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

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.

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-

A Pot of Flowering Fields Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafty friends and a very Happy Leap Year Monday to you all. How was your weekend? Mine was super busy with my February Card Class and I got the baking bug. I spent yesterday making and baking all day and have a stock pile of Slimming World friendly snacks and cakes to prove it!

I have a card from my monthly card class to share with you this morning. I had seen this card over on my Demo friend Rose's blog and absolutely loved it so decided to give it a go myself. I loved the simplicity of the card.

I used an Old Olive card base which I mirrored in my colouring (I used my Old Olive Stampin' Write Marker for the leaves). I used my Curvy Corner Trio Punch for the fancy corners on my Whisper White layer.

I hand drew a template for the flower pot which I then used to trace enough pots for all my card class ladies. We cut the pot from Pumpkin Pie cardstock and sponge daubered with Cajun Craze to give the added dimension.

 When it came to stamping the Flowering Fields flowers I marked the edges of my flower pot with pencil to give me a guide to position my flowers. I stamped my flowers in Memento Black ink and coloured with my Brights Stampin' Write Markers.

The sentiment is taken from Cottage Greetings and is stamped in Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point (I used my markers to colour the stamp directly).

Flowering Fields is one of the exclusive stamp sets only available through March 31st as part of Stampin' Up!'s Sale-A-Bration promotion. You can receive this stamp set for free with a purchase of £45+. I love crafty freebies with my purchases. Sale-A-Bration really is the best time of the crafting year.

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

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141303]

£0.00

Curvy Corner Trio Punch

[139683]

£18.00

Brights Stampin' Write Markers

[131259]

£27.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Cottage Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139962]

£14.00

Pumpkin Pie A4 Card Stock

[108601]

£6.50

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[126965]

£6.00

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

£4.50

A Flowering Fields Sale A Bration Birthday from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Friday crafters.

What does your weekend have in store? We are off to London for a weekend of adventure, good food and maybe a trip to the Kikki K shop in Covent Garden. I am super excited.

But in the mean time, I have a Saleabration Flowering Fields make to share with you today. I absolutely love this flower set and all its possibilities.  I combined the big flower stamp with the Happy Birthday from Cottage Greetings and Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper. 

I love the clean and simple neatness of this card. It isn't overcomplicated or too fussy but still has the essential bit of sparkle I like to add to all my cards. I stamped the flowers in Rose Red and Old Olive and then added a little glimmer over the top with my Wink of Stella Clear Brush. It lightly lifted the colour of the Rose Red outline to give a pink sheen to my flower heads.

Saleabration is proving super popular this year. Flowering Fields has been one of the favourite stamp sets amongst my customers so far. All you have to do to get your hands on this stamp set for free is place an order of £45+ anytime before March 31st.

Thank you for popping by today. Pop back on Monday for more craftiness. 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

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

£7.25

Cottage Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139962]

£14.00

Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper

[140550]

£4.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126954]

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

£6.00

A Flowering Fields Embroidered Birthday Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Monday Crafters. I'm back from a fab week of craftiness with my family at the Manor House Hotel in Devon. For anyone who likes crafts, sports or eating I would thoroughly recommend it. I tried bisque painting, pottery transfers, silk painting, creative embroidery and joined in with quite a few fun exercise classes too. I'll try and get some pictures of all my creations to share with you later in the week. Already trying to plan when we can go back as I had such a fun time.

Today I have another of the birthday cards I made for my Mum for her birthday last week. I decided to embroider a Rowandean kit I had in my stash from last year's Handmade Fair and adapt it in to a card. This is what I came up with.

As soon as I completed the stitching I knew the Sale-A-Bration set Flowering Fields would be a perfect partner to finish my card. I mounted my stitching on to a Blackberry Bliss cardstock layer and mounted on to a Very Vanilla layer I had stamped with all the floral images from the stamp set. The sentiment is taken from Watercolor Words. For the card base I used a full A4 sheet of Blackberry Bliss folded in half.

To colour the flowers I picked inks that complimented my stitching. I used my Blender Pen to colour with Blackberry Bliss, Melon Mambo and Wisteria Wonder inks.

