Team Training ....

Further samples from team training ....

Sam's was outstanding again :)

Wow it really was a good one this time, perhaps it's because so many people love Christmas and were really inspired to make their swaps special. I particularly loved these cards made by Sam Wilson, Sally Jo Houghton, Amanda Bates at the craft spa Harrogate and Alli Joliffe ....

Santa Stache ....

I have been to team training today and we had to make our swaps for each other out of new items from the seasonal catalogue, it has meant an awful lot of Christmas Projects, but you can never get enough Christmas right? For my swaps I have used the Santa Stache set and the Trim the Tree Paper Stack ....

Still practicing my        ......colouring :)

Holiday Home ....

Loving this little stamp set, it's the one Kathy used a few weeks ago to teach us how to make the Christmas Candle and card in a box (a few posts back). With it's extra stamps to create Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween themed cards, and then what ever comes to mind for instance New Home, I think it's a great addition to the collection. Just need to add the Happy Christmas sentiment to the first card and maybe a few glittery bits :)

Curvy Keepsake ....

Well I am trying not to go mad for everything in the new seasonal brochure, but it's hard! And I'm trying not to bombard my blog with loads and loads of Christmas projects, well not too soon anyway. It has been a bit strange this year, the seasonal seems to have arrived fast on the tails of the Annual catalogue launch, so I don't want to forget all the great products in the annual catalogue But, this one is a cutey page 11 of the new seasonal, Curvy Keepsake Die, excuse the photo quality, I will try to find a better one, but this is gonna be a winner :)

 Samples from Julie Kettlewell on Pintrest :)

Scrapping Time ....

Last week my friend Elaine came for a crafting day, well we normally meet between 10 - 3 and get a couple of layouts done in that time. I have normally designed something to teach, and then we do a layout of our own after lunch. Lisa tries to join us as often as she can, and I try to encourage others to come to any Saturday classes that i arrange. We did 2 very different layouts this time, one very bright and funky (which i had designed previously ready to teach) and the other more grunge. Elaine had brought the background paper with the gold print on it as she really wanted to use this in the afternoon. She was at a bit of a loss as to what to do with it, so i looked at it for a while and then thought, this needs toning down, so i grabbed some stencils and used a sponge to apply distress ink through the stencil, when i had finished i wasn't too keen on the blue that i had used, so i reached for a Bermuda Bay coloured ink pad and used the new Stampin Up heart stencil to add some more detail and to ink the edges of the full sheet. I then felt it was really to use as a background and started to build up on it, here's the result ....

another layer of paper to add behind the music paper and of course a photo ! and might be just about finished :)

Autumn Winter 2014 ....

It's arrived follow the link on the right or below :)

http://su-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/catalogs/EU/2014_HolidayCatalog/HolidayCatalog_0714_GB.pdf

Holiday Home ....

Just had a fab few days crafting with friends. Craig has been away playing golf so Kathy came to babysit me and be my defender from Spiders, while Lesley called down in the day to join the crafting fun. We all decided to design a project and teach each other a mini class, and then spent time in between doing our own thing. It was great to have a "Mini Retreat" and catch up, lovely food and lots of laughs and of course our favourite pass time .... crafting

 
 I don't have my Stampin Up Christmas papers yet, so i may have to make another version when they arrive. The stamp set is Holiday Home, and i have seen some really cute cards designed with it. It is a sneak peak of a product that is available in the new seasonal brochure due to be launched on 28th August ......

The "lantern" is made with the Tim Holtz Lumiere die, and we have decorated it with graphic 45 papers. We have added a little battery operated tea light inside to give it a flickering candle effect. :)