Stamp Ninja

Stampin'Up! Fabric

2012-02-23T12:42:00.000Z

Helloooo

I am soooo glad that Stampin'Up! have brought out fabric, I used to sew quite a lot in the olden days (makes me sound like I'm a pensioner.....NO I'm not!...) but it does seem like ages since I made anything using fabric.
So when I saw the lovely fabric I thought I ought to get the old sewing machine out and give it a try....
I saw these bags on Jo Dumbleton's blog (link to the side) and she directs you to the blog she got them from. I just loved them straight away.

They are called Buttercup Bags and are very easy to make, you get the pattern and full instructions Free....

I also sent away for a class from bluejellystampin.blogspot.com which included this little owl, sooooo cute.....

I'm in the process of making another bag which I will show when completed, I am loving the spice cake fabric its gorgeous. I have also nearly completed the rest of the owl set so pop back to see it, its really nice.

Anyhoo thats all for now, thanks for stopping by.....

Rose

Convention 2011 Make 'n' Takes

2012-02-22T08:11:00.000Z

Helloooo

A bit late with this post as Convention was back in November last year, but I finished my projects and thought I would share them with you.
We had four projects to make, a scrapbook page, two cards and some bunting......

We made two lovely cards using the creative elements stampset, the first uses the beautiful flower daubed with champagne mist shimmer paint and some of the crumb cake seam binding ribbon.

The second card was very pretty too, we used the butterfly from the same set and coloured it using stampin'up! pens to give a multicoloured butterfly.....

You can see better in this one that the background has been stamped as well.

We also made this lovely bunting, using the petal cone die and the creative elements stamp set.

It looks sooo pretty hanging up and could lend itself to many an occasion using different colours and stamps...

And lastly a 6x6 scrapbook page, I just need to find a photo to put on it.

I have to say I always like the make'n'takes and these I was really pleased with.
Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.........
Rose

Cupcakes

2012-02-22T08:07:00.000Z

Helloooo

I love half term I seem to find more time to do me things, I even found time to do some baking! Well my children were sooo shocked when I made them cupcakes......

Strawberry and white chocolate mmmmmm

Rocky road chocolate with biscuit pieces and marshmallows yummy....

Not that I ate any as I am still dieting and I don't really eat cake that much, but my children and hubby enjoyed them.

Thanks for stopping by....
Rose

January 2012 Stamp Class

2012-02-21T12:59:00.000Z

Hellooooo....

At my Wednesday afternoon Stamp Class I thought we would start off the New Year with some 3D projects. So we made a gorgeous box, a desk calendar and a little gift box.

We started with the gift box, it uses the big shot and the pillowbox die, sooo easy, then we made this lovely punch art owl to go on the front, we made some similar boxes with punch art owls on last year, but I saw this little chap on an American Demo's site and fell in love straight away. ( I will try and remember who's site and add to post)

These little boxes are so useful for giving sweet treats or a little bit of jewellary, the uses are endless. I made some to hang on my Christmas Tree with sweeties in, they looked lovely.

So onto project 2 the desk callendar, again with a little owl theme going on, the callendars are really easy to make and I have made them for the last two years. Just changing the size or theme and you have a totally new callendar.

The owl is made using the owl punch, which makes this project super easy.

Project 3 was a pizza box which the callendar fitted into perfectly but could be used for just about anything, jewellary, chocolates, in fact they would make perfect wedding favour boxes, especially with that gorgeous flower on top.

That flower die is one of my favourites, you can create such beautiful flowers, this one uses 3 of each size offset slightly. I love it and those antique brads are just gorgeous

Anyway hope you like, thanks for stopping by....

Rose

What have I been up to?

2012-02-07T15:50:00.000Z

Hellooooo

Well believe it or not quite a lot, just haven't managed to blog any of it so I'm trying to catch up a bit.
These are some cards we did as a make 'n' take at a recent workshop, I love the simplicity of them, they started out as valentine cards but noone really wanted valentines so they ended up as birthday cards instead.......

This is my personnal favourite and would have made a gorgeous valentine or even an anniversary card.

This however was the overall favourite with the ladies, it uses the French Foliage Stamp Set along with the new Postage stamp set, I think they go rather well together. The colour combo is Early Espresso, Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler, plus a touch of the gorgeous crochet ribbon...lovely

I was inspired by a card I saw on splitcoast stampers (I think) but can't remember, so thanks for the inspiration......

Hope you enjoyed, thanks for stopping by...

Rose

December ATC's

2012-02-07T12:49:00.002Z

Helloooo,

A bit late I know but here are the ATCs I did for the December swap, the topic was Fairy Stories, now I couldn't think of what to do as I like to use all Stampin'Up! goodies. So I dug around in my Stampin'Up! retired stamps and found my old favourite the Gingerbread Man, ahhhh I love that little chap.
So what do you think, I know its not entirely Stampin'Up but I was quite pleased with them.

I never remember to take a photo before we swap to show how many we make , hmmm maybe next month, ooops that would be this month now hee hee....

We didn't have a topic for January, so our next one is February and the topic is Faces!!!!!!! mmmm I think I might have to do a bit of lateral thinking hee hee..........

Anyway thanks for stopping by........

Rose

Panda Punch Art

2012-01-30T17:55:00.000Z

Helloooo

A quick post as I have found my camera and have a few minutes free.
I love doing punch art and found this on an American site I think it might have been Kylie Bertucci not sure anyway I made these with some of my ladies and they went down rather well.

Arn't they just the cutest and all made using Stampin'Up! punches.

I love them, hope you like...

Thanks for stopping by....

Rose

Happy New Year

2012-01-05T12:47:00.000Z

Hellooooo
and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all and what an amazing year it is going to be with Stampin'Up!

To start the New Year off Stampin'Up! have given us (Europe) a NEW Mini Catalogue which runs from 4th Jan - 30 April 2012, it is full of gorgeous, gorgeous products, including a new line of jewellery called Simply Adorned. I don't have any yet but if you want to see some beautiful projects pop over to Michelle's blog (link at side) they are lovely. In fact a lot of the blogs I follow have some great projects using goodies from the New Mini so check them out....

You can check out the New Mini Catalogue by clicking on the link to the left, you can view it on line, download it as a pdf file or if you would like a 'real' copy of the Mini the give me a call or e-mail me rose.jones01@ntlworld.com
and I will send one to you.

Thats all for now I will try and post again with some of the things that I have been doing, so do pop back.

Rose

Convention 2011

2011-11-25T12:44:00.001Z

Helloooo..

Back again with some more photos from convention, this time I wanted to share some of the amazing samples which were on display, made by all the very talented Demos out there.....

Wow... and that was just a small selection.
Anyhoo thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed and I will be back with more soon...
Rose

Convention 2011

2011-11-24T12:26:00.001Z

Helloooo..

Back again with some more photos from Convention.....

I made two lots of swaps general swaps and Pink Lady swaps.....

Firstly these were my general convention swaps, or at least me preparing them....

The flowers to go on the topper.......

The topper all stamped ready for assembly........

And the little cello bags with an M&S chocolate gingerbread man.........

And the finished article, ready for swapping.....

Inside the convention center, armed with my swap and ready to go....

Lots of madness as everyone tries to swap with everyone else....

I have to say there were some fabulous costumes and hats....the Germans were amazing....

Inside the main convention room...stage lit and ready...everyone finding tables and still swapping like mad....

Shelly, our co-founder on stage welcoming us.....

These were some of the decorations made using Stampin'Up! products, they were fantastic and I will show you more later.......

This my friend and co-demonstrator Christine with none other than Mickey & Minnie in the lobby of the New York Hotel, where the Convention was being held.

And this is me with Mickey & Minnie, we were really chuffed to bump into them with no one around them, we had only popped out at lunch time to get some air and enjoy the beautiful surroundings in the glorious sunshine.... what luck.........

Anyhoo thats all for now I will be back with some more.... Thanks for stopping by.....

