 2018-19 Annual Catalogue is now live ....

So excited to share the new catalogue with you... so without further ado... here you go...

Just click here or on the catalogue cover picture below to go straight there...

Click on the icon below for a (very) quick flick through the new catalogue! Lots of new ideas & products for you in a flash...

And a few important things to point out...

(1) Ordering will go live Friday, 1st June... 11am UK time. 

(2) Sadly... and sorry... the Stampin Blends are on their way... but have not landed in Europe yet... So I will keep you posted... Likely to be mid-end June... the 11 NEW colour duos being expected first... followed a bit later by the 11 "OLD" duos plus Color Lifter and Skin Tones... 

(3) Due to unexpected shipping delays, the following products will not be available when the catalogue goes live .We will post additional information when these products are available.

• BIG PLANS PLANNER KIT (146859)
• BIG PLANS PLANNER KIT REFILL (146861)
• METALLIC PEARLS (146282)
• LEAF RIBBON (146905)
• PETAL PINK RHINESTONE GEMS (146914)
• METALLIC BRADS (146929)
• BASIC BRADS (146930)
• 2018-2020 IN COLOR MINI BINDER CLIPS (146932)

I will be running another Stampin Blends Club when they are all in stock... but in the meantime... please feel free to contact me by clicking here to register your interest and to get more details... UK market only...

And just in case you have missed the news... click here for the details on the Colour Revamp and the new style ink pads... though it is now too late for any of those retired colours!

What a lovely way to celebrate 30 years of Stampin' Up! Lots of new and exciting things!!

Discounted Retiring List Products & Free Shipping offer...

I know some of you have been waiting to see what products would be discounted before ordering from the Retiring List... so today is the day...

A quick spreadsheet to summarise the discounted products in the UK market...

And here is the link to the Full Retiring List in the Online Store... make sure you note the item code for any discounted product before you go though... saves a lot of searching...

Live in the UK? Ordering over £35? Then why not have free shipping - or a gift- on me... Note that this is an exclusive offer from The Craft Spa...

FREE SHIPPING special for just 48 hours... until 10.30pm UK time Thursday 10th May... applies to Retiring and/or any current catalogues product... 

I will reimburse the £4.95 postage for product orders over £35 … OR send you a product gift up to £6 value if you prefer…. Postal reimbursement will be by cheque…

Please enter my current Host Code XJSY4BWH where prompted as you check out…  AND please email me after placing your order to redeem this offer and let me know your preference! 

Orders over £60 will get both a £6+ gift and postage reimbursed…

For orders over £150... please claim your own Stampin Rewards as you order… you will still get a gift and postage reimbursement direct from me… ie do not use my Host Code…

PLEASE NOTE that this offer does not apply to ladies wanting to place product orders towards Free Classes... the offers are are either/OR... so your Retiring List etc order can go towards the standard free classes deal OR you can get this Shipping offer... again just email me to claim and let me know your preference... 

Heartfelt Hopeful Thoughts... and a Heartfelt Blooms parade...

When I made and posted these Hopeful Thoughts cards for the Meningitis Research Foundation... I  made the comment that I had had to change my plans midtrack... and quickly reduce the amount of gold heat embossing... as otherwise I would only have made a handful...

So I thought I would share the fully gold embossed versions today... as they also show off the lovely greetings in the promotional Sale A Bration Heartfelt Blooms stamp set... yours for free with a £45 order... but only available now for a couple more days...

Talking of Heartfelt Blooms... don't think I shared this video before either... and I didn't add it to the parade yesterday... so just click on the picture below to view more on this lovely greeting set with photo-realistic flower... available in clear mount and wood mount...

And a set I am going to really miss using come the weekend...

All the rest of the details on the cards in the previous post here... just with more gold embossing instead of the Sahara Sand tree!

And a (hopefully) useful tip for you.. these cards didn't buckle under the heat gun heat too badly.... as I could remove the stitched square from the card blank... so that was heat embossed separately... so then there was just a small amount on the card blank to heat emboss direct...

And to finish... a quick round up parade on previously shared Heartfelt Blooms cards... just click on the photo to go straight to the post... and maybe check out the sizing!! as funnily enough they might all look the same size on here!

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)

Bubble Over... in glorious technicolour...

