WOYWW

I can actually post on Wednesday this week (thank you Blogger). Although I then realised I have very little of interest to share on my desk today. Most of my craft working this week has been done downstairs on my front room table. I'm still in the process of my months classes so the majority of my crafting bits are downstairs (they haven't migrated back upstairs to the craft room).

My sister is coming over today for a scrapbooking day so this will all be tidied in the very foreseeable future (you can also see I have stocked up on the essential Haribo for crafting in the background! What crafting day or crop is complete without Starmix?).

Julia has a guest blogger this week, Jan, so hop on over to Stamping Ground to see her lovely makes and craft desk. Now I'm off to visit some craft desks........

Wimbledon Inspiration

I saw this card a few months ago over on Mary Fish's blog. It is such an ingenious use of the Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit. This inspired me to purchase the embosslit and have a go. I loved the result so much that I taught this in this months card classes.

It is such a summery card, perfect for any Wimbledon fan.

Uses:

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White & Real Red
Embosslit: Scalloped Heart of Hearts
Punches: Boho Blossoms, XL Bird Punch
Stamps: Curly Cute
Accessories: Subtles Brads, Ribbon (Non- SU)

Happy Crafting ;0)

A very Glee-ful weekend

This is an entirely craft free post (and I also recommend that if you're not a fan of Glee you look away now!).

So yesterday I made the trip up to the O2 to see the Glee Live show with my Uni friend Lisa. Our birthdays are a few days apart and we wanted to do something to celebrate our 30ths. So we booked ourselves tickets for the Glee spectacular (both being huge musical fans. We studied Film & TV together at Warwick- Glee was our perfect present to ourselves!)

Well can I just say, WOW!!! I've seen a lot of concerts in my time, but this was possibly the best 1h20m of live music I've ever seen. It flew by and I was so disappointed when it was over (and I also wondered where my voice had gone to in such a short space of time!).

The set list was as follows:

1.Don't Stop Believin' (Journey cover)

2.Dog Days Are Over (Florence and The Machine cover)

3.SING (My Chemical Romance cover)
4.I'm a Slave 4 U (Britney Spears cover)
5.Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen cover)
6.I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles cover)
7.P.Y.T. (Michael Jackson cover
8.Born This Way (Lady Gaga cover)
9.Firework (Katy Perry cover)
10.Teenage Dream (Warblers)
11.Silly Love Songs (Warblers)
12.Raise Your Glass (Warblers)
13.Happy Days Are Here Again / Get Happy (Barbra Streisand cover)
14.Lucky (Jason Mraz cover)
15.River Deep, Mountain High (Ike & Tina Turner cover)
16.Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield cover) 
17.Valerie (Any Winehouse cover)
18.Loser Like Me
Encore:

19.Safety Dance (Men Without Hats cover)
20. Single Ladies (Beyonce)
21.Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z cover)
22.Somebody to Love (Queen cover)

All firm Glee favourites (and probably explains where my voice has gone too to!). I took about 300 photos as I was just loving it all so much. Here are some of my favourites:

My Chemical Romance- Sing

 Britney and Mr Schu having a chat-

 Mercedes popped up on a mini stage right next to us (not sure about the orientation? Blogger having a funny 5 again).

 Tina and Kurt getting their Gaga on-

 Glee wouldnt be Glee without Sue-

 Or the Warblers-

 Kurt and Rachel on the mini stage-

 All the Single Ladies-

 Kurt on the mini stage-

Right, I have to be on a bus in 5 mins so I better post this right now.

Happy Monday all ;0)

-X-

Card Class Makes Part 2

So here is how I spent my afternoon. I made this matching set of a card and Top Note gift bag using the beautiful Blueberry Crisp Designer Series Paper.

The card is made with the Always Elegant stampset. The colour scheme is Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla and Pacific Point (ink). I have embellished the beautiful flourish with basic pearls. Other tools used: Scallop Edge Punch, Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch.

 The matching set:

 I made this bag using the Big Shot Top Note die, Scallop Circle die and to embellish I used a designer button and a length of Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon. Again the papers are the stunning Blueberry Crisp DSP. I cannot believe I have had these in my paper box unopened for a couple of months. I am so in love with them now. I have already planned my weekly journal page using these papers.

