Emboss Resist Technique

Today's cards are both made with the same technique, Emboss resist

This technique is so easy you ink your chosen stamps with Versamark ink & cover with White embossing powder, heat the images until the powder has melted & set aside to cool. Using sponge daubers build up the colour slowly until you have the desired effect.

Cardstock

Confetti White

Inks

Versamark

Wisteria Wonder

Pool Party

Island Indigo

Calypso Coral

Lucky Limeade

So Saffron

Blushing Bride

Stamps

Array of Sunshine

Mixed Bunch

Tools

Blossom Punch

Heat Gun

Sponge daubers

Embellishments

White Embossing Powder

Christmas Training ~ Day 4

Project  © Monica & Bekka 2012

I think that this beautiful project is my favourite from last weekends training event. The beautiful angel would be at home on your Christmas tree or equally for a table favour with a small gift inside or some special chocolates.

Beautiful face made from the scallop circle punch & circle punch

Rear view of embossed Wings made from the panels from the petal cone die

Cardstock

Whisper White

Blushing Bride

Brushed Gold

Inks

Chocolate Chip

Stamps

Curly Cute

Tools

Sizzix Big Shot

Petal Cone Die

Vitntage wallpaper embossing folder

1 3/8" circle punch

Scallop Circle punch

Lace Ribbon Border Punch

Embellishments

Basic Rhinestones

Basic Black Stampin' Write marker

Christmas Training ~ Day 5

Closed Album ready for posting

You must be feeling a little in the mood to start your Christmas Cards & projects.
Well here we are on Day 5 with one of my favourite projects of the day the fold out mini album, this would make a great Christmas card with a few family photo's added as a keepsake for a family member.

Close up of the decorative panel

Album folded out awaiting the addition of photographs on the pull out panels.

Cardstock

Pear Pizzazz

Whisper White

Riding Hood Red

Brushed Gold

Baja Breeze

Inks

None this is a stamp free project, but you could use a stamp set to decorate the white envelopes

Stamps

None this is a stamp free project, but you could use a stamp et to decarate the white envelopes

Tools

Framelits ~ labels

Boho Blossom Punch

Sizzix ~ Timeless type Junior Alphabet

Simply Scored Board

Non Stampin' Up

Water spray

Kitchen Roll

C6 White Envelopes

Cheap Hairspray ( For setting the colour on the Basic Rhinestones )

Self Adhesive Velcro dot

Embellishments

Basic Rhinestones

Bakers Twine ~ Lucky Limeade

Pleated Stain Ribbon ~ Riding Hood Red

What a great idea as a keepsake & as the papers are not Christmassy this could be used at anytime of the year. 

Another idea would be as a thank you card for wedding gifts with a couple of wedding pictures inside.

Christmas Training ~ Day 3

Day 3's project is a fancy fold card which is so easy using the new Simply scored board from Stampin' Up

Introducing Stampin' Up!'s original scoring tool--designed exclusively by and for Stampin' Up! With etched grooves every 1/8" (3.2mm ), and the ability to score card stock up to 12" x 12", the Simply Scored scoring tool helps you create perfectly measured score marks. It's great for creating multiple projects or projects with a variety of score marks!

Product Details
* Item 122334; £25.95
* Simply Scored includes
o 1 scoring board
o 1 stylus
o 3 place markers 
* Dimensions of scoring board: 15-1/8" x 13-1/4" x 1"
* Additional products available:
o Simply Scored Stylus
+ Item 125624; £3.95
+ Dimensions: 5-7/16" (13,8 cm)
o Simply Scored Place Markers (pack of 6)
+ Item 125625; £2.25
+ Dimensions: 1/4" x 1" (6,4 x 25,4 mm)

o Simply Scored metric Scoring plate
+ Item 127531 £10.95

Product Features

• Sits on top of the Simply Scored base
• Held securely in place by rubber pads on back of the plate
• Has etched grooves every 1/8" (3.2 mm)
• Can score any size card stock up to 12" x 12" (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
• Includes instructions for creating common envelope sizes
• Coordinating products include

o Simply Scored diagonal plate
+ Item 125586 £10.95


Well now you know all about the Simply Scored board I will share the card that we made with it.

