Festive Lists

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Today's project is another from my October classes. We made a useful list book - either for Christmas planning or general shopping.

The background stamp in the So Swirly wheel - my favourite wheel so I am very happy it is still in our catalogue! This example uses the Joy at Christmas stamp from Perfect Punches, the bauble from Contempo Christmas layered over Fine Flourish.

Inside I we covered a plain notebook and added wide black and white striped ribbon to create a pen loop.

In case my ladies preferred a non-festive version, I had some alternative stamps available to decorate the notebooks.

Hope you like today's offering. Back in a couple of days with another.

Cupcake Spiral Pop-up Card

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As promised, here is the final project I taught at our August classes.

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I decided to break out one of my favourite stamp sets, Crazy for Cupcakes - I had been promising Tracey, one of my lovely class ladies, that we would do a cupcake card for so long!

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The front was just a pretty watercolouring project. We also used the so swirly wheel for the background and the cupcake wheel for the envelopes - it is illegal at my classes to have naked envelopes! LOL

But the best bit of this card is the inside - where we have a spiral of pop-up mini cupcakes. The are stamped with the wheel and coloured and then punched out with the 1/2" circle punch.

I love this card - one of my favourites of the year.
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Do leave a comment and tell me what you think!

Dream with Me!

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A while ago I got this beautiful stamp set called Live Your Dream. I don't know why it had taken me so long to get it. My favourite saying is 'If you can dream it - you can do it', (a Walt Disney quote) - and this stamp set makes my cardmaking dreams come true! :)
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It works perfectly with the markers using the markers direct to stamp technique.
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Here I created the card in Rose Red cardstock, stamped using the So Swirly wheel in versamark ink to get a tone on tone effect.
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I used the eyelet border punch to create a border in Sage Shadow cardstock to match the ink on the stem of the flower - love how you can co-ordinate so easily with Stampin' Up!

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Finally I did a little paper piercing on the corner using the mat and template - because I never know when to stop! LOL

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Let me know what you think!

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