Rose

Convention 2011

2011-11-22T12:44:00.001Z

Hellooooooo

I have just had the most amazing four days ever, My fellow demo Christine and I went to the 3rd Stampin'Up! European Convention which was held at Disneyland Paris..... Wahooo
We travelled by train to London and stayed overnight at a hotel across from St Pancras station. Then Thursday morning we caught the Eurostar all the way to Disneyland Paris, we arrived just before lunchtime. We stayed at Disney's Sequoia Lodge Hotel and were soooo lucky as our room was ready for us. So we took our luggage to the room, freshened up a bit and went for an explore.

This was on the TV when we arrived in our room...cool huh

Across the lake from the Sequoia Lodge was the Disney Village, lots of restaurants and shopping....

It was a bit dull and it had been raining but we thought who cares we are in Disney.....

But Friday was beautiful sunshine and very mild, no coats..... This is a small part of the Sequoia Lodge hotel it was soooo lovely.

Anyhoo that all for now I will be back with lots more...Stay tuned.....

Rose

Novembers Card Class

2011-11-12T19:04:00.001Z

Helloooo

Well its been a busy month but to make matters worse I have been internet less and that has been a struggle.... I am having to use my dongle to do this post so here goes.....
These are the cards we made at this months class, inspired by Jenny Moors check out her site Stampin Moments.

The cards are made using the gorgeous French Foliage and the beautiful single stamp Young Vermillion, I soo love that little bird..

The colours used are Soft Suede, More Mustard, Pool Party and Very Vanilla.

We also used the gorgeous New Pool Party ruffled ribbon mmm lush....

A little bit of soft suede designer paper thrown in, from the neutrals paper stack...

How beautiful is that little bird, I used the blender pen to colour him in with Pool Party and Soft Suede inks.

A bit of rock and rolling with the leaves, I really like that technique, ink up the stamp with More Mustard and then roll the stamp in Soft Suede, I love the effect....

You get a real mixture of stamps in this set, words, postal stamp, leaves and splodges (sort of like water splashes)....

Anyway thats all for now, thanks for stopping by....
Rose

Beautiful Flowers

2011-10-11T13:15:00.000+01:00

Hellooooo

We have been making beautiful flowers using the Big Shot and flower die. We actually made these as a make n take at a workshop I did recently and they loved them.

Mine of course had to be blue......

Each layer has been put through the big shot, using different embossing folders.....

Then we added one of the large stampin up buttons to the center using linen thread..

They look great as a broach although I can't wait to try it using the new stampin up fabric....

Well thats all for now, thanks for stopping by...

Rose

School Diary

2011-10-11T13:09:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

I just thought I would share with you a little project I did, which was to tranform my dull school diary into something any crafter would be proud to have in their bag......

I'm quite pleased with it and I have lots of lovely comments from co workers..

Thanks for stopping by....

Rose

September Card Class

2011-10-11T13:02:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

I gave my ladies a treat at my card class, we made three cards using supplies from the new catalogue. We as Demonstrators were allowed to buy certain items form the catalogue before its launch on the 1st October.
I chose the new InColours kit, the gorgeous lace punch plus some other bits and pieces...
These are the cards we made....

I am just loving the new in colours, especially Pool Party and Island Indigo, (well blues are my fave) and I teamed it with Dasher another favourite.

Isn't that punch just gorgeous......

You can't see it very well but Dashers antlers are sparking with Dazzling Diamonds...

Another In colour Wild Whisteria, sooo pretty, again using the new punch and some Boho Blossoms.

One card I debossed and the other I embossed for a slightly different look..

The sentiment is another favourite from the Curly Cute Stampset and I just had to add a few pearls, you just gotta love them....

The last card uses Lucky Limeade and an old favourite (still available) Lovely as a Tree stampset and of course lots of dazzling diamonds.

Thats all for now hope you enjoyed them...
Thanks for stopping by...
Rose

Regional Training at High Wycombe

2011-09-19T23:25:00.001+01:00

Helloooo

On Saturday I travelled to High Wycombe for Stampin Up's Regional Training, we had a look through the new catalogue and had a play with some new product. We also received the Under the Big Top stampset to make the make & take. There were some great samples on show, here are just a few.....

Thanks for stopping by....

Rose

August & September ATCs

2011-09-19T23:13:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

Whoa its been over a month since my last post (sounds like confession) my excuse is that we have bought a house in Wales and inbetween decorating our house here in oxfordshire (ready to sell) and going to Wales at the weekends (with no internet!!!) there is little time for anything else.
I have managed to do a bit of crafting (I think I would go mad otherwise) but its finding time to blog.......
Anyhoo the ATC for August was Theater and unfortunatly I didn't have any stamps so had to resort to the internet. My very favourite ballet is Swan Lake so I decided to use that as my theme.

Not my usual thing but I was happy with the outcome.
However I did better with Septembers ATC which was favourite technique, which for me is stamping with a bit of masking.

I used one of my fave stamps the lovely Dasher and the sentiment from Comtempo Christmas. I also used some of the new In Colours Pool Party and Island Indigo really lush.... The pattern was created using the new lace punch. I punched out a border and then used it as a stencil using a dauber and craft ink created the pattern. I added dazzling diamonds to give it a bit of glitz and voila...

I am loving the new in colours...
Hope you like and thanks for stopping by..... I hope to be back tomorrow to share some of the things from the Regional training I went to on Saturday... Ta Tar for now...
Rose xx

Birthday Card

2011-08-08T22:13:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

Continuing the Growing Green theme, I made this card for my best friends birthday ahhh.... Her favourite colour like mine is Blue so I chose Marina mist and Baja Breeze.

The flowers were created the same as before, you can get different effects by changing the amount of ink you add, I just think they are sooo pretty.

Instead of embossing the lower half of the card I embossed a separate piece of card and cut around the flowers and then adhered it to the bottom right corner of the card.

I coloured the ribbon with Marina Mist ink and then using my heat gun I carefully dried it, as it dries it crinkles and depending how crinkly you want it is how long you heat it for.
Anyhoo hope you like it, thanks for stopping by...
Rose

2011-08-08T21:40:00.000+01:00

Gift with Purchase August Promotion

We ALL LOVE our FREEBIES and this month Stampin' Up! are giving away a fantastic gift which includes something money can't buy! With an order of £75 or a workshop total of £250 you will be the lucky recipient of these fabulous gifts!

The gift includes:

A beautiful, exclusively-designed cosmetic bag.

PLUS

Rich Razzleberry 1-1/4” (3.2 cm) Striped Grosgrain Ribbon.

PLUS

A 24-piece Clip Assortment.

I am loving the bag and the gorgeous ribbon and who can resist those cute little clips......

Contact me to get yours........

Rose

40th Wedding Anniversary

2011-08-08T09:56:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

In between decorating and packing a few boxes I thought I would share this with you. One of my favourite stampsets is Growing Green, it took me a little time to warm to it but now I really love it.
I used it to create this 40th Wedding Anniversary card for my friend Pat and her husband John. I was really pleased with how it turned out.

The flowers are stamped with versamark onto watercolour paper and embossed with white powder, then painted over with water and colour added haphazardly. Once dry you cut them out, add a pearl to the center and voila beautiful flowers.

I coloured the Whisper White Organza Ribbon to match the Real Red Card, it looked gorgeous.

I used the Little Leaves sizzlets die and then embossed them with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder.

I embossed the bottom half of the card with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder. The sentiment was from the Curly Cute set and the numbers were from Schoolbook Serif Numbers.
I loved the end result, hope you do too.
Thanks for stopping by......
Rose

Baby Gifts

2011-07-23T22:26:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

I have been a busy bee, my niece had a little baby boy, Finely David, and as I have just got into knitting I thought I would knit the little cherrub a jumper. I am quite a slow knitter but I persevered and this is the result...

I have to admit I was quite proud of it even though its not perfect and being a Stampin'Up Demo I had to add some big designer buttons to the shoulders.
I also knitted some sock bootees to match...

And of course I had to make a gift box to put them in...

And a card to match....

