June Stamper's 10 meeting

June is the first month for my new stamper's 10 group, a couple of new ladies have joined but most of my Ladies this is their 3rd or 4th group. When people join my groups part of my offering to them for their commitment is to provide them free of charge with all of the current catalogues. I know like me they read them from cover to cover many times over, some even tag their pages, and have systems of hi-lighting for the products they already own and wish list items to avoid duplication.

One of the questions I always get asked is where do you find your inspiration, well basically anywhere. even paint colour cards. I thought for the first meeting I would case a couple of the cards from the current Idea book & catalogue and see if they could spot them.

The inspiration for the Cased cards is on page 61 of the current Ideas book & catalogue.

Cardstock

Certainly celery

So Saffron

Pool Party 

Confetti White

Inks

Certainly celery

Basic Black

Rose Red

Stampin' Write Pens ~ Certainly Celery, Rose Red

Embellishments

Victoria Crochet Trim

Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding

Linen Thread

Bitty Buttons

Stamps

Just Believe

Tools

Beautiful Wings Embosslit die

Square Lattice  Embossing folder

Perfect Polka Dots embossing 

Sizzix Big Shot

Cutter Kit

They did notice when flicking through the catalogue to place their orders.

My first purchase from the new catalogue

Hey Crafters! 
Well, it's my favourite time of year, the release of the new Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog! I love October for that reason alone! I spend days checking out the new products, drooling over the project samples and making my wish list! & remaking my wish list again.

122361 petite pennant builder  ~ punch

One of the first items I purchased is our new Petite Pennants Punch and I want to share my first project with you using that punch. The matching stamp set for this punch is Pennant Parade 122740 ( wood mount ) £20.95 122742 ( Clear mount ) £16.95

Pennant Parade 122740 ( wood mount ) £20.95 122742 ( Clear mount ) £16.95

So here are the first two cards that I've made with the stamps & Punch. The colours that I used in both projects are the new In Colours that have just arrived in the 2011 /2012 ideas book & Catalogue

So what do you love at the moment?

I love

• My Family ( always )
• The new In Colours
• Stampin' Up Fabric
• More Sizzix Dies
• The weather at the moment, despite having to work today
• Embosslit dies
• Pennant parade stamps ~ As one of my other business's is making fabric bunting.
• All of the Designer series papers Especially the Neutrals stack
• My Ipad 2
• Halloween stamps & papers ~ Thanks for listening Stampin' Up
• The new hostess pounds & all of the lovely new hostess sets
• So many new verses sets to choose from
• Paisley petals stamps & papers
• Aviary stamps
• It's a wrap occasions ~ just need to find Chocolate that fits the wrappers
• Creatively yours ~ so many uses as I now do more than just paper crafting
• Scallop dots ribbon
• Crochet trim 
• Perfect pennants die again as I make fabric bunting this will be great
• All my cats & Rosie Kitten ( even though she is very naughty at the moment )

Rosie 30th September 2011

So let me know what your Loving

Highly recommended

Despite last nights celebrations having to be brief due to exam revision we had a lovely time, we took Abi to the Waffle house in Norwich for tea, what a treat we had, the food is amazing & very reasonably priced, all I can say is if you are ever in Norwich, check out this tiny little gem in the heart of the city.
I pass the Waffle house on my way to work every morning, I think for the sake of my waistline its just as well that they open for breakfast after I start work.
I had a two course waffle meal, the first course was Ham & Mushrooms with cheese sauce over a hot waffle. Then for the second course I had a spiced fruit waffle with Ice cream & maple sauce.
All of us completely cleared their plates & is looking forward to the next family celebration, just as well we went for our weigh in before going out!!

I did manage to make it up the stairs to my craft today & have a lovely little project to share with you.

To make this trio of projects you will need

Stamps

Baby Blossoms

Curly Cute

Tools

Beautiful Wings Embosslits Dies

Little Leaves Sizzlits Die

Swirls scribbles Sizzlits Die

Boho Blossoms Punch

Top note Die

Stamp a ma jig

Paper Piercing tool

Decorative Label Punch

Photo corners extra Large

Flower made from

Fancy Flower Extra Large

5-petal Flower Extra Large

Boho Blossoms Punch 

( See the tutorial on Caroles blog )

Cardstock

Bashful Blue

Whisper White

Pear Pizzazz

Rose Red

Papers

Springtime Vintage DSP

Ink

Blushing Bride

Rose Red

Pear pizzazz

Pretties

Metallic Brads

Dazzling Diamonds

Seam Binding Ribbon in Pear Pizzazz

Linen Thread

Big Designer Buttons in Springtime Vintage

What a lovely way to present a small gift for a loved one.

Close up of the handmade flower embellishment & the beautiful Butterfly

Very Cath Kidston

In a momentary lapse I chose the new baby blossoms set as my freebie set for my sales during Sale~A~Bration. I loved the set in the catalogue, I loved all of the samples I have seen made with this set yet I knew that this set would challenge me.

Wood mounted 121927 £26.95 Clear Mounted 122000 £21.95
Set of 18 stamps

This set as you can see is a two step stampin set & you need a stamp~a~ma~jig, I do love my Stamp~a~ma~jig, but I struggle with floral cards, both colouring & layouts of floral cards challenge me.
But a fellow demo came to the rescue when I found this cheat sheet on her blog. I have printed it off and laminated to keep on my desk when using this set. I have also labelled the stamps, the tree stamps that make up flower number 1 I labelled 1 & so on for all of the 5 flowers.

The ribbon on this card has been gathered by fraying the end of the ribbon & then finding a single fibre near the middle of the ribbon & slowly gathering it into a ruffle.

The first card I made is very Cath Kidston & I am so pleased about the way it turned out.


Cardstock
Shimmery White
Very Vanilla
Bashful Blue
Ink
Wild Wasabi
Blushing Bride
Regal Rose
Rose Red
Pretties
Old Olive Taffeta ribbon
Stamps
Baby Blossom
Curvy verses
Tools
Stamp~a~ma~jig


If you would like your own copy of the mini catalogue then lease drop me a message.