A Festive Frame from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and a very Happy Bank Holiday Monday. 

Firstly, I'll begin with apologies due to my lack of updates. My laptop went off for repairs as all of a sudden it stopped responding a couple of weeks back. I felt like I'd had a friend removed (more an indication of how much time I spend on Pinterest than anything!). So I've had all my pictures ready but no way of updating. I am now fully up and running (thankfully with my pictures backed up ready to share) and have a fun week of projects to share with you! And lets not forget the new catalogue will be live on Wednesday too. What a week!!!

So today I have a project that I created for my August Christmas Craft Days earlier this month. I am a big fan of these Ribba frames from IKEA. I have crafted with them several times before including memory frames for my girls. They measure 23cm square and are perfect for adding a touch fun and festiveness to your December decor.

I started with a Cherry Cobbler card base and added my layered Very Vanilla and DSP squares over the top. I then took elements from the This Christmas DSP and various festive stamp sets to add images, words and embellishments.

What I love about the simplicity of this project is that you could easily theme the panels to match your own colour scheme of decor theme. I am currently working on another frame with some of the lovely new stamp sets available from Wednesday. I will share it as soon as the project is finished.

Thanks for sticking with me and for your patience. I'm happy to be back blogging again and have so many things in the works to share in the upcoming weeks. I'll leave you today with a bit of a cross stitchy update. I have been working on this huge hare and moon design since the New Year. I have so far finished 2 of 8 pages but I am loving every minute. I'll give you an update of some of my stitch along projects later in the week.

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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Product List

Reason For The Season Photopolymer Stamp Set

[139730]

£19.00

Gold 5/8" Satin Ribbon

[134547]

£6.50

Silver 5/8" Satin Ribbon

[134548]

£6.50

This Christmas Designer Series Specialty Paper

[141628]

£11.75

Peace This Christmas Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141570]

£16.00

Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer Stamp Set

[135047]

£23.00

Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies

[135851]

£22.00

A Lovely As A Tree Christmas Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Festive Friday.

I've been rushing round the shops this morning doing all my last minute finishing off bits and bobs. I am now fully stocked on wrapping paper and sellotape, stocking stuffer and treats. And this afternoon sees our big Christmas shop delivered with fun festive snacks for the next couple of weeks. I am now feeling more organised which is a relief. 

Today I have a cardmaking class make from last weekend to share. I love the simplicity of the gold tones in this card. It features a circle embellishment stamped with the tall tree from the Lovely As A Tree stamp set (a long stay stamp set from the catalogue and a firm favourite of mine). I layered my stamping with Memento Black ink and then highlights of gold embossing over the top.

I used Gold Foil to highlight the circle and a thin layer of foil around the Whisper White layer. The gold embossed sentiment is from the Reason for the Season stamp set.

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-

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A Cozy Christmas Cottage Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafty friends. Did you have a good weekend? I hosted my Cozy Christmas Class on Saturday. It was a rainy and miserable day so an afternoon with good company, crafting and a cuppa (and a few choccie biscuits too) was a perfect way to spend a Saturday.

This is one of the cards we made inspired by this card by a fab Dutch Demo Yvonne. I loved the idea of a window through to the inside of the card giving a bit of dimension to the card. I combined Cozy Christmas with Reason for the Season keeping the rest of the card simple and embellishment free.

I stamped the inside of the card with Memento Black ink and added snow with Encore Silver and coloured a little extra detail with my Crumb Cake Stampin' Write Marker.

To colour the poinsettia I used a Blender Pen and my Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green ink pads.

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!)

 -XXX-

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A Berry Merry Emboss Resist Christmas Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafters. Hope your weekend was full of craftiness and creative mojo. I have an emboss resist card to share with you this morning. I was browsing Pinterest last week and came across an emboss resist card using green/blue/turquoise colouring. I just fell in love with the colour combo.

So I decided to have a go at my own take on the emboss resist technique. I combined the poinsettia from the Reason for the Season stamp set with all the component parts of the Berry Merry stamp set to create my own clear embossed frame around the 'Merry Christmas' sentiment.

To create this effect you just need to use your embossing buddy to take out any of the static from your cardstock. Then stamp your images with Versamark and emboss with clear embossing powder. Once heated you can then ink over your images to make the embossing pop from the background colour.

