Bravo meets the Artisan Embellishment Kit from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Friday!

I have a card share today which I CASed from the lovely Vicky over at Crafting Clare. I adored her use of the Artisan Embellishment Kit to create this stencilled background coloured with Stampin' Write markers. I previously used the rose stencil to sponge dauber a background on this  scrapbook page layout.

I secured the stencil to my Whisper White layer with post it notes and then coloured the roses with Blushing Bride and Pink Pirouette markers. I coloured the leaves with Old Olive and Garden Green.

I stamped the Congrats from the Bravo stamp set in Rose Red over the background.

I hope you have a lovely weekend lined up. I will be teaching my monthly card class tomorrow afternoon and I have some lovely projects to share with you all next week following the class.

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!)

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An Artisan Embellishment Scrapbook Page from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafty friends. Sorry about the week long absence. Would you believe I had a case of crafters block? I should keep projects in reserve for those weeks where I just don't have the time to get in my craft room and have some fun.

You'll be pleased to hear that I am over the block now. Cannot wait to get scrapbooking some lovely pictures I took over the weekend. We went away in our campervan to visit friends. The weather was so lovely that I managed to get some great snaps.

But back to today's crafty share. I was rummaging through a big box of photos awaiting scrapping and came across this pic of my Mum and Pops at my cousin's wedding.

I wanted to create something vintage-y and wedding-y so knew the beautiful Artisan Embellishment Kit would be a perfect starting point (currently reduced as part of the Weekly Deals promotion. Available at the bargain price of £6.71). I used a Crumb Cake 12"x12" base and stamped in Crumb Cake with the Swallowtail stamp and added extra detail with the Butterfly Basics stamp set. I also inked the edges of my cardstock with more Crumb Cake. I sprayed my base layer with a little Smooch Spritz to give a little extra sparkle.

I then created my Blushing Bride layer. I used the beautiful rose die-cut in the Embellishment kit as a stencil and daubered Blushing Bride ink through to create the rose background.

I then embellished with the flowers and ribbon from the Artisan kit. I created my title using the Little Letters Thinlits Dies (cut from Rose Red).

I love how the page came together using the Artisan Embellishment Kit as my colour inspiration. It was perfect for a wedding page.

Pop over to the Weekly Deals page to see the other products available at a reduced price just for today and tomorrow. New deals will be available on Wednesday.

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 click on the links below to find out more about specific products) 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-

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Try It Tuesday: New Home Moving Card

Hello and welcome to Tuesday's little bit of Isle of Wight craftiness. A good crafty friend of mine, Hayley, of Happiness is Homemade, is moving back to the big island this week (Southampton to be precise). I met her for lunch today with another friend of ours, strictly not to say goodbye but instead to have a quick catch up before the move and a 'see you soon'.

As you'll see from her blog, she makes beautiful cards and crafty bits and bobs, so I knew I needed to make her a fabulous good luck on the move card. I'd saved this card to my Stampin' Up! ideas Pinterest board months and months ago. While searching for a bit of inspiration I came across it and thought it would lend itself beautifully to these gorgeous new papers from the new 2013-2014 catalogue, Gingham Garden Designer Series Paper. So I set about giving it my own crafty twist.

 To anyone who reads my blog regularly or who knows me, you'll realise I'm not really one for imprecise crafting. The most extreme of my crafting is to tear a bit of cardstock or distress the edges of my scrapbook page. I am not one for this sort of style. But I absolutely loved giving this a go. So maybe there is an art journaller/collage maker inside trying to get out after all. 

In fact, this card is one of my favourite cards I've ever made. I loved adding the personal details in the doodles such as the family names and well wishes. I find opening a new pack of pretty papers so inspiring and these sneak peak papers just gave me a kick of crafty mojo.

Here are close ups of some of the details on the card:

To create this card I used a full sheet of Crumb Cake A4 cardstock folded in half for the card base. I then cut the background to size and cut the hill from the green patterned papers. I then cut a rectangle for the house and a matching triangle for the roof and then pieced together the rest of the paper elements. I used my Stampin' Write Journaller as I went to add the doodling detail.