Card complete with insert

With Insert partially removed

Cardstock

Whisper White

Designer Series Papers

Twitterpated

Inks

Riding Hood Red

Baja Breeze

Pear Pizzazz

Tools

Simply Scored Board

Diagonal Plate

Ornament Punch

Round Tab Punch

Embellishments

Bakers Twine ~ Lucky Limeade

Basic Rhinestones

Stamp Sets

Delightful decorations

Are you feeling Christmassy yet?

Christmas Training ~ Day 2

As promised her is another card we made at the weekends training event. When we were e-mailed with last minute instructions we were asked to bring a Brayer with us, this immediately struck me with fear, I dislike using a Brayer as I'm never very happy with the results, but hey I was very happy to give it a try, I must say that I do like this Ghosting technique.

Design  © Monica & Bekka

Cardstock

Very vanilla 106550

Brushed Gold 124917

Glossy White 106555

Riding hood Red 116205

Wild Wasabi 111850

Inks

Versamark 102283

Riding Hood red 111836

Stamps

Serene Snowflakes 115438

Delightful Dozen (W) 122650 (C) 122652

Tools

Bird Builder punch 117191

5 Petal Flower punch 119880

Scallop trim Border punch 118402

Framelits ~ Labels 125598

Brayer 102395

Embellishments 

Satin Pleated Ribbon ~ Riding Hood Red 125569

Basic Rhinestones 119246

Bakers Twine ~ Lucky Limeade 125572

Its not your eyes, i didn't stamp the greeting straight.

Christmas training ~ Day 1

Christmas In July, so if you want to avoid the C word for a while longer I suggest you bookmark this weeks post and come back to them at your leisure.
Yesterday was Monica & Bekka's team training event at Peterborough, If you've read my earlier post you will know that the theme was getting ready for Christmas.
I love Christmas & everything about it, I start making lists early & when I see the right presents for someone I buy them, whatever time of year, so it will come as no surprise that I've already started my Christmas shopping.
The first thing we do as demonstrators at any Stampin' Up event is swap. so with the majority of the swapping out of the way we have a mixture of business & crafting with friends to enjoy.
Our first project was made using Pennant parade, a set I love, so I was very pleased to get some more inspiration.

So simple but definitely a WOW from me

Cardstock
Chocolate Chip 108599
Whisper White 106549
Brushed Gold 124917
Inks
Riding Hood Red 111836
Pear Pizzazz 119784
Chocolate Chip 100908
Stamps
Tiny Tags (W) 118091 (C) 118592
Pennant parade (W) 122740 (C) 122742
Tools
Stamp-a-ma-jig 101049
Scallop edge border punch 119882
Jewelry tag punch 117190
Petite Pennants Builder punch 122361
Embellishments
Pleated satin ribbon ~ Riding hood red 125569
Bakers Twine ~ Lucky Limeade 125572
Basic Rhinestones 119246


Come back tomorrow & I will share another of the products I made at the training day, Thank you Monica & Bekka for a great day.

Back by popular demand

Back by popular demand The Everyday Enchantment papers have been bought back, people power works when you work for a Great company like Stampin' Up. Everybody was so sad to see the Enchantment papers leaving the Stampin' Up range that the requested their return & here they are better than ever with a great special offer for their return during July.


Promotion dates: 1-31 July 2012Get the Everyday Ribbon & Brad Pack FREE when you spend £45 on any Stampin’ Up! products in July.

Item	Description	Retail Value	Price with £45 Purchase
127279	Everyday Enchantment Ribbon & Brad Pack Ribbon 1/8" (3 mm) Organdy Ribbon 2 spools: 10 yards ea. spool 1 Lucky Limeade, 1 Calypso Coral Brads 3/8" (1 cm) Printed Designer Brads 30 brads: 6 ea. of 5 designs Coordinating colours: Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede	£15.95	FREE

Plus, back from Sale-A-Bration by popular demand, for this special offer only, the coordinating Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper--only available while supplies last!

