A Happy Birthday Punch Art Mouse Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and a very Happy Tuesday to you. I am a bit later posting this week due to a crazy start to Monday. I was out super early walking yesterday getting in a bit of training for my Walk In Her Shoes challenge next week. Click on the link to find out more (or to sponsor me)- I'll be walking 10,000 steps every day for a week in solidarity with women and girls from the poorest countries around the world, who spend their days walking for water.  Yesterday I over did it a bit. I did 10 miles (and I forgot to wear my pedometer!). I am very achey today.

But back to crafting. Today I have a card I made with my Mum for her to give Sylvie for her birthday. I don't often sit down to play with my punches to create punch art. I really enjoyed creating this little mouse.

I used colours from the Subtles colour family for this card. I started with the stamped flowers in the background from the free Sale-A-Bration Botanicals For You stamp set. I used Wisteria Wonder, Blushing Bride and Pool Party for the stamping.

For the house I used a range of circle punches to create the ears and body.

I used the Word Window punch for the arms and legs. I added the banner punched using scraps of floral DSP. I used my Rotary Alphabet stamp to create the 'Happy' and the Birthday is taken from Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set. The mouse's face was created using elements from the Playful Pals Photopolymer Stamp Set.

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

Endless Birthday Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140273]

£14.00

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141237]

£0.00

Banner Punch

[133519]

£11.50

Alphabet Rotary Stamp

[133769]

£13.50

Playful Pals Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140506]

£32.00

Subtles Candy Dots

[130933]

£5.50

A Bright Botanicals for You Celebration Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Hello crafters and welcome to a new crafty week.

I had a lovely weekend sharing craftiness with friends and celebrating Mother's Day. My Mothering Sunday began with a delightful Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks (yes I know its not Christmas but it is my favourite of all the flavoured Lattes and all the time they still have the syrup I am happy to keep the festive flavour all year round!). Then we celebrated the day with an afternoon tea with my Mum. She'd made lots of different flavoured scones which were DE-LIGHT-FUL!

I have another of our card class makes from February to share with you today. I love the Botanicals for You Sale-A-Bration stamp set. This makes me happy when I stamp it. I love that you can't really go wrong as all the elements are designed to work together and overlap.

I chose the Brights as my colour scheme using a Daffodil Delight card base partnered with Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive inks. The main sentiment is stamped with my Memento Black ink.

I added It's My Party Enamel Dots to each of my 3d flowers which I punched with my Itty Bitty Punch flower. These flowers are great for  covering any little bloopers or ink splodges. Embellishments are always a perfect way to cover any little mistakes you might make while inking ;0)

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

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[126944]

£6.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126949]

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad

[126952]

£6.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock

[121680]

£6.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£7.25

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141237]

£0.00

It's My Party Enamel Dots

[140554]

£3.75

A Papercut Botanicals For You Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Monday crafters. I have been doing my best to combat the January blues this weekend by spending some time making super lovely Sale-A-Bration celebration cards. I have a whole week of projects to share with you using the exclusive stamp sets you can receive for free with an order of £45+ during Sale-A-Bration. 

My first project of the week uses the Botanicals For You stamp set (designed to coordinate with the Botanical Blooms bundle from the Spring Summer catalogue). And I love a project where I can combine more than one of my crafty interests. For this card I stamped the greeting and the flowers so they each overlapped the other giving one continuous image. I stamped them in Calypso Coral, Melon Mambo and Old Olive.

I then used a craft knife to cut around all the elements of the joined stamped images giving a very delicate paper cut piece which I then mounted using cut up Dimensionals on the reverse. This was very different to my usual papercutting process as I would normally cut on the reverse (cutting a flipped image) on much thinner paper. However, I loved the effect of papercutting using my Stampin' Up! supplies. By mounting with Dimensionals you can see the shadow created by the papercut on the Very Vanilla piece behind.

I finished my card by mounting my paper cut over Very Vanilla, Old Olive and Melon Mambo. I then added Basic Rhinestones to my flowers. Such a fun way to bring together two of my crafting loves.

If you'd like to get hold of your own Botanicals for You stamp set you can receive it for free with a purchase of £45. So if you purchased the matching Botanical Blooms bundle you could receive this stamp set as a bonus for free!! Click the image below for more info on this years lovely Sale-A-Bration extras.

Pop back on Wednesday to see two cards I made with my favourite stamp of this years Sale-A-Bration, the little bird from Honeycomb Happiness. 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-.

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