Do you believe ......................

Everyone once in a while you come across a stamp set that whittles its way into your affections.  The stamp I have used today is one of these such stamps.

I am a firm believer that if you want something bad enough, and that if you work hard enough for it, you will eventually get it, and this stamp just sums that up beautifully.

I have a great friend (Via FB) whose little girl Abi, has just taken her Grade 2 Ballet Exam.   I know from her mum the blood sweat and tears that went into the practice and more practice, right up until the day of the exam.

Abi looked gorgeous in her Mum's photos, and so I made her this card to wish her luck and to let her know that I was thinking of her.

The stamp says

"She believed she could and so she did."

This is of course from the Feel Goods set. Its so versatile. I will admit I was delighted to see it in the new catalogue, I would have been heartbroken to have had to part with it.

 Heres the front/inside view

From the very front

 and with the matching envelope

Isn't it pretty.  I have combined Crisp Canteloupe, with white card stock for the card, and have made the layers stand out by distress inking the edges.  The envelope is Baked Brown Sugar, and was handmade to match the card using the Envelope Punch Board.  The flowers are all crisp cantaloupe and have been stamped using the Flower Shop set and punched out using the pansy punch.  The little green leaves are using the petit petals punch and the long leaves on the card are from the bird punch.  I finished it off with a few glimmer gold hearts.

Talking of gold, and silver there are some amazing offers on this week in our weekly deals.

You can get these by clicking the Shop with me button below and then going to weekly deals. 

Just a quick reminder about my new Blendabilities Club. 

 All the details can be found here.

Don't miss out its a great opportunity to collect all the pens and get freebies along the way.  

Have a great day.  I hope wherever you are the sun is shining.

 

Brand New and Exclusive Blendabilities Club from Crunchie Crafts

Have you seen these amazing new Alcohol Ink Pens from Stampin Up.  They are so cool, and so pretty.  And because the colour is suspended in alcohol they blend perfectly.   They come in packs of three gorgeous blending tones to make sure that you always get a perfect finish to your project.

Heres a short video showing you these amazing new pens.

There are 12 colour sets and a skin tone set.  The skin tone set has 6 colours in it.

Blendabilities are an exclusive alcohol-based marker set that come in a 3-pack of light, medium and dark shades (of the same color ), and provide your projects a more saturated look with blended colors. We recommend using Stampin' Up! Whisper White Cardstock when using them, but any of our cardstocks will work.

What sets Blendabilities apart:

• The rectangular barrel keeps your markers from rolling away
• Flat storage helps to maintain the life of each marker
• Each marker comes with a tip on each end: brush and fine
• Marker tips are made of nylon, which is superior to polyester which can fray
• Color coded caps
• Can be used with transparent sheets and to color pearls, rhinestones, buttons, clay, etc
• And of course...Stampin' Up! markers coordinate wonderfully with our cardstock!

I am really proud to be the first UK Stampin Up Demonstrator to be able to bring to you the following Clubs.  No-one else in the UK (to my knowledge at this time) are offering these clubs.


I am offering you the opportunity to collect the entire collection of these pens over a  6 month period by joining this brand new Blendabilities Club, 

(These clubs are exclusive to Crunchie Crafts and are currently not offered by any other UK demonstrators to my knowledge in these format)

 

The stunning Swallowtail coloured with coastal Cabana Blendabilities

(This is part of August Card Club Kit)

What do you get each month

• 2 complete sets of pens (Three in each set.  Each set comprising Light, Medium and Dark shade)
• 1 Skin colour pen

How much is it?

• The cost is £25.40 per month, plus £3.00 P&P.  This will enable me to send the pens out to you.  (On the month you are hostess you are liable for the extra postage costs for your parcel)

Is there anything else that you need:

Yes, you will need a Momento Ink Pad, and a colour lifter pen.  These can be purchased alongside your first order at a cost of £10 in total.

 

What do I get on the month I am hostess?

• On the month that you are hostess you get an extra £25 to spend from the catalogue for free.  

How many people will be in each Club.

• There are six people needed for each club.  I will run multiple clubs depending on the number of participants.

When does it start and for how long does it run?

• The club will start on 1st August 2014 and run for 6 months.  It will end in January 2015.

How do I join?

Simply contact me and let me know that you wish to join.  The first order will be placed on 1st August 2014.

Payment has to be received before the last day of each month, so that the order can be placed on the 1st.

Contact Details              Email:  craftybirdlisa@gmail.com

                                      Telephone:   07823883769 / 01823 410087

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So if that wasn't enough how about this...........

BLENDABILITIES CARD KIT CLUB
(These clubs are exclusive to Crunchie Crafts and are currently not offered by any other UK demonstrators to my knowledge in these format)

What is this?

This is a monthly club that will run for six months.  At the end of the six months you will have all 12 sets of Blendabilities and the complete Skin Tone Set.

What Do I Get?

