Betsy's Blossoms card

A few weeks ago, Kylie had an open house catalogue launch party at her house.  She'd set up displays of all her projects and cards, and she took us all through the Annual Catalogue and the Seasonal Catalogue.  She'd also baked some tasty cupcakes, which we munched our way through while we got to play with some of the products.  The card below is what she'd prepped for us to make.  The colour combo is Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight, with the Floral District papers.  The stamp set is Betsys Blossoms, and the sentiment is from Petite Pairs.

I had a really enjoyable afternoon, it's always fun enthusing about Stampin' Up! products, and Kylie got some really good sales from the afternoon.  She'd done a raffle, and offered the hostess benefits as a prize.  Her friend Louise was lucky enough to win, and got an amazing £60 worth of free products!  Kylie also offered the half price items to us, and I was thrilled when she pulled out my number, so I used it to my advantage to purchase a Big Shot.  That will be really useful, as I've been borrowing Kylies so far for my classes and workshops.

Buns and Roses Workshop - Treat Boxes

Morning,

This is the last post about the Buns and Roses workshop.  The fourth project was to make two little treat boxes, that small gifts or sweets can be placed inside.  I've made these a few times now, and they really are easy.  They are just a rectangular piece of paper, scored in half lengthways on the Scoreboard, and then scored from the middle of the narrow side to the fold in the middle.  If you'd like to make these, please send me an email or leave a message on here with your email address and I'll send instructions.  The papers used for this project was Be Of Good Cheer. The crop-a-dile was used to make holes in each side, and Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon was threaded through to make a bow on the top.  The Merry Christmas stamp is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments, and was punched out with the Scallop Oval Punch and the Large Oval Punch.  There was a tin of Caburys Heroes on the table, and it was funny seeing a few of the ladies asking how to tie them up, after cramming as many sweets in there as they could (or couldn't as it happened, they can only hold two chocolates!)

I really enjoyed the workshop, and hope to do something like that again sometime.

Buns and Roses Workshop - Ornaments card

This post is the third project from the Buns and Roses workshop, and uses the Festival of Prints papers and the Delightful Decorations stamp set and Ornament punch.  The ladies got to choose their paper and could make the card in a selection of colours, of Lucky Limeade, Cherry Cobbler and Island Indigo.  The tricky part of this card was remembering to attach the Bakers Twine to the back of the paper before sticking it down onto the card.  The ornaments were stamped onto Whisper White and then punched out using the Ornament Punch.  The Merry sentiment is from the Snowflake Soiree stamp set, and was punched using the Decorative Label Punch.  

A close up of a Cherry Cobbler ornament, with a Rhinestone Jewel in the centre.

Buns and Roses Workshop - Snow Flurry card

Here's the second card from the Buns and Roses workshop.  This was the quickest project out of the four tables, which was good, as it gave the ladies a chance to catch up! This was the only card that used the Big Shot, I think they all liked having a go at embossing and die cutting. The Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder was used for the panel in the centre.  The card used was Whisper White, Crumb Cake and Gumball Green.  The other exciting part of this card was that it was spritzed with the Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, which gave a lovely shimmery finish.

Here's a close up of the die cut snowflake, and you can see the Glimmer Brad in the middle.  These are nice sparkly brads, and come in gold, silver, champagne, black and gray.

Here's a close up of the greeting, from the Curly Cute stamp set, in Whisper White ink.  The edges of the card were daubed with the Daubers and the ink, to give a snowy frosty effect.

Buns and Roses Workshop - Owl card

Last month I mentioned that I'd run a workshop for the Leeds WI, Buns and Roses.  You can read all about the evening here, written by Gemma Rathbone.  I had a great evening, and I think all the ladies that came along enjoyed it too.  It was the first time I'd ever run an event with so many people, there were 26 on the evening, and it was great experience. It was originally meant to be run by myself and Kylie, but she'd got her dates mixed up, and was actually in Germany that evening attending the Stampin' Up! Convention. She shared with the preparation and designs of the projects, and she kindly lent me lots of her projects for the display tables.  You can see these on the three photos below, and there's more on the Buns and Roses blog mentioned above (thanks to Gemma for letting me post the pictures she took on the night)

I'll be sharing the four projects we made over the next few days.  Here's the first, which uses the Owl Punch, which has been cleverly turned into a penguin!  Bashful Blue and Whisper White card was used, with Tangerine Tango and Basic Black for the penguin.  The snowflake stamp is from Snowflake Soiree, and the sentiment is from Petite Pairs.  It's hard to see from these pictures, but on the edge of the snow slopes, the glue pen was applied, and Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Glitter was applied for the bling effect! 

Christmas Card Class - Frosty Friends

Hello,

Here's another card from the card class I attended at the weekend. I think this card is my favourite from the four that we made. The stamp is called Frosty Friends, it's a stamp that comes on its own and costs just £10.95. We all had a great time using the markers to colour in the snowmen. The glue pen was used along the bottom of the snowmen, and then Dazzling Diamonds was applied to give a lovely glittery effect. The card blank is Pool Party, with Cherry Cobbler. A piece of the Bakers Twine was tied around the card, for a bit of added detail.

Adhesives

Evening,

I hope you've you all had a nice weekend.  I've been doing a bit of crafting, yesterday I went to a card class run by my downline Kylie.  It was nice to attend a class as a customer, rather than a demonstrator, as I could sit back and enjoy the crafting.  I did help out a bit, it's hard to come out of demonstrator mode sometimes! I'll share the cards we made soon.  Today, I've had my sister over, and we've been finishing off a few Christmas projects, which will also be appearing soon.

I have some very exciting news for you.  Stampin' Up! have just changed their policy on Cash-and-carry sales.  Previously, as a demonstrator, we were't allowed to buy products to sell to customers, all products had to be bought from the catalogue.  This has changed, to allow us to carry a small range of adhesives to sell at workshops, classes or events.  I think this is a great opportunity, as I know I'm always running out of Tombow glue, and I'm sure my customers are too.  I'll have a small selection with me at my classes, which will be available to buy there and then.  I'd recently had a customer contact me and asked me to buy a glue for her when I do my next order, but I haven't put one through for a while.  Just let me know before a class if there's anything you'd like, and I'll try to bring it along.