A Detailed Santa Shaker Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

A very happy new crafty week to you all. What fun did you get up to at the weekend? We had fun here with the Forever Evergreen Christmas Tree kit. The ladies spent a few hours stamping and putting together all the elements of their trees ready to assemble at home. We weren't sure how well the 3D trees would travel.

Today's share is a shaker card using the gorgeous Mica Flakes from the Autumn Winter catalogue combined with the Detailed Santa Thinlit.

I layered the Detailed Santa on to a ready cut piece of Window Sheet. I then used the fab Adhesive Foam Strips to create my raised window. I added sequins and mica flake to the centre of the card and adhered my window over the top. I love the effect of the mica flakes as it looks like Santa's sparkly beard.

Please let me know if you have any questions about Stampin' Up! and their products. I would be happy 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

Detailed Santa Thinlits Dies

[141836]

£22.00

Greetings From Santa Clear-Mount Bundle

[143524]

£35.00

Window Sheets Base Material

[114323]

£4.50

Mica Flakes Trio Pack

[141998]

£8.25

Foam Adhesive Strips

[141825]

£7.25

Metallic Enamel Shapes

[141678]

£6.50

Jar of Cheer Shaker Cards from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop! We're showcasing lots of gorgeous projects using products from the new Stampin' Up!® Autumn/Winter Seasonal Catalogue. Simply use the buttons at the end of each post to keep hopping!

Welcome to the Isle of Wight for a little Autumn Winter catalogue inspiration. Thank you for hopping over from Michelle's blog. My cards today were inspired by the Jar of Cheer stamp set which is designed to coordinate with the Everyday Jars Framelits from the Annual Catalogue.

I couldn't make up my mind which image to put inside my mason jar so decided to create two cards featuring the snowman and candle with the new Fancy Frost sequins as the shaker element. 

The sentiment is also from the Jar of Love which I stamped in Cherry Cobbler to march the cardstock card base.

I coloured my image with my Stampin' Write markers. And as a final detail I added the gorgeous Bakers Twine from the Trio Pack.

Thank you for popping by today. Hop on to Nicole's blog for more seasonal loveliness.

Product List

Jar Of Cheer Photopolymer Stamp Set

[142161]

£19.00

Fancy Frost Sequins

[142519]

£4.50

Window Sheets

[142314]

£4.50

Brights Stampin' Write Markers

[131259]

£27.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Everyday Jars Framelits Dies

[141490]

£30.00

Baker's Twine Trio Pack

[141999]

£8.25

A Going Global Shaker Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Evening crafters. What a crazy week. My girls are both poorly which has thrown out all my crafting plans and schedules for the week. But in celebration of getting them to sleep I have something a little different to share with you this evening. I was blog hopping earlier in the week and came across the Global Design Project blog. This week's challenge theme is to CASE the designer. And the designer in question is my lovely upline Michelle. So I decided to have a go.

As soon as I saw Michelle's source card I instantly wanted to take the shaker element as my focus. I never need much of an excuse to add sparkles and a shaker element to my cards. I also loved the showcasing of the Designer Series Paper so decided to crack open my Going Places Paper Stack.

This is what I came up with:

For my shaker element I painstakingly went through my Brights Sequins to pick out the green stars and the blue hearts to represent the colours of the sea and land of the stamped globe.

I also added my newly arrived Metallics Glitter Tape as a glimmery feature of my card. This is one of the new Sale-A-Bration items available through till March 31st (a set of three metallic tone tapes free with a purchase of £45+).

Thank you for popping by today. I hope you enjoyed my challenge entry. Pop back on Friday when I'll be giving you a little sneak peek of this months card class projects. 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!).

-XXX-

Product List

Going Places Designer Series Paper Stack

[140581]

£7.25

Going Global Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140748]

£17.00

Brights Sequin Assortment

[138389]

£4.50

Window Sheets Base Material

[114323]

£4.50

Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad

[133644]

£6.00

Lost Lagoon A4 Cardstock

[133686]

£6.50

2" Circle Punch

[133782]

£16.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

Metallics Glitter Tape

[141020]

£0.00

A To You and Yours Joyful Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Hello and welcome to another Wednesday's fantastic Weekly Deals. Hop on over to my Online Store to check out this week's discounted products.

Today I have a make that I'll be sharing with some lovely ladies tonight at a friend's crafty Stampin' Up! party.  The hostess asked me to Demo one of the kits as she has a mix of experienced and new stampers. And of course the theme had to be Christmas. So I picked the fantastic To You and Yours Shaker Frames Card Kit.

