Hello Lovely Project Life Cards not just for Project Life...

A little quartet of Hello Lovely greeting cards & tags...

Made simply from the Hello Lovely Project Life cards and the Time of Year hostess stamp set...

Plus a few ribbon embellishments...

A crafting life can't be simpler...

We made these at our last Quarterly Training... What's not to love... thank you Julie! What a great Project Life card pack for making cards!

And oh look... it's that Martin Miller's gin bottle again.... I wonder if you can you tell what is my my current favourite gin!

Fancy Fold Friday - Double Z Joy Fold Card

You didn't think I would leave a series without having a Fun Fold card to show you did you!!?

So my Butterfly Basics class this week was a re-run of my June Beginners Class. But this time we had some experienced stampers... so I had a great excuse to carrying on making some more cards!! And to start to use my pack of Serene Scenery papers too...

And I had a couple of people who were missing form my last class so I thought I had better show them how to make my new Double Z Joy Fold card before they spotted them all around the room!! Go here if you wish to make one for yourself... and don't fancy the trip to sunny Yorkshire in the UK!!!

Spot the add of the postmark to the circular patterned paper in the middle... and the copper embossed butterfly and wording... oh and the butterfly antenna are just done by hand...

Greetings from a variety of stamp sets!! Congratulations and Wedding Wishes from Floral Phrases. On Your from hostess Time of Year and Happy Day from Perfectly Wrapped

And for tomorrow... something completely different to butterflies!! And the monthly Blog Hop too... See you then...

More Super CAS Butterfly Basics

Thought I had better keep these Butterfly Basics samples all together... particularly as each one was demoed on the day of the class ... so I did end up making quite a lot of variants as I just had to finish them off...... 

These three are all the same apart from the addition of the butterflies and the Tip Top Taupe greeting used...

First up using the small punched butterfly from Butterfly Basics in Rich Razzleberry, Sweet Sugarplum and Pink Pirouette. Along with the greeting from the hostess Time of Year stamp set..

Next up, Rich Razzleberry stamped and die cut butterfly (again Butterfly Basics & Butterflies dies) Wording from the Butterfly Basics set too...

And lastly... new Stylised Birthday greeting stamp and Bold Butterfly die cut butterfly. 

Interestingly I missed this greeting stamp in the new catalogue... luckily a few of my ladies pointed out the error in my ways!!! Bit of a go to stamp for me now.....

And a Tuesday Tip for you.... this last butterfly is die cut and then just watercoloured using the Aquapainter in Pool Party on the body and wings and then Mint Macaron on the tips of the wings... great inky fun! I then added a few Rhinestones Basics Jewels for a splash of shine on the wings and body....

Super CAS Thinking of You Floral Phrases Cards

I don't think you can get much simpler than these... but they say what you need to say when you need to say it!!! Using Floral Phrases and hostess Time of Year stamp sets

 Added 3D'd roses on the first one for a bit of extra dimension...

Night of Navy Rose sprays second stampings... so wording more vibrant...

Team Congratulations...

Just sharing the card I made for my wonderful team member Sue to celebrate her first promotion in her Stampin' Up! journey. I am sure there will be more to come... and I am sure I will have a lot to share with you about Sue (and butterflies!) sometime very soon!! Watch this space...

It was lovely to have the new Copper embossing powder to use for this big occasion!! Great timing Stampin Up!

I was also delighted at Team Training today...  to be able to give Sue her selected extra bonus gift of the brand new Labeler Alphabet for joining my team and achieving Bronze Elite...  She was very surprised that I had it already for her (as it is on back order for a few days!)

And then I had to laugh and 'fess up... this was my Prize Patrol prize at Telford... which I hadn't used so I thought great it can be Sue's.... but I needed the letters for Bronze Elite... oops... luckily she understands (and it was only Versamark after all) ... and has been busy using it all afternoon... again Huge Well Done Sue...

And yes it had to be another Double Z Joy Fold Card... Tutorial here... and by the reactions in the room at Team Training I think this going to be another popular card format....

Time of Year Double Z Joy Fold Card...

So I had a moment today... whilst I was waiting (very impatiently for my big box of new catalogue stash to turn up!)...

I wondered what would happen if I took a Small Square Pop Up Z Fold card (Tutorial here) and merged it with a Large Square Pop Up card (Tutorial here) ... with no arms required....

And wow... I really LOVE the result... kind of like a Double Z Fold Joy Fold card if you know what I mean.... how exciting....

But no tutorial today... there is an improvement that will be made.... and then I will be back...

EDITED TO ADD: Tutorial for this Double Z Joy Fold Card now posted here

But in the meantime...what do you think this card fold should be called... answers on a post-card please!! Well  a comment below should do the trick!

And oops before I go... some new products used today.... 

The new Hostess stamp set, Time of Year. (Really love this set!) 

And Confetti Celebrations for the YAY star and inside greeting... 

And mmmmm... the new Copper embossing powder.... 

And you have seen the Dapper Denim papers out of the 2016-18 In Color paper stack on here a plenty before!!! 

Now talking of the New In Color Paper stack... I have pulled together a Craft Spa 2016-18 In Color Kit... you know the kits - you get half of anything I can split and a few yards of each co-ordinating ribbon. Just let me know if you are interested and I will send you the details....