A Home Sweet Home Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Morning lovelies. How was your weekend? Lots going on here with my monthly card class and a trip to the Handmade Fair at Hampton Court. This is one of my favourite shows as you get to try new and different crafts. I went with my Mum and sister and we had a go at folk art painting, crocheting a bracelet and made a felt flower brooch. There was also the obligatory shopping too. I came away with some little kits for crafting with my girls as well as a teddy angel kit to create at home for Christmas. If you love giving new crafts a go as I'd put the Handmade Fair 2017 in your diary.

Now back to Stampin' Up! One of my lovely card class friends recently moved house and I wanted to make a card for her to celebrate the move. I love these little punch art houses. I've used this theme before for new home cards. I cut a small square of Crumb Cake and then cut one the same size from a scrap of patterned DSP (retired) which I then cut in half to make the little roof.

I layered Very Vanilla over Blushing Bride to make the heart stand out (punched with a small heart punch in my stash). The Home Sweet Home and banner are from the fab Sweet Home stamp set (which coordinates with the matching Framelits for making little house boxes). To finish I added Brights Enamel Shapes.

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!

Product List

Sweet Home Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140936]

£19.00

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

[141708]

£32.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£8.25

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

[131172]

£6.00

Brights Enamel Shapes

[141680]

£8.25

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£7.25

A Happy New Home Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

It is the last day of Sale-A-Bration. And what a 3 months it has been. I've loved this years offerings and will miss crafting with the gorgeous papers and stamps. If you've had your eye on any of the exclusive Sale-A-Bration items, today is the last day to take advantage of the freebies with a spend of £45+.

I have a new home card to share today that I made for one of my lovely ladies who recently moved. This uses the gorgeous Happy Home stamps from the Spring Summer catalogue paired with the Hearth and Home Framelits.

I began by cutting my window and then measuring and cutting a piece of Whisper White to fit behind the window. I stamped the tree image from Happy Home on my piece of Whisper White and then coloured with a dauber and Soft Sky/Wild Wasabi inks.

In my stash I found a doily that I cut down to fit over my window to make a fancy blind. I then mounted the window over a background created using the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper with a strip of Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper.

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

Happy Home Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140503]

£16.00

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

[140557]

£10.00

Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper

[140550]

£4.50

Hearth & Home Thinlits Dies

[139666]

£18.00

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

£4.50

New Home Celebration Card using Stampin' Up!'s Life's Adventure and Skinny Mini

Happy Wednesday Craftiness. 

I hope your week has been treating you well. I've been putting the finishing touches to my Christmas Craft Day on Friday (as well as eagerly awaiting my Autumn Winter catalogue preorder! Fingers crossed it should be arriving today).

Earlier this week, my sister asked me to design her a New Home card for a friend. I absolutely love that the new catalogue has a house stamp and it is perfect for creating new home cards (although just a little *spoiler alert* there is a lovely house stamp and Framelit set in the Autumn Winter catalogue). This is from the Life's Adventure hostess set which contains 4 lovely little images for colouring.

I stamped the house in Memento ink and then then coloured with my Rich Razzleberry and Daffodil Delight Blendabilities. I cut the image out and then mounted on my Whisper White layer. The 'New Home' was stamped with the Skinny Mini Alphabet (love those photopolymer stamps- so easy to line up and position). I used the new Beach House Washi Tape and a flower punched with the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack to create the coloured embellishment.

I stuck the Whisper White layer using dimensionals on to the base which I layered with a circle cut from the Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack and a Doily.

I hope you like today's crafty share. I am looking forward to sharing all my Christmas projects with you over the upcoming weeks. And even better, I cannot wait to show you all the lovely new products coming to a catalogue near you in a few weeks time.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this project. You can get in touch via email: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249. I'm more than happy to help. All Stampin' Up! products can be ordered through my online store by clicking the product links above or the pictures below. Or get in touch and I'll happily place an order for you.

Happy Crafting

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Life's Adventure Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£10.00

Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Daffodil Delight Assortment

£10.95

Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Rich Razzleberry Assortment

£10.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

£5.50

Skinny Mini Alphabet Photopolymer Stamp Set

£13.95

Beach House Designer Washi Tape

£4.50

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

£15.50

Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack

£6.25

Tea Lace Paper Doilies

£2.75

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-A-Bration Sneak Peak

With the New Year nearly upon us that can only mean one thing (aside from my birthday celebrations on the 1st that is!) Sale-A-Bration is nearly here. 

For those new to Stampin' Up! this is my absolute favourite time of the Stampin' Up! year. From January 28th through to 31st March for every £45 spent you can choose a Sale-A-Bration freebie from the exclusive Sale-A-Bration mini catalogue (drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk if you'd like a copy in advance of the promotion beginning. My delivery of brochures is due today!). There are also lovely extras for anyone choosing to join my team during Sale-A-Bration or hosting a party (£25 in extra hostess freebies!).

A lovely benefit of being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is that we can preorder new products before their official release date (we are all counting down the days to January 3rd when we can preorder from the new Spring Summer catalogue- lots and lots of lovely new things!). I have used some gorgeous new Sale-A-Bration sneak peak products to make the New Home card above.

