A Happy Birthday Punch Art Mouse Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning and a very Happy Tuesday to you. I am a bit later posting this week due to a crazy start to Monday. I was out super early walking yesterday getting in a bit of training for my Walk In Her Shoes challenge next week. Click on the link to find out more (or to sponsor me)- I'll be walking 10,000 steps every day for a week in solidarity with women and girls from the poorest countries around the world, who spend their days walking for water.  Yesterday I over did it a bit. I did 10 miles (and I forgot to wear my pedometer!). I am very achey today.

But back to crafting. Today I have a card I made with my Mum for her to give Sylvie for her birthday. I don't often sit down to play with my punches to create punch art. I really enjoyed creating this little mouse.

I used colours from the Subtles colour family for this card. I started with the stamped flowers in the background from the free Sale-A-Bration Botanicals For You stamp set. I used Wisteria Wonder, Blushing Bride and Pool Party for the stamping.

For the house I used a range of circle punches to create the ears and body.

I used the Word Window punch for the arms and legs. I added the banner punched using scraps of floral DSP. I used my Rotary Alphabet stamp to create the 'Happy' and the Birthday is taken from Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set. The mouse's face was created using elements from the Playful Pals Photopolymer Stamp Set.

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!).

-XXX-

Product List

Endless Birthday Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140273]

£14.00

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141237]

£0.00

Banner Punch

[133519]

£11.50

Alphabet Rotary Stamp

[133769]

£13.50

Playful Pals Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140506]

£32.00

Subtles Candy Dots

[130933]

£5.50

A very special Playful Pals Birthday from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

I have a super special card to share with you today. It is my littlies 2nd Birthday so I sat down to create her something special using my Playful Pals stamp set. I did a quick Pinterest search for different animals I could make and I came across one post that had used the elements for little monsters. So I set about creating my little quartet of creatures.

I tried to use as many elements as possible to create my little critters. You might recognise the googly eyes from an old Valentines Stampin' Up! kit called Monster Hugs (which made me fall in love with little crafty monsters).

I loved adding all the little details to them like the little bows and the textured tummies.

The card itself measures 12" x 4". I used the thick piece of cardboard that comes in a DSP pack as I knew I wanted a thicker sturdier base to stand up to a 2 year old and 3 year olds handling. I layered my white card base with DSP from the Its My Party Paper Stack. I added the stamped 2 using my Number of Years bundle.

And here is my little 2 year old celebrating and being cheeky as always: 

I have another birthday card to share with you on Monday that features a lovely little punch art mouse. Pop back then to find out more.

Thank you for popping by today.  And don't forget to pop by the International Blog Highlight that I mentioned on Wednesday over on Kylie's blog to check out all the creations and vote for your favourites. 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

It's My Party Designer Series Paper Stack

[140552]

£23.50

Playful Pals Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140506]

£32.00

Playful Pals Photopolymer Bundle

[141069]

£54.25

Alphabet Rotary Stamp

[133769]

£13.50

Number Of Years Photopolymer Bundle

[140811]

£44.00

Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper

[140550]

£4.50

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

[133787]

£15.50

A Sale-A-Bration Pedal Pusher Thank You from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning crafters. I have a special card to share with you today. A lovely Australian demonstrator, Kylie Bertucci, is running an International Blog Highlight which is going live on Friday. She is uniting Demonstrators from all across the globe under the theme of 'thanks'. You can vote for your favourite cards in the Highlight and the top 5 will be given a spot on an International Blog Hop (please pop over to Kylie's blog on Friday evening to see all the fantastic 'thank you' projects and vote for your favourites).

 I wanted to create a super special thank you card for a friend at work. As my regular blog readers will know I live on the Isle of Wight (a small island off the south coast of the UK) and work for an animal rescue centre. I wanted to create a special note of thanks for all our Centre staff and volunteers to brighten our staff room as we have had a particularly challenging start to 2016 and I wanted to recognise the efforts of all our care and administrative staff. This is the card I came up with.

I used the same layout as my earlier acetate window card but this time I combined the new Pedal Pusher Sale-A-Bration stamp set with one of my all time favourites, Sheltering Tree. I love the peek a boo effect of stamping inside the card to give depth and added detail.