Due to the size of the card I needed to create my own envelope. I picked a sheet of the fab Sale-A-Bration Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper and used my Envelope Punch Board to fold and score my envelope. I used my Layered Letters Alphabet to stamp 'Mum' on the envelope and added a few flowers to embellish.

This was a much more detailed card than I would normally make but I love the finished effect. Sometimes we all have extra special cards to make and I was more than happy to put this all together to finish off my piece of embroidery.

Thank you for popping by today. Pop back on Wednesday for more craftiness. 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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A Flowering Fields Panel Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Flowering Fields Friday. Today is the final day of my Sale-A-Bration week of sharing and I have two colour versions of the same Flowering Fields panel card to share with you today.

I just adore this stamp set. I love a floral set where you can layer up images and create different textures with your stamping. This is a stamp set worthy of being in the big catalogue and not just available for a limited time during Sale-A-Bration. But amazingly you can receive it for free with a purchase of £45 or more.

To create this card I stamped my floral images across the panel which measured 7cm x 12cm (I stamped using my Memento Tuxedo Black). I coloured this first card direct to the cardstock with my Stampin' Write markers. I then cut my panel in to 3 (each panel is 7cm x 4cm). 

I positioned my panels where I wanted them on the card and then stamped my Birthday Blooms sentiment in Tuxedo Black. I then mounted my panels with Dimensionals.

One final detail I added was to colour over the top of my flowers with my Wink of Stella Clear brush pen. This gives a lovely sparkly glimmer to the finished flowers.

I also made a second version using Blender Pens and my ink pads to give a subtler and softer colour combination.

 I added Basic Pearls under my Blushing Bride sentiment for a little extra embellishments.

We will be making this card at my Monthly Card Class on Saturday January 23rd. My monthly Saturday classes are £8 for 4 projects and a cuppa at my home in Newport (Isle of Wight) and I would love to meet you and welcome you along. Drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk to book your spot or for more information.

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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A Very Happy Christmas (and a Flowering Fields Sneak Peek) from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and a very Happy Boxing Day to you all.

I hope you had a lovely Christmas Day yesterday and that your stockings were stuffed with lots of lovely crafty goodies. I received a beautiful set of 4 cross stitch tree kits. Each tree represents Winter, Spring, Summer or Spring. I cannot wait to get started with them. I am just finishing off a pre-Christmas project then I will sit down and get started with my lovely new kits.

I am currently having some technical issues with my computer (one of my littlies sat on my laptop and has broken the screen). I can only use half of the screen so blogging and editing my pictures is proving a little challenging. It is my birthday on Friday so I might ask the birthday fairies if they can help with my technology situation. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I thought as it is Boxing Day and Christmas has passed I would give you a little sneak peek of Sale-A-Bration and what will be coming to Stampin' Up! in the New Year (Sale-A-Bration launches on January 5th along with the gorgeous new Spring Summer catalogue).

This is a card I made for a friends birthday earlier in the month using one of the FAB freebie stamp sets called Flowering Fields.

To create this card I used a Whisper White note card base and used my Memento Black ink to stamp the component parts (each flower stem is a separate stamp with the added butterfly details too). I then coloured with my ink pads and blender pens.

For those eagle eyed amongst you you'll also notice the new gorgeous floral embellishment. You'll find these gorgeous Botanical Garden Jewels in the new Spring Summer catalogue (if you'd like your own copy to peruse drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk and I'll get one in the post to you). 

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to read my blog throughout 2015. I've been blogging now for nearly 6 years. I cannot believe how much I have learned and how many friends I have made through Stampin' Up! and crafting. There are lots of exciting things coming up in 2016 and I look forward to sharing crafting and creativity with you. Thank you again for supporting Stampin' Sarah! and I'd like to wish you a very Happy New Year.

I'll be back in the week with a few more sneak peeks for you. But don't forget if there was anything you loved in the Autumn Winter Catalogue you've only got until January 4th to place your order before the products retire for good.

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-