A Tropical Wedding

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A while ago a friend of mine asked me to come up with some designs for her wedding. She wanted a tropical theme as she is getting married in the tropical sunshine.

First I came up with a bright card which reminded me of a tropical boquet my DH once ordered for me while we were in Florida. I showed an example with my own wedding details on it, printed on to Vellum cardstock from Stampin' Up! The stamp set I used was Greenhouse Garden.

The second design was much more subtle and used the Growing Green stamp set, plus the stem stamp from Cottage Garden. I watercoloured each flower, and layered some using pearls. I added a spray of Champagne Shimmer Paint for some subtle glimmer.

Here is the inside of the card....

Finally I made a little matching favour box...

Hope you like what I created.

Love Elizabeth X

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Greenhouse Garden is one of my long-time favourites. Here are two cards I have made using this set. The first was done as a workshop demonstration. Here I stamped the flowers in Baja Breeze and stamped over in Not Quite Navy.

The butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Butterflies Embosslit die. The background is created with the Very Vintage Jumbo Wheel and the ribbon is Baja Breeze Seam Binding.

My second card is in a brighter colour way - Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush - a lovely combination - and it is not long until Concord Crush is retiring - I will SO miss it.

I used the Framelits die to create the white front to card and used the butterfly from Nature Walk to add some impact. The greeting comes from Party This Way.

I hope you have enjoyed your walk around my Greenhouse Garden :)

Love Elizabeth X

Greenhouse Garden

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Today I thought I would share this bright spring-like card with you today.

I designed it as something to teach as a Make & Take project for a charity event I did earlier in the month. I wanted something fairly quick and that could be suitable for beginners as well as experienced crafters.

For this type of project I always reach for Greenhouse Garden. It features two-step stamping and everyone who hasn't used this stamp set before is always delighted with how easy it is to create such pretty flowers.

The colours I chose were Pretty in Pink with Rose Red, Bashful Blue with Marina Mist and Certainly Celery for the card itself.

The sentiment is from Perfect Punches, which of course goes PERFECTLY with the Large Oval punch!

Hoping spring is just around the corner for you.

Pretty Gift Box

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At Stampin' Up! convention my lovely upline Amanda achieved a whole heap of top awards, but the one she was really proud of was the Heart of Stampin' Up! award. The Heart of Stampin’ Up! award recognises demonstrators from the EU who truly exemplify Stampin’ Up!’s Statement of the Heart as they make a difference in people’s lives. The award winner is chosen by Stampin' Up! CEO Shelli based on nominations sent in prior to convention.


We were all proud of her, so after convention we sent her flowers and chocolates and then secretly bought a special Pandora bead for her braclet which we presented to her at our quarterly team training.

I made a box for the bead a while ago and now that Amanda has recieved it, I can share the pictures with you.

I used so many stamps for this project, I am not sure I can list them all. I see I used Greenhouse Garden in Soft Suede and Crumb Cake on the box. The top layer is done with Fresh Cuts and Just Believe in Baja Breeze and Marina Mist. The butterfly is a single stamp called All A Flutter and I stamped it in Stazon and coloured in using markers. Don't the little pearls looks sweet?

I also made a little holder for the bead, which we didn't use in the end, (the bead came in sweet Pandora packaging), but I thought I would show you what I made here:

I stamped the tissue paper and created a closure with the butterfly stamped on Window Sheet and a diamonte brad to hold it closed.

Because I never know when to stop, I also stamped the inside of the box...

The interior is stamped with the Ornate Bloom stamp, using the rock n roll technique to add a variation in colour. I also had fun creating the belly band closure, with lots of stamping and daubing and finishing with the Marina Mist 1/4" taffetta ribbon.

I hope you like it as much as Amanda did!

How cute are these?

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Today I am sharing such a cute project. These handbags, (purses for those reading in the U.S.), are from a template by Becki Roberts. I have made some changes including the tab closures with a bit of bling in the form of a diamonte brad.

They are made in Bashful Blue cardstock, with the images, from Greenhouse Garden, stamped in Baja Breeze. The sentiment is from Perfect Punches and attached to the bags with Early Espresso ribbon.

