Christmas Inspiration Station

Well as promised I will today share with you some pictures from the Inspiration Stations at Sunday's training event at Peterborough. These were all made by some of my fabulously talented fellow demonstrators.

Little bars of Green & Blacks chocolate cleverly concealed

Ferrero Rocher boxes

|Looking back on this post I realise its very picture laden so I will add more Inspiration Station pictures tomorrow.

Thank you to all of the demonstrators that took the time to make these projects to share with us at the inspiration stations, amazing to see what can be achieved with card & paper

Inky Hugs

Training Day at Peterborough

Yesterday I spent the day at a wonderful quarterly training event held in Peterborough which is organised by Monica & Bekka. The training events are both fun & inspiring, its lovely to meet up with like minded Ladies & Men ( we now have 3 males attend our events ). The day is a mixture of crafting & business sessions all of which are optional.

On the day we made 6 projects, a mixture of cards & 3D projects.

Cards from Peterborough

Papillon Potpourri
Wood 123757 £16.95
Clear 123759 £13.95

Elements of Style
Wood 118611 £24.95
Clear 120045 £19.95

Card cased from a project made by Shelli ~ card flat for posting.
Friendship Preserves
Wood 127910 £19.95
Clear 127913 £15.95

Card opened and free standing

Layout & 3D projects

Layout made using Afternoon Daydream Simply Scrappin kit 126927 £18.95

Folded gift bag made from a sheet 12" x 12" card

The bag un-folded showing the stamping inside

Close up of the embellishments used to decorate from the Simply Scrappin' kit

Mini Book made from 3 pieces of Designer series paper
6" x 12"

Mini Book made from 3 pieces of Designer series paper
6" x 12"

As always with the training events there is an overload of Inspiration & this event had amazing Christmas crafting ideas using products from the current catalogues, pop back tomorrow when I will share my photographs taken at the fabulous Inspiration Stations.

Until then Inky Hugs

Not much happening here today

I'm sorry I'm not here personally, as you read this I will be on route to Peterborough with my downline, to enjoy a training day run by Monica & Bekka. So in my absence here is yet another Scentsational Seasons card, Cant you tell that I just love this set.

Scentsational Season
Wood 121026 £16.95
Clear 121190 £13.95

Inky Hugs until tomorrow

Something New For Saturday

I'm not here right now, the great force that is my main employment has decreed that I shall work another Saturday, so I thought I would share something with you in my absence.

126904 £6.25

I love this paper stack which was introduced in the Autumn & Winter catalogue. With a great price tag of just £6.25 you get 48 sheets of paper ( although it feels like card ) & if that's not enough to get you excited the sheets are double sided. 
There are 12 different double sided designs with 4 sheets of each design Fun holiday colours. Versatile designs. 
The pages are great for card making as each sheet measures 11.4cm x 16.5cm
The co-ordinating colours are
Cherry Cobbler, 
Crumb Cake, 
Early Espresso, 
Island Indigo, 
Lucky Limeade, and of course Very Vanilla.
Many of these sheets are suitable for all year round, not just for Christmas.

If you would like to order one of these paper stacks please contact me.

Stampin' Hugs until next time

Still trying !!

As hard as I try this week I still cannot escape from this colour palette & papers, I am trying honest, but I have seen so much inspiration around that I just want to create everything I see at the moment.

So here are today's cards, but you cant guess what colours I've used?

Can you guess what the up-cycled item is on this card?

The inspiration has come from one of my fellow Su demonstrators in Texas, I love the simplicity of her cards.

Big Hugs until tomorrow

Stampers 10 meeting

Tonight was my once a month Stampers 10 meeting & we had nearly a full house, It was lovely for me to be surrounded with special Stamping friends as well as my daughter Abi who joined as, she usually works on a Thursday evening.

Well I'm sure if you've been following my blog over the last couple of weeks you will guess which stamp set we used tonight, yes you guessed right Scentsational seasons, I think that this is my new Christmas Favourite, especially with the Framelits making it easy to cut out your stamped images in No time at all.

Top Tip ~ To make a very quick & easy Background for any card that is guaranteed to match perfectly you need two simple items that I'm sure all of you have in your craft stash. A pencil with a rubber on the end & a Versamark ink pad. 

Simple using the rubber as your stamp, dip it into the versamark ink pad and randomly dot all over your card front remembering to stamp off the edges.................Cool and guaranteed to co-ordinate.

The second card that we made tonight is an Origami Christmas Tree, very simple yet very effective, this tree has 5 sections measuring 9cm, 8cm, 7cm, 6cm & 5cm square. Here is a link to the tutorial I used.

The smallest squares are a little tough to fold & a bone folder is a great tool for getting sharp creases.

The next stampers 10 evening is on Thursday 8th November I look forward to doing it all over again, the theme once again for the evening will be Christmas.

Inky Hugs until next time

Are you feeling Festive yet?

Have you started your Christmas cards yet?

I know many of the Ladies that I see have started making their Christmas cards, some are even more than half way through their cards.

As for me I've started making mine, I have sketches ready for some more, but I have a bit of a problem, I just love the scentsational seasons stamp set & the co-ordinating framelits. so all of my cards at the moment are using the same set, even worse I am loving the new in-colours especially Gumball Green & Raspberry ripple.
I thought I would share with you some of the cards that I've made that fall into those two categories.

Three cards all in the same colour palette yet three totally different looks.

Check back tomorrow to see if I manage to find my way onto a different colour palette or even to dust off another stamp set.
Hugs until tomorrow

Holidays are coming

I haven't seen that advert yet but I know that the Holidays are coming. As soon as the Children all went back to school in September all the parents & grandparents that came into the store at work were all talking about Christmas & I know that will go up another gear at the end of October after half term & Halloween.
Also I keep having to hoover the floor in the craft room so I don't lose the kittens under a layer of glitter.
So with all things festive I thought I would share a few cards I have been making with my current favourite set & colour palette.

Snow festival DSP

Be of good cheer DSP

Be of good cheer DSP

I am just loving the colour combination of Whisper white on Gumball Green & Raspberry Ripple, I will be back tomorrow with some more festive cards.

Hugs until tomorrow

Christmas Card Making Club

Tonight is the first meeting of the Christmas card club, over the last few years I have realised that we all leave most of our Christmas preparations until the last minute, with that in mind I decided to run a Christmas card Making Club, starting early enough to hand craft all of your Christmas cards.

These are tonight's cards

All of the cards made tonight are using the new stamp set called scentsational seasons which have a matching set of Framelits dies.

127814 Holiday collection Framelits £20.95

121026 Wood Mounted Scentsational season Stamps £16.95

121190 Clear Mounted Scentsational season stamps £13.95

Special value bundle price for Stamps & Framelits 15% discount

129945 Wood mounted bundle £31.95

129946 Clear mounted bundle £28.95

 I will Be running a Fortnightly Christmas card Club, If you would like to join me on one or all of the remaining sessions the details are below.


2nd & 4th Thursday of each Month at 7pm

11th October
25th October
15th November
29th November
13th December

2nd & 4th Friday of each Month at 10am ( minimum 3 attendees )

12th October
26th October
16th November
30th November

During each session you will have all the materials except adhesives to make 8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs.

You will be able to complete at least one of each design in class & will have the stamped & punched kits to complete at home the remainder of the cards.

The session will last approx 2 1/2 hours and cost £9
If you book all 4 sessions & pay in advance you will only pay £32

Light refreshments will be provided.

There are 6 places on each class so please register your interest, stating whether you are interested in a morning or evening session.
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