I must apologise for the darkness of the photo. My sister and her other half bought her first home recently and got her keys just before Christmas. I was so excited about giving her a card and pressie that I couldn't wait to photo the cards in the day. So the only pics I have were taken at night I am afraid.

I absolutely adore the Sweet Sayings Card and Envelopes that are currently part of the Valentines promotion (only available to January 27th). I thought the lovely printed card base would be perfect for my New Home idea. I used the beautiful pastel inspired Sale-A-Bration Sweet Sorbet Designer Series Papers to create the little banners (that I punched with the new Sale-A-Bration Banner Punch). I also punched 2 squares using my 1" square punch from the DSP to create the house (I cut one square in half to make the roof). I also used the Tree from the Merry Minis Punch Pack to make the little tree with the house.

To create the words across the banner I punched the small circle from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack using the Crisp Cantaloupe paper. I then stamped the whole of the Simply Serif Mini Alphabet set  (I have not cut the individual letters. I use the whole alphabet as a sheet to make it easier to stamp and cut) in Baked Brown Sugar ink. I then cut the letters I needed to spell 'New Home'.

So as you can see, it was a fairly easy card using some of my lovely new Sale-A-Bration goodies! 

Here is a second card I created at the same time for my Mum and Dad to give my sister. This uses a similar technique combined with the gorgeous 2013-2014 In Color Designer Series Paper Stack to create the little houses. The sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Banners stamp set.

Please get in touch if you'd like a copy of the Sale-A-Bration brochure or to find out more about joining my team or hosting a fun crafting party anytime during Sale-A-Bration. You can get in touch with me on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249. Always happy to chat Stampin' Up! and craftiness ;0)

Happy Crafting ;0)

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Try It Tuesday: New Home Moving Card

Hello and welcome to Tuesday's little bit of Isle of Wight craftiness. A good crafty friend of mine, Hayley, of Happiness is Homemade, is moving back to the big island this week (Southampton to be precise). I met her for lunch today with another friend of ours, strictly not to say goodbye but instead to have a quick catch up before the move and a 'see you soon'.

As you'll see from her blog, she makes beautiful cards and crafty bits and bobs, so I knew I needed to make her a fabulous good luck on the move card. I'd saved this card to my Stampin' Up! ideas Pinterest board months and months ago. While searching for a bit of inspiration I came across it and thought it would lend itself beautifully to these gorgeous new papers from the new 2013-2014 catalogue, Gingham Garden Designer Series Paper. So I set about giving it my own crafty twist.

 To anyone who reads my blog regularly or who knows me, you'll realise I'm not really one for imprecise crafting. The most extreme of my crafting is to tear a bit of cardstock or distress the edges of my scrapbook page. I am not one for this sort of style. But I absolutely loved giving this a go. So maybe there is an art journaller/collage maker inside trying to get out after all. 

In fact, this card is one of my favourite cards I've ever made. I loved adding the personal details in the doodles such as the family names and well wishes. I find opening a new pack of pretty papers so inspiring and these sneak peak papers just gave me a kick of crafty mojo.

Here are close ups of some of the details on the card:

To create this card I used a full sheet of Crumb Cake A4 cardstock folded in half for the card base. I then cut the background to size and cut the hill from the green patterned papers. I then cut a rectangle for the house and a matching triangle for the roof and then pieced together the rest of the paper elements. I used my Stampin' Write Journaller as I went to add the doodling detail.

This card uses:

Cardstock: Crumb Cake

Papers: Regals Patterned Paper Stack & Gingham Garden

Punches: Word Window (Fence), Small Heart, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle (Sun)

Embellishments: Large Heart from Artisan Embellishments Kit & Subtles Designer Buttons

Big Shot Die: Peekaboo Frames (for the window)

Please get in touch if you have any questions about this card or the products I have used to create it. If you'd like to place an order to create your own version of this, I would be more than happy to help. You can contact me on 01983 609249 or 07830 343830, or by email: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk.

Happy Crafting ;0)
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Home Sweet Home Card

I spent the last week writing and sending my birth announcements and thank you cards to friends and family. My Aunt has recently moved house so with her thank you note I also wanted to post a New Home card too. I had a quick look on Pinterest and found a card very similar to the above. I used it as my inspiration to create a Stampin' Up! version.

For this I used scraps from my Brights Designer Series Paper Stack (Tempting Turquoise, Read Red, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry) and cut squares using my square punch. I cut some of the squares in half to make the roof triangles. I cut a Real Red scallop edging using the scallop punch and the grass was cut from Pear Pizzazz using my Edgelit Die (one of the best new products from the Stampin' Up! Summer Mini Catalogue). I couldn't lay my hands on a New Home sentiment but I did come across a card I had been given when I moved into my house (5 years ago!) so I cut the sentiment from that to finish this card along with a length of string I found in my Mum's craft tote (I was looking for linen thread and came across this instead).

This is my first official bit of crafting since having Summer and I am pretty pleased with the result.  I am now busily prepping all my card kits for my card class on the 23rd June. If you'd like to book your spot i still have a couple of spaces, get in touch on 609249 or poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk.

Happy Crafting ;0)

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