Swaps

Did I show you this one yet?  This is the card I designed to swap with other Stampin up demonstrators at convention in Germany last November. 
I love all the swapping of ideas, there is so much inspiration to be gained and so many extremely talented crafters out there.
My card makes use of the Clockworks stamp set, it is stamped very randomly in a collage style.  I stuck to a simple colour pallette of Soft suede, early espresso and vanilla.  I also used the new smooch spritz  over the top which gave a lovely shimmery effect. 

Sea squared

Now this is a great template that could be used for many different stamp sets and occasions.  The images have been stamped onto First Edition designer paper as well as plain coloured card stock and cut using the square punch.

Shamelessly copied.

I love, love, love this stamp set, Artistic etchings.  We made this card at Make, Do and Send card club last month but I can't take any credit at all for the design.  It is a shameless copy of a card that I made at one of Amanda's classes a while ago.  Sadly the newsprint papers will be retiring at the end of this month but I do believe there might be a similar replacement coming in the new catalogue ;) 
I've had another busy week!  Yesterday I spent a wonderful evening, along with my two newest team members at a team training event.  We made 5 cards in a couple of hours which I will share with you over the next few days as I photograph them.  I have also been making lots of swaps in readiness for Saturday's regional training event, speaking of which I had better get back to making them or I won't have enough to share!
Just want to add to the "gone forever" list before I go:
Tempting Turquoise 12x12 card
Wild Wasabi 12 x 12 card
Riding Hood red 12 x 12 card
Whisper White 12x12 card
On Board Art journal
Real Red Taffeta ribbon
Spiral Punch

I will be placing an order tomorrow evening so don't miss your favourites.

Simply Christmas

  I love this card!  Lovely and simple and quick to make but beautiful too!  Another project from team training and one that I will unashamedly copy for my own classes (thanks Amanda :)  ).  The colour combination is the classic old olive, cherry cobbler and vanilla and uses the Jolly Holiday designer papers too along with a touch of satin ribbon for trimming.  The embellishments are created using Stampin ups Bauble punch and label punch and uses the contempo christmas stamps for the message.  The card could be varied by placing the elements differently or by using different designs from the paper pack.

Noel - Christmas Bunting

This is what mine is going to look like when I've finished making it! The bunting was one of the projects at our Stampin Up team training day recently and this is the lovely Amanda holding up her sample. 
I think the bunting looks amazing and will look great in my house at Christmas and it really isn't that difficult to create.  The designer paper pennant triangles are from Jolly Holiday and are matted onto cherry cobbler.  Then each pennant is trimmed with vanilla card that has been edged with the scallop border punch.  The letters have been inked in old olive and then crystal effects to give them that gorgeous glossy shine.  The letters are then placed onto vanilla circles and cherry scalloped circles.  We used the cropodile to make holes in the corners and to set the jumbo eyelets and the whole thing is joined together with some old olive satin ribbon.  Of course you could make much longer bunting and use different words, hmmm I've got an 18th birthday in the family next year I might make some in a different colour scheme for that!

Chris Crinkle!

Blast!  Another antipodean card!  Another from Christmas in July and another that I CASE'd.. The designer paper is from Jolly Holiday as before, matted onto Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler cardstock.  The greeting in the centre is 3D mounted onto a strip of olive card that I ran through the crimper.

Glitter Ball

A second offering from my Christmas in July class, I CASE'd this one from a class I took a couple of years ago keeping it almost exactly the same apart from adding some sparkle in the form of Dazzling Diamonds glitter around the edge of one of the baubles.  The stamps are all from Contempo Christmas and the paper is from Jolly Holiday, the bauble in the foreground is 3d mounted and curled slightly to give some more dimension.

Christmas spinner

Yeah I know, Christmas is months away but it's never too early to get started on your Christmas cards and that's just what we did a couple of weeks back when we made a batch of 18 cards all ready for the big day. The colour palette for the day was Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla; all traditional Christmas colours, we also used the Jolly Holiday designer papers.
This is the first one and the one that proved trickiest to make, not that it's difficult just a little fiddly in places.  We began with a base card of olive and punched out a circle. Two slightly smaller circles were punched from vanilla card stock and, using a versamark inkpad, Stampin up heat and stick powder and some Dazzling diamonds glitter, were decorated with a sparkling snowflake from the Serene Snowflakes stamp set.  These two circles were then glued back to back but with a short length of thread between them.  Placing the circles within the larger hole in the green card the thread was stretched tight and held in place by the decorative papers so that when you stand the card up the disk spins freely.  A touch of vanilla grosgrain ribbon and a greeting from Contempo Christmas stamps to finish it off.

Plane simple

Look familiar??   This is the one that I copied for my Make, Do and Send club last month btu in a different colourway.  Not sure which I prefer and I may try it in different colours yet.
I wont bore you with all the details again it's too close to the end of term and we are all tired I'm sure.  Personally I can't wait to break up this year, I seem to have been sooooo busy I really need a break.  Not that I will get one initially :/  I am off to Scout Summer camp for the first week of the hols which is hard work but great fun. Keep your fingers crossed for reasonable weather please I hate camping in monsoons!
I will try and schedule some posts to appear here while I am away, I have some to share from my Christmas in July class and some projects from team training day too.

Christmas gift bag

I'm not really here today, I'm at a Stampin Up team training day in Fareham.  I love team training 'cos I get to meet up with lots of other lovely demonstrators and we share lots of tips and ideas.  One of the highlights for me is swapping card and gift ideas and these are my swaps.

I made them from brown paper lunch bags.  I cut off the handles and then tidied up the edge using the scallop border punch.  You can't see it very in the photo but I have stamped all over the bag with Merry Christmas from Season of Joy stamp set.  I then added a mat of Jolly holiday papers, folded over the top of the bag and punched a circle through both layers.  I punched tags in vanilla and cherry cobbler, again stamping merry christmas in cherry on the vanilla tag.  I daubed more cherry ink around the edge of the vanilla tag and then attached both tags through the hole in the bag using old olive sating ribbon.
The finished bag is big enough to hold a dvd so I can see me making some more of these as the big day approaches!  Hope the other demos like them.

Wonderful Day

A couple of weeks back, the week I was in Anything Goes as it happens, I was able to join Amanda and some other members of the team down in Fareham for a day of stamping fun.  Amanda put this day on as a reward for everyone in her team who had recruited so far this year and as Val joined me in the spring then I was eligible.
It was a lovely day, I met a few people from the Inspiring Inkees that I hadn't met before, including a girl who had been to my school!!  Small world.
Anyway, I digress, Amanda had laid on a few projects for us to try and this gorgeous little box was the first that I attempted.  Believe it or not it is made from Stampin Up's milk carton die!  4 of them to be exact and I did have to cut them up a bit but doesn't it look pretty! 

The colour palette for the whole day was Pacific Point and Very Vanilla and the designer papers were Blueberry crisp.  The box was decorated with strips of the designer paper and flowers made from the 5 petal punch