Stampin' Up! Team Welcomes and Congratulations!

 

I've been lucky enough to need to make several of this colourful card this week following the arrival of new members in my team and also promotions of those already in my team.  They've accompanied welcome packs and gifts to the lovely ladies involved and I hope each one brightens their day as it arrives. 

 

I've used my brights card stock to creat a rainbow and stamped with my Perfect Pennants stamp set a sentiment in basic black.  If you visit here regularly you'll know I'm partial to bling and so I've added a sequin string for a little bit of pizzazz!

 

Congratulations and Welcome to all the new and newly promoted ladies in The Tantalizing Stampers.

 

Enjoy your weekend! 

Zx

Creativity

At crop and share the theme for March's challenge is creativity and so I put to good use these pictures that Charlie's nursery teacher gave me some years ago.  He's busy with his friend building.....  Thankfully Sue allowed us to stray slightly from the word creativity as the title for our page and so hence 'creative little minds' was born.  She also set us another challenge to 'doodle' on a project and I decided that it went well with this layout with building blocks and doodling. 

I love the in colours of 2012-2014 including summer starfruit, raspberry ripple, gumball green, midnight muse and primrose petals and they are perfect for making building block shapes with punches various.  The satin ribbons in these colours are fab too as they are really tactile and luxurious.  A little bit of gel pen added more doodles and the broadsheet alphabet is just right for this project. 

If you'd like to have a go at scrapbooking my new club starts on Thursday 16 May at 7.30pm.  It costs £15 and includes supplies for a double page layout, refreshments and the use of punches, dies etc.  Not only that it's a great way to learn some techniques, make new friends and book a slot to scrapbook in your diary.  Let me know if you'd like to join in or need more information.

Happy Scrappin' Zx

Inspired by doors!

'Oh no!'  I hear you cry, 'she's doing Christmas!'  Well yes a bit, but since last year when I took the photos above I've been wanting to make a card inspired by our front door!  I've seen lots of other folk make beautiful cards depicting a door with a wreath and I wanted something similar but a little different and hence my front door!

The wreath is made using our new perfect pennants die and I've threaded lush real red satin ribbon through the punched holes on wild wasabi cardstock.  One of the Delicate Doilies stamps has provided a super centre piece and shows once again the versatility of Stampin' Up!'s sets.  I've also added some of the new mini brads to the centre of each 'flower' which you can see more clearly below.

The door itself is scored using my paper trimmer and the door furniture has been embossed with black emboss powder onto basic black cardstock and it gives a shine and a slightly hammered effect.  The studs copied from our Victorian door were painstakingly punched using the cropadile and carefully sticking them on with two way glue and a cocktail stick!

You may know that Shelli Gardner, CEO of Stampin' Up!, runs a monthly challenge on her blog So Shelli and this month she's challenged folk to use the new Simply Scored Tool that Stampin' Up! has launched in the US, but we have yet to experience this useful piece of kit (patience people it will come I'm sure you just need to spend a bit more to convince the US executives to grow us a bit more each year!!!) therefore I've used my trimmer to give the effect of the old oak boards.

The final touch is a smidge of basic black taffeta ribbon to hold the door handle on and what most folk would say is just about as much of the 'white stuff' as they want to see.

Well it does now seem odd as I type this post that 10 days ago we had a heat wave, today we have a beautiful autumnal sunny day and in a week or so the weather forecast suggests snow!  It was the strangest feeling recently walking to or village church for Harvest Festival to be dressed in summer frocks with sandals and yet crunching leaves at the same time. 

I hope whatever the weather with you as you visit here that life is good and you have a great day!

Back soon

Zx