Stampin Up Card in a Box Telford Swaps

Here is a selection of photos of the Cards in a Box which were my swaps at the On Stage Convention in Telford in April. It was good to get the Owl Builder Punch out again as they are such cute little owls.

The next one uses the Bold Butterfly Framelits and a sentiment from the Sprinkles of Life Stamp Set.
The base colour is Rose Red.

The flowers in the next one are from Garden in Bloom as is the sentiment.

Flower Shop makes an appearance in this one in Rose Red with a bit of Garden Green.

The last group of flowers were stamped from the Happiest Birthday Stamp Set. The sentiment is from Trust God which is sadly a retired Stamp Set.

Garden Blooms

I had a Garden in Bloom Class at my house on Wednesday morning. We started off with the two cards above to introduce the ladies to the set. This is a two step stamping set and in one case three step!
Everyone loved the little bee buzzing around and the cute little butterflies.

I love teaching techniques so for the next two cards we embossed the flowers with white embossing powder and then used sponge daubers to apply the colour. We also did some masking to stamp the Timeless Textures background. I really thought that I would not need to buy the Washi Label Punch but Monica's persuasive power at the last Training Day had its effect and I absolutely love it. It goes so well with the Teeny Tiny Sentiments Set.

The next card showed how to combine DSP and Vellum. The DSP is  English Garden from the Annual Catalogue and it matches the Garden Blooms Stamp Set. I found that Black Archival Ink is the best for stamping on Vellum but you need to heat set it on low so that it won't smudge. I then used Stampin' Write Markers to colour the butterfies on the other side.

For the last card there was a choice of two colourways. I wanted the ladies to use the small flower in the stamp set but it is one of those stamps that looks a bit boring on its own so I decided that I had to bring that large flower back to add interest to the card.

Birthday Blossoms

I can't believe that it is over a month since I posted on my Blog.
I have been doing some Caseing today to prepare for an upcoming Class on Wednesday, April 20th at 7.30pm. We will be using the Birthday Blossoms Stamp Set from the Annual Catalogue.
The card on the left was cased from Teri Pocock and the one on the right from Julie Kettlewell.
I switched the colour of the card bases to Smoky Slate as I am overstocked on that at the moment.
Using a neutral coloured card base is useful as you can colour the flowers any colour that you like.

I then had it in mind to do a mini card in a box. I remembered making a note of one from the Craft Spa a while ago so I looked up the instructions and I enjoyed adapting it to the Birthday Blossoms Set.
The sentiment is from the Party Pants Saleabration Stamp Set which is unfortunately no longer available.The Designer Series Paper is the Birthday Bouquet DSP.

Here is another colour combination of Rose Red, Blushing Bride and Garden Green to go with papers from the Love Blossoms Paper Stack from the Spring/Summer Catalogue.

Stampin Up Note Pads

Recently I have been making items to sell at Local Craft Fairs. I enjoyed covering a number of Notebooks with Stampin Up Designer Series Paper.

It was a good way to use up retired product and thankfully people at the Craft Fairs bought a number of the Note books.

I used the retired Bigz Leaves Die to cut out the Autumn leaves. I then embossed them with a Wood Grain Embossing Folder.

I enjoyed using the Butterfly Thinlets Die to add some extra embellishment.
I also sponged most of the edges to give a slightly grungy look.

The above sentiment is from the Trust God stamp set from the Annual Catalogue.
The Designer Series Paper is also from the Annual Catalogue. It is called Timeless Elegance.

The sentiment used for the above note book is from the Into the Woods Stamp Set in the Autumn/Winter Catalogue.

The sentiment on the last note book is from the Feel Goods Stamp Set which is in the Annual Catalogue.

Garden In Bloom

A few weeks ago I enjoyed attending a class run by one of my Downline, April Cheetham.
We made 3 cards using the Garden In Bloom Stamp Set and a box to put them in.
I loved using the set so much that I bought it!
Above are the three cards that we made in the class. I love the subtle colours chosen by April.

This is a card that I made using a Pool Party base. The Bee and tiny butterfly are a fun part of the stamp set.

Here is a photo of the box which we made. Neutral colours which would blend with anything.