Poorly pants and Christmas Club

Hello there hope you had a wonderful bank holiday weekend. I am very sorry for my absence but like nearly every time after a trip that involves a longer flight I end up poorly. We arrived back on Thursday and I managed to get all the washing done and dried and then started Friday off getting excited about my Thermomix demo. I can tell you that we have been so impressed (hubby caught the last of the demo after his golf outing) that he bought one for us and paid extra to have it delivered on Saturday . I have been cooking up a storm ever since. I did not switch the oven on once since the delivery and we had a house full as my sister came on Friday with her family, it is the most brilliant appliance I have ever owned. I am sure i will delight you with my offerings in the future.
Sunday we had Christmas Club and I did all my organizing before I left for my holiday except the cutting and packing of the kits. On Saturday night Laura and BIL helped me and we managed to cut and bag 112 kits in just over an hour.
Here’s the cards everyone made in this session, we had a lot of fun, and just like always I was to buys chatting to take any photos, especially as my sister joined the class. She loved it and didn’t need much help at all, I am working on her to sign up as a demo .

Wild Wasabi, Real Red and crisp Whisper White. A very traditional card and a fun selective embossing technique.

Second one using the fun Quilted Background made in Cherry Cobbler and using scraps of the Jolly Holly designer paper. This card was inspired by my lovely downline Linz, she made a similar swap at our Christmas in July event.
Third one was our punch art but I warm you dreadful picture coming up.

Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive, I saw various examples of this card on the net and modify it to suit my needs. Is a very elegant card picture does not show it well.
And finally my fave one, is my own design from a swap I made last year for our Peterborough Christmas in July Event.

Everyone got to make 2 cards of each design and they got envelopes with their cards as well. We are building a nice collection of cards already and I am so excited to have a stash made ahead of time this year. If you want to join us the next one is 25 September right on Anne’s W. birthday *wink*.
Ok I am off to my duvet even though I have so much to do, but I am feeling to rotten. However before I go I want to show you my first batch of home made bread in the Thermomix if you even made bread you will know how long it takes and how much mess you have left behind. I will tell you that this lot took 2 minutes to weigh combine and knead a further 20 min rising and 20 min cooking. Oh and everything was done in one bowl that cleaned itself !!!

And the inside

I have been baking fresh bread every day.
Till next time big hugs xxx

A very looong pillow… BOX

Hello there, phew I am back to reality with a bang!! I have been exhausted all day yesterday trying desperately to get sorted and back on track so if you are waiting for a reply from me please give me a few days to fully catch up with everything. We all had such a relaxing break in Greece. I spent lots of quality and fun time with my fave people ever. We enjoyed lazy days starting in the pool with Luca perfecting his diving skills took naps or read in the shade after lunch when the sun was to fierce followed by afternoons spent on the perfect beach building sand castle and swimming in the warm waters BLISS!! We returned home having built some wonderful memories that I cannot wait to scrap. I will upload some photos once I get them off my camera.

Today I am sharing some fun pillow boxes made for the exclusive tutorial I send every month to all my Virtual Club members. (to find out more and if you would like to join one please look HERE)

The colours were suggested by the very handy Colour Coach that can be found in the main Stampin’Up! catalogue. They are Night of Navy, Pretty in Pink and Pear pizzaz.

I love how cute they turned out and the long ones would make perfect containers for a nail kit or a long lipstick/mascara etc.

Here’s the list of supplies: All products Stampin’Up! unless otherwise stated.
PAPER: Night of Navy, Pretty in Pink and Pear Pizzaz
INK: Regal Rose for sponging, pear pizzaz and basic black for stamping
STAMPS: Four Frames, sentiment from the Just Believe set
TOOLS: Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, beautiful wings emboslit die, decorative label punch, sponge daubers.
, ACCESSORIES: Pear Pizzaz twill tape, rhinestones

The butterflies were sponged using Regal rose in and their bodies adorned in rhinestones.

Right I am off as I have a lovely lady arriving soon to demonstrate the wonderful Thermomix for myself and a few friends. I am so excited about it, I am sure I will let you all know how it went. But before I go I do  want to thank you all for the wonderful comments you left for me during this past week (and emails). I loved reading how much you enjoyed getting frequent updates and this is something that I hope to be able to carry on doing, however I am sure you know that life has a habit of getting in the way somewhat so I do not promise but I WILL TRY . I definitely won’t be posting this Saturday as I have to prep for my Christmas Club. I still have a few more spaces left if you would like to attend see the sneak peeks below. Please get in touch if you would like more info. You will be making 8 pretty cards 2 of each design for only £12.50 or FREE with a £35 order. My email is telemech01ataol.com

Till next time BIG HUGS xxx

 

 

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Peterborough Christmas in July Team Event

Hello there, sorry I am so late with today’s post. It has been a very full day here. Like you know I spent Sunday with dear friends sharing wonderful ideas, stamping, laughing and growing closer.
My title should have said NO VIDEO again !!! I do like to post a fun video of what we have been up to during these fun days but unfortunately I had a bit of technology malfunction this time round and I haven't got any video footage to share with you. And to make it worst I didn’t take any pictures either , I just didn't have time to.
 I do however have plenty of pictures to share with you of the cute projects we did on the day. Our theme was Christmas so everything from the swaps to the projects were Christmas orientated. The swaps and demo booths were amazing and will share those with you another time. For now  here’s the   projects everyone did on the day.
Our first card was made with the Holiday Hoopla stamp set. I love it but the sample does look a bit worse for wear, I should photograph samples before the event not after LOL.

Cherry Cobbler card base, Jolly holly designer paper, baja breeze seam binding.
Next the star of the show, the cutest 3D item made with our pillow die, scallop circle die and punches.

