Nailed It Build It #1

Nailed It! is one of my favourite bundles in the Spring Summer catalogue... great to have some tools to play with to make cards for the men in my life... and be warned I have a very long list of project ideas inspired by this set.... though it will be a few weeks before I get to use them properly...

Had my first go at using them at our Quarterly Team Training the other week... so here is one Julie made earlier! Nice one Julie...

Great simple little card using the Hardwood background stamp (stamped in Basic Grey on Crumb Cake), Stitched Shapes Framelits (as they are now back in stock), Urban Underground Washi Tape and strongly featuring some Nailed It! paper pieced tools....

And here are the product images... remember that the stamp set/bundle is available in both wood and clear mount...

Other part of the Holly Berry Happiness duo from yesterday's post... The Holly Punch and stamps have seen some serious action here this month!!

And I am loving the Rope Trim... such good value... and might have to find my son's Knots book from so many years ago... 

Major photo-shoot tomorrow!! Been busy busy busy creating... 

Holly Berry Happiness & Merry Medley

Very late in the day post today... but a compelling reason... we had a power cut! So it has been a candle lit tea night tonight... and even a spot of crafting under torchlight!! Although everything is back up and running now....

Needless to say I haven't managed to take any photos of today's makes - so I have something else to share instead...

This is one of the cards we made at Julie's Quarterly Training featuring Holly Berry Happiness....fabulous! A stunner in the flesh....

Loving the Merry Medley background stamp... and the Stitched with Cheer stamps too...

Botanical Blooms in Blues...

 

Quick share today... think I could have man flu! I couldn't even stamp straight and centrally on a card... so I have had to give up on anything creative for today...

We made this beautiful card at Monthly Training this week... gorgeous in these colourways...

Spot the White Perfect Accents at the flower centres... as they are easy to miss in the main catalogue...but they are ever so useful... and can be coloured with my permanent pens too....

So Silver embossed greeting .... die cut, sponged flowers and leaves...just the big leaf to bottom right with any stamping...

Very nice bundle...which does include a pack of papers ( which I initially missed) and Buy The Bundle get the SAB Botanicals For You used for the greeting for FREE...what's not to love...

So let's hope an early night tonight sorts "the flu" out quickly!

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Woodland Embossing and Heat & Stick Training makes

We had our big team Quarterly Team Training event today - and I was asked to demo some of my earlier shared makes using the Woodland embossing folder and Heat & Stick powder. A real technique based demo if there ever was...

 

So me being me had to remake a set so that the colours actually all co-ordinated! 

And then Julie decided that everyone could make them...and everyone did! What an honour! Think they all liked them  - once some got over their fear of such dark ink on an embossing folder!! And every card was fab....

So here is the set of 5 cards - with some individual photos too...

Unfocused photo above so you can hopefully see how sparkly this one is!

I mainly used the combination of Night & Navy, Smoky Slate and Whisper White - but then I was told that we had gold foil in the training kit - so a quick last minute "goldify" later - and here you have them... though I could not bring myself to put a blue tree on the bottom centre card - so that one went Crumb Cake...

And do check out the glittery Snowflake Elements - they are so gorgeous - whether you use clear Versamark - or Whisper White craft ink - plus Heat & Stick/Dazzling Diamonds - or gold glitter. Think you will be seeing more of those....

This colour combination also defined the colours I used for my swap card (shared yesterday) - as I had to share the Dazzling Diamonds Tile technique too - and that seemed to be the most effective way to get a 6th card using Heat & Stick into everyones' hands

White Christmas Part 3

Apologies for the 10 day delay in posting more on this series…. but life got rather over-busy… lots of classes being run… extra taxi services with son, Joe’s  life-stuff … and then last Monday… just as I got back under control… a road traffic accident . No fault of mine - rear end shunt! Just when I was least expecting it!!! ….. and nothing I could have done to prevent it either….. hey ho…

Now don’t panic… I am fine (apart from “aches” when sitting at the PC and prepping!! Mmmm!! ) Car OK to drive … just the rear bumper damaged so it will have to visit the garage etc…. but  lots and lots of calls from the insurers etc…. so pretty time consuming all this week! Though I have to admit they are being very efficient!!

So finally here is the continuation of my class series focusing on the White Christmas stamp set. Many of my fellow Jems will recognise these as we made this gorgeous collection at our Quarterly Team Training back in September. Thanks again Rebecca & Julie for your inspiring projects….

So in the class we made the front CAS crumb cake notecard as already shown in my last post…. but also this fabulous Mini Diorama card, Great little card. 2 from a sheet of A4… love it!

And there’s still more!! I still can’t believe how many more cards everyone made as they all had the stamp set & ink…. what value for money…. a class format to be repeated…sometime soon….

Though I now have to laugh at myself… I have now just realised that I hadn’t taken photos of the 2 next parts of this series… and I gave most of one part of them out for Christmas cards on Wednesday!!! Hope I have at least 1 sample left…or I will be asking fellow demo friends for photos of their Christmas cards!!!Oops…. what a week….

Back tomorrow….. but before I go…. don’t forget to check out the new Year End Close Out Sale with some items at 80% off  - and the Weekly Deals too….. look at the Texture Boutique for just £20.21 and all those embossing folders for just £5.63 on the Weekly Deals! See below….

Lucky Stars Textured Impressions Embossing Folders

Price: £7.50 now £5.63

Northern Flurry Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die

Price: £7.50 now £5.63

Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die

Price: £7.50 now £5.63

Texture Boutique Embossing Machine

Price: £26.95 now £20.21

 

Beautifully Baroque Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Price: £7.50 now £5.63

 

Tiny Triangles Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Price: £7.50 now £5.63

Zig Zag Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Price: £7.50 now £5.63

12 Days Of Christmas Swatchbook Template - Digital Download

Price: £8.95 £5.37

Team Training Retro Fresh Briefcase Mini Book & Cards

Just a very quick share today.

As mentioned in my last post…. I was asked by Julie to do a project for the Team to make at our Quarterly Team Training session.

The theme of the day was MALES.

The products to be used were the Retro Fresh Suite (Designer Series papers, Journalling Tags, Make Note rotary stamp, Washi Tape, Essentials Wooden Elements) & On Film Framelits.

I created a briefcase mini album (aka Man Bag… or Book of Awesome!) for everyone to make (more of that on another day!) and a collection of 8 cards for display using some of the Journalling Tags they didn’t need in the mini book (more of those on another day too!)

So here they are! A quick preview…..

I will share much more on these at the weekend….. but I have quite a lot more Easter projects to share first!! Including a tutorial for the Easter Basket as requested…  And the 2nd lot of Weekly Deals that will be released tomorrow…..