A Butterfly Basics Hostess Gift from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafty friends.

I'm a bit later with my posting than normal this week. We returned from a lovely week away to France at the weekend so fitting in crafting amid washing and unpacking proved a little challenging. But I did manage to sneak an hour for creating last night. I have a Stampin' Up! crafty party this week and wanted to make something special for my Hostess. 

I found a pack of these little notebooks in my 'crafty inspiration' drawer full of things I will get round to making eventually. I thought they would make perfect gifts for upcoming new catalogue party hostesses.

I used my Butterfly Basics stamp set with the Butterfly Framelits (available together as a fantastic bundle for a 15% saving) to create the background and butterfly feature. For the background I stamped the flower from Butterfly Basics in Versamark and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss powder. I then stamped the small butterflies in Watermelon Wonder ink.

I added the white film frame cut with the On Film Framelits and the larger butterfly cut with my Butterfly Framelits. To finish I added an In Color Blossom in Mint Macaron and Itty Bitty Flowers punched with the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack from Mint Macaron Cardstock (I added a White Candy Dot for the centre of the flower).

I have added a special Stampin' Up! pen to the gift and will set about designing a gift bag this evening.

If you would like to host your own Stampin' Up! party I would love to come and demo for you and your friends and family. I always make a gift for all my hostesses on top of the fab product freebies you will receive from Stampin' Up! themselves. I also provide all materials for you and your attendees to complete a stamping project aimed at all levels of experience from a new stamper through to the more experienced crafter.

Thank you for popping by today. Don't forget to check out this week's Weekly Deals. 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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Painted Blooms Notebook from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafty friends and a very Happy Weekend to you!

I'm posting a day later than usual. I got a bit sidetracked yesterday morning placing the order for Thursdays's fab Sale-A-Bration party and I completely forgot to finish writing today's post. So I am having a bloggy catch up while watching Downton Abbey (how did I miss watching this before? I am totally hooked!).

So here is today's crafty share a bit later than anticipated. This is the gift I made as a thank you for my January party hostesses (personalised for each hostess). I always like to make a handmade thank you on top of the amazing benefits offered by Stampin' Up! 

I made this notebook by covering an A4 journal with some gorgeous (but sadly retired) patterned Kraft cardstock (you can still purchase plain Kraft in the catalogue and stamp a design yourself). I then cut floral designs from the gorgeous (and hugely popular amongst my customers this month) Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper and layered over an Elegant Eggplant label cut using the Apothecary Accents Framelits.

I personalised the label with letters cut from Silver Glimmer Paper using my Little Letters Thinlits Dies.

If you would like to book your own crafty party for you and your friends and family and receive a special handmade gift from me as well as fantastic Sale-A-Bration and Hostess freebies from Stampin' Up! then please get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249. I have dates available through February and March  and would love to come and show you Stampin' Up!'s fantastic range of craft supplies.

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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The new Stampin' Up! Spring Summer Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration freebies are here

Good morning and a happy new catalogue day.

So much to celebrate today starting with my new blog design. What do you think? I love it. I love my little owl family- me, Summer and Sylvie watching over all the craftiness below. A huge thank you to Catherine over at Ideas Inkorporated for all her help in getting my blog design sorted.

Now on to crafty news!

Today is the official start of the new Spring Summer catalogue. So many lovely new products. The highlights for me are the new range of kits (my absolute favourite being the Perpetual Birthday Calendar which I will be sharing with you later in the week), the two step stamping stamp set Sheltering Tree perfect for customising for any season, the gorgeous Crazy About You stamp and Hello You Thinlits bundle and last but not least, the new colours of Blendabilities markers. 

But don't take my word for it, click on the image below to check the catalogue out for yourself. If you'd like your own paper copy in your hands to read through, please drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk. I'd love to get one in the post to you.

And as if a new catalogue is not exciting enough, Sale-A-Bration 2015 launches today too. So that means you can earn a Sale-A-Bration freebie with every purchase of £45 of product from the new catalogue. Stampin' Up! have outdone themselves with this years fabulous offering of free product. Click on the image below to click through to the Sale-A-Bration brochure online.

Sale-A-Bration does not just mean freebies as a customer. It is also a perfect time to sign up as a Demonstrator. This year Stampin' Up! are offering a fantastic extra choice of product, either a free Spring Summer kit or 2 Sale-A-Bration products, on top of the amazing £130 of product. All for the still amazing price of £99! You can sign up direct to my Inkin' Owls team by clicking here or to find out more visit the 'Join My Team' tab above.

