Stampin' Sarah!: 2016

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Thursday, 1 September 2016

The Autumn Winter Catalogue is Here.........

Good morning lovelies. What more can I say but the Autumn Winter Catalogue is live today. All new items can be ordered direct from my online store by clicking here.

If you haven't already received a copy in the post from me you can view the pdf online by clicking the cover image below. If you'd like a copy popped in the post to you then drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk with your postal address.

I just love everything about this new catalogue. There really is a little something for everyone from more classic vintage style Christmas crafting to fun Halloween makes to singing mice. And the kits are just lovely. If you like to craft from a kit with everything cut and ready for you then check out the gorgeous Stitched With Cheer Kit. It combines my love of stitching with the current trend for stitched detailing on papercraft makes. I couldn't possibly list everything here that I love about the catalogue but if you'd like a bit of an intro to the product suites, Stampin' Up! have been posting some great videos on Youtube. Here a couple of my favourites. But check out all the latest videos through the Stampin' Up! channel to see lots of lovely festive makes with the gorgeous new products.

And as if the new catalogue wasn't exciting enough. Stampin' Up! have launched exclusive special offers for the next 3 weeks only. Each week the offers will change. The first offers are live today until the 7th and include the lovely enamel embellishments at a 25% discount!! Click below to see all the products included this week.

Thank you for popping by today. Please let me know if you have any questions about Stampin' Up! or our products. I would love to help. All items can be purchased online via my shop or get in touch directly and I can order them for you to be delivered direct to your door. I'd also love to Demo for you and your friends at a crafty party. As the hostess you earn lots of lovely freebies and you all get to make a fun crafty project too (no crafting experience necessary!)

-XXX-

Thursday, 31 March 2016

A Happy New Home Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

It is the last day of Sale-A-Bration. And what a 3 months it has been. I've loved this years offerings and will miss crafting with the gorgeous papers and stamps. If you've had your eye on any of the exclusive Sale-A-Bration items, today is the last day to take advantage of the freebies with a spend of £45+.

I have a new home card to share today that I made for one of my lovely ladies who recently moved. This uses the gorgeous Happy Home stamps from the Spring Summer catalogue paired with the Hearth and Home Framelits.

I began by cutting my window and then measuring and cutting a piece of Whisper White to fit behind the window. I stamped the tree image from Happy Home on my piece of Whisper White and then coloured with a dauber and Soft Sky/Wild Wasabi inks.

In my stash I found a doily that I cut down to fit over my window to make a fancy blind. I then mounted the window over a background created using the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper with a strip of Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper.

Thank you for popping by today. Please let me know if you have any questions about Stampin' Up!, Sale-A-Bration or any of our new products. I would love to help. All items can be purchased online via my shop or get in touch directly and I can order them for you to be delivered direct to your door. I'd also love to Demo for you and your friends at a crafty party. As the hostess you earn lots of lovely freebies and you all get to make a fun crafty project too (no crafting experience necessary!).

-XXX-

Product List

Happy Home Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140503]

£16.00

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

[140557]

£10.00

Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper

[140550]

£4.50

Hearth & Home Thinlits Dies

[139666]

£18.00

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

£4.50

Friday, 25 March 2016

A Floral Masked Wreath Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning lovelies and a very happy Good Friday to you all. I hope you have lots of fun craftiness planned for your day. We are off to the RSPCA Easter Fayre later so the girls can take part in the Easter Egg Hunt. We have had an unusually early start to the day due to raised excitement levels.

I have a stamped floral wreath card to share today. This uses a whole selection of floral stamp sets and a 2" punched post-it note mask.

Once I positioned the punched circle I layered my floral images around the edges using Garden Green, Crushed Curry and Night of Navy.

Once my wreath was stamped I removed the mask to stamp my Watercolor Words sentiment and I then finished with a Botanicals Jewel for a bit of sparkle.