And I would have used a crafting circle of velcro to hold the flap down, however, I remembered just as I finished the project that I had used them all to suspend my glitter glues upside down in my craft room, so a dimensional works just as well ;0)

Happy Friday Crafting to you all. Hooray for the weekend I say ;0)
-XX-

A new class make

 Right, well I know Julia's blog invites us to share our workdesks on a Wednesday but Blogger and I had a disagreement yesterday, so I am posting my workdesk photo today instead. Yesterdays photo shows the crafting I have been working on for Saturdays card class. You can see the card on my cutting mat that I was prepping. I did sort of have to push everything to the edges of my desk to do this. Otherwise I end up losing the bits I am cutting.

I dont get to join in with WOYWW every week. But I do so love hopping round seeing everyone elses desks and creativity. But now I have a fully functioning craft room, I am hoping to participate a bit more often.

And as I haven't been able to post anything crafty all week I am posting this close up pic of the card from above (this was meant to be todays post anyhow! Now I am running behind with my weeks blogging- cheers Blogger!). This was inspired by a card I saw over on Lindsey's blog. I just loved the colour combo (Riding Hood Red and Not Quite Navy). I also think the Sail Away stamp looks beautiful paper pieced. This is one of the cards I will be teaching on Saturday. Please get in touch for any further info: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Build a Blossom Fish Tank

I hadn't even thought of creating a fish using the Build a Blossom stamp set until I saw Peg's recent blog post over on Pegcraftalot. What a fantastic idea!!!  So here is my attempt.  I used several of the Blossom stamps to make this combination of little fishes which I then cut out and stuck onto my tempting turquoise base with dimensionals.

This card is my Father's Day card for Dad. I attempted to make it look like a postcard (using non SU stamps from my stash) as he will be away on an exciting road trip through Canada with Mum and my littlest sister on the actual date of Fathers Day (Happy Fathers Day Dad if you are reading this!). I made this well in advance so Mum could tuck it away in her luggage and give it to him today.

I've been looking at a few challenge blogs recently and came across Simply Stampin' yesterday. Their theme for the week is 'You've Got Male' and I thought this card would be perfect. Although not classically masculine in colour or design, it is perfect for any fish loving Dads or partners out there. I chose this design for Fathers Day as my Dad has just built himself a gorgeous little pond in the garden and he loves all things fishy ;0)

For this card I used:

Cardstock: Glossy White, Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron
Stamps: Build a Blossom, Plane and Simple (Greeting) and Just Believe (for the seaweed)
Ink: Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Night of Navy
Other: Dimensionals

Any questions about Stampin' Up! or their products, please get in touch: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy crafting ;0)
-x-

Wedding Acceptance Mark 2

So yesterday I sat down to create a wedding acceptance card for my dear school and Uni friends Natalie and Will. A few months ago I sat down and created them 75 wedding invitations with an Autumnal/Harvest theme. So to RSVP to their wedding I thought I would use the offcuts from their invites to make them a matching acceptance card.

I used strips of Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Crumb Cake and off cuts of the leaf stamped Whisper White to make a woven pattern which I then embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder for the Big Shot. I then ran the embossed criss cross papers through the Big Shot again and cut a Top Note shape. I then mounted this onto a More Mustard card base. I tied a length of Early Espresso satin ribbon through the top of the card and tied in a knot to theme with the tie around on their wedding invites.

To finish I created the 'Accept' using a small sheet of Vellum and the Jumble Alphabet with Cajun Craze ink and attached the writing to the More Mustard layer with Cajun Craze brads.

 Here is the original invitation I made for them. This used a leaf stamp from a retired Hostess set stamped randomly in So Saffron, Cajun Craze and More Mustard. I used matching cardstock to create the base layer and wrap around sleeve. I used the Schoolbook Serif and Just Perfect Alphabets to create the monogram and punched with the large oval punch. The 'You're Invited' is stamped from the Cheer and Wishes stamp set and punched with the Modern Label punch,

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend. What happened to our beautiful sunshine in the UK? I need to book a holiday I reckon just to get a little Vitamin D.

Happy weekend crafting ;0)

-XX-