Item	Description	Price
126154	12 sheets: 2 ea. of 6 double-sided designs. 12” x 12” (30.5 x 30.5 cm). Acid and lignin free.	£9.95

If you would like to stock up on these beautiful papers & elements then please ping me a message at lovellsinnorfolk@hotmail.co.uk

It doesn't feel much like Christmas

Today has not gone as planned, I think my house needs a revolving door and a secretary to take calls & prioritise them. I have spent the whole day on a mission to make swaps for Sundays training event in Peterborough. I eventually got into my Craft room just after 9pm tonight.
I had in my mind the set I wanted to use, the swap theme is Christmas so I knew I wanted to utilise a non-Christmassy set, so I just had to decide on a colour scheme.

Colour Coach  © Stampin' Up

I reached for my colour coach, this is such a handy tool to help you with colour selection, I love so saffron so chose this combination of 

So Saffron 108611

Rose Red 108613

Wild Wasabi 111850

Confetti White 106557

The non-Christmassy stamp set that I chose was 

Itty Bitty Bits Wood 117056 ~ Clear 120060

This is a set of 9 small stamps that are really versatile, the set also has 3 companion punches to match the shapes, so I thought that it would make the cards quicker to prepare. 

The design was already in my head so i just had to prepare all of the components, what a task that ended up being. I made 32 cards to swap each card had 15 small round heart baubles which were embossed with Silver embossing powder + a silver heart bauble on the top of the tree. So I needed 480 heart baubles & 32 star baubles. Nearly three hours later with the distraction of Facebook and phone calls, I had my 512 baubles embossed, cut & ready to assemble.

I managed to finish my swaps just before 2am, I knew I couldn't leave them until Saturday as I was working all day & I had a Spanish student arriving in the evening, so boy am I going to be tired tomorrow.

The Greeting is from the Contempo Christmas stamp set also stamped in Rose Red.

The next training event in Peterborough is on 21st October, I hope to be more organised. If you fancy finding out more about Stampin' Up & would like to attend the event please let me know.

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.

Now Booking

Sunday24th June at Hethersett Village Hall

Theme - Summer Mini

A whole day crafting
Cost - £25
Everyone attending will receive a copy of the fabulous summer Mini catalogue.

If you reserve your place on this event and pay in Full before 22nd May you will receive a £5 discount voucher valid on orders placed at the event. This voucher is valid on purchases over £30.

The day will be split into 2 sessions 

With an option for those that are interested in scrapbooking you will be able to choose a scrapbooking class. 

Anybody that wants to just make cards there will also be a morning and afternoon session of cardmaking.
Future Dates:

Saturday 6th October

Saturday 1st December ~ Christmas gift event

And don't forget for every event you attend you will receive a FREE raffle ticket which could win you a

BIG SHOT BUNDLE.

(Draw to take place during December's Event)

All DAYS HAVE VERY LIMITED PLACES SO BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.

Book your place by contacting Sharon or Lisa 

BE IN WITH A CHANCE TO GET A FREE BIG SHOT IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
As a thank you to our loyal Stampin' Up event customers we have organised a Grand Christmas Loyalty Raffle which is our way of saying thank you for supporting us throughout 2012.

Big Shot Bundle Value £100

You will not be able to purchase tickets for this very special raffle, they can only be earned.

 You can get tickets in five ways.
~ 1 ticket for each event booked and attended

~ 1 bonus ticket for pre-booking a forthcoming event on the day of the current event

~ 1 ticket for each order of £30 placed at an event

~ 1 ticket if you bring a friend to an event ( that friend cannot have previously attended one of our events )

~ A special bonus of 5 tickets if you attend all 5 events in 2012

The Draw will take place during the Christmas event to be held on 1st December 2012

Simply Scored the must have tool

Introducing Stampin’ Up!’s original scoring tool—designed exclusively by and for Stampin’ Up! With etched grooves every 1/8" (3.2 mm), and the ability to score card stock up to 12" x 12" (30.5 x 30.5 cm), the Simply Scored scoring tool helps you create perfectly measured score marks.  It’s great for creating multiple projects or projects with a variety of score marks!