I love this kit as it makes Shaker Cards so simple to make and I love the mix of sequins and sparkles for inside your shaker too. The kit is £21.75 and makes 18 cards. In the kit you get the foiled card bases as well as cut to size window sheets and all the embellishments too. You can choose to use the matching To You and Yours stamp set or use your own stamps to accessorise your stars, trees and circles.

I chose to purchase the matching To You and Yours set which meant I could add the string and top to create the decoration for the front of my card.

I embellished with gold stars and then added sequins to the inside of my shaker. I love the die cut words in the kit which are perfect for adding a greeting without stamping. Very festive.

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 your own crafty party. As the hostess you earn lots of lovely freebies and you all get to make a fun crafty project like this one too (no crafting experience necessary!)

 -XXX-

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Wonderful Wreath Joy Shaker Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Hello lovely crafty friends! It is the weekend. Time to celebrate and get festive. The ads on TV are well and truly Christmasy now so I don't feel bad for spending my weekends making little festive fun things for my girls. I might even have to break open Elf over the weekend and partake of some festive film frolics with a bowl of maple syrup covered spaghetti.

Today's crafty share is a project I CASED from the lovely Kimberly Van Diepen over in the States. I just adored this simple Whisper White layered shaker card the moment I came across it on Pinterest. So I used it as the basis for my creation for my lovely team ladies get together this week.

I cut the 'Joy' using the fab Wonderful Wreath Framelits and then glued a small piece of Window Sheet over the back (a step I initially forgot and then wondered why all my shaker bits fell out the front of the card!! Doh!) to cover the cut out word. 

For the shaker elements I used my Star Confetti Punch to cut lots of little Champagne and Silver Glimmer Paper stars which I then mixed with sequins from the In Color Sequin Assortment.

I surrounded the Joy with Dimensionals to create a seal around the area I wanted to shake. This prevents all the little stars from flying everywhere. It also gives this lovely shadowed raised effect too.

To finish the card I used some of the punched stars, sequins and basic rhinestones to create a little bit of bling and colour on the front of my card.

Thanks for stopping by today. If you have any questions about today's project or the products I have used, please get in touch on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249. You can order online direct through my store by clicking the product links above or the pictures below. I also have availability in the next few months for your very own crafty party so drop me a line to find out more and get your date in the diary.

Happy Crafting

-X-

Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies

£20.95

Medium Window Sheets

£4.50

Confetti Stars Punch

£19.95

Champagne Glimmer Paper

£4.50

Silver Glimmer Paper

£4.50

2013-2015 In Color Sequin Assortment

£4.50

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Stampin' Up! UK WInter Frost Card Candy Convention Swap

Good morning Thursday crafters.

As Stampin' Up!'s Convention will be kicking off this evening with lots of over excited Stampin' Up! lovers all in one room, I thought I would share my Card Candy Swaps. I organised a swap of these little card toppers amongst the Pinkie team. There are 10 of us all signed up to make a set of card candy and we will all be meeting up tomorrow ready to swap.

I had seen a lovely card on Pinterest that used this idea of lots of little winter squares. I decided to use this as my punch art inspiration for my Convention Card Candy. I loved the excuse to get our all of my punches and have a play (as well as a good reason to use lots of lovely silver glimmer paper). You can't see too clearly in the picture, but the snowflake piece is actually a mini shaker with glitter in. Our shaker frames make creating these so easily (and they fit perfectly with our circle punches too).

To create each piece I used the following items:

• Bobble Hat: Large Oval Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punches, Word Window Punch
• Trees: Merry Minis Punch Pack (available to order through me for £15.50)
• Snowman: I layered up various sizes of scallop and normal circles finishing with 3/4" circle for the snowman face. I hand cut the hat from Basic Black.
• Snowflake: Snowflake Soiree stamp set, Shaker frames, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
• Coffee Cup: A Fitting Occasion stamp set, 1" Circle Punch
• Polar Bear: 1" Circle Punch, Word Window Punch

Here are all 10 waiting to be packed away and swapped.

To create the label for the title I created a customised project in My Digital Studio and used the stamps and papers within the digital software to create my little labels (that I printed on to normal office labels and cut to size and attached to my Winter Frost toppers).

I have included links to the products used for today's project either by clicking on the photos or the direct links above. If you place an online order for any Stampin' Up! products through my online store remember to add the code below and I will add your name to the draw to win the hostess benefits for the month's combined orders (with a minimum of £25 in hostess freebies):

V99TUSS2

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

I'll be back tomorrow for the last of my Convention excitement posts. I have the last of my swaps to share tomorrow (my general swaps and the swaps especially for Pinkies).

Happy Crafting

-X-