An Among the Branches Sneak Peek from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and a happy wet and rainy Wednesday to you all. To celebrate the weather and the changing of the seasons (although I haven't quite given up on summer just yet!) I created this card using some of my lovely sneak peek Autumn Winter products.

This card was made using a fantastic upcoming bundle; the Among the Branches stamp set coupled with the Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. Such a great bundle at £19.25. Available from September 1st.

To anyone that knows me, they'll know how much I love owls. So this set was a must for me. I loved being able to add the owl silhouette to my embossed forest.

To create the contrast I embossed the trees and then used Soft Suede ink and a dauber to darken the tree trunks.

I added linen thread and a gold heat embossed sentiment (this is taken from the Among the Branches stamp set). The added embellishments are new Into the Woods Elements (£6.00).

I am absolutely loving all the new products. I would love to share the new catalogue with you. So if you would like a copy on your door mat please drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk with your address and I'll happily pop one out in the post to you.

As it is Wednesday that means new Weekly Deals. Click below to see the new products on offer this week.

Thank you for popping by today. I will be back Friday with some more festive sneak peeks from the new Autumn Winter catalogue. 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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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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New Project Life and Stampin' Up! Products are Here- Order Online today!

Good morning and a very happy new crafty week to you all.

I hope you've enjoyed all my posts over the last week. I've been away and scheduled lots of lovely craftiness for you to enjoy in my absence. We took the girls off for our first European adventure in the campervan. We stayed at a fantastic campsite in France for the week. The weather was perfect and it was lovely to see Sylvie wriggling around in her nappy while Summer perfected swimming with armbands. 

I've arrived home to a big parcel of sneak peek products which I cannot wait to get started with. I love this time of year with all the fantastic possibilities and new cards to make with new products. 

And even more exciting, while I was away the customer sneak peek of Project Life products went live. For a few weeks you can order an exclusive range of products from the Stampin' Up! and Project Life range before the main catalogue full offering goes live on July 1st. I was lucky enough to win a bundle of Project Life products at the Telford event last month. The quality is lovely and it is so great to have Project Life products in the colours we love so much from Stampin' Up!

I have been a Project Lifer for a couple of years now and have spent a lot in customs costs importing products from the US. I am super excited to be able to introduce you to this range with all the familiarity and ease of ordering through Stampin' Up! 

Super simple and striking scrapbooking

Project Life is an easy scrapbooking solution for creating quicker, simpler and easier scrapbooks for all those photos you have printed and ready to go but not the time or the matching papers and embellishments to actually stick to a page. Project Life is about taking the stress out of scrapbooking with its divided page protectors, ready made cards to slot in to the perfectly sized pockets and matching stickers and embellishments. You can keep your pages super simple by just adding journalling or if you'd like to add a bit more detail there is a lovely range of matching photopolymer stamps as well. It is as easy as that!

• Project Life comes in easily transportable storage that keeps everything you need together
• There's no cutting or glue involved so it's easy to create Project Life pages on the move - even while you're on holiday
• Everything comes in the gorgeous Stampin' Up colours and each collection coordinates beautifully

How do you get started with Project Life? 

All you need besides your photos is a pack of photo pocket pages, some Project Life cards and journalling pens. 

If you want to get add detail, you can extras using the beautifully coordinated embellishments in the Accessory Pack; you can round corners with the new corner rounder; there are photopolymer stamp sets to add fabulous details if you choose and coordinating Framelits if you want to add shaped labels.

ITEM 135294
Variety Pack 12" x 12" Project Life Photo Pocket Pages
12 pages: 2 ea. of 6 designs.
£5.95

ITEM 135298
Everyday Adventure Project Life Card Collection
100 double-sided, color -coordinated cards in 3 sizes: 4" x 6", 4" x 4", and 3" x 4"
£13.50

ITEM 135304
Project Life Journaling Pens
2 pens (01 and 05)
£4.50

ITEM 135301
Everyday Adventure Project Life Accessory Pack
4 3" x 4" specialty cards; 8 sticker sheets;
1 acetate accents sheet; 8 wood accents;
2 epoxy stickers; 4 arrow paperclips;1 roll washi tape (5 yds.)
£8.95

ITEM 135346
Project Life Corner Punch
£7.25

ITEM 135707
Cards & Labels Project Life Framelits Dies
5 dies
£20.95

ITEM 135785
Project Life Day to Day Photopolymer Stamp Set
42 stamps
£22.95

ITEM 135787
Project Life Point & Click Photopolymer Stamp Set
26 stamps
£13.95

Fancy giving Project Life a try? I'd love to help you get started. You can drop me a line on poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or give me a ring on 01983 609249 to order your sneak peek items today. Or click on the pictures above to link through to my online store.

If you'd like a Project Life themed Stampin' Up! party or to attend a scrapbooking class, just get in touch. I would love to help you with your scrapbooking journey with Project Life.

I am off to print some fun holiday snaps to try out all my Project Life loveliness. Now to get both babies to sleep at the same time *I can hope*

Happy Crafting

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