Autumn /Winter Catalogue Launch and Special Offers

Hello,

Well, today the brand spanking new Autumn/Winter seasonal catalogue goes live !

And, I know , I apologise to those of you who don't like hearing the C word this early... but you all know at some point in the not too distant future we will be running around desperately stamping snowflakes and drowning in glitter,

So get ahead ! Check out the catalog online or give me a shout and I will pop one in the post for you.
Then you can grab a cuppa and decide what fabulous stamps you are going to choose to make your Christmas masterpieces with...and ribbons and papers and teeny tiny jingle bells  oh yes !

There are also Special Offers going on between now and the 21st September. There are different ones every week so keep click on the Shop with me button in the sidebar and check out this weeks specials.

Ok back to the sunshine while it lasts, happy stamping

Laurie x

Happy Day with Perfectly Wrapped

Hello, hello, how are we all ?

The sun is still shining here in Kent and I decided to use the Perfectly Wrapped stamp set to make some lovely summery birthday cards.

I must admit I am using this project for a number of uses.

Firstly the Pootles weekly colour challenge #009 which asks you to use, Watermelon Wonder, Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzaz and So Saffron. I missed out the Watermelon Wonder mainly because I haven't got it ! lol. The colours are so sunny and I made the same cards but swapped the colours around.

My second use for this project is by adding the little gift bag I have my project for my monthly workshops. My guests will be able to make four cards and a matching gift bag.

Lastly I have a few birthday cards to send out this month so, job done ! I love it when a plan comes together

So....loving this stamp set. It combines with a project kit to make gift bags and boxes, so if you fancy getting some friends together for a crafty session let me know.

 My contact details and online shop are shown above and you can also download a catalogue but if you prefer the real thing to flick through give me a shout and I'll get one to you.

If you are ordering less than £150 please use my hostess code and then everyone that orders this month gets a little free gift from me.
Please don't use this code for orders over £150 because you will qualify for your own rewards.

Meanwhile Happy Stampin !

Laurie x

Birthday Blooms, three colours

Hiya,

A bit late today...unexpected trip to the seaside !

As promised here are the cards I made from the Birthday Blooms set. I find that I have yet to use the small flower on my cards..hmmm will have to slap it on the stamping block and see what I can come up with..small notelets perhaps.

I made some 6" x 6"card bases with Whisper White cards and added a base layer in black.

 I then added a strip of DSP down one side and another white panel with the stamped images, one complete one and one stamped off the page. The images were then coloured to match the paper. One in Flirty Flamingo and one in Peekaboo Peach.

Unexpectedly, my favourite was the Sweet Sugarplum.

So maybe you might like to add this lovely stamp set to your collection.

As always if you need any Stampin' Up! supplies or would like to hold your own crafty date and make things like this please get in touch. My contact details and online shop are shown above and you can also download a catalogue but if you prefer the real thing to flick through give me a shout and I'll get one to you.

If you are ordering less than £150 please use my hostess code and then everyone that orders this month gets a little free gift from me.
Please don't use this code for orders over £150 because you will qualify for your own rewards.

Meanwhile Happy Stampin !

Laurie x

Birthday Blooms and a Colour Challenge...

Hello All,

Just a quick blog post today to enter the Pootles Colour Challenge No 8. I have tried to enter the challenge before but either over thought it, not had the right colours or managed not to get the project finished  !

So Tah Dah !!! managed to crack it this time.

I have been playing with the Birthday Blooms Set (Page 12, Item No 140658).

I had made some birthday cards (show you those Saturday...), and thought I would use part of the main image to make some Notelets. For these I used the colour challenge colours, which were Basic Grey and Flirty Flamingo.

I stamped and layered in Basic Grey and coloured in with a Flirty Flamingo Stampin Write Marker and because I always like a bit of bling used some Dazzling Details.

I also used the little ladybird from the Penned and Painted set...so cute !

As always if you need any Stampin' Up! supplies or would like to hold your own crafty date and make things like this please get in touch. My contact details and online shop are shown above and you can also download a catalogue but if you prefer the real thing to flick through give me a shout and I'll get one to you.

If you are ordering less than £150 please use my hostess code and then everyone that orders this month gets a little free gift from me.
Please don't use this code for orders over £150 because you will qualify for your own rewards.

Meanwhile Happy Stampin !

Laurie x

Penned and Painted, The Great Card Swap and a Birthday

Hello,

Sorry its been a while.... I have had babysitting duties and it throws you all out until you get in the swing of it !

So all behind....lol,  and will now try to catch up. Today I am going to show you some more cards made with the penned and painted set. (Page 143, Item No 141938 )
In my Stampin Up world I am part of some forums on Facebook and in one of them we do a card swap every month to a different member of the group and also send a birthday card to the ones who have a birthday in this month. As I had only just joined and had to think on my feet I used the same style as my notecards but upped the ante on the colour front.

This one went to my card swap partner for the month.

The colours I used for this one were Night of Navy, and Crumb Cake, I added a layer of gold foil card to give it that wow factor although it doesn't show too well in this photo.

This one was sent to the Birthday Girl

I made this one with Rich Razzleberry, To get the varying shades I stamped off once and twice. I also added some gold Dazzling Details to the centre of the flowers.

I have been busy making notelets in lots of different colours for my upcoming Craft Fair at the end of September. I have also been playing with my Birthday Blooms Set so will show you my creations with that set next time.

As always if you need any Stampin' Up! supplies or would like to hold your own crafty date and make things like this please get in touch. My contact details and online shop are shown above and you can also download a catalogue but if you prefer the real thing to flick through give me a shout and I'll get one to you.

If you are ordering less than £150 please use my hostess code and then everyone that orders this month gets a little free gift from me.
Please don't use this code for orders over £150 because you will qualify for your own rewards.

