Stampin' Up! UK Spring Catalogue Sneak Peek

Stampin' Up! Botanical Gardens Suite is most definitely not just flowers.  It's also very easy to use other colours in addition to those included in the suite.  To make this card which I cased in part from the Stampin' Up! UK spring catalogue I used bermuda bay and lost lagoon as well as mint macaron from the suite of colours.

By adding some ink to a spritzer bottle you can create an original background along with some second generation stamping with Gorgeous Grunge.  You can add texture with  corrugated paper and the 'fern' leave works really well as a mask to develop even more depth to your card.

I like candy dots and am loving the white enamel dots for adding even more dimension and a little retired washi tape is great for attaching your topper.  You can stamp leaves onto watercolour paper in order that you can spritz very gently with water to blend the colour on the them.

This beautiful suite of products will be available from 5 January, but if you can't wait until then why not think about joining my team and then you can order this bundle in your starter kit from 3 December and be up and running for our big promotion in January.  Just contact me for more information if it's something you might be interested in doing either for the discount or for starting your own new business.  I have team across the UK and in The Netherlands so I'm sure we can find someone near to you for support, guidance and friendship.

More soon.

Zx

'PINK' Christmas Cards!!!!

Christmas Card with Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees Stamp Set

You've probably noticed my absence and therefore have guessed that life continues to be busy.  Olivia finally finished her GCSEs yesterday and now it's a waiting game for the results! She's got herself a job and so the next time she and I have our stand at the Portsmouth Sincerely Yours show she'll be able to pay for dinner instead of Mum! Well you can't blame me for hoping.

Time has whizzed by and I'm late for Christmas Card club with the challenge of pink and white with hints, but small, of silver, gold or other colour.  I hope this suits Karen our challenge hostess this fortnight.

I've stamped and embossed different trees from the popular Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees stamp set with it's coordinating tree punch. If you missed it in the winter catalogue you'll be glad to know it's now in the new annual Stampin' Up! catalogue and is still part of a bundle price giving you 15% when you buy the stamps and punch together. 

My chosen shade of pink is Pink Pirouette and a tiny touch of Melon Mambo on my sentiment.  I've used the new Washi Label punch also to frame the sentiments.  The lower part of the sentiment is too long for the Window punch, but if you cut a strip of card to ever so slightly less than the width of the window you can stamp the sentiment and then slide in each end of the card on the reverse of the punch to just round the ends therefore lengthening your window.  A little bit of smudging softens the punched circle edges and those of the pink matting layer and washi strips.  

I'm loving the new gold and silver thread that add some of my favourite bling without adding bulk and postage! 

I'm off now to blog hop around the ladies in the Christmas Card Club so join me on the tour! 

Zx

Shop for any of these products in my Stampin' Up! UK online shop.

Lots of lovely new punches!!

I feel I've been out of it for so long with this blinking cold that just will not shift. Hope it keeps a low profile this weekend when I'm living it up in Frankfurt at the SU convention. Check back over the weekend and if my scheduling works there will be some posts of swaps and gifts I've made for the GREAT EVENT. I'm really looking forward to it, especially catching up with old and making new friends. Sorry just in case Martin reads this I wont really be living it up just working hard!!!! NOT................ You don't feel any better either when your adoring son age 6 asks " Did you watch Basil Brush when you were a kid Mum?" and then replies when you answer 'Yes' , "Oh he must be about 150 then!!" Cherub I love him really, but at least he makes me smile when I'm creaking, sneezing and feeling sorry for myself. I must not complain though as there are so many folk really far worse off than me which leads me to thinking about Remembrance Sunday this coming weekend. I will wear my poppy and remember all those who have fought on our behalf. It is so sad when so many young people are not making it home. Remember they gave their tomorrow for our today! Please give whatever you can afford to the Poppy Appeal.

Finally I have a serene card for you today. Our new catalogue brought with it lots of new goodies not least of which are some fabby punches. In this card I've used three!! The butterfly, word window and eyelet border down at the bottom. They all add to this simple but elegant card. The white flower heads, which could be Alliums or Agapanthus, are created using an embossing folder the likes of which may hopefully join the Stampin'Up! UK catalogue one day. The cardstock is pretty in pink and is gently lifted by the butterfly punched out of rose red designer series paper. The only stamping is the sentiment from one of my all time favourite sets, Pocket Silhouttes. The word window fits perfectly around several sentiments across the range of stamp sets.

There are free punches available from Stampin'Up from now until 29 December. Buy £45 of product from the Christmas Extravaganza list and you can choose a free tag or small tag punch worth £12.50. There is a punch for every £45 spent. You can see the extravaganza product list here.
Or you can click on offers at the top of the page for more details.
Possibly more before I fly to Germany, but if not have a great week and be careful at the Bonfire Party!
Hugs Zx