I used Marina Mist, Baha Breeze and Whisper White card. The images were from the Bundle of Love stampset, stamped in Basic Grey then coloured with Marina Mist, Baha Breeze, Daffodil Delight and Soft Suede. The sentiment is from Curly Cute, I just love that set, stamped in Marina Mist.
I also made an insert and stamped the really cute quote from the Bundle of Love set along with some teddy bears.
Well I hope you like my gift set, I hope my niece does too...
Thanks for stopping by....
Rose

July Card Class

2011-07-22T22:01:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

This months cards used the stampset Printed Petals......

The first card uses Marina Mist, Baha Breeze and Shimmery White cardstock. Flowers stamped in Marina Mist, Baha Breeze and Bashful Blue Inks. The sentiment is from Curly Cute and is stamped in Marina Mist Ink. Tiny pearls were added to finish off the card.

The second card used Tangerine Tango and Shimmery White cardstock, the flowers and sentiment are stamped in Tangerine Tango. The tiny flower is from the Itty Bitty stampset, its been stamped and then punched out using the matching punch to add a little depth. Then the gorgeous striped grosgrain ribbon is tied around, and some tiny pearls added to finish off.

The third card used Rose Red, Melon Mambo, Regal Rose and Shimmery White cardstock. The inks were Rose Red, Melon Mambo and Regal Rose. Some Rose Red Seam Binding ribbon and a Rose Red Big Designer Button. Oh and the Shimmery White cardstock was put throught the Big Shot using the square lattice embossing folder.

Mmmm what gorgeous colours....
Thanks for stopping by, hope you like the cards.
Rose

July ATC

2011-07-22T21:02:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

Its ATC time again, gosh it comes around pretty quick, the topic for this month was Capital Cities. I chose Paris and this is what I came up with.....
I'm afraid its not all Stampin'Up as I didn't have any stamps, but all materials are Stampin'Up.

The cardstock I used was Soft Suede and Very Vanilla, The inks Soft Suede, Baha Breeze, Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake and Basic Grey. Stamps I borrowed from a friend.

Hope you like, thanks for stopping by.....

Rose

Growing Green

2011-06-28T22:20:00.001+01:00

Helloooo

Don't you just love this stampset, when I first saw it I wasn't too impressed, but after using it, I really really love it. I did a workshop showing the flower stamped with versamark then heat embossed with white embossing powder on watercolour paper. You add water to the flower and then paint over roughly with your chosen ink it has an amazing effect, really pretty.

Its a beautiful stampset so veratile, I made a gorgeous 40th Wedding Anniversary card for a friend and Doh I forgot to take a photograph of it before I gave it to them. I will have to get a photo when they get back off their trip. I was really pleased with it, I even dyed the white satin ribbon to match the card.

Anyway thanks for stopping by...

Rose 

June Card Class

2011-06-28T22:17:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

This is what we made at this months card class, its all based around the stampset Natures Walk. I love it, it has the cutest Bumblebee.
They also use my favourite ribbon the new seam binding ribbon, I just love the ruched effect you can get with it.

If you would like the instructions on how to make these and three others check out Jenny Moors blog, link to the right, I have basically used her instructions with a few little tweeks of my own.
My ladies loved making them, hope you do too..
Thanks for stopping by.......
Rose

June ATC

2011-06-28T21:53:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

Its ATC time again and the topic for this month was Tea Time. This is what I came up with, I used the little cupcake from a retired set called Darling Dots, inked up using Old Olive, real red, Melon Mambo and More Mustard pens.

I stamped the cake stand in Melon Mambo on Very Vanilla cardstock and mounted it on to Wild Wasabi cardstock. Ooh and then I added some crystal effects to the cherries to make them pop. mmmm yummy

Hope you like them, thanks for stopping by.....

Rose

Stampin'Up Workshop

2011-06-12T22:24:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

So sorry I have been absent, I have been pretty busy, I have loads to share but its finding the time to add it to my blog..........

Here's what we did as the make n take at Elaines workshop, they are such cute little fellows and so easy to make. Especially if you have the big shot die Pillow Box, because it does all the hard work for you.
Plus everything else is punched out using Stampin'Up punches, all you have to do is stick it together. Brilliant...
Everyone loved them they make great little treat boxes, you could even put some earrings or a necklace in them.

I saw these little chaps on kerryspapercrafts.com check out her blog its brilliant......

I love using punches to create things, I saw these on Jo's blog stampin'nstuff (link to the right), and just had to have a go at making them, they are sooo cute...

I love them, hope you enjoy, thanks for stopping by....
Rose

Stampin'Up Hostess Promotion

2011-06-12T21:40:00.000+01:00

Stampin’ Up! have announced a fantastic new promotion for June and July, our hostesses can earn £20 extra in free products when their party sales exceed £250.
That means a minimum of a level 1 hostess set and £45 to spend on anything in the catalogue!
Invite your family and friends round for a fun and crafty get together and discover the fun of stamping in the comfort of your own home. I will demonstrate a variety of techniques, show you how our fabulous products work and more importantly give you the chance to TRY the product before you BUY.
I would love to arrange a date with you so please call me to secure your booking.
Thanks
Rose

May ATC

2011-05-14T23:00:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

I'm back, so sorry I haven't posted for ages we went away to Wales which was totally fab, then it was back to School, its been soo busy I haven't had time to post anything, so I have a mega post to make up for it.

Firstly its ATC time again and the topic was Animals, so I rumaged through my stash and found my stampset Animal Stories, the characters are soo cute.

I used some of the papers from the brights stack and stamped each of the animals on either whisper white or very vanilla cardstock and cut them out. I added a branch for the owl to sit on using the bird punch, and there you have it. Nine animal ATCs. I was quite pleased with how they turned out....

We were also given a challenge, which was to create a card using a sketch as our inspiration. This is what I came up with..........

I just love these colours, well blue is my favourite colour, I used the small square punch to punch out squares of designer paper from the brights stack. Then I made some flowers using the flower accent and cottage garden stampsets. The effect is called rocking and rolling, you ink up the stamp with the pale colour then you roll the stamp around the edge in the darker colour. Add some crystal effects and some dazzling diamonds and you end up with really gorgeous flowers.

Well thats all for now I will be back tomorrow with the cards we made in my Wednesday afternoon class.
Thanks for stopping by.....
Rose

April ATC

2011-04-14T21:29:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

Its ATC time again and the topic for this month is Collage and this is what I came up with....

I really love this stampset, its called Natures Walk, its got all my favourite things birds, butterflies and bees. I used soft suede, marina mist, baja breeze, old olive and pumpkin pie ink pads on whisper white cardstock, matted onto chocolate chip cardstock.
Hope you like them, I'm off for a week in Wales so might not get to do any crafting, although I might take my knitting hee hee.......
Thanks for stopping by...
Rose

April Card Class

2011-04-13T22:39:00.003+01:00

Helloooo

This is what we made in todays card class....

These cute little goldfish are created using the Build a Blossom stampset in the mini catalogue, I got the idea from Amanda Fowlers blog, I love when people think outside the box. Who would have thought you could get goldfish from flower petals.....Brilliant. The plants are created using a stamp from the Just Believe set.
Sentiment is from the So Happy For You set.
Colour combo is Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie.
The second card we made was this one...

How cute is this little owl, I just love him. He is created using the new owl punch, its so easy. The leaves he is perched on are made using the Little Leaves die and then placed inside an embossing folder and embossed.
Its amazing how many different expressions you can give them just by moving the dots in the eyes.....
The final project is this...

We made one of these lovely flowers, check out Jo's blog Stampin and Stuff for the tutorial (link to the right). We made a traditional white with yellow center, the daisies are created using Stampin Up's Daisies die, it cuts all three sizes of daisies. Everyone at the class loved them, they were really easy to make.

Thanks for stopping by.....

Rose

Phone Sock

2011-04-12T21:24:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

Well using my new found knitting skills, hee hee I have knitted myself a new sock for my phone, I was really pleased with how it turned out. I learnt how to create a button hole and added a button from the new Stampin'Up buttons in the mini catalogue .
What do you think.....

I love it and so does my phone, hee hee... but seriously those Stampin'Up buttons are pretty yummy.
Anyway thanks for stopping by.....
Rose

Workshop

2011-04-06T20:43:00.000+01:00

Hellooo

I had a lovely workshop last night and the hostess did really well. We did a really simple make and take, made simple because we used the new top note and daisies die from Stampin'Up.

