St Luke's Charity Card Challenge - July 2011

Hi isn't it exciting this month I am the guest designer for the St Luke's Charity Challenge.  The theme for the challenge is to use black, white and one other colour.  As you can see I've used pink, pretty in pink in fact and the beautiful stamp set Strength and Hope which is Stampin' Up! s charity stamp set. For each set sold worldwide Stampin' Up! will make a donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation which aims to find a cure during our lifetime.  It's quite appropriate therefore that as Guest Designer I am also this month's sponsor and I'm offering a brand new set of Strength and Hope as the prize for the winner of the challenge this month. 

I'm also offering to match Stampin' Up! s donation and give it to St Luke's for every set bought from me via the challenge.  The set costs £15.95 for wood mount and £12.95 for clear mount.  Shipping will be £1.50.  If you would like to take advantage of this wonderful stamp set and benefit cancer research and St Luke's Hospice then please email me at martin.tant@homecall.co.uk with your order and a contact number in order that I can arrange for payment.  Thanks in advance for supporting this wonderful cause.

Check back later today for another exciting offer I have for you!

Happy crafting

Zx

Supplies

Stamp Set - Strength and Hope

Cardstock whisper white, basic black

DSP - Subtles paperstack

Ink - Pretty in pink

Accessories rhinestones, pretty in pink taffeta ribbon, black satin ribbon, bigshot, perfect polka dots embossing folder

Come and join the party!

 Stampin' Up! Experience Event

Come and join the fun at

The Bentley Hotel

Newark Road, Lincoln

Wednesday 6 July 2011 7pm - 9.30pm

Demonstrations, make and take projects, door prizes grand raffle

 included in one night of stampin' fun

£17.50

includes all materials, a la carte stamp set and door prize entry

Contact me on 01507 525885 to book your place.

Limited Spaces so book soon to avoid disappointment.

Not only did I want to tell you all about the Stampin' Party detailed above I wanted to share with you a card I've made for the St Luke's Charity Card Challenge. This is a great challenge blog and one everyone should consider following and joining in with the challenges.  All you need to do is make a card for the challenge and then try to send at least one card with envelope and cello bag to the Charity Card Challenge organisers. You can find the details on the blog here.  The cards are then sold to help with fundraising for St Luke's Hospice.  Please try to follow this blog as they are also looking for sponsors to make it more fun for us all to enter and need to have plenty of followers to encourage sponsors. It's a monthly challenge so the commitment isn't great so please try and join in.  Next month I will be sponsoring the challenge so please pop back to see my guest design entry and more importantly the prize you could win if you enter the challenge.

This month's challenge is 'Come fly with me', hence my butterfly card on shimmery white cardstock, brayered with baja breeze and decorated with rhinestones onto the emboss elegant bouquet backdrop.  The butterfly is also there for a reason as it's from the Strength and Hope stamp set which is from our mini catalogue and is Stampin' Up! 's charity set. For each set sold in all their markets a donation will be made by Stampin' Up! to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Here in the UK, £1 from every set sold is donated.  So here's your chance to help two worthy causes that affect the lives of so many; join in with the challenge over at St Luke's and contact your Stampin' Up! demonstrator to buy this beautiful stamp set.

Thanks for visiting me and signing up to follow St Luke's Hospice Charity Card Challenge.

Hugs Zx

Second Attempt

You may recall that a few days ago I entered this week's Less is More challenge and said that I started my card, struggled, revisited the challenge to check on the detail, discovered I hadn't read it correctly and so started again.  Well I don't like to waste cardstock so I played around with my original design and finished up with this which is very definitely shades of green but I confess when I enter it over at Less is More I think that Chrissie and Mandi will not find enough 'white' space, but it conforms in other ways of monochrome, so sorry Ladies if it doesn't work completely with you, but I just wanted to remind folk not to throw away disasters as you can always find a solution. 
Have a great day!
Hugs Zx
Supplies
Cardstock  pear pizzazz, always artichoke
Stampin around wheel - very vintage
Stamp sets  - Strength and Hope, Just Believe
Big Shot
Embossing folder elegant bouquet
Ribbon - pear pizzazz seam binding
Accessories - pearls, scallop trim border punch

Fluttery Butterflies for Less is More!

 zoe tant stampin' up! demonstrator

Happy Saturday everyone.  I'm glad it's sunny, but missing my little 'big' girl who is away on a school trip in France.  They left at the ungodly hour of midnight Thursday and are scheduled back on Monday evening.  Although we have our moments, teenager looming, I miss her dearly and can't wait to hear all about her trip.  In the meantime Charlie keeps us busy and was thrilled this morning when he called on our neighbour, Aunty Dawn, to see if she'd been able to get any of the free lego models that were accompanying one of the newspapers this week.  She'd done really well and for £1.30 I now have an entertained son!  We live at least 20 miles from the nearest WHSmiths or Toys R Us and so it's not worth the drive to get the paper, but Aunty Dawn goes to work near the right store! 

With the children busy, I've jumped into my craft room to make my card for the Less is More challenge.  Chrissie and Mandi have left us with a wide open choice today as the title is simply Butterflies which I think most of us can deal with somehow.  I've chosen to use Strength and Hope again to remind you all that if you buy this set from any demonstrator you will be doing your bit for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  For each set sold Stampin' Up! will donate £1 to the charity.  So contact your demo and not only will you end up with a fabulous stamp set you'll also be doing something good and let's face us I don't there can be many of us who don't know someone who's been affected by this cancer. 

Whatever you do this weekend have fun!

Hugs Zx

Recipe

Cardstock  - Whisper White

DSP -        Subtles Paper Stack - Baja Breeze

Ribbon  - Whisper White Taffeta

Ink  - Baja Breeze

Bling - dazzling diamonds, rhinestones

Punches - Boho Blossoms, Scallop Circle, Word Window, Scallop Trim Border

Stamps - Strength and Hope, Basic Phrases

Bigshot and the Square Lattice emboss folder

Strength and Hope from Stampin' Up!

zoe tant stampin' up! demonstrator

Please click on the image for larger view

Now here's a really pretty stamp set called Strength and Hope.  It's in the mini and is sold in aid of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  For every set that Stampin' Up! sells worldwide it will donate the equivalent of £1 to the Foundation. 

Here I've used it with blushing bride and sahara sand ink with the same cardstock and additionally basic black and confetti white.  The scallop trim border punch has softened the black base along with some pretty pearls.  The sentiment of 'birthday wishes' is from the level 3 hostess set Occasional Quotes which you can earn for free if you host a fun Chicks and Chocolate qualifying party.  Sound like fun then please do contact me for more details.  You will receive a complimentary copy of the Idea Book (RRP £5.95) and a 'mini' catalogue and a special booking gift from me to say thank you.  Once you host your party you can earn lots more so contact me for details of how to get the Party Started!

More soon.

Zx