Gorgeous grungy flowers .....

Lisa Cornwall, Independant Stampin UP UK Demonstrator, shop online with me at www.crunchiecrafts.stampinup.net 

Hi guys.

How are you all today.  I can't believe its Wendesday today.  I have been looking forward to today for about a week.

Why?

Well, I now live in Somerset, but I used to live in Tintagel in Cornwall and I miss lots of my friends, and once a month or so we get together for a girlie day of chat, cake and coffee.  What could be nicer.
I know I am having a great day.  I hope you are too.

IN TODAY'S POST:

• Gorgeous Grungy Flowers
• Chocolate Crumb - yesterday's post
• Special Offers

GORGEOUS GRUNGY FLOWERS

Yesterday I showed you a lovely card using the beautiful bunch stamp set.  I love this set.  But one of my other loves is gorgeous grunge.  I love love love this one.

It creates amazing backgrounds for all types of projects and goes beautifully with the flowers in today's stamp set.

How cute is that.  I have stamped the images from gorgeous grunge straight onto the card base, using real red, crumb cake and pear pizzazz.  Beautiful colours.  Adore them.

I used the tag topper punch (Scallop) to punch out my tag before stamping in real red with the Thank U from A Round Array.  Next I edged my tag with real red ink using a sponge dauber.

Adding a little ribbon at the top of the tag and attaching to my card base using dimensionals.

I punched one flower out of pear pizzazz and stamped another in real red, before punching out.  I gave them some dimension by running over them with my bone folder, before added a pearl in the centre of the flower.  I layered them up and attached to the tag.  Cute don't you think.

So two days, and two cards using the same feature stamp set.

If you missed yesterday's post here it is:

CHOCOLATE CRUMB

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Have a great one and take care.

Memories of those special days made extra special with Stampin Up ......

Hi guys, I have something extra special to show you today made using Stampin Up products

In this post:

• Memories of those special days
• Short and Sweet
• Big Shot, Big Deals

Many years ago I lived in Cornwall, for a while and at that time my kids needed a Nanny, to sit with them during the summer holidays.

I was lucky enough to find a lovely young lady called Sammy, who my kids adored,  she's a star.

Anyway many years later the lovely Sammy has got married and had a little one of her own.

Here's what I made her to celebrate her wedding

The outside box.  Crumb cake stamped in early espresso using the gorgeous Hardwood background stamp.  I made the lovely tag from crumb cake, sponged the edges.  The cute flowers are made using the itty bitty punches.  

Gift Box in Crumbcake, stamped in hardwood from Stampin Up

Stampin Up Crumb cake card and Designer Series Paper

Inside was a matchbox.  A very long matchbox, but how cute.  This is covered in some retired DSP from last Christmas.  (This book has used up left overs from two now retired stacks. - never chuck these things away, they always come in handy)

Matchbox drawer using Stampin Up products

The sentiment on the tags and the box and the book are from a retired wedding set.  I borrowed these from my friend Sandra, as hey said just the perfect thing.

The drawer pulls out with the aid of the lovely antique button.   The box is nearly 7" long and just over 4" wide, and an inch deep.  

Mini album using Crumb Cake from Stampin Up

Here's the front and side of the mini album that goes inside.

Stampin UP Designer Series Papers make this so cute

showing all the lovely pages with their gorgeous colours

Stampin Up products make great mini albumns

and here's how the accordion pages pull out.  Each side has 7 photo/jouranal sections when fully extended.  

This was so lovely to make and I know that Sammy adores it.

Its so nice to be able to make something so personal, and to make someone special smile.  I love my job and I love what I do, and days like that just make it even better.

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Early Espresso Birthday and 50% free

In today's post:

• Sandras Birthday, early espresso and crumb cake
• Short and Sweet - 50% extra free
• Big shot, big deals

Morning everyone.

Hows your week been?  Mines been lovely.  Although I am missing my kids, (They're away with family), the house is quiet, and too tidy.  But I have had lots of time to get crafty and make some special gifts for special people.

It was my friend Sandra's birthday so I needed to make her an extra special card.  I am loving crumb cake and early espresso together at the moment, and here's what I came up with.

I made the base for this by folding a piece of UK A4 in half to create an A5 card.

Very vanilla was stamped with Gorgeous Grunge

Matts and layers using the windows framelits were finished off with the lovely saying from the Feel Goods set.

Don't you love that heart border.  Created completely with our hearts boarder punch.  Yummy.

Beautiful ribbon deserves a beautiful bow.  Finished off with a gorgeous button.

Don't you love the colour of this button.  Yep, me too.  And it started life as a clear faceted button.  I coloured it with a blendabilitie pen in the darkest of the skin tones.  Gorgeous.

Off course the inside had to look pretty too.

 

And there was a matching tag for her present.

mmmm chocolates.

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Have a great day.

Happy Monday to you ......

Hi guys.  So it's Monday already,  I've had such a fab weekend, spent some lovely quality time with my family.

My gorgeous daughter and I. 

And my fur babies

 And how cute is this.

A complete swan family on our dog walk.  dad swan was just to the right of this picture

 Close up of cygnets.

