Paper Bauble

Would you believe that something as simple as this .........

could turn into something as beautiful as this?

With just a few twists and turns!!

Close up of snowflake in centre of bauble.

Believe it or not this was made with oddments of retired Christmas DSP,
Bakers Twine, the Bigz Snowflake Flurry Die and some Dazzling diamonds and Glimmer paper
-Oh - and a couple of brads and a small piece of ribbon.
If you fancy a quick tutorial, Let me know and  I'll come back tomorrow
and do a short and sweet version of how to make it!!

Papaya Collage

Today I have been over to Chris's (sis-in-law) and was joined by Anita and Cheryl later and we did some communal crafting.  Here's my version of the card  we made.  When Chris posts hers on her blog, I will put a link here for you to see hers too

Colour Combo - Pink Pirouette, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake.

Stamp sets French Foliage and  Papaya Collage.

Snow Flurry Tag

Here's a card inspired by a tag that I received at Convention

and here's a link to the originator of the tag

Olivia

Colour Combo - Night of Navy, Bashful Blue and Whisper White.

Two Tags Bigz Die used for tag shape in BB card.

Strip of NoN embossed using the Lacy Brocade Embossing folder.

Snowflake cut using the Snow Flurry die, then glittered with dazzling diamonds.

Sentiment from  Joyous Celebrations.

Love these colours!!

Ornament keepsake bauble v2

Version 2 of this bauble card here

Colour combo - Indigo Island, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla

Festival of Prints DSP
The original was received from Cheryl as our October Training swap

Santa place setting

Today my ladies have all made a few Santa place settings each.

They reallly enjoyed making these cheerful Santas.

The design is cased from a swap that I received at Convention

made by  Nicole Brinkrode

I have modified it slightly to use the SU Scallop Circle Bigz Die

The body and hat are made from a folded red napkin.

The eyes and nose are punched using the Owl Builder punch

and the moustache is punched using the wing from the Bird Builder punch.

The specs are drawn using gold and black pens.

Thanks for the inspiration Nicole!

Jolly Jingles

Here's a very simple card made using the Jolly Jingles Wheel.

Colour Combo is Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive 

with Gold Embossing Powder and Gold Glimmer paper.

Have to get a few of these quick cards rolled out in order to get all my cards

 done in time for this Christmas!!

Desk Calendar

Another quick post this evening - here's a desk calendar that I have made earlier today.

I like to do projects that my Crafting ladies can make to sell for their fundraising

and here's a pretty quick make.

You can make 3 of these from one sheet of A4 card so it's quite economical.

The background was embossed with the Fancy Fan Embossing Folder.

The Calendar block was matted onto a rectangle of Midnight Muse Card stock.

The flowers were punched with the Boho Blossoms and Itty Bitty punches

wit Midnight Muse and Silver Glimmer paper.

 The leaves were punched in Midnight Muse with the Bird Builder punch

Champagne glass glitter bauble

A quick card that I made yesterday using the bauble punch, Early Espresso card stock,

 Champagne glass glitter and Crystal Effects. 

 I used the Northern Flurry embossing folder for the background.

I punched a couple of leaves in gold card using the Bird builder punch.

Put them all together and stamped the sentiment from Teeny tiny wishes and there you

 have it - a really quick and easy Christmas card. 

 (You just have to wait for the Crystal effects to dry though before you try to assemble it!!

Baby Sis's birthday

Today is also the birthday of my Baby Sis - Anne-Marie.

I went over to see her this afternoon and took her her pressie and this card.

Colour combination is Very Vanilla and Calypso Coral with Natural Composition DSP.

The same butterfly (from Papillon Potpourri) was stamped across the corners and onto Very Vanilla card stock with CC ink, then punched out with the Elegant Butterfly punch.

Tiny pearls were stuck onto the centre 3 butterflies for their heads and bodies!

Happy Birthday Baby Sis!!

Lexie's birthday

Tomorrow is my beautiful Grand-daughter Lexie's birthday and she will be 6 (going on 60) years old.

She doesn't know it, but in the morning she will be going with her brother Lucas 

and her Mum and Dad to Euro Disney!! What a fabulous surprise for her.

I have been down this evening to take her present and had to pretend that I couldn't see

her tomorrow because I am going out!!  She can't open the present until the morning!!

Anyhow here is the card that I have made for her

The base card is Regal Rose with a layered piece of Patio Party DSP.

The sentiment is die cut using a (now retired) SU set with the

fabulous red Glimmer paper.

Happy birthday Lexie darling!!

Inspiration

Well I am still not 100% fit yet and still feeling quite sickly, couldn't decide what I wanted to do, 

so decided to look through my Convention swaps.

  I came upon this little box of tea lights.

This inspired me to have a go at making one of these for myself.

Here's my take on it.

I simply used Real Red card to make a Pizza box, 

punched the top with the Decorative Label punch,

and added the ribbon with the Julie bow across the corner.

