Stampin up Storage

My Stampin up stash is growing so I thought I would share with you how I store all of the different sets & accessories.

PunchesThese are stored on Kitchen utensil racks from pro Cook

Stamp sets
Shelves are from B & Q at £20 each, there are 3 stacked and mounted on the wall, I need a couple more now I have just had my starter set & to be able to keep current catalogue sets seperate as some of my sets are 10 years old.

Card stock ~ full sheets & ChipboardMagazine holders from WH Smiths £3.49 each.
Labels are laminated



Card stock ~ whole packsTuff boxes £1.99 each at the Range

Ink padsWh Smith magazine holders £3.49 each, this time they are laying down, each holds a whole colour family.

Wheels & HandlesWicker baskets with the liners removed.

Samples at homeThis is two large handmade pinboards, I still have to get display boards to show at workshops & open houses.


RibbonTwo storage racks bought from a local craft shop that closed down.

My scraps of cardstock are stored in the colour families in a A4 tuff box ~ labelled with the colour family.

New Stampin up set ~ Need Inspiration

Did you know that you can have inspiration for you Sets of Stampin up stamps delivered to your e-mail inbox everytime a fellow stamper uploads a card to Splitcoaststampers gallery?

Heres how you can have daily inspiration.

Firstly you have to register on the splitcoast stampers site
When you have registered go to the gallery.

You are interested in the section that is called S U ! Galleries
Click on the picture to open the section.
Then you will be faced with the screen below


Sets are listed alphabetically & for the purpose of this demo I am subscribing to one of my new sets called Baroque Motifs.
Click on the section A to B
Scroll down until you find the set you want to subscribe to.


This will then open up the gallery for your chosen set, mine is Baroque motifs.



At the botom of the first gallery screen there is a button called "Subscribe to gallery" if you click on this you will get notification, with a link everytime a fellow uploads to this sets gallery.

I often find that I am inspired to use my older dusty sets when I open my e-mails and see a stunning card.

My first 10 card swap

Well I like a challenge so in my first week of joining Stampin Up I decided to join a 10 card swap on ILWS. The idea of the swap is too boost your sample board & to give a boost to your inspiration. A great idea as not everyone is in their comfort zone in all four of the colour families.

The idea is to compile a group of 10 people, each of those 10 people make 10 identical cards & send them off to the swap organiser, who then sorts them into 10 sets of different cards & then sends them back to each participant.
The deadline was very tight as I joined near the end of the swap, I managed to get my 10 cards to there destination in time to beat the deadline.

Stamps: Simply said, True friend, Wheel ~ Its Beautiful

Card: Whisper white, Pretty in Pink, Barely Banana

Ink: Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink

Accessories: Scallop punch, scoring board, d/s tape, glue

Stampers 10 meet up

Tuesday was our stampers 10 meeting, Michelle had 2 beautiful projects for us to make using a rose is a rose set from Stampin up. its a set a kept looking at & have seen some amazing cards in a variety of different colourways on peoples blogs & on Splitcost stampers, but as I have a bit of a problem with the concept of two step stamping. I am glad to say I am now totally in love with this set & I have mastered the two step stamping, so a big thank you Michelle for your excellent tuition.


Its so nice to meet up & chat with like minded people.

More candy to tempt you.

More candy of the non fattening variety to tempt you on Dawns beautiful blog.

Stampin up

As many of you who follow my blog may have realised months ago I have a love affair with Stampin up products, so last week I took the plunge & signed up to ecome a Stampin up Demonstrator.
Until 25th March Stampin up are offering an extra 10% off the starter kit, which was already a good deal at £139.
So if anyone wants to order any of the lovely Stampin up goodies please feel free to contact me.
If anybody would like to join me on my Stampin up Journey, please feel free to contact me for more information.

1st Mini book

After looking at one of Janes Mini books on Friday night I was determind to have a go, I bought all the bits a couple of weeks back after all of the new Bo bunny stock arrived at work so I had no excuses. I was very pleased with the way it all turned out. All of the photo's were taken on location in Corfu.
















Well I am totally hooked, sorry I should say inspired to make more Mini boks on different subjects.
When Abi saw this she didn't want me to give it away, as it was my first one I wish I could have kept it too, but I didn't have time to make another one to send to my Mum as a mothers day card.

Who says men dont Craft

Yummy candy

Look at this yummy blog candy on a new blog called Stamp with us

Lovely co ordinating Stampin up goodies to launch a new Stampin blog.

Stampin up ~ Stampers 10 challenge

Michelle our stampers 10 demonstrator has started a stampers 10 challenge.
The theme of this challenge is green for St Patricks day & must contain Stampin up products.

The stamp set I have chosen is the Polka dot punches from the recent sale a bration I stamped the images using Versamark ink & embossed with white embossing powder. The paper is also Stampin up & I have cut out the corner using the large scalloped circle pinch and out of the waste cut a smaller circle. The cardstock is certainly celery.

Once I got started on the green theme I was on a roll so heres a couple more cards

The flower on the above card is from a Stampin up set called seeing spots, cardstock and paper are all Stampin up. I used a versamark ink pad before using my Stampin up ink & was able to emboss using clear embossing powder.

Again Polka dot punches from Stampin up and Stampin up double sided paper.

Today in Norwich started beautifully with bright sunshine, it's a shame I didn't think to photograph my cards then but at 6.45 that wasn't the first thing on my mind.so when I tried this afternoon the light was so poor I really struggled. As I desperately wanted to post these tonight I had one of my daft ideas. I used blu tack and stuck my cards to the painted wall & got Paul to angle the light like a spotlight & hey presto the best pictures I have managed to take all day.

Daft idea or brainwave...................... you decide.

Cupcakes Anyone?

Crazy for cupcakes has another outing, I just love this set, this time I have added some paper piecing. The cardstock is all stampin up, The letters and the scalloped circle, ribbon slider are all from the Cricut cartridge Mini Monograms.

I am currently working on

At the weekend Sharon popped in to pick up her stampin up goodies and she showed me a never ending card that she had made for her Hubby's birthday so I found the template & am going to have a go........................... Well those of those who know me know I dont do fiddly! So I will put the template & Instructions on this post.





Its anybodys guess wether I will have the patience to finish this card.
LOL