Serene Snowflakes

Good Afternoon All

A slightly better time of the day for post's now, following from my previous post about the NEW Idea Book & Catalogue being out TODAY!!!!  Wooooooooooohhh, take a look at my first post of the morning or down the left hand side of my home page for the link.

On to today's class, it was requested that this week we do a Christmas card.  Promise.........it was not my idea but I was not complaining in the slightest as we do all need to crack on now that it's October and think about those little gifts and cards that we're going to give to our special friends and family at Christmas time.

I chose for us to use the gorgeous Serene Snowflakes stamp set and of course Tiny Tags for the accents.  We made a card and matching gift box which everyone thoroughly enjoyed and started them thinking about what they may put inside the box and for whom.  Just the result you want from a fun filled class.

Take a peak and let me know what you think.

Stamp set's used: Serene Snowflakes and Tiny Tags
Punch used: Jewelry Tag









Happy Stamping
Loraine

Idea Book & Catalogue 2011-2012 is here!!

Good Morning All

A very quick post this morning to tell you that the Stampin' UP! 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalogue is now out.  We've all been waiting in anticipation for this to come out, take a look at the link below to get a taste of all the yummy goodies available and drop me and e-mail or give me a ring if you'd like to purchase a copy at £5.95.

http://204.228.150.61/catalogs/flash/en-GB/20110901_0f58e77b_IBC/files/20111001_ibc_en-gb.pdf

Happy Stamping, have a great weekend
Loraine

Serene Snowflakes

Good Afternoon Bloggers

Hope you've all had a good week, I'm rather pleased that my work week is over this week - seems to have taken a loooooooooong time to get to Friday but now that it has, it's time to play!

I'm off to the Shifnal Craft Fair tomorrow, if anyone is local or in the area for the day do pop in and say hello.

As I've officially done a few Christmas cards now I thought that I'd show you another that I've done as I think it's gorgeous........personal opinion and all that jazz.

Stamp set's used: Serene Snowflakes and Tiny Tags
Punch used: Jewelry Tag













Happy Stamping, have a great weekend
Loraine

Plane and simple (men's) Tree Trimmings (Christmas)

Good Afternoon All

Hope you're all well, personally I cant believe that we're half way through September and Christmas is only 70 odd working day's away.............

Today I decided that we'd use plane and simple (from the mini catalogue which ends 30th September) to make a men's card and then we'd move swiftly along to the season that's soon approaching, yip Christmas, with tree trimmings.

For the men's card we did a little shadowing which was gorgeous and we also did a little embossing.  The stamping of the goggles was done before the embossing to get the lovely embedded effect that's been achieved.

The tree trimings card is a fancy fold card which is very effective with this pretty christmas set.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamp set used: Plane and Simple
Embossing Folder: Square Lattice
Accessory: crop-o-dile

Stamp set used: Tree Trimmings, Tiny Tags
Accessory used: Stamp-a-ma-jig
Punch used: Jewelry Tag














Happy Stamping
Loraine

Greenhouse Garden & Butterfly Prints

Good Evening All

Hopefully you've all been having a fab day and are ready for a lovely evening.  Between the wind and rain in Shropshire today, I'm ready to settle down and relax.  Perhaps watch a little of the World Cup Rugby too.

Today's class was lovely, loads of chatting and making of two very pretty projects.  Not the most difficult projects we've ever done which meant that there was plenty time for chatting, drinking tea and of course eating cake!

For the first we used greenhouse garden and did a bit of layering using punches and embossing folders, for the second we did some emboss resist.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Stamp set used: Greenhouse Garden and Curly cute
Punches used: Fancy Flower, Boho Blossoms and Scallop trim border

Stamp set's used: Butterfly Prints and En Francais










Happy Stamping

Loraine

Circle Circus Christmas

Good Morning All

Ok, so.....................I've finally given in and done my first Christmas card of the year!

I thought that I'd have a bit of a play with a few stamp set's that I really like and the result is below.  Circle Circus is such a versatile stamp set, anything goes really.

Stamp set's used: Circle Circus, En Francais and Tree Trimings














Hope you all have a good week, happy stamping!
Loraine

Build a Blossom & Blossom Petals Punch

Dear All

Hope you're all well and enjoying the remainder of the summer weather, if in the UK!  Here's to wishing it would stay till late October at the least.................

Had a great class this morning making an elegant card and gift box set.  Everyone did so well, espcially my visiting lady who'd not done much crafting before.  Lots of nattering and crafting, who could ask for a better morning!

Stamp set used: Build a Blossom
Punches used: Blossom Petals Punch, Decorative Label
Embossing folder used: Vintage Wallpaper







Happy Stamping

Loraine