Sweet Favours

I made these little favour bags and filled them with tablet as a thank you for the Stampin' Up!® peeps who travelled to Glasgow for the recent training event. I hope they enjoyed them.

Supplies:
Stamps: Circle of friendship; Paisley background stamp
Cardstock: Very Vanilla; Pretty in Pink; Bashful Blue; Basic Grey;
Ink: Basic Grey
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink; Bashful Blue;
Accessories: Cello bags

There are only a couple of places left on the Ribbon share so if you are interested please let me know as soon as possible.


And don't forget about the October offer - 20% off selected Birthday stamp sets if you spend over £20.


Finally I have had a couple of enquiries about my Stampers 10 club. If you are interested in receiving a level one hostess set AND free products from the catalogue worth at least £15, and are willing to commit to spending at least £15 for 10 months or £25 for 6 months please let me know.


As usual you can contact me by phone on 01475 689958, email me or leave a comment on my latest blog post with your contact details and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

ILWS Technique challenge - Paper piercing

Our challenge was to make a card using the paper piercing technique - this was mine :)


I used my real red inkpad to dye the chipboard flower and then used some dimensionals foam pads to raise the whole of the old olive card.

Supplies:
Stamp set: Circle of Friendship
Card: Sahara Sand, Old Olive
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: Real Red ribbon, Chipboard flower (On Board Blossoms & Basics set), circle punches, dimesionals

Bold bright notepads and post-it notes

These were similar to the Carte Postale notepads I showed you a couple of posts ago but done in brighter colours.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Circle of Friendship
Card: Pink Passion, Pumpkin Pie, Orchid Opulence
Ink:Pumpkin Pie
Accessories:Pumpkin Pie & Certainly Celery ribbon, scallop & various circle punches, spiral punch

Two For You...again!

Stampin' Up!s special offer for July is that if you sign up as a demonstrator then you can chose any stamp set, yes any one at all, for FREE from the catalogue to add to your starter kit. If anyone is interested then please let me know.

For the rest of my customers who don't want to be demos I couldn't let you down and therefore I have my own offer.

This month’s featured stamp sets are Carte Postale and Pick A Petal.

Buy the stamp set and matching jumbo wheel as detailed below and get the jumbo handle absolutely free.

Or if you already have the handle you can chose a stampin’ pad or pack of 24 sheets of cardstock from any of Stampin’ Up!’s 48 colours for free instead!

Just let me know if you want the handle, stampin pad or cardstock when you place the order.
Any Stampers 10 club members taking advantage of the offer please include the free item on your order form but leave the amount blank.

Any questions just ask!



This is a card a made using the Pick A Petal set in a non traditional way. I added some dazzling diamonds glitter for the sun reflecting off the sand.

Ingredients:
Stamps - Pick a Petal, Circle of Friends
Cardstock: Bashful blue, Sahara Sand & Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Certainly Celery, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Dazzling Diamonds glitter, 1/2", 1" and 1 3/8" Circle punches

Fall Flowers Designer Series Paper

Just a couple of cards made using Kraft cardstock (available in the neutrals multipack 110198 pg 69) and some paper from the Fall Flowers designer series paper collection.
Each collection includes 12 sheets of 12x12" paper - 2 each of 6 double sided designs. Acid & Lignin free.

June Offer #1 - The escape bundle

eScape Bundle (item 113702):

Description	Page Number	Price
Love Notes assortment	p. 78	£5.95
Circle of Friendship stamp set	p. 62	£17.95
1-1/4" Circle punch	p. 80	£13.95
Total (non-bundled)		£37.85
eScape Bundle price		£28.39

Almost there...

Only 1day to go!

June Offer?

Some more cards using some of the products on offer throughout June

Floral Christmas Card

All My Love card

Any ideas yet?

There are a few special offers in June.

Over the next few days I'll be posting some cards made with everything included in the Special Offer bundle. Anyone like to guess what's on offer?

Card Swap

Now that I have posted my cards to my swappee I can post them on here too :)

I made the box from some white card then used a transparency to make a see through, slip on cover (you can just score the transparency like normal cardstock)

This one is made using the "A Little Birdie Told Me Set" which is not available in the current UK catalogue...but I am keeping my fingers crossed it is in the next catalogue as it is a lovely set.


This cute little flower is from the "Unfrogettable" set and the background is stamped with the Paisley background stamp.
I used my circle punch to clip the corners of the Certainly Celery and Pretty in Pink cardstock.

More "Unfrogettable" and some designer series paper

And this one uses the Circle of Friends sentiments set and again the designer series papers.
I used Stampin' Up!'s corner rounder with the guard removed to make the scalloped edge.


If you have any questions about any of the techniques or products used in making these cards then I would love to hear from you.
Just leave a comment below or click on the "email me" link :)

One Sheet Wonder Class

This is a little taster of just some of the cards we will be making at the one-sheet wonder class.
The class will take place in the Community Room at Largs Library on Thursday 1st May 10:15am to 11:45am.

The cost will be £6 and we will be making at least 6 cards plus some co-ordinating gift tags as time permits.

Please bring your own adhesive.

Introductory offer:
Any attendees who book and pre-pay by 26th April will receive a free gift.

Please contact me by email (thefineartofstampin@googlemail.com) or by phone/text (07949 101534) to secure your place as numbers are limited.

Favourite Colours

I just love these three colours at the moment:

Certainly Celery
Pretty in Pink
Close to Cocoa

and combined with the Circle of Friendship set and some of the gorgeous co-ordinating designer series paper I have been busy making a set of cards for the swap over on UK Scrappers.

I hope my swappee likes these colours as much as I do :)