This card uses:

Cardstock: Crumb Cake

Papers: Regals Patterned Paper Stack & Gingham Garden

Punches: Word Window (Fence), Small Heart, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle (Sun)

Embellishments: Large Heart from Artisan Embellishments Kit & Subtles Designer Buttons

Big Shot Die: Peekaboo Frames (for the window)

Please get in touch if you have any questions about this card or the products I have used to create it. If you'd like to place an order to create your own version of this, I would be more than happy to help. You can contact me on 01983 609249 or 07830 343830, or by email: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk.

Happy Crafting ;0)
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Try It Tuesday: Love Layout

 

 

 

Welcome to another Try It Tuesday scrapbooking page. Scrapbooking can be so rewarding for capturing all the details of life and remembering special times. I love to scrapbook small details as well as the more important but todays page is a big one. I was looking through my huge pile of scrappable photos and came across this one from Summer's Christening day.

I knew it would be perfect to pair up with the beautiful new More Amore Speciality Designer Series Paper and the Artisan Embellishments Kit from the Spring Summer Catalogue.

 

Once I'd picked my photo and papers I just needed a spot of layout inspiration so I turned to Page Maps. If you are new to scrapbooking or just a bit mojo challenged I find this site inspiring for getting my creativity flowing. Using Stampin' Up! papers and embellishments for a scrapbook page often makes the choosing part easy (every is already matching!) but it helps to get an idea of how to lay those elements out on the page.

Here is the sketch I chose to help me lay out my page elements:

I used up most of the leftover items from my Artisan Embellishments Kit on this page which meant I had one of the ribbon cardboard reels spare. I decided to use this as my hidden journalling tag. The brown heart card on the right that is tucked behind the photo is actually hiding my writing about the day. I have tried to include all the little details of the day that made me smile (such as Summer distracting the Vicar during the service and making her laugh!)- things that will be important for Summer to read when she is older. I think there is always a lot of emphasis placed on journalling in scrapbooking. I always try and include a little bit and not get hung up on my own handwriting. But I also think some photos can speak for themselves, so I try not to be prescriptive with every page I create.

 

I have some exciting news to share with you today. Starting next week I am beginning cardmaking classes at the Sew N So Craft Centre in Ryde (first class Thursday February 7th 1-3pm, £8.50). Spaces are limited so get in touch with the shop to book your space. I am so excited about beginning technique classes in a new venue and hope to see you there very soon.

 

Here is a little sneak peak of what we will be making:

Thanks for popping by today and please get in touch if you'd like any info on Stampin' Up!, Sale-A-Bration or the new Spring Summer Catalogue (poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249).

 

Happy Scrapping ;0)
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Happy Birthday Mum

I know I promised you card class cards over the weekend. But I decided to share with you my Mum's birthday cards today instead. Wishing my lovely Mum a very Happy Birthday today ;0)

I used lots of sneak peak Spring Summer Catalogue items to make these cards.

The first card uses a stamped floral image from Elements of Style coloured with my Watercolour Crayons and blended with a blender pen. I then used some of the gorgeous new 3.2cm Two Tone Ribbon (Pink Pirouette/Rose Red) to create a banner which I then layered with Happy Birthday stamped with the Notable Alphabet.  I then finished with Basic Pears and beautiful flowers cut from a length of the gorgeous new Vanilla Flower Trim (by far my new favourite product from the new Spring Summer catalogue!).

 My second card is a mini page layout using a standard 6" x 4" print. This is a 4 generation family pic with my  Nanny, Mum, Sisters and Summer taken at Christmas. The base card is from the Natural Composition Speciality DSP. I then embellished with highlights cut from the Tea for Two Designer Series Paper and accessories from the beautiful Artisan Embellishment Kit (the resin heart and flower, the scalloped lace).

I cannot tell you how many beautiful things there are to get your hands on in the new Spring Summer catalogue. I am just overwhelmed with all the fabulous embellishments and accessories for cardmaking and scrapbooking. As previously posted I am holding an Open House next Saturday between 10am and 3.30pm at my home in Newport, please click here for more info.

Happy Birthday to my Mum and happy weekend scrapping 

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