I added a strip of Love Blossoms DSP with a greeting stamped using the Endless Thanks stamp set. I felt like the card needed a little extra something so I stamped and punched my bunch of Blushing Bride and Rose Red balloons.  I stamped the balloon string with Stazon black ink and then positioned my balloons over the top (adding dimensionals under a couple of the balloons). I also used my Clear Wink of Stella glitter brush to add a little highlight to the edges of my balloons. You can just about see it in the photo below.

And the feature of my card is the tandem bicycle from the exclusive Pedal Pusher stamp set. This is such a simple stamp set to line up as it is photopolymer so adding the details like the bread basket and little birds is easy as you can see right through your acrylic block. I coloured with my Stampin' Write markers and fussy cut to add to my card.

Thank you for popping by today.  Don't forget to pop by the International Blog Highlight over on Kylie's blog on Friday to check out all the other creations and vote for your favourites. 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

Pedal Pusher Photopolymer Stamp Set

[141312]

£0.00

Balloon Celebration Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140675]

£23.00

Balloon Bouquet Punch

[140609]

£16.00

Sheltering Tree Photopolymer Stamp Set

[137163]

£23.00

Window Sheets Base Material

[114323]

£4.50

Endless Thanks Photopolymer Stamp Set

[138796]

£14.00

Regals Stampin' Write Markers

[131262]

£27.50

Brights Stampin' Write Markers

[131259]

£27.50

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

£7.25

Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack

[140548]

£7.25

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£7.25

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£6.50

A Bright Botanicals for You Celebration Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Hello crafters and welcome to a new crafty week.

I had a lovely weekend sharing craftiness with friends and celebrating Mother's Day. My Mothering Sunday began with a delightful Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks (yes I know its not Christmas but it is my favourite of all the flavoured Lattes and all the time they still have the syrup I am happy to keep the festive flavour all year round!). Then we celebrated the day with an afternoon tea with my Mum. She'd made lots of different flavoured scones which were DE-LIGHT-FUL!

I have another of our card class makes from February to share with you today. I love the Botanicals for You Sale-A-Bration stamp set. This makes me happy when I stamp it. I love that you can't really go wrong as all the elements are designed to work together and overlap.

I chose the Brights as my colour scheme using a Daffodil Delight card base partnered with Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive inks. The main sentiment is stamped with my Memento Black ink.

I added It's My Party Enamel Dots to each of my 3d flowers which I punched with my Itty Bitty Punch flower. These flowers are great for  covering any little bloopers or ink splodges. Embellishments are always a perfect way to cover any little mistakes you might make while inking ;0)

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!).

-XXX-

Product List

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[126944]

£6.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126949]

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad

[126952]

£6.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock

[121680]

£6.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£7.25

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141237]

£0.00

It's My Party Enamel Dots

[140554]

£3.75

A Birthday Blooms Acetate Window Card from Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Sarah Poulton

Good morning a very happy Friday.  What a busy morning I've had so far. Running back and forth to preschool and batch cooking several varieties of soup for the week ahead (currently cooking roasted Mediterranean vegetable- thank goodness for my amazing soup making machine!).

Today I have a card to share with you that I absolutely love. I'd seen an acetate window card on Pinterest and absolutely loved the idea. So this is what I came up with using the Birthday Blooms Spring Summer catalogue stamp set.

I used a Very Vanilla card base. I cut the window sheet strip to fit the card base and created the window strip. I stamped the flower image in Memento Black ink inside the card. I then stamped the flower again twice more on a scrap piece of Very Vanilla.

I used my Blender Pens with Rose Red and Mint Macaron ink to colour the flowers. I fussy cut around the flowers and then mounted with Dimensionals. I added the 'thanks' from Cottage greetings in Rose Red with Basic Pearls to embellish.

I am off to catch up with some lovely crafty friends tonight for a Stampin' Up! craft party. I have a lovely project worked out for the ladies which used this same stamp set combined with the fab Wink of Stella glitter brush pens. 

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!).

-XXX-

Product List

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140658]

£17.00

Cottage Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139962]

£14.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£7.25

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£6.50

Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126954]

£6.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

[138326]

£6.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments

[119247]

£4.50

Window Sheets Base Material

[114323]

£4.50