Behind the window I stuck a piece of the luxurious red flocked acetate 

from the Candlelight Christmas Speciality DSP.

To tidy up the inside of the lid, I cut a card square and punched out the frame

 then stuck it on the inside of the top.

Love it!

I can't give credit to the lady who swapped with me, as there is no name on the original box,

but I do thank her for the idea as I have so enjoyed making this.

I would like to enter this in
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #14 - Anything goes
http://artisticinspirationscrafts.blogspot.ie/

Prize Patrol

At Convention everyone has the opportunity to win Stampin' Up goodies in the Prize Patrol.

We were all given wrist bands of different colours and patterns.  When a prize patrol

was announced - you simply checked your wristband and if it matched, you had to jump up

 and down and wave your arms in the air to show that you were a winner and your prize

 was then delivered to you by a member of staff from Stampin' Up.

I was lucky enough to win this!!

There was the new Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack (worth £7.25)

The new Paper-Piercing tool (worth £3.50)

and the fabulous Papilon Potpourri stamp set (worth £13.95)

A total of nearly £25 worth of goodies - woo hoo!!

And all wrapped up lovely and with ribbon too!!

I will now be able to re-create the cards that I made at our Quarterly training

last month, using this set.  Here's another of the cards that we made on the day.

Wasn't I so lucky!!

Team gifts

Well I still have the streaming cold, so I have just taken a few pics 

of some of the Team gifts that I received at Convention.

Key ring

Scissors pouch

Coaster

Tea bag  wallet

Tile necklace

Come back tomorrow and I'll post a few more.

Home from Convention !

Hello everyone - I am now back from a fabulous trip to Mainz, Germany,

where I have spent the last three days in the company of a wonderful group of people

at the Stampin Up 2012 European Convention.

There were ten of us attended from the Stampin Up team that I belong to - Julies Jems,

and we have had a fantastic time together with  demonstrators from Germany France and the UK.

(700 of us in total)

 I have lots of superb things to share with you, however, since getting home 

just after midnight, I have developed a streaming cold and am feeling thoroughly miserable,

Consequently I  am afraid that you will have to wait to see all the goodies and

hear all the news that I have brought back with me. 

One piece of exciting news that I can share with you before I get back off to my sickbed is

that next year's Convention will be held in MANCHESTER!!!  Woo woo!!

Jems' gifts revealed!

Here are the bag charms that I made for the Jems

(and there's my own 3rd from left)

Did you notice the sentiment on the tags (yesterdays posting)

it read "A gem for a Jem"

Cheesy or what!!

I will be travelling back home tonight, so tomorrow I will post some Convention piccies for you.

Jems' gifts

Another thing that we do at Convention is to exchange gifts with our team - Julie's Jems.

There are ten of us in all so I have made 9 gifts.

Team gifts

 Another rubbish photo - but the colour combo is Ivory and Early Espresso .

The card stock was cut using the Pillow Box die,

then run through the Elegant Lines Embossing Folder.

(You may just be able to see the embossing in the top picture)

I did computer generated sentiments and punched out with the Jewelry tag.

Finished off by fastening with a Ivory or Early Espresso ribbon.

If you would like to see what's inside - pop back tomorrow

when they have all received their gifts.

Julie's gift - revealed!

Ta da!!

A lovely twinkling shamballah bracelet!
(wish my photo's would come out better!)
Honest it does twinkle!!

Julies Roomie Gift

This is a scheduled post, as by the time this is published I will be on my way to Germany.

It's Convention etiquette to give a gift to your roomie (the person you share a room with).

This year I am sharing with Julie - who just happens to be my Stampin' Up mummy

(which is a bit of a laugh as I am old enough to be her Mum!!)

Anyhow - here it is all wrapped up ready for her to open later today.

If you pop back later on this evening (by which time Julie will have opened her little pressie)

you can see what it was that I gave her.

Bag charm

Way hey!! Only one more sleep and then I am off to Germany for the 

2012 Stampin' Up European Convention in Mainz.

We fly tomorrow at lunchtime and I am getting excited!

We each receive a bag at Convention, and as there will be 700 people there,

 we all have to make something to identify our bag as our own.

I decided to make a bag charm.

I bought the key rings and the flattened bottle tops from a well known internet shop!

I then made up the little beaded gems and fastened them on.

Then I stamped  my initial and punched it out using the Boho Blossom punch

 and then stuck it onto a punched 1" circle, glued it into the flattened bottle top

and stuck the clear domed cover on.

I'm quite pleased with this!

Another Northern Flurry

Here's another card that I have made using the Northern Flurry embossing folder.

It is fast becoming a favourite so watch this space for more of these.

I inked the embossing folder with Night of Navy ink, before sending 

the card in the folder through the big shot.,

I then stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed with White EP,

This was then simply matted onto a White base card.

Another CAS card!!