Had a good time at the summer festival today, thankfully the weather was good, although it did get blowy towards the end, so again I had to hold on to things to stop them blowing away.  Tomorrow is Wimborne Market, and an early start too, eeeek!  Hoping it will be a productive day and some of my cards sell.  This is one of the cards that will be available for sale:

Its another one using a stamp from Posy Punch for the flowers, stamped using Perfect Plum ink.  I like these stamps, they are easy to cut round :)

 The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes, again.  I do like this set, lots of birthday sentiments to choose from, which is good.

Plum tuckered out I am from all that fresh air today, don't know if I will last out til Casulty (if it is on this evening, at the moment its the tennis with Andy Murray).  So it will probably be an early night for me tonight, ready for an early morning tomorrow.  Have a good evening all :)

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Morning all :)  Got a busy day today, lots happening.  Preparing for a Summer Festival tomorrow and praying that the weather picks up.  The festival is at Sheiling School, in Ringwood, its free and open to one and all, so pop on down.  Also this weekend, George is off to cadet camp and we still have a few bits to pick up for him.  Its raining out there (yuk) and dark and horrid, where has our summer gone?  So I thought today's card should be bright and sunny :)

The stamped flowers are from the hostess stamp set, Posy Punch, which is a fab set to get with your hostess pounds.  They were stamped using Calypso Coral, which I think is one of my favourite colours, very in at the moment.

 The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes again (I do love that stamp set), another hostess stamp set in the main catalogue.

Its nearly the end of the month, get your order in by the end of June for reduced rate of £1.50 shipping, or free if you come and collect from me :)  

Wish me luck going out in that wild and windy weather today.  Hope you all have a good day and see you soon.

Morning :)  Another day of card making today and possibly finishing off a quilt I am making too, if I get time.  Today's card is pink themed, my favourite colour :)

Again I used Vintage Wallpaper to emboss the card (spritzed with shimmer mist) and used a stamp from Mixed Bunch for the flower with a vintage feel to it (had to cut it out as the punch is on my order list)

 I finished it off with a sentiment from the hostess stamp set, Happiest Birthday Wishes.

I'll be busy this weekend, got a Summer Fair on Saturday (more details tomorrow) and have booked a table at Wimborne Market on Sunday.  First time there so very interested to see how it goes, hopefully if it goes well, I could make it a more regular thing.

Right, thats it for now, have a good day everyone :)

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A sport-filled day today, the Grand Prix this afternoon, from Valencia, which was the most exciting race Valencia has ever had, and the football this evening :)  Hoping that England win, but fully prepared that they probably won't :)

Today's card showcases the fabulous Baker's Twine from the Summer Mini catalogue.  This new addition to the Stampin' Up! collection is amazing value for money and so versatile too, it is perfect for a bit of bunting :)

 The Petite Pennants Builder Punch is perfect for creating bunting for cards and it is simple to attach it to the Bakers Twine so that it hangs like real bunting :)

Unfortunately the cloud stamp is not available at this time and the sentiment is from the hostess stamp set, Happiest Birthday Wishes, which is also great value for money :)

Please get in contact to place an order or to ask for more information, I look forward to hearing from you.

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Counting down the days...

Good evening all :-)  We've had a lovely day today drinking tea with friends and catching up on all the news and gossip while the children played.  A fine recipe for a cold winter's day.  I was expecting to get caught up in traffic on the way home, but strangely there was not that many cars on the road, maybe because it is half term.


I'm (im)patiently waiting for my latest order to come from Stampin' Up!  I put the order in yesterday, so it'll be a few days yet I imagine as it is still at the picking stage at the moment.  I can't wait for it all to arrive.  Then there will be the decision of what to play with first!  Especially with all the freebies that are coming too :-D


So, before I sign off to take George to Army Cadets, I have another card to show you that uses the Petite Pennants builder punch and a stamp from the Pennant Parade stamp set:

For this card, I affixed the bunting to a piece of ribbon and used VersaMark ink to decorate the card with the star stamp from the same stamp set.  Finally, I finished it off with a sentiment from the Happiest Birthday Wishes stamp set.


Right, that's all from me for now, have a fab evening and speak to you all soon :-)
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Nearly Swept Away...

