Butterfly Prints

Good Afternoon All

Hope you're all well.  We've slightly thawed out from the -9 of this morning and frozen snow left on the ground from Friday night......brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  Saying that,  it is beautifull outside now and the sun is shinning brightly with blue, blue skies.

Yesterday in class we made two lovely cards, one of which is on my non-SU projects page and the other of which is below.  I really love this butterfly set and the fact that you can choose to either put the antenna (feelers) on the butterflies or not as it is a two-step stamping set.  Some of my ladies in class yesterday had not used the stamp-a-ma-jig before but they soon got the hang of it and loved using it to make their gorgeous cards.  This was after they'd finished laughing at me for calling them antlers the whole way through class instead of antenna or feelers.  What can I say it's all in keeping with the Christmas spirit.

Stamp set used: Butterfly Prints
Punch Used: Butterfly Extra-Large
Accessory used: Stamp-a-ma-jig
Accents: Basic Rhinestones and Champagne Shimmer paint








Loraine

Tree Trimmings

Good Afternoon All

Hope you're all well on this chilly day.  Time to get out the winter woolies I feel.

Well, since we've had the bit of news that Stampin' Up! have withdrawn the Ornament Extra-Large punch from purchase until further notice, I set about thinking what people could do should they wish to create a 3 dimensional Christmas card or even "bauble" for their tree.  There are of course the lovely stamp set's: Contempo Christmas and Delightfull Decorations but alternate to that you could also use Tree Trimmings which is a gorgeous little set with many uses.

Stamp set's used: Tree Trimmings and Curly Cute
Wheel Used: Soft Holly
Shimmer Paint used










Loraine

Garden Whimsy

Good Evening all

We had a lovely class this morning, everyone enjoyed themselves and went away with two projects to be proud of.  We made a card and a gift card holder using garden whimsy.  These two projects could either be used together or given as seperate cards.

I think that most of my class members had two people in mind for their projects which is absolutely brilliant and even better was the fact that each person's card was slightly different.  I'm always pleased when they have the confidence to use the same stamp set but do things a little differently to what I'm suggesting, it is after all their card that they have to be proud to give away.

It was a bit of a dull day here today, so apologies for the darkness of the pictures.

 Stamp set used: Garden Whimsy
Other products: Stampin' Pastels and brads

Loraine

Christmas Gift Tags

Good Afternoon All

Well, we're fast aproaching Christmas and as I have been doing over the past weeks, I thought that I'd show you another idea but for Christmas Tags, I've used two gorgeous stamp sets.  Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamps used: Serene Snowflakes and Dasher












Loraine

Sweet little birdie

Good Afternoon All

I hope you're all well on this dull day.  Yukk, but on the bright side it's all the more reason to spend some time crafting.

Stamp set used: Punch Potpourri (level 1 hostess set)
Punch Used: Extra-Large Two-Step Bird Punch
Accents: Champagne Shimmer Paint and Basic Pearls








Happy Crafting
Loraine

Gift box and card

Good Afternoon All

This week in class we made an Easel card and pizza style box, gift set.  It all turned out very well and everyone really enjoyed themselves creating, chatting and eating a gluten free cake.  Yumm, yumm this was really delicious and since one of my class atendee's is coeliac she very kindly made us a cake, it's always such a shame when everyone else is having cake etc and Jill cant join in so for a change - yayy, she could!

Take a look at what we created with some lovely papers from my stash and a gorgeous stamp.

Stamp sets used: Dasher, Curly Cute
Accessories: Stampin' Pastels











Happy Crafting
Loraine

Serene Snowflakes (gift box and card)

Good Afternoon All

Well, I've had a busy few days, starting last Wednesday evening when I had a lovely workshop with a great group of crafting ladies.  Thursday I went to the NEC for the Craft Fair and then went away for a quiet few days to Anglesey, I've not been before and it's lovely there especially when the sun shines - which it did every morning we were there!  Horay!

I thought that I'd show you the projects that we made last week in our workshop, we used a lovely Christmas set with some gorgeous paper, ink and ribbon.  Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamp set used: Serene Snowflakes
Accessories used: Mat Pack and Paper Piercing tool
For accent: pearls and champagne shimmer









Happy Crafting
Loraine

Bundling up for Christmas

Good Morning All

I thought that I'd share some wonderfull product news with you all today.  If you order a Christmas bundle, you can get a FREE spool of ribbon.  How exciting and it does help that these ribbons look really scrummy.  Follow the link below to see what I'm taking about.

http://www2.stampinup.com/gb/documents/Bundle_Up_Christmas_1010_UK.pdf


Loraine