A Festive Fireplace Easel Card Sneak Peek from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafters and welcome to another Christmas-y Autumn Winter Catalogue Sneak Peek. This time I am sharing a project I came up with using the upcoming Autumn Winter Festive Fireplace stamp set and Fireside Framelit bundle.

As soon as I saw this stamp I knew it would be PERFECT for a vellum and battery tealight easel card creation. I am a big fan of using battery tealights for my special Christmas cards. They become a decoration in themselves and its nice to sometimes give an extra special card. So this is what I came up with.

 I found packs of battery tealights in my local pound shop and as a bonus they were the flickering ones giving the fire an extra realistic light effect. I deliberately photographed this card as it was getting dark to give you an idea of how lovely and warm the card felt with the glowing fireplace.

For this card I used a 10.5cm x 29.7cm (half A4 cut at 10.5cm). I scored the card at 14.8 and again at 7.4 (this formed the folded over easel part of the card).  This is a standard easel card in format. However, I had to cut the window through three layers of card using a craft knife to give the tealight the chance to glow through the fireplace. I started by cutting the middle of the fireplace out and using the middle rectangle as a template to cut the next two layers (I then carefully lined them up to adhere them together).  I stamped the fire on to a small piece of Vellum cardstock (slightly larger than the hole in the middle of the fireplace) and turned over to color the image with Stampin' Write markers. I sandwiched the Vellum between the layers before adhering the fireplace to the main card.

I used a Cherry Cobbler based layered with Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla. I stamped the fireplace on to Very Vanilla and coloured with Blender Pens and Cajun Craze ink. The Merry Christmas sentiment is from another new stamp set called Cozy Christmas. To help the easel stand up I used Candy Dots and jewels. It gives just enough height to help the card stand up.

Finally here is a view of the card from the side to show how I positioned the tealight to make the fire glow.

I think I have earned a cuppa and a sit down today. It is 11.37am as I type this and the girls had me up at 5am. By 7am we were out walking and enjoying the warm morning (I thought as the weather is so changeable at the moment it would be best to take advantage of the sunshine early). We walked up over the hill to Carisbrooke Castle and the girls enjoyed the sights and meeting lots of early morning dog walkers. We then came home and baked a cake, a quiche, painted Summer's nails and I finally found time to publish this blog. A cuppa is definitely now in order. Phew......

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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Weekly Deals and Chalkboard Easel Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafters. It is Wednesday so that means new Weekly Deals. What a fantastic selection of products this week. I have been using a lot of Gold and Silver Foil Sheets recently so I'll definitely be stocking up. You can click over to my Online Store or drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk to order any products direct with me.

I have another Chalkboard Easel Card to share with you today. I created this for a card class last year using the gorgeous All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack to make the mini banner. 

To create the chalkboard effect I used Basic Black cardstock rubbed with the Embossing Buddy (the more chalk you get on the black to look like smudges the better the effect). I then stamped the images from Sketched Birthday with Versamark and heat embossed with White Embossing Powder.

I finished with a little added doodling created with my Chalk Marker.

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 (or click on the links above 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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Happy New Year Saleabration 2015 Sneak Peek Desk Calendar from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Happy New Year to all my crafty friends and readers.

Let me start with a huge thank you for all your support throughout 2014. I look forward to seeing what craftiness is in store for 2015.

I hope you had a lovely festive season and a fantastic New Year celebration. January 1st is my birthday so I had a lovely day with my family. We started with a morning walk on the beach and then I made homemade soup for everyone at mine. Then Sam treated me to a trip to see The Hobbit in the afternoon. I have been to the cinema for my birthday every year for as long as I can remember. It must be the film studies graduate in me ;0)

So to celebrate 2015 I have my virtual club gift project to share with you today. For all my lovely monthly club ladies I made these desk stand calendars with fun little post it notes attached.

I was looking for inspiration for this months order gifts and I found a whole file of these 'Keep Calm' themed post its in my crafty drawers. The colours were perfect In Color 2013-2015 matches so I used that as the basis for creating these desk easel stand calendars. 

I made two colour ways. One with a Crisp Cantaloupe base (stamping in Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral and Tangerine Tango) and the other with a Pistachio Pudding base (stamping in Pistachio Pudding, Wild Wasabi and Garden Green).

The stand up section was Baked Brown Sugar which I stamped over in Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede and Early Espresso inks.  I just cannot get enough of the Sale-a-Bration 2015 stamp set Lotus Blossom. I love the effect of the layered stamping. It is so therapeutic to line up each layer (made easier by the fact that the stamps are photopolymer).

These were super simple to make. I simply started with a 20cm x 10cm base which I scored at 10cm and 5cm. I then folded the 5 cm section inward (towards the post it notes) and attached my 10cm square Baked Brown Sugar section to form the stand up easel section. Super simple. And perfect for any occasion.

Thank you for popping by today.  I am taking part in a Pinkies Sale-A-Bration celebration Blog Hop tomorrow with my fellow team of Demonstrators. We'd love it if you popped back to join the hop and gain some Sale-a-Bration creative ideas.

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 (you can click here and then click shop in the top right corner) or get in touch directly and I'll order them for you. You can get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting 

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Christmas Cards Day Two

Here is another recent Christmas Workshop Make and Take card. This time I went for a more unusual Christmas colour scheme: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White and Crumb Cake. I'd not thought to use shades of brown with Serene Snowflakes before and was really pleased with the effect.

This is a straightforward easel card with a mounted Chocolate Chip panel with the main Whisper White snowflake stamped on to it. This panel is edged with a generic gold calligraphy pen  (sadly not Stampin' Up!). The sentiment is from Contempo Christmas and was stamped onto one of the frames from the Four Frames stamp set (and punched with the Decorative Label punch). This was then mounted with dimensionals over a length of Whisper White organza ribbon.

I hope you're enjoying the Christmas cards so far and please come back tomorrow to see the next in the series, a creation with acetate and Stazon....

Happy Crafting ;0)
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