Time is running out on Stampin' Up! Summer Catalogue

You know what it is like with gorgeous, pretty designer papers you never want to use them for fear of putting a punched shape into one piece and then feeling like you've spoilt it or wasted it.  Well I got around that issue by buying the starter kit and getting discount on all the Stampin' Up! loveliness I buy.  I can buy two packs so that I can admire and stroke one, but use the other and make simple elegant cards like this. This paper however will disappear when the current summer catalogue retires on 31 May.  It's really been a favourite of mine and many of yours.  Thankfully the matching stamp set Birthday Blooms has made it to the 'A' list of stamp sets and will reappear in the new annual catalogue, but boo hoo my favourite paper will not.  I used it here to make banners to set of the sentiment over stamped with pretty blooms. As I said a simple, but elegant card.

You can still buy this and other retiring items in my online shop.  Use the hostess code CQAW24U7 and be sure to check the box for receiving information from your demonstrator in order that I can include you when sending out a thank you gift for your order of £25 or more.

Back soon. Zx

Wow What a day!

Yesterday I spent the day in Telford International Centre with almost 400 other Stampin' Up! UK crafters.  We got to play with new products from the upcoming annual catalogue and we got to bring a copy of the catalogue home.  OOOOOOOOH I'm so excited it is so browse worthy and today I'm spending my day doing exactly that.  Of course I will share it with you properly in June when it launches, but you have a treat in store believe me. 

At these Stampin' Up! events we swap card fronts and other projects to get lots of ideas and this is one of the swaps I made to share.  I made it in two colour ways with slight differences.  I used the wonderful paper stacks to add a strip of designer paper to each to add a little wow factor and make it different from just the stamped image.  By now you have probably seen this stamp from Birthday Blooms which is just gorgeous don't you think.  It is a bit of wow on its own anyway, but I just wanted to make something simple, with a little more WOW!

The top version uses pool party and the bottom one crumb cake.  Easy to create and I will share another very soon that I made for Cards for Keeps which I will explain when I post the card.

Enjoy your weekend and check back later as I'll also be sharing my Christmas Card Club card with you which will feature 'red berries'.

Bye for now.

Zx

Birthday Bouquet

Stampin' Up! Birthday Bouquet

I saw a card very similar to this on pinterest and now sadly can't find it to credit the original designer, but it is a card I've shared with many of my parties over the last couple of weeks.  It's using the gorgeous Birthday Blooms stamp set and papers that coordinate.  I think many of us struggle to have the confidence to use papers once we have bought them as we are worried that once punched or cut a sheet could be wasted if we don't use that piece and then wish we hadn't cut in the first place. It's a great argument for buy two packs, one to stroke and one to use and abuse!

The colours are blusing bride, pool party, mint macaron and whisper white.  I just love the sparkly pool party glitter ribbon that just gives a little bit of WOW.  Also in this Birthday Bouquet suite of Stampin' Up! products are the honeycomb embellishments that I will share with you soon.  

Enjoy spreading birthday fun.

Zx