As I was up so early this morning with my over excited girlies I had a bit of time to finish my 6th cross stitch owl. This one was designed in blackwork. I chose to add colour to my design so stitched in lovely Spring colours (which I only just realised match my needle minder Joy).

Wishing you all a lovely Easter weekend. Thank you for popping by today. Please let me know if you have any questions about Stampin' Up!, Sale-A-Bration or any of our new products. I would love to help. All items can be purchased online via my shop or get in touch directly and I can order them for you to be delivered direct to your door. I'd also love to Demo for you and your friends at a crafty party. As the hostess you earn lots of lovely freebies and you all get to make a fun crafty project too (no crafting experience necessary!).

-XXX-

Product List

2" Circle Punch

[133782]

£16.00

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141303]

£0.00

Petite Petals Clear Stamp Set

[133155]

£11.00

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139950]

£18.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[131173]

£6.00

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[126973]

£6.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[126970]

£6.00

Watercolor Words Photopolymer Stamp Set

[138702]

£23.00

Botanical Garden Jewels

[140585]

£6.50

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Birthday Bouquet Celebration from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Wednesday crafty friends.

The end of Sale-A-Bration is fast approaching. You have until the end of March to place your qualifying orders of £45+ to receive your choice of Sale-A-Bration freebie. This years product selection is my favourite of all the 6 years I have been with Stampin' Up!

And in good news, Stampin' Up! still have a limited quantity of the exclusive Sale-A-Bration products that were initially only available until February 16th, including the exclusive Hello stamp set I used for today's card. So if you missed ordering one of the exclusive earlier freebies you have the opportunity to get your hands on them until March 31st (or until they are all sold out).

For today's card I used Pool Party and Blushing Bride to coordinate with the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Papers. I started by heat embossing the 'hello' using gold embossing powder. I also stamped a small 1/2" wide piece of Pool Party using my Gold Encore with the 'Birthday Girl'.

Once I placed my sentiment I fussy cut the three flowers from the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper and raised them with Dimensionals.

The Stampin' Up! DSP is so beautiful that I sometimes like to create a card giving the designs centre stage and being the focus of the card. It also shows how well simple accented stamping works alongside our fantastic paper designs.

-XXX-

Product List

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

[140557]

£10.00

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

£4.50

Heat Tool - Uk Plug

[129054]

£27.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£7.00

Embossing Buddy

[103083]

£5.50

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

£6.50

Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride

[131287]

£6.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

Monday, 21 March 2016

A Honeycomb Happiness Easter Treat Tote from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Hello crafters. Welcome to a new crafty week here on the Isle of Wight. So much to share with you and so many makes to post before Sale-A-Bration finishes on the 31st. I have been having fun over the weekend with my lovely card class ladies and creating a few little Easter projects.

The first of this weeks shares is this little Easter Tote Box. I got the idea for the little tote from Angie Juda's website Chic N Scratch. This uses a piece of DSP (I chose Birthday Bouquet DSP) measuring 5-1/2" x 6-7/8". It is super simple and can be embellished for any occasion. I chose to add the little chick from the Sale-A-Bration Honeycomb Happiness stamp set. I stamped with Memento Black ink and coloured with So Saffron and Cajun Craze Stampin' Write Markers.

I mounted the little chick on to coordinating DSP and a scallop circle punched from Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper.

At the class on Saturday we filled our Totes with these little Easter treats ready for the Easter weekend. I have tucked my two samples away to give the girls over Easter.

-XXX-

Product List

Honeycomb Happiness Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141291]

£0.00

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

[140557]

£10.00

Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper

[140550]

£4.50

1-3/4" Circle Scallop Punch

[119854]

£16.00

1-3/8" Circle Punch

[119860]

£14.50

1-1/4" Circle Punch

[119861]

£14.50

Bermuda Bay 1/8" Stitched Ribbon

[140569]

£5.50

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

A Rose Red Flowering Fields Thank You from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Hello crafty friends and welcome to Wednesday here at Stampin' Sarah HQ.