I really love these dies, I can see me getting a lot of use out of them......

I also made this card for my hubbies birthday, its using the new Motorcycle stamp from the Mini Catalogue and of course the Top Note die.....

If you haven't got your copy of the New Mini yet give me a call or e-mail me and I will send you one..
Thanks for stopping by..
Rose

Easter Fun

2011-04-02T22:23:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

Easter is not far away and I have been making Easter Treats......

I have used the Top Note and Daisies die with Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron and Wild Wasabi Cardstock, Stampin'Ups small cellophane bags and Taffeta Ribbon and the new Seam Binding Ribbon, to wrap up these cute little chocolate lambs....

Don't they look gorgeous, I love layering the daisies they are so pretty. They also cut out well using felt, the Big Shot is brilliant.

I got the idea of these Easter Egg Treats from Michelle's blog, they are made using the Sweet Treet Cups, I just love them. The Stampset I have used throughout is A Good Egg, its got a really lovely little Happy Easter and I really like the little flower stamp, I have used it so much and not just for Easter.

I found some really cute Easter Egg tins, I can't resist them and check out the cute little chick they come in a pack of 3 and I found a really cute bunny....

Well I hope you enjoy my little Easter display....

Thanks for stopping by.

Rose

Ribbon Share

2011-04-02T21:35:00.000+01:00

Hellooo,

Want some of the New Seam Binding Ribbon, but not sure you want a full reel of each colour, then join my ribbon share and receive 2m of each of the four colours for £7.50 which includes postage.
Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz and Rose Red, don't they look gorgeous. I think they are my new favourite, they are just so lovely to work with and get such brilliant effects. Check out my fabric ATC the ribbon just makes it..

Sooo pretty.....

Contact me on 01235 223872 or e-mail me for your share......

Thanks for stopping by....

Rose

Big Shot Hostess Club

2011-04-01T22:05:00.003+01:00

Hellooo
Do you want a Big Shot but can't afford £87.95! then join my Big Shot Hostess Club....

I would need :-

5 people to pay £30 a month for 5 months.
for this you would get.....
A Big Shot
2 Bigz Dies(choose from Beautiful Butterflies, Top Note, Scallop Circle, Flower Daisies, Scallop Envelope and Pillow Box.)
1 Embosslits Die (choose from Beautiful Wings, Scalloped Heart of Hearts, Flower Burst and Sweet Buttons.)
1 Embossing folder (choose from Vintage Wallpaper,Square Lattice, Perfect Polka Dots, Manhattan Flower and Elegant Bouquet.)
A free stampset (Level 1 Hostess)
Plus £15 of Free product of your choice.

or

10 people to pay £15 a month for 10 months
for this you would get.....

A Big Shot
2 Bigz Dies(choose from Beautiful Butterflies, Top Note, Scallop Circle, Flower Daisies, Scallop Envelope and Pillow Box.)
1 Embosslits Die (choose from Beautiful Wings, Scalloped Heart of Hearts, Flower Burst and Sweet Buttons.)
1 Embossing folder (choose from Vintage Wallpaper,Square Lattice, Perfect Polka Dots, Manhattan Flower and Elegant Bouquet.)
A free stampset (Level 1 Hostess)
Plus £15 of Free product of your choice.

Wow how good is that, give me a call on 01235 223872 or e-mail me to book your place.
Rose

NEW Mini Catalogue

2011-04-01T08:17:00.013+01:00

Hellooo

Wahoo its officially here, the New Mini Catalogue is out today and arn't we all excited.

Its got lots of fab product in it and guess what we now have the Big Shot and some gorgeous dies and embossing folders. Not only that but there's a new build a wheel,new stamp sets, (I'm just loving the Build a Blossom Stampset), gorgeous New Seam Binding Ribbon (I just love it, I used some on my material ATC, it is just lovely).

I could go on and on, anyway check out the catalogue online or if you would like a copy I will post one to you free of charge. Just give me a call on 01235223872. You won't want to miss it.....

Thanks for stopping by....

Rose

Beautiful Bracelets

2011-03-27T21:51:00.000+01:00

Helloooo

I have been busy, unfortunatly I can't show any of it until April 1st as its using NEW product from the new mini. I can't wait there is so much fab new stuff, I have already leaked a little taster on a previous post. Naughty naughty..........

So I am going to share this with you..

How gorgeous are those buttons, they are Stampin'Up! buttons these are from the brights collection and don't they make a fab bracelet.
I bought loads of buttons as I had seen bracelets on the net made using buttons, but not this style using a chain link. I saw this one on Monica Gales site and she was selling the kits to make them. Now I don't usually buy other peoples kits but I sooo loved this bracelet I just had to.
There is a link to Monica's site to the right if you want to check them out.

Hope you you like them, Thanks for stopping by.......
Rose

New Craft

2011-03-23T22:29:00.000Z

Hellooo

Some friends taught me how to knit a few weeks ago at the handicraft group I go to on a Monday afternoon. Most of the ladies are accomplished knitters and can happily chat and knit ten to the dozen. I don't think I will ever be like that. But I was a bit chuffed to completed my first project which was a childs jumper using a very simple pattern. The ladies knit them for charity and so they decided I should knit one!!!!
This is how it turned out......

The back is plain blue but the front has white stripes, I was really pleased with it, yes I know its really simple but you have to start somewhere.....
Anyhoo thanks for stopping by......
Rose

ATC

2011-03-21T23:00:00.000Z

Hellooo

Its ATC time again and the subject for March was "Material" which meant that the whole ATC had to be made from material no card, no paper, no funky foam. Well it was a bit of a dialema for me, I just didn't know where to start.
Well this is what I came up with.....

For the main card I used Night of Navy felt (well it was a good colour match!!!) then I used a 2" twill ribbon which I cut into 3" chunks and frayed the edges. I then stamped one of the images from the Just Believe stamp set and the butterfly from the So Happy For You stamp set. I then sewed Stampin Up buttons on and ruched some ribbon and sewed it to the bottom. (Check back on April 1st for details of the ribbon hint hint). And voila.... they didn't turn out too bad.
Hope you like them, thanks for stopping by.....
Rose

March Card Class

2011-03-09T20:47:00.000Z

Hellooo,

Had a lovely card making class this afternoon, we made three cards....

The first was inspired by a swap I received on Sunday at Michelle's Stamp With Me Reward Day, it was by a fellow P'ink Lady Claire Deacon. I just loved the colour combo Crumb Cake, Marina Mist and Very Vanilla

This is what we made, basically the same recipe, but instead of stamping the stripes on the bottom half we used crumb cake dsp from the neutrals stack and instead of the circle being stamped with dots we spritzed it with frosty white shimmer paint to give it some sparkle.

We also stamped birthday wishes from the So Happy For You SAB set.

Really pretty, thanks for the inspiration Claire.

The second card used Pacific Point, Soft Suede and Naturals Ivory cardstock (Sorry about the photos they are a bit rubbish). The pacific point cardstock was stamped with Le Francais stamp and then the swirl from the baroque motifs set.

The Soft Suede dsp was stamped with the flowers from the level 1 hostess set Punch Potpourri.

We used the tiny pearls for the birds eye and the center of the flowers, they are so gorgeous, I need to order more......I am using them so much.

The third card uses the stampset Just Believe and the butterfly and sentiment from the So Happy For You stampset. The cardstock is Pear Pizzazz and Poppy Parade, the little flowers are from the Boho Blossom Punch.

And of course more of those gorgeous pearls.

Well I hope you like them, thanks for stopping by....

Rose

Stamp With Me Reward Day

2011-03-06T21:13:00.000Z

Helloooo

I have had such a great day today, I went to Bicester with some fellow demo's to Michelle Lasts Stamp With Me Reward Day. A reward for recruiting during November.
We did a fab make and take and Michelle demo'd how to make some gorgeous flowers.

How gorgeous is this, I love the colour combo Soft Suede, Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla Cardstock, plus Elegant Soiree Designer Papers. Just lovely....