I covered my Whisper White layer with sponged Pear Pizzazz and swirled in Tempting Turquoise. I then sponged Island Indigo around the edges of my design. 

To finish I added Pearls in differing sizes and used my Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details to add an extra dimension of coloured sparkle.

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-

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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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A Berry Merry Decorative Easel Gift Set from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Friday. How has your week been? 

I've been busy creating another of my favourite creations of the moment, a decorated Christmas easel. I have gone a step further with this one and created a matching gift bag too.

I used the Berry Merry stamp set with the Home for Christmas Buttons which match so perfectly.  My colour scheme for this canvas is Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry, Garden Green and Old Olive.

I purchased my easel from The Works (they have lots of sizes available). I added Home for Christmas Enamel Dots to the easel to match the canvas.

I once again stamped the Season's Greetings in Cherry Cobbler and evened out the stamping with a Blender Pen. Colouring over the ink gives this washed watercolour effect.  I also created an extra element of dimension by stamping and punching the poinsettia with my Reason for the Season bundle.

And here is my matching gift bag which I stamped with the Reason for the Season poinsettia and sentiment. I purchased the gift bags pre-made from Amazon.

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!)

 -XXX-

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Reason for the Season meets Thankful Forest Friends from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy Friday crafters.

What will your weekend have in store? I am hoping to put my feet up with a cuppa and get some stitching done. I have a few Christmas cards to finish stitching as well as a couple of practice embroidery kits I got at the Kirsty Alsop show a couple of weeks back. Fingers crossed I get a few minutes to have a go.

Today I have a Thank You card I made by combining Thankful Forest Friends and Reason for the Season stamp sets.

I created the background by layering the outline and leaf/petal stamps in a random pattern over my Whisper White layer. I used a 21cm x 14.9cm card base (scored at 10.5cm). I then created a WW layer 10cm x 14.4cm.

For my sentiment layer I cut the Cherry Cobbler layer at 7cm x 4cm. The Whisper White layer which I punched in the corners with the new Trio Corner Punch was 6.5cm x 3.5cm.

I wanted a simple Thank You sentiment to accompany a Hostess Gift so I used my Stampin' Write markers for some creative colouring. I changed the Thankful Forest Friends 'Thankful for You' stamp in to Thank You simply by selectively colouring my stamp. I used the same direct stamp colouring for the multicoloured finished image (leaves and flourish).

I finished with Regals Candy Dots and mounted my sentiment layer on to Dimensionals.

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!)

 -XXX-

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Festive Flower Punch Christmas Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and a very Happy Friday. What are your plans for the weekend? I have a Tin of Cards Kit with my name on. I cannot wait to get started on the contents. I'm thinking it would make a perfect Christmas gift for someone. 

I have creation I came up with using the Festive Flower Builder Punch and matching Reason for the Season stamp set (available as a bundle together). I love the effect of the built up festive flower. I punched all the component parts in Cherry Cobbler and Wild Wasabi cardstock. I then used glue dots to layer my flower together. I love that the punch has different sized petals to give you this lovely layered effect. 

I also made sure to fold each petal slightly before adhering to give the flower added dimension.

I added the detailing to the leaves with the matching stamps (designed to fit each sized leaf/petal perfectly). The sentiment is also from the Reason for the Season stamp set.

The corner detailing was added using the Curvy Corner Trio Punch.

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-

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A Reason for the Season Merry Christmas Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

I just cannot stop Christmas crafting. I have a few non-festive makes to share with you but when it comes to choosing projects to share here I am definitely favouring all my lovely festive crafty projects.

This is the make and take I came up with for my Autumn Winter Open House event to celebrate all things Stampin' Up! and the upcoming festive season.

This card uses one of Stampin' Up!'s ready scored and cut Crumb Cake notelets. So they are super easy to mass produce and send for handmade Christmas greetings.

I used the Reason for the Season stamp set which comes in photopolymer to make lining up each layer so much easier. I chose to use only the coloured inside of the poinsettia to give more of a watercoloured softer feel to my card.

I stamped the flowers in Cherry Cobbler and the leaves in Garden Green.

I created a 1.5" banner using the Triple Banner Punch and then stamped the sentiment using Gold Encore ink.

It is Wednesday which can mean only one thing- new weekly deals. Click on the image below to check out what is on offer this week.

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-

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