More Season of Joy!!

One more season of joy project, I promise, (for now anyway!).  Another chocolate box card, this time I used some traditional Christmas colours, real red and olive green.  I randomly stamped a sheet of whisper white card then cut it out to use on the cards.

I used the oval frame embossing folderas the punched extra large oval fits perfectly inside.
For the second card I used the four frames stamp and matching punch for the centre topper.

Chocolate Treat card

I have made some more chocolate gift cards for the craft fair.  Funny how most of the things I make for the craft fair involve chocolate!
I have used the Season of Joy stamp set again, I love this set. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the word stamp for the background.

The first card uses night of navy and the second card bashful blue.  I used the scallop trim border punch for decoration.

Christmas Craft Fair

I have been very busy making things for the:

  Christmas Craft Fair Saturday 10th December 10am-3pm

at Guisborough Sea Cadets,

Belmangate

Guisborough

There will be lots of different stalls there, tombola and raffles as well as drinks and snacks so why not come along and see me if you are in the area.

These are some of the bird boxes I have been making, although I have changed the chocolate buttons inside and put some yummby wrapped chocolate balls in from M & S as I thought they looked more chocolatey.  Which also meant I got to eat the chocolate buttons!

I love making these and they look great hung on the tree or you could use them as place settings or table decorations.  I made the robin using the 2 step bird punch.



Santa candy cane holders

I had a very busy weekend, on Saturday I did a Start Stamping Christmas Cards class using the dasher stamp, this went really well and we all enjoyed ourselves. I have got plans for at least one more class this year and will be planning a great schedule of classes for the New Year so watch this space.
I have been busy making things for Christmas Fairs.
Here are some Santa candy cane holders I made using the pillow box die and ornament punch.

Un-convention challenges

Stampin' Up are having their European Convention in Disney Land Paris this weekend and I am sure they are having a fantastic time. For those of us who haven't gone we are having a weekend of challenges on the In Love With Stamping Demo's Forum to keep us all busy. 
I have done a combination of yesterdays challenge which was to make a card and gift set and tonight's challenge which is in two parts:
Part one is to incorporate a repeated stamped image. This can be a picture or a sentiment, or both!
Part two is a form of colour repetition in that the colour theme is MONOCHROME. This means you can use any colour, but you must only use shades/hues of ONE colour (e.g. all blues, all greens etc). White is also allowed.
This my effort.  The card is a combination of card and treat box and holds three Elizabeth Shaw mints, it's yesterdays challenge as it has gold in.  I also made a bagalope which is a bag made out of an envelope.

I used chocolate chip and very vanilla card stock and chocolate chip ink and Season of Joy stamp set. For the card/treat box I also used the Dasher stamp, The Victorian lace is from our new catalogue and is gorgeous, I used an antique brad to secure it.

I made the bagalope out of a very vanilla envelope which is beautiful to stamp on. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to repeat stamp the season of joy stamp on the top note and made the background with the swirl and tiny poinsettia and secured the top with crumb cake seam binding.

Start Stampin' Christmas Cards Class

Hi just a quick reminder about my Dasher christmas card class on the 19th of November, the deadline to book is the 10th and I have a few spaces left.  It is a great introduction to stamping for beginners or if you are an experienced crafter it's a chance to try  out Stampin' Up products and make some new friends. The class costs £20 but this includes nearly £20 of Stampin' Up product, everything you need to make more cards at home, see my Class Page for more details.
These are some of the projects you could be making, we are all set to have a great few hours crafting so contact me now to book your place.

New catalogue AND Starter Kit Freebies!!

This post will stay at the top till the end of October so Just scroll down for new posts.
Yes the time has finally arrived and the new idea book and catalogue is out!!!  Click on the picture on my sidebar to have a look.  There are some gorgeous new products and I shall be ordering a few today, so keep coming back to my blog to take a look at what's available. 

There are 5 lovely new in-colours that will be around for 2 years and Stampin up have a brand new promotion, if you order your starter pack in October which is wonderful value at £119 for over £240 of products, you get the 5 new ink pads and a paper pack FREE!!! Click here to find out more.
So now is a great time to join my team and the Stampin' Up family and become a demonstrator, why not contact me for an informal chat to find out more about the benefits of being a demonstrator.