Field of Flowers Class in the Mail

Please note that this is my 2nd post for today... please scroll down for more creative inspiration...

Been weeks since I first promised this Field of Flowers Class in the Mail... but anyways here it is! Sorry for the wait... I hope that you think it is worth waiting for! Though many of the cards have been shared on here over the past few weeks...

There are 6 card designs... set out two ways... one set for day time and one for night time... 

 

One set of 6 card kits, envelopes, sponge and masks will be sent if you order the Field of Flowers bundle (£38.20) Day set assumed if I don’t hear otherwise. Alternatively you can also pay £3 direct to me for the other set…or a double set…

Or both sets (12 card kits etc) will be sent if you top up your order to £60+ (OR Double Day or Double Night if you prefer) For example you may wish to also order the Lovely You stamps (£22) or 3 inkpads that I have used in the creation of these cards…

I have listed everything that I used in the making of these cards in a separate document. The essential product is the Field of Flowers bundle… alternatives could be used for many of the other items so I have not made them a compulsory purchase for the class. . 

Click here or on the image below to check the list … as there may be products  for which you don’t wish to use an alternative product and so may wish to order now too! For example the Lovely You leaves and greetings, Winter Woods trees, My Meadow birds & clouds, Tasteful Textile texture and the various ink colours… The list should open up in an online drive... 

Please order the products online for delivery direct to you quoting the current Host Code 9NUEAAKE.  If applicable - the Stampin’ Up! Bonus Days promotion will apply to your order (£4.50 to spend in August for free with every £45 ordered in July) however the class kit will be instead of my standard gift with order offer…

Class registration closes 31 July so your online orders must be placed 31 July latest.

Product substitutions can be made if you already own the Field of Flowers bundle. Minimum order values to be £35 for 6 card kit and £60 for 12 card kit.

After placing your order online - please forward your order details to thecraftspa@gmail.com along with your request for this Class in the Mail and confirming which set(s) of cards you prefer as applicable. Paypal payments for additional cards can also be made using this email address.

Card Kits, envelopes, sponge and masks will be sent under separate cover and should be with you by 14 August. Note that the envelopes are not SU! as the cards are mainly square ones… You'll also need your own adhesive, clear blocks for your stamps and ink pads and alternative greeting stamps if applicable…

Written instructions with photos will be emailed to you when the card kits are posted (plan by 10^th August) 

For Your Info... the eagle eyed of you may have spotted that I have shared other cards that are not included in these class shots... I had to simplify things for the class kits as I had made over 20 variants of these cards as I created a batch of thank you cards too... So there will be pictures of even more variants to share with the instructions for the 6 cards... 

Hope that covers everything... If not, click here to email me with any queries...

Friday Field of Flowers ...

Quick Field of Flowers share today... as things just haven't gone to plan for the last few days! 

And a tip... you don't have to use all of the greeting all of the time...  the grateful here is from the Lovely You "wildly grateful" greeting... Just the one word inked up with a marker pen...

Though we should have been having a week off this week... but no.. stay at home cation instead... which definitely isn't the same... or anywhere near!

Though I have to (almost) laugh... as I think I am about to fall out with my oven! With a full house... it is seeing far too much of me nowadays! Proportionally...

But on the other hand I am lucky that we are all able to be at home... safe, well and secure and all that... 

Friday Field of Flowers....

 

Thought I'd try a Bridge U Fold card with the Field of Flowers as my final moonlit scene trio card...

Didn't quite work out quite as my eyes intended... but effective none the less... but I'll redo for my Class in The Mail using the daylight colours! Hence the delay - sorry!

Also used Lovely You (leaves from the top), Winter Woods (spindly trees at back)  & My Meadow (right hand tree, birds & clouds)

And so here is the complete moonlit trio...

Grace's Garden & Winter Woods #3

Another simple little sponged garden scene care of Grace's Garden and Winter Woods...

With a lovely rose arch taking centre stage... and another lovely Greeting from Peaceful Moments...

And sorry about yesterday's late post... I forgot to press publish! Until I remembered at about 11.30 am... Oops!

And don't forget.. for those of you in the UK... a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail is coming... More details to follow ... but free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 (or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

Grace's Garden #2 meets Winter Woods

Simple sponged Grace's Garden scene through an aperture... bringing in the trees from Winter Woods and a greeting from Peaceful Moments...

Which is a greeting set I love... as it covers so many occasions... and it co-ordinates so well with the Grace's Garden greetings too...

Also spot the stamped wood grain on the arch... more than one way to achieve this...

Winter Woods silver birch trio image...

Birch background stamp..

Or retired Woodgrain background stamp..

And don't forget.. for those of you in the UK... a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail is coming... More details to follow ... but free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 ( or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

And delighted to report that I have finally finished the annual accounts and tax return! So very lastminute.com this year...  And now I can get back to concentrating on crafting! Happy dance...

Feels Like Frost Acetate Tent Card #2

Oh it had to be done! 

Back to my original idea... with the piece of Feels Like Frost paper that I wish I could just buy a whole 48 sheet pack of...

Just changed up the Mossy Meadow to Pretty Peacock for the stamping of this version... yum! 

