Stampin' Up do Fabric!

One of the new products we have in our catalogue this year is fabric, it is beautiful and co-ordinates beautifully with our stamps and papers. I did not buy any but it is now on my, (rather large) wish list because I got some in my training on saturday, (yes we had to take a needle and thread!) and saw some fantastic ideas from other demonstrators, thanks Sally-Jo, Gemma and Jane.
We made two broaches using the flirtatious fabric and some scallop dot ribbon, these are dead easy and I can see me making lots of them!

When I got home I just had to have a play, after watching strictly come dancing of course. I had some pink felt in my stash that matched beautifully so I unpicked one of the broaches, I had sewn the fastener on backwards anyway and this is what I came up with.

I used my big shot and the fun flowers die and swapped the button for an antique brad, (they are gorgeous) and changed it into a key ring/bag charm.

Here they are together.

Training Swaps

I was lucky enough to attend Julie's Jems team training yesterday even though I'm not a Jem, so thank you Julie I had a great day.  When ever Stampin' Up demonstrators get together we always do a swap, swapping card fronts and 3-d items.  So we come away with some great ideas and lovely samples of  stamp sets and papers that we may not have yet so we can show our customers.
These are the swaps I made using the Polar Party stamp set and designer frames textured embossing folders, these are in our new catalogue and I love them.
I made it in two different colour ways, night of navy/pool party with white embossing powder and olive gree/real red with gold embossing powder.

I cut three sides of the embossing folder to make a little door, open it up and there's a little surprise, (isn't that ruffled ribbon gorgeous)!

Here's the other colour combo, I cut the frame a different way so we could have some penguins.

Swirls and Pearls challenge

Hi All
I thought I would enter the swirls and pearls challenge over at Simply Stampin' Challenge blog.  Swirls just called for the season of joy stamp set, this is probably my favourite stamp set, it's so versatile and not just for Christmas.  Saying that, here's a Christmas card,  (I know it's only October!) I made using this set and some non-traditional colours, chocolate chip, very vanilla and calypso coral one of the new in colours and of course, some pearls.

I used the new lace ribbon punch and treaded some chocolate chip card through.
The second card is not quite swirls and pearls as I thought gems went better, again non traditional colours, tempting turqouise and whisper white, I used white embossing powder and some punches to add a bit of dimension.

Sneak Peek - Forever Young

I am really excited because we have a brand new catalogue coming out on Saturday! As a demonstrator I get catalogues early and am able to purchase a few new sneak peek items,how lucky am I?  Still can't wait till saturday when I can order anything I want out the catalogue though, my wish list is getting longer every day.
One of the stamp sets I purchased was forever young, which I love, here is an envelope album, (my new catalogue resolution is to post some tutorials and I will put one up for the envelope album) I made using this set and the new ribbon lace punch.

I also used one of the five new in colours, island indigo. I used broadsheet alphabet and my faithful stamp-a-ma-jig to make the photo's label.  I love the new lace ribbon punch it is so versatile, you can thread ribbon or thin card/aper through, cut the flowers out, the one inch circle punch fits great behind it if you want to highlight a different colour or fits on top of it as I have done in this album.

Bye for now, but keep checking my blog for more info about the new catalogue and our new hostess package which is fantastic.  

Sweetheart journal pages

Here's some more journal pages, well I did say I did 50!  This time I used the sweetheart stamp set and the flower for you stamp which I think goes reaaly well with this set. These are very girly pages and would look great adapted for a girls card.  I used the polka dot embossing folder to add some texture.

The next two pages aren't so girly I used the colour scheme of baja breeze and crumb cake and again the embossing folder for texture.  I didn't want to add too many embelishments as I didn't want the book to get too bulky so the embossing folders were great to use.

Have you spotted the punched flowers on the last page? These are cut from our new lace ribbon punch which is beautiful and comes out in October so this is a little sneak peek.



Strength and Hope Journal Pages

Hello again
Yet more journal pages, this time using the strength and hope charity stamp set from the mini, again this will be retiring at the end of the month.  I know I am posting a lot of journal pages at the moment but you can adapt them to card or scrap book pages so hopefully they will give you some ideas on how to use the stamp sets.

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig a lot for these pages, I think this has to be one of my most used tools as it's so great for lining the stamp up.

Simply Said Journal pages

Here are some more journal pages, these ones use the simply said stamp set which is retiring at the end of the month. Again I used a mask, this time with some post it notes and stamped on the page, when you take the notes off you have space to write.

Some more pages using this set, sorry these are photo heavy posts!

The butterflies are made with the butterfly embosslit.