Simple Stylish Stems

Keeping it simple for the last of the wrapped Mini Egg Cartons... wrap measurements and scores as detailed here...

Blushing Bride Glimmer behind the flower aperture... HAPPY and EASTER stamps from Crazy About You... Papers from the Subtles 12x12 Paper Stack... die cuts care of Layering Squares(Scallop) and Stitched Shapes. And finished off with Pool Party Stitched Satin Ribbon

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 

New Dies coming your way....

Continuing my series of sharing new products coming your way when the new Spring Summer (aka Occasions) catalogue is released on 4th January...

Time for a trio of new dies... Click on the small icons to launch the product videos for the full details

First up... Balloon Pop Up Thinlits dies and the co-ordinating stamp set, Balloon Adventures

Second... Stylish Stems Framelits dies and the co-ordinating stamp set, Special Reason

And lastly for today... So Detailed Thinlits dies and the co-ordinating stamp set, So In Love

And do remember ... these are all bundled items with 10% off the individual part prices if you buy the whole stamp & dies bundle