And just look at those flowers, the stamp is inked up with with Baja Breeze and then using the rocking technique the edge is inked up with Soft Suede, we cut out the flowers leaving a tiny border around the edge.
Then using crystal effects filled in the flower, added a touch of glitter and some gorgeous pearls and voila beautiful flowers. When dry you just curl the petals to give some dimention.
The leaves were made using Soft Suede cardstock folded in half then put through the crimper at an angle then you cut out half a leaf on the fold, when unfolded you have a whole leaf with veins... Brilliant...

The large flower on the cover used the Flower Accent stamp and the small flowers were from the Cottage Garden stamp set.

These were the swaps I made unfortunatly I forgot to take a photo of them so these are all I had left. They are bookmarks made with Stampin'Ups 1/8th" Taffeta Ribbon. The ones in the picture are Night of Navy, Early Espresso and Marina Mist, I also did them in Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Real Red, I made 16 in all. Together they looked really gorgeous. It did give me an idea to make tiny ones and put on a keyring to show off the ribbon. mmmm watch this space......

This ribbon is sooo pretty and it is so easy to weave. Anyhoo thanks for stopping by.....

Rose

I was so pleased with how it turned out, I think it looks great, now I need to find some photos to put in it to finish it off...

March Frenzy

2011-03-04T18:55:00.000Z

Helloooo

Wahoo its March Frenzy..... your opportunity to get Stampin'Up!goodies at 20-30% off

If you would like to take advantage of these great prices contact me to place your order, and if your order is £45 or more I will give you free postage, a saving of £4.95 wahooo... and if thats not enough I will also send you a copy of the new mini catalogue due out on the 1st April free of charge.

So what are you waiting for......

Thanks for stopping by...

Rose

ATC

2011-02-22T19:56:00.000Z

Hellooo

Well it was ATC time again and I chose the subject... wahoo...Pirates....you just gotta love um.
This is what I came up with.....

I just love these Pirate stamps, to make my ATC I used Basic Black, Basic Grey and Whisper White cardstock, Basic Black Ink and the cute little pearls now available from Stampin'Up!
I had two colourways but went for the whisper white topper in the end, the edges of each layer are distressed and the x is enhanced with Crystal effects to make it stand out.
Hope you like them, thanks for stopping by.....
Rose

Workshop

2011-02-16T22:46:00.000Z

Helloooo

I thought I would share with you the make&take we did at last nights workshop, we had a lot of laughs I hope the ladies enjoyed it as much as I did. Thanks ladies....

Anyhoo I thought we would get a head start on Easter, so we made this milk carton filled with cute little Easter m&ms (they have bunny ears and eggs on)

Aww arn't they cute.....they are lovely pastel colours, the photo isn't very good unfortunatly...

You can't see very well from the photos but we stamped flowers on the card before we assembled the carton and used the large oval punch to create the window. We used the small Stampin Up cello bags and filled them with m&ms to make this Easter treat.

Hope you like them.

Thanks for stopping by.......

Rose

February Card Class

2011-02-14T18:39:00.002Z

Helloooo

These are the cards we made in my card class this month, its a cute little trio using the Forest Friends stamp set.

The card is a cute 9 1/2cm square, the base card is the same for all three cards, Chocolate Chip base, Pretty in Pink and Wild Wasabi layers. The tree is inked using Wild Wasabi and Choc Chip markers and each card has a different Choc Chip ribbon, they are so lush.
Anyhoo hope you like them, thanks for stopping by....

Rose

January Card Class

2011-02-08T15:49:00.000Z

Helloooo

These are the cards we made in January, all using the free sets from the Sale-a-bration promotion, which incidently ends this month so if you haven't got yours let me know.
Now it seems that the set Bliss is the most popular and it is lovely but its not my favourite. My favourite is Sweet Summer just look at this......

I just love this colour combo as well, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo and Old Olive and just look at that cute little bee...... I stamped the images and then watercoloured them.. ooooh love it..
We also made...

How cute is that owl, we used Chocolate Chip, Soft suede and a little bit of Old Olive yum.... and the Punch Bunch Stamp Set.

and lastly we made this....

We used Soft Suede and Crumb Cake and the Bliss Stamp set, sentiments from the So Happy For You and Party This Way stamp sets.

Well hope you like them, see you soon.....
Rose

ATC's

2011-02-08T12:51:00.000Z

Helloooo

It was ATC time again, this time it was Oriental/Chinese New Year and this is what I came up with....

The stamp is not Stampin'Up! as I didn't have anything Oriental, but the cardstock is Basic Black and Real Red. You can't see from the photo but I also spritzed it with Stampin'Up! shimmer paint and it did look really good, but my photo is pretty poor.
Anyhoo hope you like it, back soon with more
Ooooh I just remembered next month or is that this month now!!!! is PIRATES and I do have the set by Stampin'Up! so keep um peeled........
Rose

I'm Back!!!!!!

2011-02-08T12:41:00.000Z

Helloooo I'm Back!!!!!

Have I been away, well actually no, we are trying to sell our house and it is taking up way too much of my time, not only that but I have had to declutter..... Back when we first put the house on the market the estate agent came round and said I needed to loose some of the clutter, what a cheek. especially when he was looking directly at my craft corner, which was I have to say quite tidy. It would open up the room more. So after much deliberation on my part I gave in and cleared it all out. So while the weather wasn't too bad it went in the garage, but as the weather got colder I feared for the health of my crafting goodies so brought it back in the house and took over one of the downstairs cupboards. So for a while I did my crafting on the coffee table, which is not good, but then after taking the house off the market over christmas, I needed a break!! we put it back on the market in January and have had to keep it looking clean and tidy for viewings. Aargggggggg. My crafting is definately suffering as a result of this. But I am trying...... as my husband would say Very trying!!!!
Anyway thanks for listening to my rantings I will be back with some craft in a mo......
Rose

Birthday

2011-01-08T16:43:00.000Z

Helloooo

It was my Birthday yesterday, how old!!!!!! well I had some lovely handmade cards.....

This is my daughter Kates card, pretty good huh, she is very good on the computer.

This is the card made by my son Joshua, he does his best bless him, he hasn't quite understood about paper cutters and straight edges!! but at least he tried, and the hamster is pretty cute.

I also had some lovely sympathy cards too..

Thankyou to everyone who sent me cards, they were absolutely gorgeous.

Thanks for looking....

Rose

Christmas Treats

2011-01-02T21:21:00.000Z

Helloooo

I thought I would share these with you, these are the gifts I made for my craft buddies, inside was the cutest china robin christmas decoration and some Lindt chocolate reindeers, unfortunatly I didn't photograph the contents dohh.

I used my favourite punches, the scallop border and corner, I just love them. Now it took a little time to get used to using them to do all around the edge but now I am getting the hang of them as you can see and I just can't stop using them.
The first colour combo is Chocolate Chip, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla, with the lovely Real Red polka dot ribbon. The second is Close to Cocoa, Rose Red and Very Vanilla with Rose Red ribbon. The second combo is sadly retired, but will remain a favourite until its all gone.....
Anyway hope you like them, thanks for stopping by.... ta tar for now......
Rose

Happy New Year

2011-01-01T18:32:00.004Z

Helloooo

And a Happy New Year, I have been lucky enough to spend Christmas in Pembrokeshire, we stayed in a beautiful house looking out onto green countryside (well actually it was white when we arrived, lovely thick snow) with the sea only a stones throw away. The place was beautiful the only downside (not for me but for the children) was that there was no internet, in fact we couldn't even get a phone signal....very rural..lovely.

So I had planned to do some blogging whilst I was away but couldn't, so I have a lot to catch up with. And to start...........

EXCLUSIVE FREE STAMP SETS FOR ALL!
From now until 28th February with every order of £45 you can choose from the following stamp sets absolutely FREE...

BLISS

PUNCH BUNCH

SO HAPPY FOR YOU

SWEET SUMMER

Not only that, the offer is for multiples of £45 so if you spend £90 you can choose 2 sets! And if you host a workshop during this period, for sales of £300 the Hostess will receive another FREE Sale-a-bration set in addition to all the other Hostess Benefits.