You get the following in your card kit every month

• Complete instructions to be able to make three cards
• Complete set of ready cut card stock to make the three cards
• Two sets of Blendabilities Plus One Skin tone Blendabilitie Pen.  (So you have 7 pens a month)
• Plus One Stamp Set a month which is used alongside the card kit.  (This is in clear mount - you can request wood mount if you prefer, and I will adjust the cost for you)

What does it cost?

The cost of the club is going to be between £42 a month and £50 a month if you use clear mount stamps.  It will never be more than £50.  You will also have to pay £4.95 postage each month, so that I can send you kits out to you.

The Bonus

By joining the Card Kit Club, you will get full instructions on how to make the three cards, a complete stamp set (clear mount) and the 7 Blendability pens.

But you will also get to be the Club Hostess once during that six month period and the benefits received will be a minimum of £30, or a maximum of £40, depending on the stamp set used that month.  So that means as well as your kit, once during the six month period you get an additional £30 or £40 to spend free out of the catalogue.  Free.  Thats an amazing deal. 

The club will be launching on 1st August 2014 and will run until 1st January 2015.  (January being the final month)

There will be six people in each club.  I will run multiple clubs to accommodate more people.

The Kit will be announced on the 15th Day of each month prior to ordering.  You must have paid your kit fee by the last day of the month.

By the end of the six months you will have all 12 sets of Blendabilities and the complete set of Skin Tones.  How cool is that, along with 6 new stamp sets and 6 sets of card ideas and kits.

The projects for August Kit Club are:

You will receive Costal Cabanna and Daffodill Delight in August Kit.

Can you imagine colouring this gorgeous butterfly in this tantalising yellows

Is there anything else that you need:

Yes, you will need a Momento Ink Pad, and a colour lifter pen.  These can be purchased alongside your first order at a cost of £10 in total.

 

How do I join?

Simply contact me and let me know that you wish to join.  The first order will be placed on 1st August 2014.

Payment has to be received before the last day of each month, so that the order can be placed on the 1st.

Contact Details             

 Email:  craftybirdlisa@gmail.com

 Telephone:   07823883769 / 01823 410087



So, which club is best for you.  I will be running both.

Early booking over the next 7 days will ensure that you get my Blendabilities Tip Sheet as well.

You can take your shirt off .................

Or you blouse if you prefer.

Morning everyone.  How are you today?

I didn't post yesterday as I was elbow deep in beautiful designer Series papers and glues creating a special book......... but thats for next week.  You really don't want to miss it.

Anyway thanks to everyone who has stopped by the blog recently and liked it, or who has left comments.  It always means so much to read them and I try and answer each and every one.  I feel really lucky I have an extremely talented bunch of virtual friends out there.

Talking of talented bunch, sadly the girls at Dragonfly have decided that due to the move in premises they won't be continuing on a Thursday anymore, so my last visit was the last one.  I am so sad as a really have enjoyed meeting everyone.

On a lighter note ....... They are continuing on a Wednesday evening at 7.30pm in Community Hall in Cullompton if anyone wants to go along.  Take whatever you are working on and we look forward to having coffee and a chat with you.

So the last project we did was SHIRTS and BLOUSES

We used the brights designer series paper stack and got snipping and sticking and this is what we came up with.

Temping Turquoise

Tangerine Tango Mens Shirt with Hankerchief

 Daffodil Delight Ladies Blouse

 Rich Razzleberry with Hanky in pocket

Old olive with decorated pocket

 and pacific point with buttons

Melon Mambo ladies blouse with ribbon trim

Don't they just look fantastic.

It was a great day, and I am looking forward to spending many a happy evening crafting with the ladies at their new premises.

Floral Wet wipe Technique at Gatchell Ladies Craft Group.

Hi everyone.  I hope that your Monday is going well so far ....... and that you have lots of lovely things planned for this week.

How many of you made the tag book I featured in my last post.  I would love to see yours, so please don't forget to leave a comment and link back to your post.

Once a month, I have the pleasure of going and crafting with the ladies at Gatchell Oaks.  They are an amazing bunch of girls and we have a giggle and lots of fun.  

This time they wanted to do a more complicated card fold.  Here's the one we did.  Its such a cute design. 

Anyway coupled with the complicated card fold I wanted to show them a new technique.

We used wet wipes and the re-inker bottles to form our own ink pad.

We then got this lovely multi coloured effect with our stamping.

We have used two different stamp sets here.  The Petit Petals and matching punch and then the Polka Dot Pieces and matching Elegant Butterfly punch.

My card is at the top and the following cards are by the lovely ladies.

Sorry it was 9pm at night and the lighting was not great.  But you can see that they all had a great time creating these lovely cards.

Also don't forget that there is only 48 hrs left of the current Weekly Deals.

It really is worth checking them out this week.  There are some amazing punches and ribbons and buttons all at stupid prices.  

Combine these with some of the gorgeous new products in the new catalogue and you will have a truly great new stash to play with.