Sharing a card we made at our last Quarterly training... that I particularly love! 

A card that I had pinned to try later when I first saw it... so it was great to have the opportunity to make it with someone just telling me how!!

A bit of heat embossing and sponging magic with the Bubble Over bundle to turn a simple white card and die-cuts into something bright and cool... 

Though I do have to laugh at my Bermuda Bay straw going over the edge of the card so far... and I can even remember taking the time & effort to not let that happen!!! Must have started chatting instead...

Thanks to Sarah Klass for the stunning original design... and Julie for choosing the card for a Training make! More details for you on the card here at Julie's blog... 

Thatched Roof Cozy Cottage... behind a Drystone wall...

A little thatched roof Cozy Cottage in a country garden scene for a New Home card ... Cozy Cottage is actually a Hostess stamp set which can be yours at a seriously reduced rate with a qualifying order...

Memento Black stamping throughout... lots of Stampin Blends colouring action... including all that Pool Party sky... 

And talking of Stampin Blends... If you would like to collect them over a few months... then do check out my Stampin Blends club... details here... You can collect over 2 or 3 months... but note that the free Sale A Bration items can only be ordered in February and March... ie in the next 7 weeks...

Bridge U Fold card Tutorial here... as it was the perfect card format... (again!) The only difference being that I started with a 3cm high (1 1/4") base/front panel

And seeing as it is Tuesday... a few tips for you...

The drystone wall was elongated by stamping the whole image in the stamp set centrally... and then re-inking and stamping part of the wall to the left... and then to the right... avoiding the gate being repeated!

I coloured in a few stones using the light Smoky Slate and dark Crumb Cake Stampin Blends markers...and then blended over the whole wall (and path) with the light Crumb Cake Blendy... colouring the greenery with the light Old Olive Blendy...

Finishing off with the light Pool Party Blendy above the wall to remove the stark white... I then fussy cut the length of the wall at the top to create my front panel...

The flowers were coloured in the same way... with the whole image background coloured in with light Pool Party for sky at the top and some light Old Olive for the ground... these are stuck onto the central tab... to add dimension and that country garden feel...

And did you spot my oops!! Yes right at the last minute I must have touched my front left sky panel with my Old Olive Blendy... or maybe I had Old Olive ink on my hand!!! Anyways... luckily the greeting covers it pretty well!

Greetings from Beautiful You... Birds from High Tide

Charming Waterfront Cafe...

Well this reminds me of many a holiday... and many a weekend away!

Be it in Greece, Turkey, France or in the UK Lake District... There is something to be said about sitting in a cafe on the waterfront... good for the soul...

Combining 2 of my favourite stamp sets in the Spring Summer catalogue...Waterfront for the faux watercolour scene of mountains and sea/lake inlet...

And Charming Cafe & Cafe Builder bundle for the aperture, table and chairs and greeting...

Perfect little scene... makes me happy!

Sweet & Sassy & Simple! Thank You

Took me years to purchase the Sweet & Sassy dies... as I am not "into hearts".. and find that I only ever used them for Valentines cards... which I don't usually make a lot of...

But so glad I bought them... my attitude seems to be changing... gosh aren't hearts useful!

So this has to be one of the simplest cards I have ever created... but the recipient absolutely loved it!! As indeed I knew she would...

Though maybe I should have grabbed Perfect Plum as that is her absolute favourite colour... but when there is a Wisteria Wonder small square card blank (10.5cm from A4 or 4 1/4" from US Letter) just sat there... which is her 2nd favourite colour...well!!

So a simple die cut heart aperture... followed by Elegant Eggplant inking and stamping of the lovely Thank You greeting in Heartfelt Blooms...

And a card popped in an envelope and in her bag... in the minutes it took her to walk down to my house to collect her Stampin' Up!order...

Though I think it would look even better with a white embossed greeting!! But that would have taken me too many seconds...

And I have just realised (as I searched for the links for you)... that if you ordered Sweet & Sassy Framelits... plus one pack of card and one inkpad... the total would be £45.25.. and then you would get the Sale A Bration Heartfelt Blooms stamp set for free... Think how many cards you could make in an hour... 48 from the one card pack would be no problem! Bargain...

Celebrating Love with a Teeny Tiny Trio for the Jems Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the monthly Jems Blog Hop celebrating Love...