If you'd like further details on how to earn all these FREE products and more, drop me an email.

Well thats all for this bit I will be back with some craft, thanks for stopping by...

Rose

2010-12-19T17:31:00.000Z

Hellooo

Sorry for my lack of posts, we had my Mum's funeral on Friday and I have not felt like crafting at all. I did start some Christmas cards and have managed to finish them.

I used Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla cardstock, the stampset is Contempo Christmas stamped in Cherry Cobbler Ink. I daubed around the edge of the top piece of very vanilla with cherry cobbler ink then I mounted onto another piece of very vanilla which I punched around the edge with the scallop corner and scallop edge punches. Last I mounted this onto a Cherry Cobbler card 9.5 x 9.5cm.

With this one I cut out the tree and used foam pads to lift it. The card under the very vanilla piece is crumb cake, everything else is the same.
Hope you like them, thanks for stopping by....
Rose

ATC

2010-12-11T17:21:00.000Z

Hellooo

This months ATC is all about Christmas, I thought yippee I have lots of christmas stampsets, but then it was hard to decide which one to use. I was inspired by a card I had seen using the large tree from Lovely as a Tree stampset to make the branches of a christmas tree, it is really effective, I love it. I must admit I have used it on some of my christmas cards. I also used a retired set called 'Hung Up on the Holidays'...it has the cutest little gingerbread man which I stamped out onto shrink plastic using soft suede ink. I then cut them out and punched a tiny hole which I threaded thin wire through. Then I shrank them and using the wire hung them on the christmas tree branches.

I did the same with the two baubles in the same set, to make more decorations for the tree and of course you have to add a bit of glitter don't you......

TaDa....
I hope you like them, back with more craft soon....
Rose

Christmas

2010-12-08T16:43:00.000Z

Hellooo,

I have managed to put our Christmas Tree up, got to keep the children happy... I do love my tree but it does take a bit of putting up.

Every year I buy at least one new decoration for the tree, although this year its a bit different and I haven't bought any.......yet. I love looking around garden centres this time of year they always have such spectacular displays.

As you can see I like owls, bears and I like personalised ornaments for my children, J for Joshua, K is for Kate, the little snowglobes also have their names on too. And as you now know I love cute.........

Well thanks for stopping by, I will be back with this months ATC ...See you soon.
Rose

2010-12-04T19:05:00.000Z

Hellooo

So sorry for my absence, my lack of posts is down to the fact I lost my Mum and have been finding it hard to get things done.. I have been trying to get in the christmas spirit with no luck, even the snow which I would normally love has not lifted my spirits. I have done a little bit of craft and I will share it with you when I have done some photos.
Well I am off to put up the christmas tree, my children have been nagging me, and I must find their advent calendars.....

Thanks for stopping by...
Rose

Scrapbooking

2010-11-27T21:53:00.000Z

Hellooo

I love to scrapbook, I only wish I could find more time for it, still I have a whole day scrapping this Saturday so I will have to get myself sorted. I have so many photos to scrapbook, its a job to choose. Many of my recent pages have been about trips to Wales and Shep our Border Collie having fun on the beach. Last year I made a little album all about the snow and the fun we had making snowmen and having snowball fights. So I thought I would share it with you......

I really enjoyed making it and love looking through it. It used the now retired set flaky friends still one of my favourites , I love those little snowmen, soo cute....... and of course my fave colour blue, sorry about the photo's not brilliant I'm afraid. Anyway Thanks for stopping by hope you enjoyed my album.

Rose

Birthday Card

2010-11-25T13:05:00.000Z

Hellooo

I have a lovely birthday card to show you today I made it for a work collegue for her children to send to their Nanny.

I have used the new Party this way stampset, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise. Old Olive and Daffodil Delight Inks and the silver elastic cord to hang the little flags from. I was really pleased with how it turned out, hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.....
Rose

2010-11-22T19:58:00.000Z

Hellooo

Gosh its been nearly a week since my last post where has the time gone? Well I was pretty busy last week and then I was away at the weekend, I thought I might do a bit of blogging whilst away but forgot to take the dongle and where we were staying wanted to charge £10 per day to use the WiFi, but only one person could access it at a time...... My children were not amused...
Hey Ho
Anyway we stayed in Newquay and we found a fabulous house just look at this, talk about owning your own Island. How cool is that......

We had a brilliant time walking along the beach and exploring the caves, my children (12 & 15) still love messing about on the beach......

Josh pretending to be a zombie??????

Shep just loved being in the sea, he had such a great time.....

Anyway back to some crafting, this is card I made for a work collegue for her Mom's 80th Birthday..

The Baroque Motiffs Stamp set is fast becoming a favourite, it is so versatile, I have used it for christmas, birthdays and on scrapbook pages. Its gorgeous..
Anyway hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.....
Rose

Workshop

2010-11-16T17:06:00.000Z

Hellooo

I am doing a workshop tonight and I wanted to do an easy make & take but the group of ladies who are attending are all seasoned crafters, so when I found this card by Jenny Moors I thought we would try it.

It uses the scallop trim border punch and the scallop trim corner punch, I have soo been waiting for these, they are just gorgeous. You can go all the way around a piece of card to create such a lovely effect.

How gorgeous is that.....

Anyway Thanks for stopping by...
Rose

Bundle Up For Christmas

2010-11-15T18:45:00.007Z

Latest Offer from Stampin'Up!

There is some pretty gorgeous ribbon to be had for free, when you take advantage of the latest Stampin'Up! offer.

Choose from these bundles :

Description	Wood-Mount Item	Wood-Mount Price	Clear-Mount Item	Clear-Mount Price
Gifted Bundle Gifted Set and Jolly Holiday Designer Series Paper	124051	£35.70	124052	£30.70
Welcome Christmas Bundle Welcome Christmas Set and Christmas Cocoa Specialty Designer Series Paper	124063	£36.90	124064	£31.90
Season of Joy Bundle Season of Joy Set and So Swirly Stampin’ Around Wheel	124055	£36.45	---	---
Delightful Decorations Bundle Delightful Decorations Set and Ornament Punch	124058	£37.45	---	---

*Bundles and ribbons available while supplies last,

then choose one of these ribbons for free:

Description	Item	Retail Value
Mistletoe Ribbon Originals	116792	£11.50
Sleigh Bells Ribbon	116795	£8.50
Riding Hood Red 1-1/4” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon	113099	£10.25
Real Red 3/4” Polka-Dot Grosgrain Ribbon	115608	£10.25

If you would like to take advantage of this offer just e-mail me..

Thanks for stopping by..
Rose

Convention 2010 Awards Dinner

2010-11-14T14:24:00.000Z

Hellooo

Hope you are not getting fed up with my Convention posts, there is just so much to share. Here are some pics of the Awards Dinner. I didn't get any awards, however my upline Carole got two awards, one where she came 14th out of the top 25 Demo's in the country. Wey Hey. You go girl....
Her upline Michele was number 1, how fantastic is that. Congratulations to you both....
We are part of a team called the P'ink Ladies and what a fab team they are, all very talented and very friendly.

The Awards

The Tables looked lovely.

The food was yummy.

Me on stage before it all started, thats the nearest I got to being on stage.

Lots of mingling before proceedings started..

Lots of excited anticipation, it really was a great evening.....

Hope you enjoyed the pics, thanks for dropping by.....
Rose

ATC

2010-11-13T23:10:00.000Z

Wow I can't believe how fast time is going, its ATC time again, this month the theme was Childhood, so I thought seaside, sandcastles on the beach, bucket and spade, ice lollies and this is what I came up with.....

I used the Life's a Breeze stamp set, now sadly retired and some Crumb Cake, Bashful Blue and Whisper White Card stock.
Hope you like them...
Rose

Convention 2010 Join my team.

