VIDEO It's HERE! The new Stampin' Up! catalogue

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Woo hoo! It's here - the new Stampin' Up! catalogue. You can click HERE to see it or if you would like your own copy, please contact me.

SO MUCH to share today including a video for you.

Over the last couple of days I have held two launch events and lots of lovely ladies came along to ooh and ahh and make and eat cake and have fun! Want to see a few photos?

 I set up the party in my home, in the dining room, (which is the room I teach in), I set up a small display, my demo table, which later became one of the two make and take tables. The living room held the main display and another make and take.

Of course we HAVE to have cake! I baked Stampin' Up! stamped shortbread biscuits, tea loaf and my famous Key Lime Cheesecake. Yummy!







The smaller display in my teaching room was a selection of goodies made with the stunning Mosaic Madness Designer Series Paper.

Below the Mosaic Madness goodies is my new colours display.






And here is my main display. I have had so much fun creating everything. You will see lots of upcoming close up pictures and videos coming up on my blog.

It was so hard to decide what to show you first...but here is a video featuring our lovely new In Colors.

Love Elizabeth

Daisy, Daisy

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This was a class project I taught during August, which uses lots of Big Shot dies to create it. We started with White Glossy cardstock and ran it through the Big Shot using the Polka Dot embossing folder. The light really catches the dots with that glossy finish.

Daffodil Yellow works really well with the Square Lattice embossing folder to create the bright strip of colour.

We used the Daisies #2 die to create the double layered daisy and finished with a home-made dot of card candy for the centre.

We finished the card with a border punched in black and Black Satin ribbon.

Hope you like it.

Love Elizabeth

Anyone for Ice Cream?

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Another cute selection from my party display today. I had SO much fun making these cards using the Big Shot to create embossed textures. First one that I pretty much CASE'd from many locations - my addition was using the owl punch to make the very top of the ice cream.

I also made a cherry and a chocolate flake! The cone is made with the Square Lattice embossing folder and the background is Blushing Bride Designer Series Paper.

Now this one I dreamed up myself. I always remember my Gran serving deserts in little cut glass bowls and I thought it would be fun to try to make one using Window Sheet from Stampin' Up! and the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.

Now this is hard to photograph - but see what you think!

Good idea eh? Gran would be proud of me!

The chocolate sprinkles are stamped using the Confetti circles stamp, the strawberry is from Tart & Tangy, and the sentiment is from Crazy for Cupcakes.

Now I didn't want to stop there - with ice cream in mind, I decided to create an Ice Cream Parlour -  no I don't do anything by halves! LOL

I started by googling images of Ice Cream parlours from the 1950s to get some inspiration. I love the deco feel and it went well with my In-Colour theme. OK - here it is...

I know! Isn't this the cutest thing I every made? :D  I actually found a box in my stash that had those rounded ends, which was just the shape I wanted for my counter. I covered it in DSP and used the lid to create the counter top.

I did the edge with the scallop border punch and added a length of 1/4" taffeta ribbon to give a neat edge. The tiny ice creams were fun to make. I stamped the top of the cupcake images from Crazy for Cupcakes to create the ice cream, then cut mini versions of my big cone. The ice cream cone stands are scraps of Window sheet, punched with the scallop circle punch and scored across the bottom. I was really pleased to think this up! The menu is the Curly Label punch and the bowls of sprinkles are a one inch circle punch, snipped around the edge. I filled them with Crystal Effects and sprinkled on glitter and 'owl eye' punches in red for the cherries.

Here is a close up of the counter at Elizabeth's Ice Cream Parlour...

Now there are a few more projects that went with this set, which I will show later - including a closer look at those cute umbrellas - but I hope you like my Ice Cream display. 

So - who is for a chocolate chip cone?