Sale-a-Bration Good Neighbors Samples

These are the samples I made for my Sale-a-Bration event, using the Good Neighbors set. The cards are 3x3 & the house is the box that the cards & envelopes are stored in - access is via the roof! Apologies for the quality of the photos - I didn't have good lighting.

Faux Leather handbag

My craft club's full day meeting includes a small project. This month, I decided to demo how to create your own faux leather mini handbag! We used WS Design's handbag template & SU's Chocolate Chip cardstock.

The faux leather look is achieved quite easily - simply cover your cardstock (once cut) with VersaMark, then cover the whole surface with clear embossing powder. Before heating, using a scoring tool, draw lines randomly over the surface, taking care to only remove the unheated powder from where you're drawing. Once you're happy with your pattern, heat with a heat tool until all the powder has melted & voila - faux leather! Embellish to suit!

RSW Demo Team Meeting

I met with some of my team of Stampin' Up! demonstrators today, for a full day meeting in my craft studio. Of those attending, all of us have been promoted since we last met, so I thought a fun day of crafting would be a good celebration! Debbi came up with the fantastic idea of having a shoe box swap! If you've never been to a shoebox swap, then you don't know what you're missing! You simply design a project and prepare enough supplies for everyone in attendance to re-create it! You put everything you need to make your project in a shoebox or similar container, plus any necessary instructions, then rotate around the room completing each others' projects. And what a fab time we had!

This is my project:

I wanted to highlight a slightly different use of punches - sometimes just using something in a different way can help your sales when demo-ing at a workshop. I used the scallop circle & scallop square punches to punch a central window on 2 3x3 cards. I used the Very Versatile Stampin' Up! set & finished with ribbon, punched flowers, brads, silver hodgepodge & Stampin' Glitter. Here's an inside view of the cards:

Here's a close up of the inside of the card where I used the Stampin' Glitter on the tree blossom:

Cute, but simple!

Debbi's gorgeous card used the Carte Postale Stampin' Up! stamp set & the delicate Certainly Celery & Pretty in Pink colours:

And of course, it included ribbon! Debbi just loves her ribbon!! The one used here is white taffeta.

Helen's card was made using the Sense of Time Stampin' Up! stamp set:

This is the 1st time I've used this set since I bought it. The colours here are Very Vanilla & Not Quite Navy. The background was stamped with Versamark. A nice, simple card to make & effective for those men we jut love to make cards for!

Lastly, Margaret's card had the WOW factor:

This gorgeous chappie was made using various Stampin' Up! punches - isn't he lovely??!! A fun Christmas card - the 1st I've made this year!

Thankyou, ladies for coming along & making the day fabby!

Shirley

Milestone Birthdays!

Don't you just love these photo stamps??!! I have several now, but this is my latest & I thought it would be great for a couple of milestone birthday cards I made for 2 of the ladies who come to my club, who were having special birthdays. Jane's celebrating 60 years & Aviva's celebrating 50 years!

I thought the wording (I won't tell if you won't) was pretty apt for these birthdays & it gave me the idea of hiding something - so I came up with this:

The front flap lifts up to reveal the age! To create the blank background, I simply masked the area with a cut-down post-it note when I rollered the rest of the card. I stamped inside the card using the Happy Everything Stampin' Up! stamp set:

I made the 2 cards at the same time, which really speeded things up & the only difference was the age stamped under the flap.

If you're interested in joining the craft club, or finding out more about it, you can follow this link.

Shirley

1st Holy Communion Card

This is the card I made for a friend's daughter's 1st Holy Communion. There is no stamping on this card, as I felt I didn't have anything appropriate, but the card stock is SU (Certainly Celery & Pretty in Pink). I thought the colours matched well with the colours in the picture. The picture of the girl is actually a rub-on - I was really pleased with the quality! I can't remember who makes these rub-ons, but I got them from the QVC shop in Warrington!

Golden Oldies!

Some more cards using items from the new Mini Stampin' Up! Catalogue - this time using the Golden Oldies set. All images were watercoloured using SU's Watercolour Wonder crayons & have been mounted on the new Washington Apple DSP.

