Best Of 25 Years - Butterflies

The July Best of 25 Years stamp set is Butterfly themed.  There's five stamps in the set, with one new image that co-ordinates with the Elegant Butterfly punch.  If any of you have the retired Butterfly punch, there's an image that co-ordinates with that.  It costs just £13.95 in clear mount.

Best of 25 Years - Flowers

As part of Stampin' Up!'s 25th anniversary, they are bringing back some of their favourite stamps, in a monthly set. There will be new stamp set released each month until October 2013. Each set will feature between three to five stamps, and will feature a new never been seen before image. This month theme is flowers.  These stamps are available for purchase until March 31st 2014, and cost just £13.95 in clear mount only.

Single Stamps

Until the 31st August (or until stocks last), you can purchase exclusive single Stampin' Up! stamps.  This has been trialled in the American market, and it's very exciting that we're able to offer the same here in the UK.  There's five images to choose from, and they are all available in clear mount only.  They all fit on the Clear Block size E, and the prices range between £6.50 to £6.95.  

I've bought the Spec-tacular glasses stamp, and I can't wait to have a play with it.  I've got a few good ideas and techniques to have a play with using it....keep an eye out for my posts (get it.....groan!)

Grab Your Greetings Promotion

Between the 2nd to the 31st July, you can get 25% off the price of three Stampin' Up! sentiment stamp sets - Sassy Salutations, Sweet Essentials and Petite Pairs.  You can order them in either wood or clear mount, which ever you prefer, it's up to you!

Here's the prices of the stamp sets.  Check out those bargains!

If you're interested in this offer, please contact me as soon as you can.  These are such popular sets, and so versatile, you'd be mad not to take advantage!

The retirement list is here!

The retirement list is here at last! Get your hands on items from the 2012-13 Catalogue that will no longer be available after the 1st July.  Many items are only available while stocks last too, so don't hesitate in placing your order with me so you don't miss out.  Some items are discounted too, so you can get some bargains too.  The items with the red dots have 40% off, and the items with the orange dots have 25% off.

Please click here to view the retiring stamp sets.

Please click here to view the retiring accessories, including papers, card stock, inks, ribbons, embellishments, tools, punches, Big Shot dies and fabric.

This is a perfect time to place an order, or hold a workshop or private class.  On top of the hostess benefits, and a guaranteed evening of fun, you could get some bargains too! Contact me now to book your event.

Spring card class 4 - For The Birds

This is the fourth card from the spring card class. The colour combo of this card is Old Olive and Melon Mambo.

You can see the Naturals Whites card stock in this image, it has a flecked appearance. I like how this gives an alternate option to just using Whisper White all the time.

The image from the For The Birds stamp set was coloured in using the blender pen with the ink pads. Kylie showed us three different techniques to colour in the images, one with just the markers, one with the blender pen and inks and one using the paintbrush and inks.

In this picture you can see the button and the Scallop Dots ribbon.

I do like cards that involve a bit of colouring in! I hope I can borrow this set sometime and have a play with it and make some cards for my stash!

Spring card class 3 - Flowering Flourishes

Hello,

As with quite a few of my posts on here, this is a scheduled post that I wrote on Monday evening.  I love catching up on writing my blog posts and sharing all my makes, and tend to write a few all in one go.  I've got  about 15 posts in drafts at the moment waiting to be written!  I think I wrote a few posts ago that I'd finished my box set of Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars, and I've just found that all the old episodes of Waterloo Road are on Lovefilm Instant, so guess what I'll be watching for a couple of weeks when I get the chance!

Today's share is another card that I made a couple of weeks ago at the Spring card class.  I enjoyed making this card, as I got to try a stamp set that I'd never really paid much attention to in the catalogue, or had a play with.  There's so much choice these days, it's nearly impossible to use them all, let alone own them all (in my dreams!)  The stamp set is called Flowering Flourishes, and can be found on page 121 of the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

We stamped the Flowering Flourishes stamp onto Very Vanilla using Crumb Cake ink, and then sponged the edges too.  The Happy Birthday Wishes sentiment is from Petite Pairs, and was stamped in Early Espresso and punched out with the Extra Large Oval Punch.  Two circles were punched out using the circle punches (I'm afraid I don't know what sizes we used, I was too busy making them into flowers!), which were cut with the paper snips into a spiral and then twisted to form a flower.