New Craft Club Open Night

I will be demonstrating Stampin Up products on Thursday 25th February 2010 at Marsh Farm Country Park, South Woodham Ferrers, Essex CM3 5WP. The event is being organised by Sam of Crop Swap and Craft, you can contact her on cropswapandcraft@yahoo.co.uk for more details. The evening will start at 8pm. I will also be doing a make and take so do come along and say hello.

I have uploaded some little 4 inch cards using the sale-a-bration set Happy Moments, they fit inside the matching pizza box. Very Cute.

The colours used are Rose Red and Chocolate Chip and I coloured the images with the Stampin Write Markers.

The stamp used for the box lid is the very gorgeous Bella Toile stamped in white craft ink.

The sale-a-bration promotion ends on February 28th so please don't miss out. You need to spend £45.00 and you can qualify for one the 4 stamp sets free. There is is link to the catalogue on the side bar.

More Butterflies

I enjoyed preparing my last class using Flight of the Butterfly so much, I decided to make a couple more projects using a different colour scheme. I indulged myself and chose some of my favourite Stampin Up colours, Regal Rose and Certainly Celery and Pretty in pink.

I also made a 2/5/7/10 boxes from Splitcoast. These are so easy to make and look really pretty.

Finally another 4 inch easel card (I think I am addicted to these), I used some of the lovely pearls and beads from the Pretties kits on the box and the mini card.

Just a little reminder that the Sale.a.bration promotion will end on 28/02/10 so if you have been thinking you might like one of the free stamp sets do get in touch. You can find a link to the leaflet at the top of the side bar.

Thanks for looking

Cupcakes

Many thanks to everyone who made it to my Crazy for Cupcakes class in Romford last night. We all braved freezing weather to make it. A warm welcome to Lorraine and Patricia who came for the first time, hope you enjoyed the class.

We made a 4inch easel card paper piecing the cupcake and using the scallop edge punch to make a decorative background. For the this card we decoupaged the top cup cake and added lots of glitter. We also decorated the inside using the cupcakes wheel.

Finally we used the ballon stamp, again paper pieced. The 1/2 inch circle punch was used to make the decorative corners. Crystal effects was applied to the ballons to make them nice and glossy. The stamp-a-ma-jig was well used last night with everyone finding it a great tool for positioning the stamps.

100% calorie free cakes! But I did make a batch of real cup cakes for our coffee break.

Thanks for looking

Flight of the Butterfly

We started our regular Monday night classes again last week, it was great to catch up with everyone after a bit of a break. We used two of my favourite sets, Flight of the Butterfly and Pocket shilouettes they work so well together and I had seen so many lovely examples using these. As easel cards are all the rage at the moment we created two, an A6 sized one and a 4inch square card.

Finally, a little tea light cover (LED tea light).
The butterfly punch perfectly matches the stamp set. Papers used are from the gorgeous Bella Bleu designer paper pack.

I think evey one was very pleased with their creations.

Christmas Card 2009

Do you like the new blog? It has had a make over by the super talented Michelle at Laycock Designs, the colours match my favourite Stampin Up colours.

I know Christmas is long gone now but I thought it was about time I uploaded a card. This is the card I bulk made (over 40) as my Christmas card for 2009. I made it in either old olive or real red cardstock. The stamp set is Tree Trimmings and the greeting is from my stash. I added a little glitter to the baubles and as I had to many to make it needed to be quick (left it to the last minute as usual!) The card size is 4inch square so a little smaller than normal.

I am working on my next classes so hope to post some new photo's very soon.

Sale.a.bration 2010

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and we are now able to unveil the new Sale.a.bration Promotion from Stampin Up. This is a great offer, you can earn some very versatile stamp sets FREE every time you spend £45.00 on items from the catalogue. I am also offering free p&p on qualifying orders, a saving of £3.95. To order just email me on alpha.2004@blueyonder.co.uk. If you have been thinking of being a party hostess now is good time to hold your party as you can also earn the stamp sets. Check out the Sale.a.bration brochure which I have added to the side bar.

Silent Night Candle

Just preparing for tomorrows Silent Night Class, the last project we will make is a large gift candle. Such an easy technique but always has the wow factor.

All you need is some tissue paper and wax paper. If you can't find wax paper (the bag inside your cereal packet is normally wax paper, you can smooth it out and use it) you can substitute greaseproof paper. I do find the wax paper does give the best finish though.

Stamp your image onto the tissue paper, cut closely around the image. Cut a piece of wax paper large enough to cover the tissue and big enough so you can hold it tightly at the back of the candle. Put your image on the candle then place your wax paper over the top and hold it tightly. You then need to use a heat gun and heat over the image. As the image sinks into the wax it looks wet and shiny so you can move on to another area.

Finally carefully peel off the wax paper and your image will have transferred to the candle.

TFL Sarah