Bouquet of Hope Paper Pumpkin - Bumper Showcase...

Released today in the UK and Europe... the Bouquet of Hope Paper Pumpkin Kit... designed to simply and quickly say Thinking of You as and when you need to... in lots of different ways should you care to scroll through all this post...

I know that these cards are the ones that people less like to make in classes... so this is a great way to be able to quickly make a beautiful card to send when you need one... 

As everything you need is in the box (except Clear Block D) to make 9 cards (3 each of 3 designs)  

OR to bulk make ahead (if you are more like me... as I prefer to have these cards ready and waiting to pop in the post as and when I need them... )

And the Kit was released in the US back in February... which is great ... because it means I can share some great alternative creations with the kit before I even have one in my hands...  Enjoy!

All made by fellow US demonstrators... just click on their highlighted name underneath their creations to go straight to the relevant blog or You Tube post... And thank you to each and everyone of you for your wonderful creations... 

Julie Davison

Rachel Tessman

Stampin Scrapper

Chelsey Christensen

Stamp With Tami

The Papered Chef

Saturday Sneak Peak - Field of Flowers sunset

Quickly sharing of another simple card with the Field Of Flowers bundle... featuring silhouettes and a colourful sponged sunset background... and another new bundle called Lovely You...

Can't tell you how much fun I have been having with these sets!

More information on Field of Flowers here...

And I will be offering a Class in the Mail Kit for the Field of Flowers bundle... more details to follow but it will be about £35 for the Base Kit ... so please email me by clicking here if you are interested... No obligation at this time...

Tuesday Trio of more Thoughts from Friends... and Online Extravaganza...

More beautiful creations from friends to me... friends that are class customers or fellow demonstrators... or even both! Thank you all for your thoughts at that time...

But before I start... I have a spare pack of each of Brightly Gleaming and Feels Like Frost papers... and with those words... I also have to tell you that Brightly Gleaming is no longer available... all sold out in Europe...

And hot off the press!! 

An Online Extravaganza Sale will start 11pm UK time tonight... 15% off selected cardstock, ink pads and bundles... and an extra 5% off selected already-bundled-with 10%-discount bundles too

Catch it asap (whilst everything is in stock) if you can! 

Sale runs 20-22 November. 

Group shot of the 8 "stamp set etc" bundles for you below... 

And I am placing a combined order 9pm Thursday 21 November... 

And now back to today's cards... 

A beautiful Dandelion Wishes card by Jill....

A stunning Sheltering Tree and Bitty Butterflies card in Night of Navy by Heidi...

And this fabulous Heartfelt Blooms, High Tide & Stitched Shapes card by Nicola... great to see my class raffle prizes being put to great use...

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... 

Simple Sympathy for Sunday - Flourishing Phrases

So whilst I was busy creating for the Neutrals Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop post... I needed one of these to go in that days' post... and so here it is...

Even simpler than all those gone before.. just Gray Granite inking with a touch of Night of Navy in the greeting...

And I just happened to have a Colourful Seasons Night of Navy flower stamped cut & ready at the side of me...

Though I could have used a cut-down Flourishing Phrases flower if I hadn't happened to have had that flower sitting there! Click here for more details on the cut-down flower....

Really had forgotten how good the Flourishing Phrases stamp set is... and the Colourful Seasons too!

Card & mats the same as in yesterday's post...

And more on these lines tomorrow... much more!!

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Super CAS Hopeful Thoughts

Now I did actually share this the other day in my "Sad to see these Going Part 2" round up post... but I have just realised that I never actually posted it with the details on the blog...

So here you go.... a real quickie but with atmosphere card... suitable for any occasion... featuring Hopeful Thoughts (aka Thoughts & Prayers)

Small Square Thick Whisper White card blank (A4 10.5cm/ US Letter 4 1/4") with a 8cm/3 1/8" Basic Black mat and a 3" (7.6cm) Watercolor Paper panel.
Dapper Denim ink [retiring] applied with an Aqua-painter for the background
Tree and part-greeting stamped in Basic Black (Archival[retiring] or Memento)

For the part-greeting - I masked off the part of the greeting that I didn't want with a sticky/post-it note... inked up the stamp... removed the sticky note... and stamped... though alternatively I could have inked up the part I did want with a Basic Black marker pen...

Something Simple for the Weekend...Thank You...

So I had to make some different cards for my Thank Yous for February class customer/orders ... as they had already made this Waterfront/Charming Cafe card in classes ... (which I had then made for my online ordering customers)

And seeing as I know their favourite colours... it just had to be a re-run of this Sweet & Sassy die-cut & Sale A Bration Heartfelt Blooms card... which also meant I could try out a few tweaks as I went along...

First up was to white emboss the greeting... looks so much better but of course sadly the card was going to warp from the heat... so great idea with a panel under a heart die-cut mat on a card blank... but too many heavy books required to straighten out the straightforward embossing on the card blank for me!!! Wouldn't crafty life be simple if all these products/techniques didn't have their individual querks!!

So Berry Burst for Andrea...

And Perfect Plum for Jane...

Second up was to stamp with White Craft ink... which is still the best white ink I have ever tried!!!... and I tried about 10 prior to this one.... Great when viewed on its own.. but when you compare it side by side to the white embossed image... well!

So Elegant Eggplant for Nicky...

And Island Indigo for Zoe... and do not adjust your screen with this one...I had to turn the image after I added the watermark! Oops!!!

Third up was to revert back to Archival Black ink... 

So Wisteria Wonder for Jill...

And Sahara Sand for Sarah... who has only just realised that this maybe one of her actual favourite colours!!

So... apart from those mentioned above...  and thank you again ladies... 

Which would you choose?

Oh... and an added extra for you... as I suddenly needed to make another Sympathy card mid-making-stream... Smoky Slate with black greeting...

So glad I bought the Sweet & Sassy dies after all... should have done it years ago!