There's No Place Like Home

Morning! Just a quick post today to show you a project I made last year - There's No Place Like Home.

This is made using an empty wooden embellishment container - it was already painted grey, so I just added some background paper, cut up a stamped image into 9 equal squares & added some lace & embellishments!

I love how it's turned out - I've been making quite a few home decor items recently, as sometimes it's nice to make something for yourself to keep!

My Latest Creation...

Inspired by Maxine (of Maxine's Melange, which is now closed), I have created my version of the chair pin cushion:

The chair is from a doll's house furniture set, made from MDF, that I had to build! I then painted it with white acrylic as the base coats, then a couple of coats of antique white & finished off with a coat of gold Spray & Sparkle.

The cushion has been made using Stampin' Up!s Spice Cake designer fabric & the cotton reel has been made using chipboard, card & Stampin' Up!s Spice Cake designer series paper. I think the delicate patterns & colours really suit this type of project.

 

I've really enjoyed making this & it's inspired me to move on to other miniature projects. I'm currently making a dresser! I'll post some pics when I've finished it.

Let me know if you fancy making something like this & I'll arrange a class!

New Products

Beginning 1 May 2010, you’ve got eleven new products from Stampin’ Up! to choose from! With three exclusive new colours, along with coordinating card stock and Designer Series paper, your creative possibilities are endless!

If you like ribbon, grab some gorgeous polka dot grosgrain while stocks last plus there's some lovely designer series paper called Cottage Wall. The 3 new colours will be making it into the next catalogue - there's a massive colour shake up on the way, but more on that over the coming months. Click on the image above for full details of the offer.

If you'd like to order any of the new products - or any products from the main or mini catalogues, then just contact me!

Shirley

Sale-A-Bration Event Make & Takes

These are the Make & Take projects from my Sale-A-Bration event. The top picture shows the "Winter Warmer", which is a hot chocolate sachet, a packet of mini marshmallows & a stirrer - perfect for the snowy evenings we've been having recently!

The 2nd & 3rd pictures show a Ferrero Rocher treat holder, made using DSP, a punched scallop circle & some grosgrain ribbon. These would be great as wedding/party favours, as you could easily match the party colour scheme.

The 4th & 5th pictures show a lolly holder - this is cased from Jo (Jomumof4 on ILWS), another UK demo, but I've changed the top slightly so that it could be used for boys as well as girls. Very quick & easy to do - & a great way of using up your card & paper scraps! The DSP part of the holder, where the lolly is, can be held together with brads or with glue dots. I've used glue dots, as I thought it was a safer option for children. Thanks for the idea, Jo!

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!

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!

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.

Stepper Box

This is the box we made on the Stepper Box workshop. As you can see, the box opens out to show 4 small boxes to keep jewellery, desk items like paper clips, staples, etc & other small things - you could make several to keep all your small items handy! This sample has been made using the Tart & Tangy stamp set & Picnic designer paper.


Shirley

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.

Emergency Card Kit

Tonight's workshop was an Emergency Card Kit. We made a box (above) & 6 cards, using Rose Red & Close to Cocoa inks & DSP (now retired). The cards needed to be quick, so I chose images that could be punched or easily cut. This meant using lots of different stamp sets!

Here's the 3 Rose Red cards. **TIP** The thin strip of DSP at the top of the Thanks card is the bit of waste you get when using the scallop edge punch, so don't throw it away!!

These are the Close to Cocoa cards. I've stamped onto Very Vanilla grosgrain ribbon on the centre card, plus added a couple of buttons - very handy quick embellishments.

Contact me if you'd like to attend this workshop. If you haven't already seen it on the RSW website, I offer a customer loyalty scheme for all workshop attendees - check it out here.

Pick a Petal Workshop

Here's 3 of the items made at last night's Pick a Petal workshop (we also did a 3 candle Christmas card, but I wasn't totally happy with how that turned out!).

The Dragonfly card was made by stamping in Versamark on vellum, then heat embossing. The body is made with items from the Stampin' Up! Pretties kit. We also incorporated the new scallop edge punch!

The flower is made using 6 x 2 different sized petals. The flower itself is mounted on a long skewer, but I edited this out of the photo.

The tulip card incorporates some retired designer series paper, but I love the way the spots co-ordinate!

Feel free to contact me if you'd like to attend this workshop.