What a day today!  We went to Portsmouth to visit the Royal Marine's Museum today and it was so cold.  It probably wouldn't have felt so cold if the wind wasn't blowing quite so much though.  George had a good time and had an opportunity to show off his army cadet skills when the tour guide got the children to line up and learn some drill commands.  It was fun to watch them taking orders like a Marine would, but would have been more fun if it had been the middle of summer, or even spring lol.  I think I will be having an early night tonight to recover from the last two days travelling :-)


With today's card, I am taking a break from Paisley Petals, you will all be no doubt glad to hear :-D  For this card, I wanted to reacquaint myself with the Petite Pennants builder punch:

I used both sides of a paper from the dsp Holly Berry Bouquet Speciality, even though it was designed with Christmas in mind, most of it is usable all year round.  I finished it off with a stamp from Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Only a few days left to get your spot on my Stampers 6 club, please feel free to contact me for further information or to reserve your place.

More Paisley Petals :-D

We went to Hobbycraft today, I looked at the cardmaking things and George went off to look at the Airfix models and Hornby trains and we came out with an Airfix model for him and some wooden embellishments and  a pack of envelopes for me.  Today's make was a card for a friend's mother's 60th birthday:

I really like how it turned out, there is a photo in the middle, but I decided to cover it up before photographing it for my blog.  Still using dsp from Paisley Petals lol, at some point I will run out of it and move onto something different :-D  It is so versatile though and hard not to use for pretty much everything at the moment.

Cats!

I have a love of fabric, as well as a love of cardmaking things.  Fabric was my first love :-)  I have stacks of it!  What I love to do is make cards using odd bits of fabric, so I thought today I would show you a few that I have been making this week.  I also love cats, so there may be recurring theme :-)  First of all, I would like to introduce you to one of my cats, Louis, who loves to come sit with me when I am working:

He does tend to have the habit of sticking himself right in the middle of what I am doing.  But at least when he does it, it gives me the excuse to go off and make a cuppa :-)


The first card I am going to show you is one from a fabric that I love, I use this fabric to make cushions and the piece I have left over I make into cards:

I simply cut the fabric out and glued it onto a piece of felt, then glued it to the card and stamped a sentiment onto it to finish it off.  Simple, but effective.

This next card is one of several I made using a piece of fabric that I have been looking at for a while wondering what to do with it, and in the end thought, well may as well cut it up and put it on cards :-)

For this card, I used dsp paper from Paisley Petals as a background to the fabric picture.


The next one I like a lot and it has now been sold too :-)

Again, the background is from Paisley Petals.  I am really liking the dsp a lot, it is a mixture of subtle and bold, depending on what mood I am in :-)

Right, that's it for me today.  I am planning a trip to the fabric shop which is a 60 mile round trip :-O  I am in need of some inspiration and a fabric fix :-D

Have a fab day and speak to you all soon!

Morning!

Popping in early today, lots to do, so little time :-D  I wanted to show you all another card I made, that I rather like, well, I like all of my cards, but still...  I love this paper, its from the dsp Frightful Sight and makes a great boy's birthday card :-)  The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes again.  I love this stamp, it is used quite a lot.

More news about Sale-A-Bration!  Could there possibly be any more good news lol.  It is a fab time to sign up as a demonstrator during S-A-B.  Not only do you get the Starter Pack for the brilliant price of £119, with product valued at over £250, during S-A-B you also get a free stamp set of your choice as well :-).  Please feel free to contact me for more info about signing up as a demonstrator.

One of my creations to share:

Well, its been ages since I've posted any of my creations, so thought I would do that today.  I have been a busy bee getting stock together for upcoming markets after a stock take showed that cards have been quietly selling quite well and I hadn't many left.  The card below uses stamps from three different stamp sets, the stem is from For Everything, the flower is from the hostess gift set, Posy Punch, and the sentiment is also from a hostess set, Happiest Birthday Wishes.  I love the ribbons that Stampin' Up! have in their catalogue, they are such good value for money and good quality too.  I'm still using the stash that my lovely Stampin' Up! mummy gave me as a pressie for joining :-)

I'm really excited about Sale-A-Bration :-D because it means free gifts.  It is the perfect time to think about hosting a workshop because during S-A-B, along with the usual hostess benefits, if the workshop generates more than £300 in sales, you, the hostess, would also qualify for a free exclusive S-A-B product too.  Please contact me for further information about booking your workshop with me :-)