I've used the faux stitching technique on the 1st card, plus some of the new designer buttons. The 2nd card is very simple, just mounting the image & creating a scalloped border using the Scallop Edge punch. I created the playing cards on the 3rd card using Sizzix Sizzlits - not sure of the name of the set, but it's the one with the playing cards & gaming chips.

It's nice to be able to add a touch of humour to cards!

Fresh Cut Notes

I love the new Fresh-Cut Notes from Stampin' Up! I made this card using the Fresh Cuts stamp set, which I think is gorgeous. I used the card as a stencil on the back of the envelope & sponge-daubed the flower with inks - this made the envelope match the card & also added some soft definition to the flower in the front of the card.

Loads of Love Card

Here's a card I made a while ago using Stampin' Up!s Loads of Love stamp set & the Tailgaiting wheel. I chose a colour scheme that would suit a man's card.

Cards With Movement

Here's 2 of the cards we made on my Cards With Movement workshop. There are 2 others, but I don''t have photos of those yet!

The 1st card (Cheers) is a fairly simple spinner card, where the discs spin round. The 2nd card (So Very Sweet) is my favourite - the flower rolls across the aperture - it says sweet on the other side too!

Mini Pizza Box & Cards

I've been wanting to make a mini pizza box for quite a while, but was never happy with the available templates for the box, as to me, they weren't a proper pizza box. So in the end, I decided to come up with my own template. Here's the box I came up with:


The box is 4"x4" & I made some 3.5" x 3.5" cards to fit in it.



I've also written a tutorial for the pizza box (in pdf format) & it's available here.

Playful Petals!

I made this card at a recent Stampin' Up! workshop. I used the brand new Playful Petals set from the mini catalogue, plus the gorgeous Tea Party DSP. I stamped the images onto coloured cardstock, added colour with the Stampin' Write pens & mounted on a Very Vanilla love note with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Inspirational Get-together Swap

Here's the card I made for the Inspiration Get-together on 30/1/09. 25 demos attended & most swapped cards with each other & Paula from Stampin' Up!

The card was made using the following Stampin' Up! products:

• In the Stars stamp set & Swirling Stars jumbo Wheel
• both tag punches, the star punch & the 1/4 inch hole punch
• Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun & Whisper White card stock
• Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun & VersaMark inks
• Pumpkin pie ribbon
• Stampin' Dimensionals
• Double sided tape

Tag You're It! workshop

The Tag You're It! workshop was on Thursday night & here's a picture of what we made - 5 cards & a card wrap to hold them in. All items have been made using the tag punches, but using various different techniques. The card in the centre with "cute" on it is actually a bookmark made using the long tag technique. The blue card next to it also has a bookmark on it - made with a long paperclip. The green card next to the cute card doesn't have a flower on the tag - it has a hole in it & the flower is on the card!

Shirley

Stampin' Up! Christmas Cards

Here are the 4 cards we made on the Stampin' Up! Christmas Cards workshop. I love the (now retired) Flaky Friends stamp set! I also loved the contemporary look of the Season of Joy card.

Christmas Stamp a Stack

Here are the 5 cards made for the Christmas Stamp a Stack - each person made 2 of each card (10 in total). Again, go to the gallery (clicking the link above) to see pictures of the individual cards.

Tart & Tangy Notelets

Here's the box & one of the notelets made at the Tart & Tangy Notelets workshop. The box & notelets were made using SU's Tart & Tangy stamp set, card & the Picnic designer series paper. To view all of the notelets, visit the gallery (the link is above) - I didn't want to clog the blog up by putting all the pics here.

So Swirly Card Box & Fun & Fast Notes Cards

This is another card box & set of cards, this time made using the So Swirly wheel to decorate the box. The cards were made using the Fun & Fast Notes stamp set. To see each card in detail, visit the RSW Projects gallery on the RSW web site (link is above).

Stationery Box Workshop

This is the project made on the Stationery Box workshop. This particular box was made using the retired hostess scrapbook kit gift. The lid lifts off & the box opens out:

Inside are some cards & matching envelopes, some love notes, tags, a notebook, pen & some postage stamps. All items are included in the cost of the workshop.