2010-11-11T22:47:00.000Z

Hellooo,

I had such a great time at Convention, it was so nice to meet other demo's, especially those from Germany and France. They are all such lovely and talented people.
Well next year Convention is at Disneyland Paris, Woo Hoo... I know Disneyland is not everyones cup of tea but I just love it. I'm a bit like Peter Pan I've never grown up, well in body maybe but not in mind.
So how do you fancy joining me at Disneyland Paris!!!!!
Now is a great time to join Stampin'Up! the starter kit is only £119 (valued at more than £230)

You also get the opportunity to purchase an add on kit for £50 (valued at more than £80)

Plus if you join my team I will give you some exclusive Stampin'Up! merchandise....

This gorgeous Stampin'Up! Bag, a Stampin'Up Ruler, Stampin'Up! Pens and a lovely Stampin'Up! Keyring.
All this can be yours when you join my team, just e-mail me @ rose.jones01@ntlworld.com for full details.

Thanks for stopping by....
Rose

Convention 3D Swaps

2010-11-10T12:51:00.000Z

Hellooo

Back again this time with some of the 3D swaps I received...

Mmmmm Chocolate.......

Unfortunatly these two had no information on them so I can't give credit for them which is a shame.

Another with no information, it is really lovely, the flower is actually a broach made from DSP, on a cute little gift card.

This lovely cone was made by Carolyn Exwood, using the Jolly Holiday designer series papers.

Doris Stempelt created this little mini post it holder, ah so cute.

Love this nail file holder, created by Jane Cheshire, one of our P'ink ladies.

This is such a clever christmas decoration, made by Joanne Friend, using folded Jolly Holiday DSP.

A little chocolate treat made by Nicky Painter, so sweet.

This cute keyring was made by Sarah Makin, the picture is supposed to be me, kind of, well it is when I don't curl my hair. he he. Sarah is also a P'ink lady too. (I will explain later)

This lovely handmade potpourri, with the cute little gingerbread man was made by Sarah Poulton, another P'ink Lady......
What a lot of talented demo's there are..
P'ink Ladies are the team we are in, I will share more tomorrow with some more goodies...

Thanks for dropping by....
Rose

Convention 2010 Swaps

2010-11-09T12:44:00.000Z

Hellooo

I thought I would share some of the swaps I received, I say some because there are 100 of them!!!!

This gorgeous card is by Cate Terry, I think its so beautiful, I'm not a pink person but I do like this colour combo.

Oh I love pirates, this card is by Amanda Fowler, again I don't do pinks and oranges but I do love this card and the colour combo. Ideal for a girl that loves pirates like my daughter Kate. Arrrh

Elaine Harding has found a great way to use the bauble punch, it make a great vase, love it.

This beautiful card is by Jenny Moors, I love the new scallop corner punch, its just lovely.

This lovely card is by Jill Boulton, this is one of my favourite stamp sets, Contempo Christmas.

I just love this card by Jo Dumbleton,those little mushrooms are so cute, and I love cute...

Another beautiful card, this one is by Sarastamper, I love the colour combo, rich razzleberry, river rock, always artichoke and very vanilla...yummy

More pirates, this card is by Teri Pocock, brilliant, it would make a fab birthday card for my son...

This fabulous card is by Sharon March, using my new favourite blue, Pacific Point and the lovely flourish from the baroque motifs stamp set.

Last one for today, is by Kelly Mayou, it is so cute and anyone that knows me knows how I love cute, fantastic.
Hope you like them as much as I do, although the photo's don't do them justice. Back tomorrow with some 3D swaps.
Thanks for stopping by...
Rose

Convention 2010 My Swaps

2010-11-08T16:34:00.001Z

Helloo again,

I promised to show you my swaps I made for convention, well there were 300 demos from the UK, France and Germany, but I only managed to make 100 general swaps and 20 special swaps.
Here is my general swap......

I made phone danglies, using delightful decorations and shrink plastic, the bauble punch was brilliant, I stamped the baubles in real red and old olive, then punched them out, I punched a hole in the top using the crop o dile and then shrank them with a heat gun. The tiny tag was made using the word window punch and then I hand wrote Stampin'Up! and shrunk them. They are so cute.

The top is made from real red cardstock and stamped using the small snowflake from the serene snowflakes stamp set, the sentiment is from the contempo christmas set stamped in white craft ink.

I also did 20 of these little notepads with matching pen..

I covered these little notepads with Blueberry Crisp, Sweet and Sour and Jolly Holiday DSP and put a little piece of DSP in the pen so that it matched.

Hope you like them.

Well thats all for now, thanks for dropping by......

Rose

Convention 2010 Photos

2010-11-07T21:23:00.001Z

Hellooo

I am back from Convention and have I got tons to share with you, over the next few days I will post photos of Convention, the swaps I made and the swaps I received back, plus the make & takes and if they have come out alright photos of demonstrations we saw. It has been a fantastic few days and it just flew by.
Here are some Convention photos..

These are of the main hall where we did our swapping and had a chance to meet the other demos and look at some of the fantastic samples that had been made.

This is one of me with Shelly our Stampin'Up! Co Founder, she is such a lovely lady.

This was the Memento Mall, we were able to buy special Stampin Up merchandise, unfortunatly these photos were taken after it had nearly been cleaned out.

In this room we were able to make a business resource, showing the New Colour families, in card stock and ink....

Here is one of my lovely upline Carole (sitting on the arm of the chair) along with Amanda (one of the top demos) and what you can't see is in front of them is a platter of huge cookies.......

Anyway thats all for now, thanks for stopping by...
Rose

Convention 2010 Teaser

2010-11-03T23:23:00.002Z

Woh where does the time go, I have been really busy since I came back from Wales. I run a scrapbooking crop on the first monday of each month in Steventon, so what with that and finishing my 100 swaps for convention and doing other bits and pieces time has just shot by......
So off to Addington Palace, Croydon tomorrow for the Second Stampin Up Convention and I'm really looking forward to it. I will be posting lots of pictures of Convention and the swaps I made and of course the swaps I receive.

Here is a little teaser...

More to follow, Thanks for stopping by, see you soon.
Rose

Flowers

2010-10-31T09:10:00.001Z

Hellooo

Well I had a fantastic week away with the family, it all went way too fast. My internet access wasn't too good, it was great at the beginning of the week but then we lost it towards the end, hence no posts.
So here are some of the flowers I have made with the new DSP's, I have used Sunny Garden and Sweet and Sour papers, they are really gorgeous. The photos don't do them justice....

Well better get on I have my swaps to finish by Wednesday ready for Convention.
Thanks for stopping by...
Rose

Designer Papers

2010-10-25T21:14:00.001+01:00

I was disappointed when Stampin'Up retired all of its Designer Series Papers as I had some real favourites. But it looks like they have redeemed themselves with the new DSP's I just love the Blueberry Crisp papers, especially as blue is my fave colour. Just look at them.....

But surprisingly for me I love the Sunny Garden and Sweet and Sour Papers too, pinks and oranges are not my colours at all, but they are just gorgeous.

I have been making flowers with them and they look fab..

And the new Christmas papers Jolly Holiday are really growing on me.

If you would like to order some why not e-mail me..

Thanks for stopping by...

Rose

Wales

2010-10-24T19:12:00.003+01:00

Hellooo

It has been just gorgeous here in sunny Wales, today we went for a long walk along the beach, Shep is having a fabulous time, the sea is not too cold for him, shudder......

Shep made a friend, a female border collie!! they had fun chasing each other around, so fast it was hard to get a good picture.

I just love it here it is so beautiful....

This is the view from our bedroom window, the sun was just making an appearance, behind the mountains in the background..

Anyway thanks for dropping by..
Rose

Holiday

2010-10-22T13:26:00.001+01:00

Hellooo

Happy Friday, yippee.

Its half term, so I am off on holiday for a week, I am sooo looking forward to it. I am taking my laptop and dongle so hope to do some posts while we are away. I am also taking some craft with me as I need to finish my swaps for convention, which is at the end of the week we go back to school.
So busy, busy, busy......

Will post again soon, Thanks for dropping by...

Rose

Card Class

2010-10-21T23:16:00.001+01:00

Hellooo

I had a lovely class Wednesday afternoon, we made three christmas cards using some of the new catalogue products.
The first card used Baroque Motifs and Tree Trimmings stamps sets, some of the new Christmas DSP, Real Red Taffeta Ribbon and tiny gems.

