Hardwood Garden Gate Card

Good morning and a very Happy Hump Day! I love Wednesdays as it means you are nearly at the weekend (and Grimm is on too which is always something worth looking forward to!).

Great news! Weekly Deals have been extended through May. Today's deals feature some great products. I especially love the Pop n' Cuts inserts (to be used with the Pop N' Cuts base). Pop over to my online store by clicking here or on the picture below to check this weeks deals.

So on to today's crafty project. I wanted to make a special 'Showstopper' special card for my first card class back after my maternity leave. I had seen a similar creation on Pinterest designed to showcase a packet of garden seeds as a gift style card. This type of card is one of my absolute favourites, one that incorporates a gift as an integral part of the card. And this card also gave me an excuse to break out the Bird Punch again. I haven't used this punch in an absolute age.

Here is the inside of the card:

The colour scheme for this card is Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party and Naturals Ivory (for the garden gate). The gate is stamped using the Hardwood background stamp in Chocolate Chip (and edges daubered with Crumb Cake). I secured the gate with Sticky Strip and then stuck Candy Dots to represent the gate hinges.

To embellish I created a robin with the Bird Punch. I punched the body from Crumb Cake, wing from Chocolate Chip and the breast was daubered with Cherry Cobbler. The flower was punched with the Boho Blossoms punch (and finished with a Bright Candy Dot).

Thank you for popping by today. You can order all Stampin' Up! products through my online store by click here or by clicking on any of the product links above. I will also happily order any products for you. Just drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249 and I'll happily assist.

Happy Crafting

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Mothers Day Sunflower Celebration

Hello all and a very happy Monday to you all. I'm posting a lot later than originally planned today but my life seems to be a whirlwind of medical appointments at the moment and I haven't had a second to post all day. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and to all the Mums and Nanas, I hope you had a very relaxing Mothering Sunday.

Today I wanted to share with you the card I made for my sister to give my Mum for Mothers Day. I had seen variations of this Banner Punch flower all over Pinterest and wanted to give it a go and create a Designer  Series Paper sunflower. I looked through my stacks of different Designer Series Papers and settled on these lovely Daffodil Delight coloured papers from the Quatrefancy Speciality Designer Papers. I simply punched a big pile of Banners using the fabulous Sale-A-Bration freebie punch using two different Daffodil Delight designs. I layered the Banners up and attached them to a punched circle (punched from the Natural Composition Speciality Designer Papers).

I finished with a flower cut from the Natural Composition papers and layered with a Bright Designer Button.  The leaves were created by punching a Pansy in green patterned paper and cutting the flower to form leaf shapes. 

The 'Happy Mother's Day' sentiment was stamped using the Teeny Tiny Sentiments and punched with the Word Window Punch. I attached the sentiment to my Daffodil Delight 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon bow using a tiny length of Bakers Twine.

I hope you enjoyed my crafty share today. I really enjoyed creating this punch sunflower and even more making it for my sister to give our Mum ;0)

The Banner Punch will be returning in the 2014-2014 Annual Catalogue. But today is your last chance to receive it for free as part of Sale-A-Bration. Simply visit my online store today by clicking here and spend £45 before 10pm tonight and you can choose the Banner Punch (or one of our other Sale-A-Bration exclusives) for free. 

If you have any questions or queries about my crafty project today or about placing a Stampin' Up! order please get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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Stampin' Up! UK! Last Day of 25% off 25 Stamps

Good morning and welcome to another crafty week at Stampin' Sarah! I hope you are bundled up warm and have weathered the storm overnight. I haven't ventured to the window to survey the damage just yet. But it was certainly rainy and windy overnight (!).

Just a quick reminder that today is the final day to benefit from 25% off 25 stamp sets. Click on the picture above for a direct link to my online store to see the 25 stamps included and to order your stamps direct online.

 And don't forget to add the hostess code below for your chance to win the combined hostess freebies for the month. So far there is a guaranteed £25 to be won! Orders need to be received by 6pm tonight to be entered in to the draw.

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My crafty share for this rainy Monday is this lovely card designed by my downline Hayley for a recent shoebox swap. I love this use of the huge Sunflower Background stamp (Page 71 of the main catalogue) overlaid on to the panel stamped with the En Francais background stamp (Page 100). The colour scheme is So Saffron, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla and the card is finished with a Designer Button and Linen Thread.

Please get in touch if you have any questions about todays project, about placing an order or about Stampin' Up! in general. You can contact me on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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