Though interestingly virtually everyone - who saw the card in the flesh - thought that the previous version had been stamped in gold ( rather than  Mossy Meadow)

Oh and an In the Woods die cut snow curve at the top instead of the Seasonal Layers scallop top

Simply perfect!

More details on the card recipe etc here...

Feels Like Frost Acetate Tent Card for Fun & Fancy Fold Friday

Knew I had to create an Acetate Tent card the minute I saw the beautiful wintery scene papers in the Feels Like Frost paper pack...

Just don't know why it took me so long to get around to actually making it!!

And here is the original purple snowflake version Jill!!! Which I had to quickly remove as it appears that I just can't do with purple snowflakes... even though they co-ordinated beautifully....

And I did initially mean to use the other scenic piece of paper in the pack... but I had already used it!

Ooh... something else to share that I thought I had already!! Tomorrow then....

Lots of lovely Stampin Up ! products used in the making of this card... including Dashing Deer, Winter Woods and Greatest Part of Christmas stamps with Frosted Frames, Detailed Deer, Seasonal Layers and In The Woods dies... and Feels Like Frost papers (now out of stock in Europe!)

Feels Like Frost Team Training Swaps...

Three more beautiful swaps featuring the Feels Like Frost papers.... as I got carried away today ... and forgot to photo my own makes!!

Love the simplicity of this card.... showcases how quickly you could make your Christmas cards this year! Frosted Foliage greeting and Frosted Frames frame...

Gorgeous card by Cathie Marie... with the Winter Woods greeting...

And a stunning Delightful Tag punched treat holder by Suse Jepson... with the Itty Bitty Christmas greeting...

Thank you for your lovely swaps ladies...

Merry Monday - Farmhouse Christmas Trio... Lit Box Frame, Bridge U Fold Card & Bakers Box Light

I have had a lot of Tutorial orders over the past few days for the Trio of projects I made last year using Farmhouse Christmas along with Winter Woods, Rooted in Nature and Merry Christmas To You... (all of which have stamps and co-ordinating dies but only available separately now)

So I have realised that most of the products used are still available OR replaceable... so I thought I should share the information again in the one place... with pointers for creating something very similar this year... 

Just click on the Add to Cart button below to order and pay for the Tutorial bundle. This covers the Box Frame, Bakers Box and Bridge U Fold card  - and is a 15 page pdf document with lots of photos. Payment and currency conversions handled by Paypal. No Paypal account needed as Paypal or major credit cards can be accepted.

Edited 11am UK time to add: the "Paypal button glitch" has now been sorted! Thank you for your patience...

But firstly, Farmhouse Christmas is sadly no longer available (unless you are lucky enough to have it on the Clearance Rack in your territory! Even if you only have the dies for those fences!)

But an alternative tree or a deer would look nice instead.... or we have a few houses around... albeit mostly smaller... such as From Our Home to Yours...

Or Still Scenes

Or Rustic Retreat

Or even Grandmas House...

And you could even make a simple "Hygge" style one of your own! And there are lots of stamp sets with bare branch trees around... Natures

Here's the card example with a couple of Dashing Deer deer instead of a house... yup that would work nicely!

Secondly, the Twinkle Twinkle papers are not around... but there is a fabulous copper foiled stars on Night of Navy sheet in the Brightly Gleaming pack... so that's a really easy replacement...

Incidentally  (as I write this post) Brightly Gleaming has just come back into stock in the UK and so is orderable for us again (in Europe) though I have just checked and it is already on back order... but you can still order it now and it will arrive separately when it is back in stock...

And the Bakers Boxes are still available...

Or you could easily produce a 12x12 background sheet using inks as I did for the Bridge U Fold Card

The wood Merry & Noel embellishments are not around either... but easily replaced with about 5 die-cut Merry Christmas "merry"s - all stacked on top of each other to add the depth...

And last but not least... those die cut fences... I'd just go with an extra snow bank...but...

A picket type fence could be made using the Classic Label Punch and scraps of Whisper White card... shorten the punched shape down to about 1" with the point left to form the top of the picket fence...and stick onto thin strips of white card... with about 1/8"-3/16" gap in between. They won't be as intricate as the pictured fences... but they will do the job...

These projects were incredibly popular last year in classes... and I am definitely glad this is a set I wrote up the Tutorials for... though that was a "labour of love" last year I can tell you!!!

And I am now really looking forward to getting these all out again this Christmas... though I am quite tempted to make the alternative I have just described!! 

Merry Christmas to You and Yours...

I hope that you all have the loveliest of days... spent with the people most precious to you... doing things special to you all...

We for one will be "en famille complete"... brother over from the US... son back from university... and all of us over at my mum and dads...where I have to pretend that I do know how to operate their oven properly!!

Though I did learn years ago... to take everything for the meal over on trays and in pans etc so I don't need to spend hours searching amongst every cupboard in the house!!!

And I am REALLY hoping to be organised enough this year... and the timings right... for us younger ones to go out and get a lot of fresh air around the Harewood estate!!

So this is the Farmhouse Christmas Box Frame variant I have made for my mother... as she does prefer her neutrals...

Papers flipped to the Grey Granite stars side... And the addition of lots of red gemstones onto the large christmas fir tree at the front... wish I had thought of this detail for the rest... but hey better late than never...

Recipe and more information on the Tutorial for this make can be found here...