And the final way you can benefit is by hosting your very own crafty Stampin' Up! party. As a hostess you can benefit from an extra £20 in free product with a party of £200+ in sales. So for a £250 sales party you will receive an amazing £60 in free product (yours to choose from either of the current catalogues).

What is better than new products and extra freebies? Sale-A-Bration is my favourite time of the Stampin' Up! year!!

I'd love to help you earn some extra freebies this Sale-A-Bration (running through to March 31st) so please drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or visit my online store by clicking here.

And just before I leave you, here is a little sneak peek of the project I will be sharing with you tomorrow. The Perpetual Birthday Calendar Kit-

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'll order them for you. You can get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

-XXX-

Stampin' Up! UK Banner Blast Sneak Peak

Good morning all. I hope the weather hasn't been too bad where you are. So much flooding and wind here on the Isle of Wight. Still, I would rather this than a cold snap and it all turning to ice. I'm happy to batton down the hatches and watch Christmas TV I recorded and Sherlock on repeat.

I must begin with another apology for the poor lighting for today;s photos. I really must invest in a daylight lamp and pop up tent for picture taking. I am not doing the beautiful Stampin' Up! papers justice with these oddly coloured photos.

For Christmas I made my Mum a covered diary with photos and I also made them as Downline and Hostess Club gifts. Yesterday, I finally got around to covering my 2014 diary. I was carrying around far too many dates in my head and I am pretty sure a few have dropped out of my head before I had a chance to write them down. So enough was enough, I managed to get Summer in to bed early and spent an hour creating with lovely new papers and Sale-A-Bration & new catalogue sneaky peaks.

I covered my diary with a sheet of lovely papers from the new Spring Summer catalogue (please email me if you'd like a hardcopy sent to you : poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk. I cannot even begin to describe all the loveliness contained within the pages!), the Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper set. I love the combination of colours in these papers: Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron,Tangerine Tango and Very Vanilla.

I then created the banner with Crisp Cantaloupe Twine from the fab Sweet Sorbet Sale-A-Bration Accessory Pack and the Sale-A-Bration Banner Punch (the patterned papers are again, Retro Fresh, with Champage Glimmer Paper accents). I used number stickers from my stash for the date. I used glue dots and candy dots to stick the twine in the shape of the banner. 

I created this little accent with a strip of Coastal Cabana 3/8" Ruffle Stretch Trim and a stamped 'Love' banner from the Banner Blast Sale-A-Bration stamp set. The floral embellishments on the photo corner are from the Sweet Sorbet Accessory Kit (I love these printed adhesive-backed cork embellishments).

The strip of Washi Tape you can see in the main picture was placed to hide the join in the plastic cover. I bought the covers to fit my Mum's diary and had 1 left which I had to customise to fit my slightly larger diary. 

If you'd like to find out more about Sale-A-Bration or the new Spring Summer catalogue, please drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk. I'd be more than happy to pop a hardcopy of the catalogues in the post to you for you to peruse at your leisure.  And if you'd like to book a party and fill a date in my new diary, I'll happily find a space for you, email or give me a call on 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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October offers and news from Stampin' Up!

Good morning and welcome to another crafty day here on the Isle of Wight.

A new month always brings exciting news from Stampin' Up! HQ. The above picture shows this month's fantastic 'Best Of...' stamp set and this month we're focused on the best of Sale-A-Bration stamp sets. I love these floral images and cannot wait to place my order to get hold of these.

There is also a new promotion launching on October 7th, you could join Stampin' Up! and my lovely team of stampers, for only £25! Now that is a real bargain!!! More info to be posted next week once the promotion goes live. If you'd like to find out more in the mean time I'm happy to have an informal chat about joining Stampin' Up! and how it could work for you. I also have more info on the 'Join My Team' tab above.

And the last exciting bit of news is that if you host a qualifying party during October (£250+ in sales) you will receive an additional £25 in hostess freebies. So for a £250 sales party you will receive an amazing £65 of Stampin' Up! product for free. There has never been a better time to host a crafty party. I'm happy to theme your crafty make around any occasion or event (Christmas is still proving HUGELY popular at my parties currently). I can design a card, scrapbook page or gift box depending on what you fancy making. So get in touch on 01983 609249 or poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk to book your party or chat about what is involved and most importantly find out about the freebies you could earn for hosting.

And now for something a little bit crafty. I shared a card with you yesterday from my recent team shoebox swap. Today's cards are Lorraine and Charlotte's designs from the shoebox evening. Sandy designed a lovely card too with Lovely as a Tree and the reflection technique, however, I have yet to finish colouring it so that will be a share for another day.

