Showing posts with label Lots of Joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lots of Joy. Show all posts

Monday, 12 October 2015

A Merry Moments Poinsettia Quick Christmas Make from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafters. How was your weekend? We are just back from two weeks away in our motorhome. It was a bit rainy and cold but we had a lovely time in Northumberland exploring, walking, cycling and enjoying family time. I hope you enjoyed all the posts I scheduled for you in my absence. I made sure to create several weeks worth of craftiness before I left.

I have a quick make to share with you today. I made this a couple of weeks ago. And would you believe this card almost made itself from scraps in the bin. I was having a sort out of my craft desk and had thrown a load of scraps and odds and ends from other cards into my bin. When I looked in I saw the Merry Moments Tree DSP lying there with the ready cut out poinsettia and sentiment.

I rescued all the component parts and added a little bit of embellishment using my Banner Punch to cut the little flags from Merry Moments scraps. I added a White Perfect Accent and a few Basic Jewels and voila I had a Christmas card for my stash.


So there you go. Sometimes those scraps you throw away or those flowers that don't look right on one card can be put together to form something completely different.

And here is just a little peek at our time away. Here are me and the girls enjoying a seal cruise around the Farne Islands.



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 your own crafty party. As the hostess you earn lots of lovely freebies and you all get to make a fun crafty project like this one too (no crafting experience necessary!). And until November 3rd Hostesses earn an extra 3% in freebies on parties over £200 in sales!!! A perfect time to get your hands on some lovely Christmas crafting stash and earn free product at the same time.

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Friday, 14 August 2015

A Merry Moments Christmas Scrapbook Page from Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Friday! It is nearly the weekend *hooray* And in celebration of the fact that tomorrow is my first Christmas Craft Day 2015 (and the official start of Christmas crafting season at Stampin' Sarah HQ) I have a Christmas scrapbook page to share with you today.

As I was working on the projects for my Christmas Day I ended up with lots of little bits of beautiful Merry Moments Designer Series Paper left over. They were the perfect size to create the background for my photo for this page. I then themed the rest of the pages colours around the DSP (and as with all Stampin' Up! papers the colours are all listed on the reverse of the paper pack as well as in the catalogue too).


Behind the picture I slipped two of Stampin' Up!'s lovely new Foil Doilies. I love the festive fanciness of adding these to a project.

To create my chain of decorations I used lots of mixed embellishments (sadly some of these are now retired). I can give you a little bit of insider info, there are some seriously lovely embellishments in the new Autumn Winter catalogue that would be PERFECT for this page. But any buttons and sparklies you have in your stash would work well.

I hand drew the string on to my 12"x12" Cherry Cobbler cardbase and then adhered my mix of embellishments. I created baubles with circle punches and the Lots of Joy stamp set, I added a punched star and various buttons and pearls to give a mix of textures and sizes.


I do have a confession, the beautiful glimmery 'Wishes' is from a retired kit from last years Autumn Winter catalogue (do you remember the gorgeous star box kit?). But I can assure you that there are lots more lovely kits and embellishments coming on September 1st. If you'd like a catalogue posting out to you now (so you can get a head start on all that Christmas loveliness) please drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk and I'll pop one in an envelope for you.


The final finishing touch was the 'Christmas' that I stamped with Staz On ink and my rotary stamp and stamped directly on to the photo.

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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