A Botanicals For You Sale-A-Bration Butterfly from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafty friends. How is your week going? It has been a bright sunny week on the Isle of Wight so far. Hopefully Spring might be just around the corner ;0) I've been inspired to join in with the Global Design Project weekly challenge again this week. This weeks theme is a colour challenge: Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray and Smoky Slate. I love having a challenge or theme to work to. This is what I came up with:

For this card I created a mask with my Bold Butterflies Framelits. I stamped the small flowers from Botanicals For You in all three colours from the challenge to create the butterfly shape. I added definition around the edges of my mask with a sponge dauber and Daffodil Delight ink.

I punched an Elegant Butterfly in Whisper White and stamped my 'happy' from Endless Birthday Wishes across the butterfly. I adhered and added the 'birthday' and smaller itty punched butterflies. To finish I added Candy Dots and Basic Pearls. (I also added a small piece of exclusive Sale-A-Bration silver glitter tape which I daubered with Basic Grey ink to match the colours of the card).

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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Product List

Bold Butterfly Framelits Dies

[138135]

£15.50

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141237]

£0.00

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[126944]

£6.00

Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140932]

£6.50

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

[131179]

£6.00

Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments

[119247]

£4.50

Elegant Butterfly Punch

[127526]

£14.50

Bitty Butterfly Punch

[129406]

£14.50

Neutrals Candy Dots

[130934]

£5.50

Brights Candy Dots

[130931]

£5.50

Endless Birthday Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140273]

£14.00

More team makes for a Tuesday

There are just 3 more days to take advantage of Stampin' Up!'s fabulous Starter Kit offer. Until May 30th if you sign up to join Stampin' Up! as a Demonstrator you will receive an extra £25 in your Starter Kit. That is £155 of product for the bargain price of £99.

If you'd like to find out more info about joining Stampin' Up! you can see the 'Join My Team' tab at the top of the page.

I'd love to welcome you to my team and welcome you along to our monthly team training sessions. We all prepare a shoebox swap style make and take project and have a catch up over Haribo and a cuppa.

 

Here are two more of the beautiful projects we completed at this months get together.

This first card was demonstrated by the lovely Hayley. This uses the scoreboard to create the raised diamonds and then a dauber/sponge and Elegant Eggplant ink to create the suede effect (tone on tone inking over the whole surface of the card). I love the ruffled Organza ribbon too.

 

 This second card was demonstrated by Lorraine. I love The Open Sea stamp set. It makes such great masculine style cards. I love these colours together- Pool Party, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip. Daubering has to be one of my all time favourite techniques. I love the ageing effect it has to create antique style images.

Thanks for popping by today and please get in touch with any crafty queries: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

 

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New Colours from Stampin Up Card

Here is a 'thank you' card i made last night using my new colour goodies. I took the inspiration for this card from a tutorial I saw on juliesjapes.blogspot.com a few days ago. The coloured papers are from the Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper, the cardstock is A4 black, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry (with matching InkPad too). The stamp sets are: Vintage Vogue, Flight of the Butterfly & Oval All. I've also used the butterfly and scallop oval punches.

I think I need to invest in a better camera and I should find a better area of the house to take photographs as they all seem to come out so dark!! But here are my best attempts at photographing my creation from last night:

Last post for today

I spent Mothers Day afternoon with my Mum and sisters yesterday with all our Stampin Up crafting supplies laid out in the conservatory. Here are the two of the cards that we produced:

Using: Happy Moments SAB set, butterfly punch, Pink Flamingo Series Paper, Pumpkin Pie 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon, scallop edge punch, Cameo Coral & Only Orange card.

Using: Tea & Crumpets Designers Series Paper, Flight of the Butterfly stamps, butterfly punch, chocolate chip grosgrain & taffeta ribbon, scallop edge punch, close to cocoa card, Vintage Labels Sale-A-Bration set.

Some recent efforts....

Using: Pink Passion Card Stock, Garden Whimsy Stamp Set, Oval All Stamp Set, Bold Brights Stampin Writes & Stampin Pastels for the background multi coloured effect.

Using: Lavender Lace Card, Flight of the Butterfly Stamp Set, Butterfly Punch, Cheer and Wishes Stamp Set, Tea Party Designer Series Paper.

Using: Chocolate Chip Ink, Cheer & Wishes Stamp Set, Close to Cocoa Card, Seaside Stamp Set and Stampin Pastels for shading on seashell & aging effect on card edge.

Using: A Tree For All Seasons Stamp Set, Cheer & Wishes Stamp Set, Stampin Pastels for background.