Adventure Bound Mini Treat Bag Men's Shirt Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Here is another of our craft class makes for May. I wanted to give the Adventure Bound Paper Stack a last outing as I adored all of the prints in the set and they are perfect for creating quick and easy men's cards.

I have seen a lot of these Bow Tie/Men's Shirts cards around the blogosphere and wanted to give one a go. I used the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Die to cut the base of the card folding back the flap to make the collar.

The inside card slips out of the shirt base. I used the Age Awareness stamp set and the Bravo stamp set to create the sentiment (stamped in Chocolate Chip).

I created the Bow Tie with the Bow Builder Punch.

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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A pop up Sketched Birthday Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and welcome to May. And of course a very Happy Birthday to my Dad.

Today's card is not my Dad's actual birthday card (I cannot share that until after he has received it). But in celebration of his birthday I am sharing one of our card class projects from last month. I came across this fantastic pop up card over on Vicky's blog and decided to make my own pop up birthday card.

 For the front cover I used Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Pacific Point. I stamped the greeting from the Age Awareness stamp set and added the balloons from the same set.

For the inside I used the measurements shared by Vicky (cut a piece of whisper white card stock 4 1/4" x 2 3/4"  and score at 1", 2", 3" and 4") to create the pop up section. I then stamped images from the soon to be retired Sketched Birthday and cut then to attach to the pop up square. 

This is such a simple way to create a fun pop up interactive card. It could be used for any occasion or with any stamp set. 

Have you checked out this week's Weekly Deals? Gorgeous buttons, ribbons and binding to be had at great prices just for this week.

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!)

 -XXX-

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A Trio of Birthday Celebration Makes

Good morning and welcome to a new crafty week. What a beautiful weekend we have had. The weather has been sunbathing warm (not that I have time for anything as luxurious as sunbathing with two littlies) and it still feels like the tail end of summer (despite what the shops may have us believe- they'd have you thinking Christmas was next week!)

This weekend we celebrated my sister's birthday with a fantastic lunch spread at my Mums house. It was such a lovely afternoon. And the celebrations continue today with a shopping trip over the water to Southampton. I am hoping to get a little sneaky Ikea trip in (although that place always manages to suck up 3 hours rather than the quick 20 minutes you expect).

My first crafty share this morning is the Birthday card I made for Natalie. After last weekend's Handmade Fair papercutting class I was inspired to give it a go at home. I bought a starter kit from Paper Panda and this was one of the designs in the kit. I hand cut the heart and then layered the design over Strawberry Slush cardstock and mounted on to a Bermuda Bay base.

I finished the design with some matching Strawberry Slush and Bermuda Bay hand drawn doodles around the outside of the white layer. I used my Stampin' Write markers for this. 

I find papercutting quite relaxing. I love cutting out all the intricate details. This is only my second attempt so I am pretty happy with how it turned out. And I always love mixing my crafts with Stampin' Up! to show just how versatile our products are.

The next make I created was this little decorative gift tag to accompany this lovely little jar of gorgeous Waitrose jelly cat sweets (if you haven't tried these I thoroughly recommend them, especially the Eton Mess flavour!). I used an offcut of Under the Tree Speciality DSP and stamped the greeting from the Age Awareness stamp set (stamped in Pumpkin Pie and Bermuda Bay). I finished with Brights Candy Dots and a length of Island Indigo Cotton Ribbon.

My final birhday creation is this gift box made with my favourite tool of the moment, the Gift Box Punch Board. I needed a box to hold 4 tubes of my sister's favourite sweets, Love Hearts. This box is the 2.5"x 2.5" x 4" box. It wasn't quite tall enough so I domed the top of the closure and secured with a length of Blackberry Bliss Satin Stitched Ribbon. I created the tag with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch and stamped with Island Indigo and Rich Razzleberry ink (using the Age Awareness stamp again). The body of the box uses the fantastic Under the Tree Speciality Papers (strong and lovely to stamp on).

Thank you for popping 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. Click on the Promotions tab above to see the exclusive hostess promotion running until October 31st.

Happy Crafting

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Age Awareness Photopolymer Stamp Set

£13.95

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

£6.25

Card Stock A4 Strawberry Slush

£6.25

2013-2015 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

£11.75

Brights Stampin' Write Markers

£23.95

Under The Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper

£11.50

Island Indigo 1/4" Cotton Ribbon

£5.50

Brights Candy Dots

£5.50

Gift Box Punch Board

£17.95

Blackberry Bliss 3/8" Satin Stitched Ribbon

£7.95

Scalloped Tag Topper Punch

£20.95

Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

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Dazzling Diamonds and Stars for a Happy Swirly Birthday

Good morning and a very Happy Monday to you. What a beautiful and sunny start to the week here on the Isle of Wight. 

I have started the day by admiring my lovely tidy and bright garden. I have the first of my Christmas Crafting Days this week and my ladies like to sit and eat their lunch in the garden. Well there wasn't much of a garden to sit in until yesterday. It was all a bit crazy and overgrown. But Sam and his Dad did a lot of work yesterday afternoon and cut down a huge holly tree that had overtaken everything. And now I have a lovely bright (and triple the size) garden. Perfect for enjoying the rest of the summer sunshine with my girls. 

But enough gardening talk. Here is today's crafty make. I had seen this card made by Victoria and just absolutely loved the technique. So simple and a perfect use for the new Stars Decorative Mask from the new catalogue.

I started by daubering White Craft Ink through the mask on to my Crumb Cake card. I then heat set the white ink as it takes a fair while to dry. I then cleaned and dried the mask and repositioned over the white stars but slightly offsetting the mask. I then daubered Melon Mambo, Coastal Cabana and Wisteria Wonder ink over the top of the white. This then gives the three tone dimensional effect shown above. So simple but striking. 

I then created the sentiment banner by cutting a strip of Vellum (I love the Stampin' Up! vellum as it is thick and great for stamping and heat embossing) and stamping the Happy Birthday from the new Photopolymer stamp set Age Awareness in Versamark. I then used White Embossing Powder to heat emboss the swirly sentiment and give this bright white result.

To finish I punched a star with the Itty Bitty Accents punch in each of the colours I had inked in (Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder and Coastal Cabana) and layered with a star punched from the fantastic and glittery new Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper (I love love love all things sparkly so this is my new favourite glimmer paper!).

Please let me know if you have any questions about this project. 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.

The new Autumn Winter catalogue is launching at the end of this month and there are lots of lovely new festive and seasonal stamps and accessories. I have available dates for you to host a Stampin' Up! party (and earn crafty freebies in the process) so please get in touch to find out more: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249.

Happy Crafting

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Hearts & Stars Decorative Masks

£2.75

Sponge Daubers

£4.50

Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad

£6.95

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

£5.95

Age Awareness Photopolymer Stamp Set

£13.95

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

£4.50

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

£15.50

Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper

£4.50