I got a thank you card .........

Hi everyone.  How are you today?  Me, I'm ok.  Just about to pop out and walk the dogs, then off into the craft room to play.  Read on down and you will see why.... there is so much exciting news today.

In this post:

• Ali's Thank You Card
• Christmas is coming -
• Hostess Special Offer

Ali's Thank You Card.

Thank you Ali for your lovely card ........  I always send out thank you cards to all my customers.  I think its important to thank people.  Even as a child I wrote my thank you letters.

So imagine how touched I was to receive this lovely 8 x 8 work of art.  Its absolutely stunning.

Ali has used the gorgeous Swallowtail butterfly, maksed over it and then used En- Francais and the Happy Watercolour sets to create this stunning card.  It has pride of place in my craft room.

The gorgeous butterfly has been coloured with our lovely new Blendabilities pens.  Isn't it gorgeous and with some much depth and tone.  Love it.  

Thank you Ali.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

Yes, it is.  I know you don't want to think about it yet, its still only August (Just).  But it is coming, and to help you guys get your crafting for Christmas sorted we've launched our new autumn/winter brochure today.  

Am I excited, am I ever!!!  Christmas and Crafting.  Two of my most favourite things.

 The front cover followed by some sneaky peaks

Oooh lovey little gift boxes

Baubles and sentiments and much more

Icy Blue and lovely washi tapes.

Curious, want to see more ...... I know you do, so heres the link so you can download it ....

AUTUMN / WINTER PDF 2014

If you would like a paper copy then please email or call me and I will be happy to send you out a copy free of charge.

Keep watching the blog for more ideas and makes using the lovely new winter products.

and as if that wasn't enough

HOSTESS SPECIAL OFFER

Would you like to be able to own an exclusive stamp set, that money just can't buy?  Yep, me too.

Well here is your opportunity.  For all orders, either single or combined in a workshop, over £200 you can earn the Good Greetings free stamp set.  Yes Free.  Thats in addition to the free hostess credit you already get.

So for instance if your party total sales reached £250 you would get £40 free to hostess credit to spend plus this free stamp set.   Wow, and you've had great fun crafting with your friends as well.  Whats not to love.  

So come on, anyone who would love me to come and do a workshop in their area please give me a call or email me and we can fix a date.

But don't forget this offer isn't around for ever, its only available until 31st October, so what are you waiting for ....... give me a call and book your workshop today.

Swallowtail meets Blendabilities

Hi everyone.

I thought I would dig out one of my favourite stamps and get colouring with my new favourite pens.

I decided to colour the same stamp with three different colours and mount the coloured image in three different ways so you could see the difference, and hopefully be inspired.

Anyway the stamp is Swallowtail and I have coloured with Blendabilities in Rich Razzleberry, old olive and cherry cobbler.

On this card I layered rich razzleberry card stock onto very vanilla.  I stamped ink momento tuxedo black in with the swallowtail stamp.

I then stamped again onto another piece of very vanilla and set to work with my Blendabilities.  Once the image was coloured I fussy cut it and mounted onto the card to create a 3d effect.

Heres a close up so you can see all the wonderful lights and shadows you can create with these amazing pens.

Cherry cobbler butterfly, on very vanilla, matted and layered onto old olive.  

Isn't the definition with these pens amazing

Lastly Old olive butterfly, matted and layered onto daffodil delight card stock

Love the definition in this one.  So pretty

What do you think?

Don't you just love the way these pens colour.  

I'd love to see your creations if I have inspired you and as always your comments mean so much. 

Hugs

A little bit of brightness ..........

At Stampin Up they have made it easy for you to colour co-ordinate your projects.  All inks, papers, markers and accessories come in colour ranges.

I decided to try out one of my favourite quick albums in the BRIGHTS collection.  This range is stunning.  Anyway with a couple of teenagers in the house it was easy to collect the 10 toilet roll holders needed.  The Swallowtail butterfly was just jumping out at me  and I just knew it would look fantastic in these colours.

I made the covers and hinges, and decorated the toilet roll inners, before making tags and decorating them.

Here's the result:

The Front

From above

the fronts of the tag pockets

The front of the tags

The back of the tags.

So you see, even the smallest of mini albums can hold a wealth of memories.  If you fancy holding a workshop to learn how to do this drop me an email. (Address at the top of the blog).  All items used to make this can also be ordered direct from me.

Everything apart from the toilet roll holders, is a Stampin Up product.  The card and inks and ribbons are all from the Brights collection.  I made the tags using a stamping punch and die set.  All the fronts of the tags were stamped using different stamp sets in Coastal Cabanna and Tangerine Tango.

I had great fun making this litte bit of cuteness.

DON'T FORGET  to check out my blog over the next couple of days to see the wonderful Christmas goodies we have on offer.

Have a great day.

Lisa x

Stampin Up

Hi everyone.

I hope that your weather is as fantastic as ours has been.  It has been really difficult to be inside crafting, and not outside in the sun......... which is where I am going in a minute.

I have been considering becoming a Hobby Demonstrator for Stampin Up for a while.  An have finally taken the plunge ........  this is so that I can get great discount on amazing products which I love to use in my crafting.  (They are not available through any retailers)

I have been making lots of memory books recently, and love playing with different mediums to try and embellish them and make them gorgeous.

I have been making this one for a bit.  Here's the photos.  All the bits and bobs and papers, stamps, inks, etc are from Stampin Up.