Features of the Simply Scored Scoring Tool

• Comes with a high-quality stylus instead of a plastic bone folder.
  • Stylus is ergonomically shaped and features a comfort grip.
  • The high-quality metal tips on each end of the stylus—they come in two sizes—glide smoothly over your paper.
• Features a unique set of place markers that let you mark your score lines when creating multiple projects with the same score lines.
  • Includes three place markers.
  • Additional place markers can be purchased for flawless scoring.
• Includes a hidden storage compartment in the back of the base to hold your scoring tools.
• Accommodates card stock up to 12" x 12" (30.5 x 30.5 cm).
• Demonstrator preorder: 1-30 April 2012

Product Details

• Item 122334; £25.95
• Simply Scored includes
  • 1 scoring board
  • 1 stylus
  • 3 place markers 
• Dimensions of scoring board: 38.5 x 33.7 x 2.5 cm 
• Additional products available: 
  • Simply Scored Metric Scoring Plate
    • Item 127531; £10.95
    • Plate slides securely over scoring tool
    • Left side of plate includes scoring tracks every 1 cm and five specialty tracks to score standard metric card sizes
    • Metric ruler at top of plate has markings down to 1 cm
  • Simply Scored Stylus
    • Item  125624; £3.95 
    • Dimensions: 5-7/16" (13,8 cm)
  • Simply Scored Place Markers (pack of 6)
    • Item 125625; £2.25
    • Dimensions: 1/4" x 1" (6,4 x 25,4 mm)

If you would like more information of this or any other Stampin' Up Products, business opportunities or stamping events please drop me an e-mail at Lovellsinnorflk@hotmail.co.uk

As crafters we like nothing better

When crafter's all get together we share & create. Last week at Leamington Spa regionals we made some fabulous projects designed by the Stampin' Up team. I have been dying to share these with you but I couldn't do that until after the final regional training event at Leeds today, it wouldn't be fair to spoil the surprise for those attending today's event.
There was something for everyone in the crafting session of training
A Mixed Bunch Scrapbook page

My beautiful Daughter at the beach

A Card Mixed Bunch Daisy 

& finally a 3d project

All of the projects were made using our FREE stamp set Mixed Bunch.

Stamp beautiful, unique flowers or create an entire flower garden in no time with this intricately designed six-piece set. Makes a thoughtful gift! Coordinates with the Blossom, 3/4" Circle, and 1" Circle Punches.

Bordering on Romance ~ Summer Mini

I love my job as a Stampin' Up demonstrator one of the great things is being able to pre-order all of the new products a month before catalogue releases. Bordering on Romance is featured in the new summer Mini & is one of the first sets I ordered.

Accents are a quick and easy way to give any project a bit of extra panache. This versatile five-piece set coordinates with our nostalgiac Twitterpated product suite, Adorning Accents Edgelits Dies, and Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Folders.

This card uses

Cardstock

Whisper white

Crumb Cake

Poppy Parade

Tangerine Tango

Ink

Whisper white Craft ink

Stampin' Write markers

Pear Pizzazz

Stamps

Bordering on Romance

Tiny Tags

Tools

Paper snips

Heat Gun

White Embossing Powder

Jewelry tag punch

Embellishments

Basic Rhinestones

Victoria Lace ribbon

All of the above products are available to order through me from Stampin' Up

Sharing more swaps from Leamington regionals

Here are some of the fabulous swaps that I was lucky to receive at the recent training event, these are all on a general theme from the ideas catalogue products.

This treat holder has 2 hersheys kisses inside.

Magnetic keyring

Notebook

A beautiful coaster

I have always believed if I gave 20 people the same set of stamps I would see in return 20 different projects, this selection of swaps highlights the different interpretations people have, what wonderfully creative people I meet doing my job.
To find out more about what I do please e-mail me at Lovellsinnorfolk@hotmail.co.uk