We {heart} our hostesses

WE {HEART} OUR HOSTESSES PROMOTION Dates: 1 June – 31 July 2012 Details: During June and July, hostesses who hold a minimum £325 workshop will receive an additional £30 in hostess FREE merchandise pounds—that’s in addition to the £50 they already receive for a £325 workshop! http://www2.stampinup.com/gb/documents/Flyer_HostessPromo_demo_June0112_UK.pdf

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Just a quick take away today! A Coffee to go with an insert to write your message on.

Card Recipe:

Cup is 4" x 9", folded in half to be 4.5" tall x 4" wide in Crumb Cake. After it's folded, cut the two sides in, starting about 1/2" from each side on the bottom and angling out to the top corners. Glue the two sides together just along the edges to make a pocket.

The inside of the cup slides open to reveal a message, or place to write one. This piece is about 3" wide by 5" tall,  the sides angled like the main cup in .. about a half inch from each side from the bottom. To make the lid, I used a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, 1" tall x 4 1/4" wide. I rounded the top two corners to look like a  lid and scored a line along the centre. 

For the wrap, I used a piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock that was 2" tall by 4" wide and ran it through a paper crimper. A piece of polka-dotted ribbon in Baja Breeze added a splash of colour. I stamped a cup from the set Tea Shoppe, in the Summer Mini Catalogue, in Baja Breeze to compliment the ribbon on a circle of Very Vanilla layered onto a piece of Soft Suede Designer Label. 

Well, I hope you like it!

Happy Crafting

J 

xxx

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Artistic ATC's

For some time now I've been wanting to create some ATC's but there is so Mich inspiration and information out there, I just didn't know where to start! Then someone gave me some great advice, treat them like mini cards.
Armed with a few supplies I set about making my mini creations.

ATC recipe:
Naturals Ivory cardstock
Rich Razzleberry Basic Black & Baja Breeze inks
First Edition Speciality Papers
Artistic Etchings Stamp Set
Champagne Mist ( a few drops made into a spritz with alcohol in a small spray bottle, I use vodka as a base liquid as there is no odour and it dries super fast!)

More inspiration from Bordering on Romance

The more I use this set the more inspiration I get! Since I made the scrapbook page I just can't put these stamps down and I am hooked on my sprizter tool at the moment.

This card is quite clean and simple compared to my usual vinatage look.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: bordering on romance

Cardstock: crumb cake, pretty in pink

Ink: crumb cake, pretty in pink

Accessories: scallop circle die, designer label punch, crop o dile, rhinestones, clips assortment, pretty in pink satin ribbon, daubers, hat pin.

Bordering On Romance

Good morning everybody, I hope you are all enjoying this glorious sunshine we are having. Isn't it amazing how a bit of blue sky can change your mood!

I had a play late last night, seeing as the sun was still shining and I had lots of lovely light beaming into my craft space. I was so captured by my upliners scrapbook page that I had to give it a go.

Scrapbooking is not something that I can get into, I did try years ago but my layouts were awful. This page however was stunning and very simple to do.

Armed with my crumbcake cardstock and twitterpated papers, bordering on romance stamps, sprizter tool, stamp and write markers, and eyelet border punch I set to work. I had almost finished my page when I discovered that I'd lost my butterfly embosslits! The horror, I was devistated, I turned my stash upside down but no trace was found :( luckily my upliner sent me some emergency butterflies to keep me going. I happily finished the page and went on to make a matching card too.

Sorry about the quality of the photos, my camera is playing up and I have no idea what is wrong with it, maybe it doesn't like this heat!

Happy Crafting everyone

J

xxx

Another card made with a set from the main IB&C, Vintage Vogue, page 75. I love this set so much, there is so much you can do with it.

This is a simple easel card that actually was a make and take at a workshop I 

had at my house before I was a demonstrator. The lady who did the demonstrations is now my upliner! 

If you would like to know how to become a demonstrator contact me inkyfingerswithjenie@gmail.com. the starter kit is just £99 at the moment and you can totally tailor make it to your own needs. What are you waiting for, come join the team and the fun!

Funky four

A quick post today with a quick card to show. I have been going through my stamps and realised that there are a few that I haven't touched since the new mini catalogues came out. I don't want to forget these, there are some amazing sets in the main Idea Book And Catalogue.

Today I've made a little card and gift tag using the Funky Four set on page 46, some brights designer series paper, confetti cream and chocolate chip cardstock.