Wine Bottle Tag using Love Letter Designer Papers

For my class next week we are going to be making four cards and a tag using the Love Letter Designer Papers in the classy colours of vanilla, riding hood red and black. Here is a preview of the tag we are going to make, designed to fit over the neck of a wine bottle.

I have stamped the letter 'V' to represent valentine or vino using the Broadsheet Alphabet set, or you could use the initial of the recipient of the bottle.  As a contrast old olive ink has been used for the stamping and a torn strip of old olive cardstock added to tie in the colours. Basic black taffeta ribbon has been 'ruched' down the side of the tag. I especially like the fact that the taffeta ribbons are more subtle shades of all the colours and the basic black is more of a charcoal grey, which is perfect for the vintage look. The tag, torn papers and hearts have been distressed with soft suede ink around the edges, seems an odd colour choice to add to the above but I think it works.

The beautiful Broadsheet Alphabet set (£36.95 clear mount) has a different decorative design for each letter and has been used on the 'Artsy' journal featured on the front cover of the current Idea Book and Catalogue.

Class Cards

Hello, I hope you are all having a good weekend.

I have had an exciting week. On Tuesday I held my first class at home since becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. Thanks to Anita, Natalie, Linda, Jayne, Carol, Elaine, Julie and Carla who attended. I am really looking forward to the second class next week (must start designing and preping the samples!).

On Saturday I attended training at my Manager Hayley's house. I had a great time and came back with a whole load of goodies and samples, plus some very helpful tips and ideas for cards and projects. Thank you Hayley.

Here are the cards we made at my first class.

The 'birthday' card uses cardstock colours of baja breeze, crumb cake and pretty in pink with stamping in baja breeze and soft suede. For the 'just for you' card I used cardstock of baja breeze, crumb cake and soft suede and again stamped in soft suede. Both cards feature the beautiful 'elegant soiree' designer papers.

In the other two cards above, I have used cardstock colours of rich razzleberry, baja breeze and pear pizzaz. The 'poppy' is stamped in marina mist with a fold of old olive striped grosgrain ribbon and a tiny tag to finish. The bird has been punched (£15.50 for two-step bird punch) from crumb cake cardstock  and I have used paper from the 'designer series paper patterns stack' in the brights selection (£15.50 for 40 sheets of 12" x 12" in 10 colours).

We also made a desk calendar which I will show at a later date. Thank you for stopping by.  

Embellishment Tag Book

Hello and welcome to my 'Tag Along'.

Today I am sharing with you this cute little tag book of embellishments I made as a gift for my friend Natalie who hosted a Stampin' Up! workshop on Tuesday.

I arranged various colour themed embellishments onto 'ATC' sized tags (6.5cm x 9cm) cut from crumb cake cardstock and used the ornamental flourish from the Bliss 'Sale-a-Bration' set to decorate each tag. I then decorated the front cover using  the 'thanks' stamp from the Perfect Punches set. The book is held together with a binder ring and to finish I tied a bow from the lovely certainly celery striped grossgrain ribbon.

Natalie was very pleased with the tag book, but felt that it may just have to sit on her desk to be looked at as she did not want to pull it appart to use the embellishments!

Tag Along - Butterfly Bliss

In my 'Tag Along' section I will regularly feature a new tag design. My first tag uses the wonderful 'Sale-a-Bration' set 'Bliss' (click on 'Sale-a-Bration' leaflet for details of how to receive this stamp set FREE).

The tag has been cut from Confetti Cream cardstock, which is fast becoming favourite of mine. I have stamped the design in colours of old olive, rich razzleberry and pacific point. The rock and roll technique has been used for the featured butterfly - ink the stamp using old olive as the first layer and then 'roll' the edges of the stamp onto the rich razzleberry ink pad before stamping your image.

The fabulous striped grossgrain ribbon finishes the tag tied round with some linen thread.

Thank You Lee

This post is dedicated to my son Lee to say thank you so much for your hours of patience in helping me set up my new blog. He has endured panic phone calls from me when I just cannot seem to find out how make something on my blog work, and has put up with my fussy ways (and those of you out there who know me will relate to that), without so much as a comment. 

Thank you Lee, I know this card would not be your thing at all but the message is in the sentiment. 

Colours of inks and cardstock for this card are rich razzleberry and concord crush. The background has been stamped onto the confetti cream cardstock using rich razzleberry ink. The main image has been stamped onto the same cardstock and embossed using the method of first inking your stamp with Versamark and then inking on top of that with concord crush before stamping your image. That way the Versamark layer stays on the top after inking and you can then add your clear powder and heat emboss. The top of the focal image has been shaped using the oval extra-large punch.

Thanks for visiting my blog, hope you like the card.

Happy New Year

Welcome to my new blog, and what a great way to start 2011 with the 'Sale-a-Bration' promotion from Stampin' Up! running from 30/12/10 to 28/02/11.

During this period for every £45 spent with Stampin' Up! you can choose one of four fabulous stamp sets absolutely FREE. Spend £90 and receive two free sets etc.

There are other ways to earn FREE stamp sets by hosting a workshop and joining the Stampin' Up! team. For further information and details of the stamp sets available please click on the 'Sale-a-Bration' brochure image.

Please contact me by email or phone as above, if you would like to order any products or to book a workshop in your own home.

Here are a few samples I have made using the lovely Sweet Summer set. I have used cardstock colours of daffodil delight, real red and pear pizzazz mixed with decorative papers from the brights paperstack. For stamping the images and colouring I have used matching colours together with basic grey and hint of baja breeze. Hope you like them.