We've been on great dog walks, had a lovely relaxed lunch at a local historical house and then a movie night.  Fab. Oh and I managed a little bit of crafting.

So what did I get up to?  

Well I made some gorgeous giant tea light boxes.

I made several of them, and changed the ribbons each time.  They're just waiting for their gift tags.  

The papers are now retired from Stampin Up, but I loved the way they look.

All these are wrapped with our gorgeous chevron ribbon

And these are with our vanilla cotton ribbon and our seam binding. Awesome. 

I'd love to say I designed these boxes, but they are based on a design by my friend Sam.  I hope she approves of my Case of her project.

Have a great day.  

Daffodil Delight meets Blendabilities

Hi everyone.

Are you well?  I hope so..........

Todays card was a joy to do, not only because of the lovely sunny colour, but also because I was again able to sit and colour using the amazing new blendabilities.

I just can't begin to tell you how much I love these pens.  Its because of them that I have rediscovered my passion for colouring ............. I'm now 45 going on 5 (hee hee)

Anyway I used one of my favourite stamps - The swallowtail and stamped it in momento ink and got out my pens .......... sat under the tree in my garden with a cold glass of juice and away I went.  My stress levels went down and all my cares melted away.  Bliss .......

I just love that my crafting takes me somewhere else ......... its a wonderful relaxing hobby which creates something amazing at the end.  Brilliant.

Isn't this gorgeous.  I just love love love it.

And here's a close up to show you how smooth and blended the inks are.  The highlights done with the blender pen come through really well and its all so easy with these pens.

Do you want to see the finished card?

Of course you do ...........

I also had great fun playing with my new embossing folder as well.  I inked one side in Early Espresso and then put in my whisper white card stock and ran it through the big shot.  Look at how cool that is.  I matted and layered the butterfly on Early Espresso card stock and added some ribbon to finish.

What do you think?  I love getting your comments and questions and always try and reply, so please do leave them.

Want to know more about how to get these great pens, or would you like to take part in a monthly class that comes straight to your home?

Yes

Then have a look at my brand new Blendabilities club.

But be quick tho, I have filled one club and am only three spaces short of filling the second club.  Everyone is so looking forward to receiving their monthly parcels, and I am looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations.

Don't forget this offer in this format is exclusive to Crunchie Crafts, and i'd hate for you guys to miss out.

Watch out for more sneak peaks of September's projects.  You can see August's projects here.  They are at the bottom of the post.

I'm really excited about this club and I know that you guys are gonna love these pens as much as I do and I can't wait to show you the up and coming projects over the next few months ......... birthday, anniversary, christmas etc etc....... there's a bit of everything ....... so what are you waiting for email or call me or text me to confirm your place before their all gone.

Lisa Cornwall - 07823 883769  (Text or call)

                           craftybirdlisa@gmail.com  - email

or find me on Facebook :  www.facebook.com/LisaCornwall.IndependantStampinUpDemonstrator

Workshop for my SIL .......... ＃a beautiful bunch

and they were truly a beautiful bunch to spend a fantastic evening with.

There were lots of fun and giggles and much competitiveness.  But it was great to see a group of friends enjoying themselves so much.

It was a great workshop with lots of spot prizes along the way, and a quick demo from me.  Unfortunately I gave my SIL the card and forgot to photograph it.  (Silly me!!)

I demonstrated the reflection technique that you can find in this post ...........  TRAVELLER

For the make and take that everyone got to do this was my basic design ....

  

For the card I have used the gorgeous Beautiful Bunch Stamp set.  Inked it in Lost Lagoon

and created my own background on the card base.

Next I punched out a tag, using the tag topper punches, then inked the edges and stamped the sentiment (from the Something to say Stamp Set).

Added the ribbon and popped on the card.

Finally I stamped two more flowers, one on very vanilla card stock and one on lost lagoon.

Punched them out using the coordinating punch and popped on with stamping dimensionals.

Here's the card from the side.

Below are the cards the 6 girls made ..... what do you think?

 a side view of the set below

I just love the fact that they bounced ideas around and each created something truly unique.

The colours used were from the new In Colour range.

If you would like to get crafty and have your own in-house workshop please give me a call.  

All these products can be found in my online shop, or you can order direct from me.

9 ....... Owls, in colours, gift bags and lots of fun ...... #Stampin Up

Sharon and Jaylyn

Hi everyone.

Sorry I've been a scent for a couple of days.  It's been so busy here.  

On Friday evening I went to see the lovely Bernie and her friends, and had a lovely craft evening with them.

Yesterday afternoon was spent socialising and having fun at Churchingford village Fete.  I had a craft stall and really enjoyed talking to everyone.  

And today I went to see the very pretty Jaylyn, and 5 of her friends.  Both Mum and Nan joined in, so it was a real family affair.

Sharon and Jaylyn

Sharon, Jaylyn, Emma and Victoria

Amanda, Monty, Rosie and Freya. 

We had a great afternoon, stamping, punching, sticking and creating.  I'm always amazed at how wonderful and individual each persons makes are.  Well done guys I'm really proud of you all.

