All Dressed Up, again.....

Here is another card I made using the All Dressed up framelits and the Hello Doily stamp. I was inspired by a card made by Julie, here, mines a lot less detailed though as I made if for the craft fair as a Mother's day card, no one bought it, so I have changed it to a thinking of you card. I thought I would use the emboss resist technique on the background but it hasn't shown up that well, never mind!
Here's the card:

As you can see, it is a tri fold card, here are the three dresses close up, I used the doily stamp for the second dress:

Both cards together:

EXCITING STAMPIN' UP! NEWS.........

Lots of news to give you so go make a cuppa first!

Stampin' Up have announced a colour revamp so it stays bang up to date with all new trends and makes the most of those gorgeous colours they have.

Starting in the new catalogue which comes out on 1st July 2013 there will be SIX returning in-colours, Calypso Coral, Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz and FOUR Brand New colours Bermuda Bay, Soft Sky, Crushed Curry and Smoky Slate to its four core families. I am especially happy that Pool Party is staying as I was already stressing about it retiring in June!

Unfortunately to make room for all these wonderful colours some Core Colours are going to be discontinued, so we will be saying GOODBYE to:

Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue,Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Riding Hood Red, Bravo Burgundy, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard and River Rock.I will be especially sad to see Bashful Blue and Baja Breeze.

Remember Lucky Limeade the only 2011-2013 Colour that is not in the refresh will also be going.......

The Discontinued colours will ONLY BE AVAILABLE WHILST STOCKS LAST so if you have any favourites stock up NOW!

Here is the list of the new Core Families - you will notice some colours have moved families!:

If you have any questions or would like to place an order  just get in contact with me.

Remember the new colours will be available to purchase on July 1st.

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All Dressed Up!

When I first saw the All Dressed Up stamp sets and matching framelits in the Spring catalogue I didn't really take much notice of them, I think it was because they were with a pop up die that's a bit beyond my price range at the moment. However, I started to see a lot of projects made with this set and realised (duh) you didn't need the pop up die to use them! So I bought it and I LOVE it!!! I have had a little play, here's the first card I made, the background stamp is Hello Doily which I also love! Colour scheme is crumb cake and very vanilla, and some retired DSP.

Take a note...

I thought I would show you the new note book I covered, I do have one that I write all my the instruction/measurements in when I make cards or albums but I wanted something a bit more informal. This is my covered kraft note book (got it from sainsbury's, bought the shelf out as they were half price and I love em!).Here's my book, there are a few marks on it already as I forgot to  take a photo when I first made it.

I used the 2011-13 in colours as my colour scheme, the alphabet stamps are Morning Post, the owl is made out of circle punches as I wanted it bigger than the owl punch.  I made a pocket on the inside cover:

 As I said, I wanted something informal where I could make a mess, go wrong, jot down ideas, inspiration, things to do etc and a bit of a diary.  Here is the first page:

 Another page and sneak peak of a technique we will probably do in class;

 The last page!

There are a lot more pages to fill in between but don't worry I won't keep showing you them.  I really enjoyed making this book and have you noticed how the paper goes all the way to the end of the cover and doesn't stop at the ring binding? I will show you how I did this another time.....

Two Tags Die Mini Album

I thought I would join in yet another challenge, they are a great way of trying out new things. Todays challenge is from The Paper Players

My youngest daughter Jessica is putting together a memory tin and asked me to make her something to go inside, so I thought I would use the Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge and chose Pink and green (not a colour combo I usually use), Tag and Spring. I thought I would make a tag to go on the front of a little mini album but I ended up making the tag into a little mini!

 I used the largest tag from the the Two Tags Die. The front and back covers are tags and it opens up into a little accordion album. Stamp sets are Best of Everything, Itty Bitty and Morning Post Alphabet.

This is the back:

I had a little mishap, there was a ribbon tie and that I had stuck behind the front tag I thought I might stamp on. I had a practise on some spare ribbon, unfortunately it wasn't spare, it was attached to the album so I had to cut it off, (oops!). I made a little belly band instead!

Jess likes her little album and I hope you do too,

Punch Art Sympathy

The last of the punch art for now, promise. It can be hard to make a sympathy card but I thought the card I showed you on Sunday would be ideal. This time the colour scheme is crumb cake and I used the tulip frame embossing folder, (remember this is cased from here). I love the tulip embossing folder, it is so easy to alter the size of the frame, you can find a tutorial here.
This is my card

Here are the pair:

Hello Doily

I seem to have the challenge bug. This time I have combined two challenges:

• The Play Date Cafe Colour Challenge

• Inkspirational Sketch Challenge

I used the Hello Doily and butterfly (can't spell the correct name!) set and the sentiment is from itty bitty banners. Here is my card, I love the colour combo:.