I have a thank you card make to share with you today that I created for a recent party hostess. I loved the simplicity of simply stamping and colouring.

For this card I used a Crumb Cake card base layered with Whisper White. I stamped my Flowering Fields floral outlines with Memento Black ink. I then used my Rose Red and Mint Macaron ink pads with my Blender Pens to colour my flowers. I simply used more ink layered to give the darker areas.

I added a strip of paper from the Love Blossoms 6" x 6" paper stack to cover the bottom of my flower stems. I also added a strip of Metallics Glitter Tape (a FAB Sale-A-Bration product only available with an order over £45 until March 31st). The sentiment is from Endless Thanks. The final detail was the Botanical Garden Jewel.

In other (sort of) crafty news here on the Isle of Wight I have an amazing display of growth from my Mother's Day butterfly blooms basket. I've placed it on my window sill in the kitchen and it has gone completely loopy growing. Cannot wait to see what all the flowers become.

And one more little crafty share. Today is my other half's birthday. My Mum baked the choccie cake layers for the middle and I wanted a little inspiration for the decoration so popped on Pinterest. Here is my take on a KitKat/M&M cake. I dread to think how many Slimming World Syns are in this cake as I used 2 packets of M&Ms, a melted bar of Dairy Milk and 16 x 2 finger Kit Kats for the decoration alone! Wowsers! But the girls enjoyed decorating it and Sam loves his chocolate so I think it is a winner.

-XXX-

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

A Sale-A-Bration Pedal Pusher Thank You from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafters. I have a special card to share with you today. A lovely Australian demonstrator, Kylie Bertucci, is running an International Blog Highlight which is going live on Friday. She is uniting Demonstrators from all across the globe under the theme of 'thanks'. You can vote for your favourite cards in the Highlight and the top 5 will be given a spot on an International Blog Hop (please pop over to Kylie's blog on Friday evening to see all the fantastic 'thank you' projects and vote for your favourites).

I wanted to create a super special thank you card for a friend at work. As my regular blog readers will know I live on the Isle of Wight (a small island off the south coast of the UK) and work for an animal rescue centre. I wanted to create a special note of thanks for all our Centre staff and volunteers to brighten our staff room as we have had a particularly challenging start to 2016 and I wanted to recognise the efforts of all our care and administrative staff. This is the card I came up with.

I used the same layout as my earlier acetate window card but this time I combined the new Pedal Pusher Sale-A-Bration stamp set with one of my all time favourites, Sheltering Tree. I love the peek a boo effect of stamping inside the card to give depth and added detail.

I added a strip of Love Blossoms DSP with a greeting stamped using the Endless Thanks stamp set. I felt like the card needed a little extra something so I stamped and punched my bunch of Blushing Bride and Rose Red balloons. I stamped the balloon string with Stazon black ink and then positioned my balloons over the top (adding dimensionals under a couple of the balloons). I also used my Clear Wink of Stella glitter brush to add a little highlight to the edges of my balloons. You can just about see it in the photo below.

And the feature of my card is the tandem bicycle from the exclusive Pedal Pusher stamp set. This is such a simple stamp set to line up as it is photopolymer so adding the details like the bread basket and little birds is easy as you can see right through your acrylic block. I coloured with my Stampin' Write markers and fussy cut to add to my card.

Thank you for popping by today. Don't forget to pop by the International Blog Highlight over on Kylie's blog on Friday to check out all the other creations and vote for your favourites. Please let me know if you have any questions about Stampin' Up!, Sale-A-Bration or any of our new products. I would love to help. All items can be purchased online via my shop or get in touch directly and I can order them for you to be delivered direct to your door. I'd also love to Demo for you and your friends at a crafty party. As the hostess you earn lots of lovely freebies and you all get to make a fun crafty project too (no crafting experience necessary!).

-XXX-

Product List