I haven't got any co-ordinating buttons for this project, so I made some with punched circles of Baja Breeze cardstock, coated in Crystal Effects.

I love my handbags - hope you do too!

All About Me!

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I mentioned in a recent post that I had returned to my first love of scrapbooking and found some time to play during my June holiday.
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My sister in law, Sally, had paid for me to go and have my photo taken at a professional studio. It was a fun experience; they did your makeup, then you had lots of pictures taken. (You got to take 3 outfits and they had loads of different sets to use).
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My photographer was great and she really put me at my ease and make it a great afternoon.
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So I decided to do a layout with some of the photos - the jounalling just says "Sometimes - just sometimes - it's all about - ME!" LOL



I used papers from the yummy Sweet Pea paper stack from Stampin' Up! The frames all come from Frames with a Flourish - which are great for scrapbooking. The butterflies stamped on the left are from Touch of Nature and the Flowers and mini butterflies in the lower right corner are from Live Your Dream and finally the flowers on the left page are from Greenhouse Garden.
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Hope you like!

Greenhouse Garden Buckle Card

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Today I am sharing a card that I made at my first ever meeting with Amanda, my upline. She gave us such a great project and I fell in love with Greenhouse Garden and decided I had to have it there and then!
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It also features the Bride speciality paper - as it comes in white on the back and coloured using a dauber on the 'buckle'.



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Now I would like to teach this in a class - but I am going to have to figure out how we made it as it was almost a year ago that I made this one. LOL
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Hope you like it

Bright Greenhouse Garden

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Today I am sharing one of the projects I have been teaching at my May classes. Using the beautiful Greenhouse Garden stamp set, I usually use this set with muted soft colours - but not this time! Ready with your sunglasses.... LOL

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I actually love the vibrant colours on this card - I chose tempting turquoise, summer sun and pumpkin pie and added the second step of the stamp in stazon black ink. The sentiment comes from Bellas Blooms and is punched using the large and scalloped oval punches - my most used punches I think!
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Our 3D project was going to be fairly time consuming, so we needed two fast cards - and I love the way this one turned out!
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Hope you like... :)

Especially for Hayley!

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This is blog posting especially for the lovely Hayley. She is looking for some good ribbon storage and wants to see some pictures of my latest system. (By the way, Hayley's creations are always amazing, so check out her blog!)

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Previously I had a home made box with all the reels on a rod - but this meant I couldn't just take one reel out easily - which I need to do for demos and classes. So here is my new solution....

The baskets are from Ikea, (no surprise - so does most of my craft storage) They are called Bygel and cost just £1.49 each. I have them hooked on over-door hooks, but they also come with a wall bar that they can hook on. (I don't have much wall space in my craft room).
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They fit all the Stampin' Up ribbon spools beautifully, except for the 1/4" ones, which are a little too large. I made a separate box for those - you can see it on the right of the picture.

As you can see from the close up, the bars are just right for threading the lengths of ribbon through so they don't get tangled, but I can also easily pull out a whole reel for a class. Perfect!

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OK so enough with the storage - now for a craft project...
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This is one of the projects we made at my craft classes this month. With Valentines coming up we made the Hearts one - but I had fun making some other designs too.






I like them all, but my absolute favourite is the black and white one which uses the gorgeous wide striped grossgrain ribbon and the birdcage image from the free Happy Moments Sale a Bration set.

Next a little thank you card I made for some of my wonderful fellow demos and customers recently. It is such a simple design, but those Greenhouse Garden flowers look so beautiful in every possible colour combination!

I am finishing with a challenge card I did during the Stamp with Us! event. Zoe challenged us to use three of the soft subtle colours, blush blossom, certainly celery and lovely lilac. Now I do use all those colours - but would usually combine with a darker shade, so it made me think creatively.

I love how this card came out! I stamped the presents image from Happy Moments three times, once on each colour of cardstock, the coloured them using the same colour in markers to give some definition. The dots along the top are done with the mat pack as a guide and then embossed using the crop a dile. I coloured them with inked daubers and am very pleased with the effect.
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Hope you like.... :D