Meanwhile Happy Stampin !

Back Soon

Laurie x

Penned and Painted......and just gorgeous!

Hi Everyone,

Oh My Gosh !!!!

I just got out the Penned and Painted  Stamp Set to have a play, I had ordered some new business cards and thought that I would use one of these lovely step by step stamp sets that Stampin' Up! have in the new catalogue to personalise them.

Well, I messed about for a little while and then looked at my neutral colour set and inspiration struck....don't you just love it when that happens ?

So this is the result..

This one had ' Just a note ' from the Better Together Stamp Set. ( Page 83, Item No 141736.)

On this one I used a sentiment from the Floral Phrases Set. (Page 77, Item No 141767)

I then made a little note holder to keep them in...such a lovely gift for someone, you can never have to many notelets.

So, what a versatile Stamp Set.  ( Page 143, Item No 141938)

As always if you need any Stampin' Up! supplies or would like to hold your own crafty date and make things like this please get in touch. My contact details and online shop are shown above and you can also download a catalogue but if you prefer the real thing to flick through give me a shout and I'll get one to you.

If you are ordering less than £150 please use my hostess code and then everyone that orders this month gets a little free gift from me.
Please don't use this code for orders over £150 because you will qualify for your own rewards.

Meanwhile enjoy the sunshine

Back Soon

Laurie x

Fun Stuff this Month

Hi There,

Well, exciting times here at Stampin Up. The Thoughtful Branches stamp Set and Die Cut Set are now available for ONE MONTH ONLY !

You can buy them separately or as a bundle with fabulous savings. For details click on the pic in the sidebar.

Also this month you can now redeem the coupons you earned in August...so get shopping!!

I've just got my latest order including Foxy Friends bundle and made this for my daughter as a thank you for providing the lovely cupcakes at my crafty coffee morning. Its a lovely little box with a matching lip balm found these little foxes and had to buy some...

I will be back soon with some more creations from this fab bundle.

As always if you need any Stampin' Up! supplies or would like to hold your own crafty date and make things like this please get in touch. My contact details and online shop are shown above and you can also download a catalogue but if you prefer the real thing to flick through give me a shout.

If you are ordering less than £150 please use my hostess code and then everyone that orders this month gets a little free gift from me.
Please don't use this code for orders over £150 because you will qualify for your own rewards.

Take care and keep Stamping...

Laurie x

Stampin' Up! Jars of Love.....Fishes and Fireflys

Hello again,

Well another hot day, are you loving it or not ?

I like the heat...as long as I don't have to do too much, so I'm just chilling and enjoying it.

So, here are the other couple of cards I made from the Jars of Love set. I have used a couple more of the new in colours, Dapper Denim...... 

and Sweet Sugarplum..

There are so many different stamps in this set the possibilities are endless I don't think you could make the same card twice.

As always you can contact me for a workshop or purchase Stampin Up products by clicking on the Shop with me Button at the top of the page.

Thanks for looking

Laurie x

Stampin' Up! Jars of Love..... the flowers

Hiya,

Well, be careful what you wish for....after asking for Summer to arrive last week we now have sweltering heat, we're never happy are we ?

So the coolest place to be was my kitchen and as it was too hot for much anything except crafting I spent a happy afternoon stamping.

I just loved the Jars of Love Set when I first saw it, but when it arrived I just didn't know what to do with it, my mojo had left the building as far as this set was concerned.

So instead of trying to think of a card as a whole I cut some 10cm x 10cm squares of Whisper White card and decided to have a play. It went better than expected to be honest and then it was easy to add some lovely new in colour designer papers and turn them into beautiful cards. This one is with Flirty Flamingo,

and this one is Peekaboo Peach. I used a masking technique so I could stamp lots of flowers with going over the original ones

Think these stamps are going to get a lot more use now. I made some more with the same stamp set which I will share with you on Sunday.

For now KEEP COOL AND CRAFT ON

Thanks so much for looking, if you would like any information about these products or to buy them please click on my shop link at the top of the page, where you will also find my contact details. Maybe you would like to book a workshop to learn these techniques, just give me a shout.

Laurie x

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder Framelits

Hello,

Sun is shining but still not very warm.....come on Summer where are you ?

Had an order for a birthday card and because  I just love these dies decided to use them again....they are so versatile and pretty ! I must admit that once I take a fancy to something I tend to do it to death until I get it out of my system. And,I've only used a few of them ...you actually get 14 dies with this set...bargain.

So with just a few layers of card and designer paper, the lovely die cut flowers and leaves and the Birthday Blooms sentiment set it was done..

And I liked it so much I made another one and a matching box to go with it. This one is in the new In Colour Emerald Envy.
The lovely little box instructions came from Pootles papercraft.

And then once I got started I couldn't stop.....will be doing a little make and take with these items
at a workshop in August. Peekaboo Peach goes well with Basic Black don't you think ?

So, hope you like them . If you would like to book a workshop to make these or to buy the products I used head over to my online Stampin Up shop , www.paperjaycrafts.stampinup.net

Feel free to contact me if you need any further information.

Thanks for looking

 Laurie x

Stampin' Up! Floral Phrases and Flirty Flamingo

Hello,

I had a request to make a Thank You card for my Grandsons Nursery School teacher as he will soon be leaving to go to Big School in September. Where does the time go ? but I digress...

I decided to go with the new 2016-2018 in colour "Flirty Flamingo" , its a lovely girly pink and I used the Detailed Floral Thinlits Die to go with it.

I think it turned out rather well...please head over to my Stampin Up Shop to purchase any supplies you need, or book a workshop or party with me.

Thanks for looking

Laurie x