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!) 

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Crazy About You Typeset Papercut Birthday Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Monday crafters.

What a weekend. I spent Friday and Saturday with my fantastic Stampin' Up! team and friends. It is one of my favourite things about being a Demonstrator. Sharing inspiration and ideas with lots of other fellow Demos from around the country. At our Telford Regional there are lots of opportunities to win prizes (I was very lucky and won a prize patrol from the new catalogue!) as well as sample display boards, lovely lunch and swaps with friends.

I wanted to share another birthday project with you today. I made this for my sister earlier in the month. I have become a little obsessed with a new hobby- papercutting (a long process but very therapeutic and fun). I used a template to cut the quill which I mounted on to Rich Razzleberry.

I used a Typeset Speciality Designer Series Paper layer over a Champagne Glimmer Paper layer (unfortunately this is now sold out so could be substituted for Gold Glimmer).

For the greeting I used my Crazy About You Bundle. I cut the 'Happy' with the Hello You Thinlits and then matched this with the 'Birthday' from the Crazy About You stamp set.

My sister loves to read and to write stories.  So I matched her quill card with a folded book (another of my FAB new hobbies). I used a template created by Anna Marie Book Art on Etsy.

And here is the framed paper cut I also made for my sister. Template by the amazing Paper Panda.

Pop back later in the week and I'll share some of the amazing swaps I received at Telford as well as share a few little sneak peeks too.

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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A very Happy 40th Birthday celebration with Yoda from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good afternoon and a Happy Monday to you!

Today is my other half's 40th so we've had a morning filled with fun and treats and birthday pressies. He is a big Star Wars fan so I bought him the Star Wars trilogy from the girls as a gift. So of course he needed a card to match. I found this fantastic tutorial from Sarah-Jane showing you how to create a punch art Yoda and knew I had to give it a go. I'm really pleased with the result.

I used Night of Navy cardstock with a Brushed Silver layer (I also used this for creating the moon and light saber). Yoda is made with Old Olive and Crumb Cake cardstock which I then daubered with coordinating ink round the edges.

I found an amazing paper cutting artist on Etsy that made this beautiful Lord of the Rings layered card. Sam absolutely loves the Lord of the Rings stories so I knew this would make a perfect gift. It is a bit of a cheat for a cardmaker to buy a card I know but I was busy creating Sam's birthday pressie.

And here is what I made. I used a template from Etsy from NineFingerJo which I purchased and printed at home. I then spent a couple of weeks cutting a little each day. This was the most complex papercut I have cut to date and it was certainly fragile. But I got there in the end. I searched all over the internet for the right iridescent paper and found the perfect colour to create the dragon's chest. All in all it was a labour of love. But Sam was super pleased with it. So it was worthwhile ;0)

And here is my final crafty creation for the day, Sam's cake! This is a bounty cake. I used a silicone bundt cake tin and layered chocolate sponge mixture with a mixture of caramel condensed milk and flaked coconut and then more sponge mixture. Unfortunately it all got stuck to the tin but you'd never know after I embellished with melted white chocolate!

As you can see it is all still in one piece. I'll have to report on whether it tasted good in my next post ;0)

Thank you for popping by today. You can find out more about the new Spring Summer Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration promotion by clicking here or by using the navigation menu on the left. This really is the most exciting time of the year to shop. New products and fantastic freebie rewards too. 

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 (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. 

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