For my share today... I decided to stay on my theme of cards for Valentines Day... as I always have to make a couple of card designs for my ladies to make in classes at this time of year... though I do usually make the cards ones that can be easily varied to make a Wedding or Wedding Anniversary card instead...

I re-sized the very popular and much visited Pop Out Swing card... so I have a new mini Pop Out Swing card fold to share with you today... A7 card sized... too cute! And yes... I will be back with a Tutorial sometime soon...

I used the Sure Do Love you stamps... along with the Lots to Love Box dies... which are available as a bundle with 10% off...in both clear mount and wood mount...

But then I carried on creating for a few minutes... and made some small and simple cards that would be suitable for more bulk makes if you are on a mission to create cards for a large group...

Another A7 sized card...

And a small square aperture card... adding the small sentiment from the good old staple, Teeny Tiny Sentiments

And so here is your Teeny Tiny Trio to celebrate love...

And now it is time to say Goodbye... and to pass you onto the lovely Karen Watts. Just press on the arrow to hop along to see what lovely project she has made to share with you...

How to make the Lots of Happy Kit Hexagon card stand up...

I have seen lots and lots of comments about the hexagon shaped card in the Lots of Happy Kit card not being able to made so it stands up...

So I thought I would quickly share that it can... and how it can!

The instructions with the card show it as a non-standing version...

So you would colour the panel and assemble it like so...

So just ignore that!!

You want to do this instead... as the centre all gets covered up in any case...

Or more accurately... I would assemble it like this! So then you know it is going to stand up when you finish! So this would be the photo to pin!

Then you can add the other parts... The gold foil banner and ribbons...

The stamped panel...

And finishing off with the little die cut flowers... although I decided  not to hide mine under the stamped panel like the original...

And there you have it... one hexagon card that can stand up... 

Isn't it pretty! And a beautiful envelope for it too...

Beautiful card kit... has to be the best one yet!  First kit refill I have ever bought! So more on this kit another day... as there is plenty you can do to get creative with the base kit...

And I LOVE the box it comes in... reckon my Stamparatus will look fabulous in there! 

But in the meantime... here are all the contents... to make 20 cards... 4 each of 5 designs... I would just recommend adding (or having on hand) a Blender Pen... Paper Snips ( to cut the ribbon) , Tear n Tape and (optionally) Tombow adhesive...

And the lovely stamps... some lovely sentiments in here... and more on the one I won't use as is another day...

Love it all... Just £31.50 for the full kit... and only £19 for the 20 card refill! Bargain... and wouldn't it make a lovely gift.... And ooh... buy both for £50.50... 40 cards to make.... and you get a Sale A Bration promotional item for free too!

And oh a video for you too... just click on the pic... but ignore the assembly orientation of the hexagon card... unless you don't want it too stand up...

Full kit contents as follows...

Lots Of Happy Card Kit	146388
Price: £31.50
There’s lots to love in this all-inclusive card kit. Create all-occasion cards, then add your own colour using the included Watercolour Pencils.  * Makes 20 cards, 4 each of 5 designs, using the included Lots of Happy Stamp Set  * Folded card sizes: 2" x 3-1/2", 2-1/2" x 4-1/2", 4" x 3-1/2", 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" (5.1 x 8.9 cm, 6.4 x 11.4 cm, 10.2 x 8.9 cm, 10.8 x 14 cm)  * Includes set of 7 photopolymer stamps  * Clear stamp block  * 20 printed card bases and coordinating envelopes  * Giftable kraft box  * Printed, gold foil, white, and vellum die-cut accents  * White/gold foil labels * Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Spot  * Full-size Watercolour Pencils in Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist, Old Olive, and Rich Razzleberry  * Lemon Lime Twist 1/4" (6.4 mm) Ombre Ribbon  * Stampin’ Dimensionals  Coordinating colours: Basic Black, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Sahara Sand Refill Kit as follows... Lots Of Happy Card Kit Refill 145605 Price: £19.00 Use the stamp set, ink, and Watercolor Pencils from the Lots of Happy Card Kit with this refill kit to create even more cards!  Includes:  * Card bases  * Envelopes  * Accents  * Embellishments  Supplies for 20 additional cards.