Year End Clearance Sale

Hello, just wanted to let you know that Stampin' Up are having a year end clearance sale with discounts of up to 80%. Click the link here to view the products available for a limited time and while stocks last.

If you would like to place an order, please contact me via my mobile or email - details above.

Sending you all my Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Julia

Twelve Cards of Christmas on Pinterest

Over the weekend I held a Christmas Card Making Workshop for 15 ladies at my local village hall in Netheravon, Wiltshire. We had a really good day and it was 4 hours of non-stop card making from the word go! My thanks to everyone who came along and helped make the day enjoyable for all.

To carry on the Christmas card making mood - over the next twelve days I am going to post one card each day on my new Pinterest board 'Twelve Cards of Christmas', so please use the link button on this blog to pop over and have a look. 

The first card features the lovely set of stamps Wondrous Wreath with matching framelits shown above.

Julia

New Seasonal Catalogue

The new Stampin' Up Seasonal Catalogue is now live, please click the image on the right to browse through all the great products - Christmas, Halloween and Autumn, it's all there.

Here is a card which using a bauble stamp from one of the new Christmas stamp sets, Cheerful Christmas.

Colours used on this card are Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz and Smoky Slate with Silver.

I have been having fun playing with some of the new stamp sets making samples for a Christmas Cardmaking Workshop I will be holding on the 1st November in Netheravon, near Amesbury in Wiltshire. Please send me an email if you would like further information.

Have a good week.

Julia

Big Shot Offer

Hello, just wanted to give you the heads up of an amazing offer from Stampin' Up.

Full details of the offer can be found here. 

If you buy a Big Shot machine during August you get to choose one stamp set and framelit bundle free from a choice of five available.

If you already have a Big Shot, the bundles are also available to purchase during August at a saving of 15% on the full price of the individual items. Please note all the stamp sets (except one) and framelits are currently available in the Annual Catalogue individually but not as a bundle. The Bright and Beautiful stars stamp set will be appearing in the Autumn/Winter Catalogue. 

Have a good day.

Julia

What's Up - Congratulations

And finally I have used the What's Up punch to make two little houses on a card to celebrate a Wedding or New Home .....  

The base card has been created from Smoky Slate card stock and embossed with a new embossing folder - Lovely Lace. Other colours used here are Melon Mambo and Pool Party. 

If you would like to see more card making inspiration please use the link to my Pinterest boards above.

Julia

What's Up - Bird House

Following on from my previous post, here is another idea for the new What's Up punch from Stampin' Up, a little bird house .....

To make the bird house: 

Punch one shape from Pool Party card and trim the sides at an angle, then cut another shape from Melon Mambo card and trim the roof to stick over the base shape. Punch a small circle and line the house at the back with a different colour. 

The stamped swirl and bird are from Everything Eleanor and the speckles are from Gorgeous Grunge.

Back soon with my final card idea using the What's Up punch. 

Julia   

What's Up - ideas with this versatile new punch

Hello, as those of you that follow my blog will know my posts lately are fewer due to the fact that I mostly show images of cards I make on my Pinterest 'Made by Me' board, accessed via the link on the right of this blog.

However, I came up with a few different ideas for the new 'What's Up' punch and wanted to show them here with a little explanation.

As soon as I saw the image of this punch in the new catalogue I knew you could do more with it than just use the two shapes as directional arrows, and in fact it shouted little house to me.

I was really pleased with my beach hut design and this also uses the new Kinda Eclectic stamp set for the sun and the sand. For stripes on the beach huts I used the the striped image from the Six-Sided Sampler stamp set and this is just big enough to punch the shape from. Punch some more shapes in a different colour to trim the roofs from, and cut little doors. A bit of fun!

I have two more cards to show over the next few days.

Julia