Card 1 Uses: 

Elegant Butterfly Punch

Bitty Butterfly Punch

Yippee Skippee! Stamp Set

Dictionary Stamp Set

Basic Grey and Daffodil Delight Cardstock and Ink

Card 2 Uses:

Baby Prints Stamp Set

Zoo Babies Stamp Set 

That's The Ticket Stamp Set & Ticket Duo Punch

Small Heart Punch

Crumb Cake and Early Espresso Ink and Cardstock

Thank you for stopping by today. Please get in touch with any Stampin' Up! or crafty questions, I'd be more than happy to help.

Happy Crafting ;0)
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Online Ordering is Here

Hello and welcome to a very exciting day here at Stampin' Sarah!

My Online Ordering Stampin' Up! Website is now LIVE. You can use my new site as a one stop shop for my blog, current promotions, updates and of course, ordering your products direct online! The address for your favourites bar is:

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/stampinsarah/

And to celebrate the launch I am offering an exclusive free draw for all customers placing an order with me in September using the Hostess Code:

QN7Y7WBX

Enter the code above when placing your online order and qualify to win the total Hostess Pounds (a minimum £25 prize to spend on anything in our current catalogues!) for the combined September order. 

And as if that is not exciting enough, I will also be offering a small extra incentive gift direct from me plus a handmade thank you card to all customers ordering through my site in September.

For further information or to chat about Stampin' Up! please get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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Fancy Vintage Screen Card

 Good morning and welcome to Make it Thursday.

 

Today I am sharing two projects from our monthly card class. The card above was our Fancy Vintage Screen. I had seen a similar shaped card on Pinterest and decided to design my own version.

We used papers from the Tea for Two Designer Series Paper set as a stamping base (daubered around the edges with Soft Suede) and then stamped images from Elements of Style and Serene Silhouettes. We then coloured the floral image and punched butterflies using both the Elegant Butterfly & Bitty Butterfly Punches. We finished with basic pearls and floral trim. The screen shaping was created using the Decorative Label punch. If you only place your paper in to the punch half way and then punch you get the lovely shaped effect along the bottom.

Our second project (and my technique for the day) is this Vellum gift bag. I know my crafty ladies love using Vellum in their crafting and had previously loved the Vellum bags available in our previous seasonal catalogue. So I set about finding a gift bag tutorial that I could try using Vellum with. My tip for the day is to try replacing your usual cardstock or designer papers with a sheet of Vellum when making a gift bag to see the effect you will get. Vellum looks beautiful embossed (it goes white where the stress is placed on the Vellum when embossing). This works especially well with smaller bags like this. It would be perfect for party favours or to put brightly coloured chocolates in as a gift.

We finished our bag with an image stamped using Fine Feathers and a bitty button layered with matching cardstock.

Please get in touch if you would like any further information on Stampin' Up! and the beautiful products or to talk through joining Stampin' Up! as a Demonstrator. I also have upcoming dates available for parties if you'd like to earn some extra product freebies. Drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

 

Thanks for popping by today and happy crafting ;0)

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Fabulous Freebies during April and May

 

What lovely news!!!

Two special promotions announced from Stampin' Up! running through till 30th May.

 

 

1) Earn an additional £25 in FREE product when you host a £250 sales party. Get in touch to book your party date today ;0)

 

 

2) Join my Stampin' Up! team and you will receive an extra £25 to spend in your Starter Kit (a total of £155 worth of product for a bargain price of £99!). It is so easy to take advantage of this offer from Stampin' Up! Just click here and you can order your £155 of product direct with Stampin' Up! It is as simple as that! I will then get in touch and welcome you to my team alongside sending a bundle of useful info for getting started with your business (including paper & ribbon samplers and an extra little stamping gift for joining during April and May- an exclusive stamp set- I will email you pictures to choose from once you join!)

I have been with Stampin' Up! for 3 years now and can thoroughly recommend joining the Stampin' Up! family. Whether as a hobby demonstrator or to build a business and boost your income, Stampin' Up! is a flexible and fun way to get your hands on all the fabulous Stampin' Up! products and gain exclusive sneak peaks of what is coming up (and with the new big catalogue just around the corner- what better time to join!). If you'd like to find out more you can click here to read the 'Join My Team' tab or I would be more than happy to chat and talk you through signing up with Stampin' Up! (get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249).

 

 

Sarah Poulton

Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk

01983 609249 or 07830 343830