I love doing these kids parties and workshops, the kids are so enthusiastic and love having something they've created at the end of it.  It's always noisy and boisterous around the fable, as hey get really enthusiastic about it all, but what fun.

If you would like to know more about hosting a children's party, or perhaps you run a children's group such as the brownies, rainbows, cubs, scouts or a school club, and would like me to come and show the children how to stamp, then please get in touch.  Either by clicking the "email me" button, or sending me a message on Facebook.  

Hope you've all had a great weekend.

Hugs

two little birds

Hi guys.

I hope this finds you well and that you have managed a little "Crafty" time.

Today's card was made for a member of my Team - The Crafting Birds.

Sharon is lovely and has worked really hard and is making great progress so, I thought I would send her some love in a card.

I used my favourite Bird Builder Punch, the Fresh Prints paper stack and some ribbon to create this lovely card to congratulate her on her achievements.

The base of the card is the gorgeous Real Red card stock and the sentiment from the Loving Thoughts set is also stamped and distressed in real red.

The birds were punched in the Fresh Prints paper and layered onto the Angled Tag, punched using our fantastic Tag Punch and then finished off with real red ribbon.

Don't forget all these products and many more are available from my 

ONLINE SHOP

Have a great day. 

A little Mickey In Colour

Who doesn't love Mickey Mouse ...........  so when asked to make a card for a true Disney fanatic (who is in her 60's) what else was a girl to use but Mickey Mouse.

I had an old Stampin Up Mickey Mouse ballon stamp that I had been waiting for an excuse to use .... and this was just the opportunity I needed.

I wanted to show all you guys out that there just because you purchase lots of lovely new goodies from Stampin Up that you can still combine them with older stamps.

I have used the gorgeous in-colour 2013/15.  I am so in love with this colour scheme.  Everything blends effortlessly.  Don't you just love that.

Anyway here's the card.  I used the in colour inks and the Stamp-a-ma-gig tool to create the spacing on the card.  Its am amazing tool, and one I wouldn't be without now.

The gorgeous tags were cut with the Chalk Talk Framelits and the ribbon is Calypso Coral.  For the inside I wanted to use the two colour cardstocks that I hadn't used on the front.  I layered them and then randomly stamped.  Again the tags were from the Chalk Talk Framelits and the sentiment is from Chalk Talk and From My Heart.

I hope you like it.  

DID YOU NOTICE the new blog header ...................... no, 

pop back up to the top and have a look.

Gorgeous isn't it.  Well it was all made on our fanastic new programme 

This wonderful digital design programme is a must for any crafter.  I created my gorgeous bird image, (my nickname is BIRD) and then used it to create the header on the blog.  The best bit, about MDS is that I can try new styles out using all the papers, punches and stamps on the computer, before actually using my paper stash.  Combining both digital and actual crafting is so much fun.  Do you want to try it?  Go on?  You'll love it.  You can try it free for thirty days.  Just click here to try.

Don't forget if you need some gorgeous new crafty bits to play with that you can order 24/7 52 weeks of the year using the fantastic new online ordering system.  Just click on the picture below to be taken straight to the shop.  Grab your coffee and enjoy yourself.

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/crunchiecrafts/

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Lisa 

A Mug, for your craft desk

Hi guys

Shortly after taking the plunge to become a demonstrator, I had a meeting with my Upline Traci and we discussed various different projects. 

Traci had posted this fantastic cup on her blog (here)

I just loved it and wanted to have a go.  On the Same day as I sat down to craft my lovely UPS man delivered a box with lots of new Stampin Up goodies.  These included the New In-Colour 2013-15 colours, and the Hearts a Flutter Stamp Set, together with the matching Framelits.  I just loved them and had to use them straight away.  The new colours are adorable, and the Pistachio pudding and Strawberry slush reminded me of Pims and Cucumber.  A great summer combo.

Here's the result.

I finished the mug off with a gift tag, stamped and cut using the Hearts a Flutter set and a mini peg coloured with Strawberry Slush.  The ribbon and button were from my old stock.

I really had fun making this.  If you would like to order the supplies to make this give me a call or drop me an email.

Hugs

Lisa x

Diamonds are a girl's best friend .............

Morning to all my fellow crunchies out there.

I hope your day has started brilliantly and that the sun is shining wherever you are ..........

Today's card is for the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog Design Team.  Our theme this time is Glitter and Bling.  What girl doesn't love a little bit of sparkle, whether on her person or in her work.  So go on pop on over and join in and let your inner child out and play with that glitter.  Go on you know you want to.

I had great fun doing my card this time, the Tim Holtz stickles came out - it gave me an excuse to go out and buy that fantastic yellow - soooo pretty.    I chose to use a Humphrey image for this card.  It reminds me of my best pal.  The two of us sat drinking coffee, having a chat and putting the world to rights.

The gorgeous papers were freebies from Pink Paislee, the ribbon and flowers from Papermania, the fantastic birdcage from my stash and the senitment is from the Papermania Tulip Range.  I cut the image using a Spellbinders Nestie. 

I hope you enjoy looking at this one as much as I enjoyed making it.

Crafty hugs for now