The second used the Comtempo Christmas stamp set, Cherry Cobbler Cardstock, Christmas DSP and Old Olive Taffeta Ribbon.

The last card was really simple, it used Night of Navy cardstock, Serene Snowflakes stamp set and the new Fiskars Crimper.

I saw the new crimper demo'd at the Regional Training and thought it was fab, I love the way you can crimp the middle of the card, we also saw how to make leaves as well, I will have to post a picture of some, they look great.
Anyway thats all for now...Thanks for dropping by...
Rose

Workshop

2010-10-20T13:16:00.001+01:00

Hi there,

I don't know whats its like where you are but its been absolutly tipping it down with rain here, I have to say I actually like the rain, but not when I am trying to load up my car in preparation for my workshop...

I said I would post the make & take we made at the workshop and here it is....

Its using some of my favourite colours, Chocolate Chip, Real Red and Crumb Cake and a new favourite the stamp Dasher. It also used the stamp set Tiny Tags and matching tag punch, along with real red ribbon.

I was given this card at the training in High Wycombe by Teri Pocock as one of the swaps and just loved it. Unfortunatly I don't know if Teri has a blog, if you know please let me know.

Thanks for dropping by...

Rose

Regional Training

2010-10-18T16:25:00.001+01:00

Last month I attended Stampin'Up!'s Regional Training at High Wycombe, we did some business training and watched some demo's, unfortunatly things overran and we didn't have time to do the make and take, so took it home to do. Well I have only just gotten round to doing them and here they are.....

I think they are gorgeous, a fab card using the lovely new colour Cherry Cobbler and a matching gift bag.
I am glad I got around to making them, what do you think.....

Thats all for now.
Rose

ATC

2010-10-17T21:23:00.001+01:00

Hello again,

I have been busy prepping for my card class on Wednesday afternoon and for a workshop on Tuesday evening, all done now and I will post some pictures of the cards next week.
I have also been doing my ATC's for the club I go to on Monday night, the theme this month was 'A Moment in Time', this is what I came up with...

I used a photo of my family which was taken at the Natural History Museum, we had to dress up and hold fossils, it was pretty cool...
Anyway I cut round it in an oval, mounted it on crumb cake card, punched one end with the Scallop Trim Border punch, then I daubed around the edge with chocolate chip and stamped the flowers around the edge from the tiny tags set. Finally I mounted it all on choc chip card...
I thought it came out quite well..
Hope you like it see you again soon.
Rose

Scrapbooking

2010-10-14T18:01:00.001+01:00

I love scrapbooking and recently I was looking through my old photos and found some I thought, ooh they would look good scrapbooked.
The first page was of my children at a butterfly farm, they had the most amazing experience, there were so many butterflies and they just landed on you. Its the look on their faces, priceless..

I used one of my favourite stamp sets (Flight of the Butterfly) to do the background and to create the butterflies down the right hand side, along with the butterfly punch. Stampin'Up make it so easy to create backgrounds and embellishments.

The second page is of one of our many visits to Legoland, my children loved to go there and always had tons of fun. I used another favourite stamp set, Seeing Spots, which unfortunately is now retired, although there is a similar set called Circle Circus. I added some flowers made using the scallop circle punch, really easy embellishments.

I like to print out my photo's so that I can make them different sizes and also I like adding text or making photo collages.
Anyway I hope you like them will be back with more soon.

Bye for now.....Rose

Shep

2010-10-11T22:05:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone

Today I want to share some pictures of my gorgeous puppy, although looking at the size of him now he doesn't look very puppyish. He is only18 months old!!!!

He is so lovely, he absolutely adores water and just loves being in it, in fact its hard to keep him out of it. These pictures were taken on a day trip to Bourton-on-the-Water, such a beautiful place, well worth a visit...

Anyway Thanks for stopping by...

Rose x

ATC

2010-10-09T15:02:00.000+01:00

ATC's

I love doing ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) I take part in a monthly swap and I thought I would share one with you. The club is not Stampin'Up but I always use Stampin'Up products to make mine.

The subject was Recipe and I originally thought of doing a cupcake recipe but then I thought ooh what about a Stampin'Up recipe... Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip mmm yummy...

My inspiration came from a card my upline saw on Monica's blog which we recreated.

We made a small change, the balloons on the original card were created using the rock and roll technique, we decided to use a different technique to create multicolour balloons, you take a piece of white felt and add drops of your chosen colour reinkers to create your own ink pad. Gorgeous.

I just loved how they turned out hope you do too...

Thanks for dropping by..

Rose

Convention 2010

2010-10-06T16:36:00.000+01:00

Convention 2010

Stampin'Up is holding its second convention in London this year at Addington Palace on the 5th & 6th November and I am going, yippee
I was lucky enough to go to Convention last year in Germany and it was brilliant, meeting so many talented demos under one roof.
We make swaps to exchange with each other using product from the new catalogue, last year I managed to make 70 swaps, this year I am hoping to make 100 plus. I have decided what I want to do, now all I am waiting for is my delivery from Stampin'Up. I am soo excited...

Thanks for stopping by...more soon
Rose

Dasher

2010-10-06T14:41:00.000+01:00

I love Dasher..... but I struggled for ideas of how to use him, that was until I did a little blog hopping and found some lovely cards by Monica of My Many Many Passions (link to the right) I not only loved the designs but the colour combo was gorgeous, see what you think..

I made them with my Wednesday afternoon card class and they went down a treat, Thanks Monica.

Colour Combo Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Choc Chip and Whisper White.

Stamp sets Serene Snowflakes and Dasher.

Anyway Thanks for stopping by

Rose

New Catalogue

2010-10-05T18:09:00.003+01:00

The new Stampin'Up catalogue is now available and if you would like a copy then e-mail me @ rose.jones01@ntlworld.com
Catalogues cost £5.95 but you can get one free by placing an order with me for £50 or more or by hostessing a Stampin'Up workshop.
If you would like to know how you can get your hands on some fabulous goodies from Stampin'Up free then let me know.
Now is a fantastic time to join Stampin'Up the new starter kit is only £119 (worth £230) . Plus you can now get a Stampin Memories Add-on kit for just £50 (worth £80).
If you would like to join my team or just find out more then please e-mail me.

Rose aka Stamp Ninja....

2010-10-05T16:37:00.001+01:00

I just wanted to share these with you, I am really pleased with how they turned out, although I think I need more to finish it off. I am just waiting for my delivery from Stampin'Up to be delivered by that man in brown. I have ordered some of the new designer papers which are totally lush..and then I can make some more flowers for my bouquet. These are all made with retired DSP (designer series paper) unfortunatly but I still love it.
Tell me what you think....
Thanks for visiting.
Stamp Ninja...

2010-10-05T16:26:00.000+01:00

Last weekend I drove two of my friends, Elaine and Ali to Alexandra Palace for the big craft show, this was Ali's first and she was sooo excited, she was like a child in a toy shop at Christmas time.

Walking round we saw a lady doing something with ribbon, on closer inspection we saw that she was weaving the ribbon to make wreaths to put on cards. I was facinated and had to have a go. Well I bought some ribbon and made two while I was walking around, they are soo easy and really pretty.

I showed them at Monday craft club and they loved them. Not sure that the picture does them justice.

Anyhoo thanks for dropping by hope to have more tomorrow.

Stamp Ninja.....

Welcome to my new Blog.

2010-10-03T18:39:00.000+01:00

Hello

I am new to all this so bear with me, I have just set up this blog to share my paper crafting passion with you all. I love to make cards, scrapbook and make all sorts of things using mainly Stampin' Up products. There is a link to our new 2010-2011 catalogue which has some fantastic products. My favourite stamp sets so far are Contempo Christmas and Delightful Decorations, the bauble stamp has a matching punch so no cutting out.. hooray..
Anyhoo thats all for now I am hoping to post some of my creations when I have learnt how to do it.
Thanks for visiting.
Rose aka Stamp Ninja...