New Catalogue Launches Today

OOOOoooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh it's finally here and really live from 11am this morning. So many lovely things are enclosed in this fabby new catalogue. We have new stamp sets, some familiar favourites, new co-ordinating wheels and the accessories and accents are to die for........ You can still purchase your catalogue for £4.95 upto and including my open house weekend 9-11 Oct and then receive a £5 discount voucher on a spend of £25 or more in December.

The open house will be lots of fun, with make and take, door prizes throughout each session, demonstrations and friendly banter. There's also 10%discount on your favourite item for orders placed during the open house weekend. So join me for the excitement, some fab offers and lots of fun and stamping!!!!!!!!!

I've used our new set Autumn Days to make this very simple but elegant card. I first saw this idea from several of the scottish demonstrators using Pocket Silhouettes, but I'm glad to say it works just as well with this stamp from our new catalogue. I've also used our new, oh so simple but incredibly useful two-way glue pens that are great for just adding delicate spots of glitter to projects. OOhh and the glitter is just as sparkly and gorgeous as our longstanding Dazzling Diamonds. You can now buy it in sets of 5 colours for just £12.95 and highlight, add sparkle and pizzazz to just about anything.

If you're punch fan too there are plenty of those for you to get zapping with in the form of a butterfly (with co-ordinating stamp set!), word window for adding sentiments and a large 1 3/4 inch circle to name a few.

Come see them all at my open house

Fri 9 Oct 7.30-9.30pm

Sat 10 Oct 2-4pm

Sun 11am-1pm

All are welcome so please contact me if you need more information.

Pop in for a minute or two or stay for all the fun and lots of prizes.

Back soon.

Hugs

Zoë x

I'm down but not out!!

Oh boy, oh boy how sad am I!!!! No don't answer that!! I can't believe how old I feel this week having to try to use Olivia's laptop to try to get back up and running after our trusty, ( the one I knew how to use) computer bit the dust this week. We forget how we rely on these damn machines and I certainly am not designed for laptop use. Olivia looked at me and my pathetic venturing on her laptop and offered to do it all for me. She even fished out a mouse as I was struggling with the built in version. However I have perservered mainly because I have been very keen to show off my entry for the Stampin'Up! Summer Design Challenge.
I foolishly left it to the last minute to get it done even though I'd had the idea in my head for some time. As a consequence I finished it a 2am the last day that it could realistically be posted to be in the SU offices for the closing date. It was then typically a bad morning for taking photos so they are not as good as I would have liked and I was also so pleased with my efforts that I was torn about sending it in. Finally though here it is in all its glory and I hope you like as much as me. The list of stamp sets and pieces of kit is rather long so I wont download it all, but you can always shout if there's something you'd like to know about it.
I did follow the theme of My Summer 2009 quite closely and it really is my summer. As you know we spent our summer hols down on the Isle of Wight and I'm glad to say found some sunshine. I don't recall Martin in shorts quite like these, but he did make it into the sea which is more than can be said for me. No point in scaring the fish!!!!
I'd love to hear your feedback and whatever happens with the competition I really enjoyed making this, and apologise to my family for being so grumpy for the day after as I was so tired.

So did you have a go and enter? There were some great prizes on offer to customers of Stampin' Up!. If you didn't this time give it a go for the next challenge. It really is lots of fun.

I hope to be back soon.

Hugs until then!

Zoe

Season of Joy

Here are a couple of ways to use the Season of Joy stamp set. The above card is one that I demonstrated at Maria's workshop. She wanted me to show uses for the Many Marvellous Markers she had bought. This is very simple, but can take some time as you colour each part of the stamp. It could be enhanced by putting brads in the centre of each of the flowers or for an even simpler use you could emboss the whole image in gold on perhaps red or black card.

Here I've used the tree, greeting and swirl and embossed them in white. The tree is embossed on designer series paper which gives an instant background. It's easy to do you just need to be careful not to overheat so as not to burn the paper! In real red I've stamped the little flower to link in with the real red card matt. The scallop punch adds some texture and although not very clear I've used the 1/16th inch punch to put a pattern down the scallop and show the green underneath. I think embossing on DSP would probably look even better if the DSP were a darker shade.

The options are numerous. Over to you! More Christmas cards coming soon.

Bye for now

Hugs

Zx

Season of Joy

Last week at a workshop the hostess asked if I would (I'm saying this very quietly so as not to offend!) do Christmas cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I obliged, but for those that were filled with dred at the thought of festive frivolities I also demonstrated this card using what on the surface appears to be a stamp set just for Christmas. But in fact Season of Joy is for life and not just for Christmas as this pretty card shows.
I've stamped in only orange the swirl across the base card. The flowers become Poinsettias at Christmas, and yet here embossed in white onto only orange cardstock they are just pretty flowers. The words are from Basic Phrases and once again it shows that you don't need lots of colours to create neat cards!
Thanks for checking in! Don't forget to leave a comment and then I know who has visited.
Hugs
Zoë