Everybody loved this sweet hanging treat, it was my favourite project as well. I have cased it  from one similar made by LeeAnn Greff a fellow US demonstrator.
The next card was an elegant affair in Baja Breeze

I love this card and I think the attendants on Sunday did as well. Contempo Christmas stamp set and the sentiment from the Gifted stamp set. The music wheel was used to add a background behind the frame, which was made using the new decorative label punch. We edged the frame with ultra fine silver glitter for sparkle and glamour. Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla.
Next a fabulous twisted card holder that Bekka designed for us all, jolly holly holiday papers, it looks very impressive yet quite easy to construct, FUN.

And lastly a gorgeous album that I have  cased from a talented German demonstrator M. Almasi.  It uses my favourite stamp set Welcome Christmas

and here’s the inside

we had a fabulous day  but then we always do, there is nothing more fun than sharing and seeing everyone bond and form friendships over this amazing hobby, I am truly blessed and very lucky for having Stampin’Up! in my life which brings me in contact with so many amazing women that I am honoured to call friends. Did you know that July is the best month to sign up as a demonstrator? I would love to welcome you to our team of Passionettes.
Email me if you are interested, I would love to have a no pressure chat with you about it.
I hope you liked our projects and please come back tomorrow as I have another special team birthday to announce. Till then big hugs xxx

From our house to....

... our neighbours and friends houses.
Hiya how are you doing today?
Well I do not know when or if I am ever going to be ready for Christmas , I am now at the stage of well and truly frazelled but onwards and upwards. I do need a break and I look forward to a few days off. I am so grateful that I do not need to cook or entertain this year, wooohooo chilaxing all the way for me if I make it that is LOL>
Now look at these

By last week I was in desperate need of quick and cute gift wrapping ideas and those boxes are the easiest thing in the world. Added bonus is that if you make them from 12x12 card they're not only cute but quite roomy. I literally made 12 of these in less than 2 hours. The wreaths come from the Welcome Christmas stamp set, and before you ask no I am not sick of using it, in fact I am sad I will have to put it away till next Christmas soon.

They ended up being so quick because of the wonderful self adhesive borders from the Christmas Jingle Scrapping Kit. Easy peasy decorating but very effective looking, I was rather pleased with them especially after dousing them in Shimmer Mist. Oh and did you spot something? my lovely red pearls? no SU don't sell red pearls yet I coloured mine using shimmer paint and real red re-inker. So easy to make, all you have to do is take a dauber and moist it with some Frost White shimmer paint then add a drop of re inker in your chosen colour and dab onto the pearls while they are stuck on their backing paper, easy and so lovely you can have pearls in every colour, yay!!!

Combo wise I threw caution to the winds and grabbed what was near to hand, I was rather desperate to get those out I'm telling you LOL!
First one from the left uses River Rock I used this colour a lot for my cards this year is lifts red and espresso like no other colour just fab, soft suede next and the one and only Crumb Cake. All the accents in real red, old olive, espresso or chocolate chip.
FREE ribbon which is gorgeous and it looks even better for being free and some clips to keep the tops closed.
Inside? A yummy treat of peanut clusters, milk chocolate covered peanuts very morish you need to eat the whole box in one sitting. I am so grateful for having such lovely neighbours and sweet friends and I am sure they will appreciate my little gifts.
Keep your chin up and hang in there not long to go now, the thought of lay ins and a few lazy days spent with family is what keeps me going right now.
Keep warm and till next time Hugs xx

THANK YOU................

Hello there, I feel like a hamster on a very fast spinning wheel. Things are slowly coming together though and the list is getting checked little by little.
I have a winner for my blog giveaway, I used a random generator to pick a number between 1 and 40 and the winner is............

NUMBER 10 !!!!!!!!!!! which waaaaaaaaaaaas




Gina !!!!!!!!!  

 Gina said...

Hadn't seen new look before as I read in Google Reader, it's fab. I love purple and silver best although I've gone all real red and old olive this year. Cant wait to get my hands on that punch!!!

Woohoooo Gina well done my sweet. I will post your big bundle of lushness very soon :)

I want to thank you all so very much for taking the time to leave comments and thank you for your inspiring combinations, dare I say I might try some out as I am so not done with my cards yet LOL>
and for something crafty I have been making a few of these lately. Welcome Christmas again but you will see even more of it as I cannot stop using it, so gorgeous.
I used Real Red card stock for the base the top is Crumb Cake edged with the eyelet punch, the wreath stamped in Always Artichoke a cute real red button for dimension and the whole lot sprayed with Shimmer Mist for glitzy sparkliness. Oh and my fave ribbon the wide stripped grosgrain.
Right this girl has to go back to work, if you are feeling a bit frazzled hang in there  NOT LONG before we get a nice break.

Till next time Hugs and

New Look Blog and Stampin'Up! giveaway ....

Hello there, thank you so much for your emails and comments about my new look. I am so very happy with it and I cannot stop hovering my mouse over the moving nav bar at the top just how posh is that?
Michelle at Laycock Designs is a truly wonderful and talented lady blessed with the patience of a saint, believe me I know this as I have really tried it over the last few weeks, I am a nightmare at deciding stuff but Michelle had kept me on the right path with her extended knowledge in web design. I would totally 100 trillion % recommend Michelle and Heather to anyone thinking of treating themselves to a blog/website makeover, they are both incredibly professional and very, very good, they sure know their stuff.

I like my design so much that I had to create a card to match it .. look

I do not think I have ever used a punch as much as this bird one. I have made Birthday cards, Christmas cards, bereavement cards so lovely and so very versatile, I adore it.
Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Baja Breeze were the colours used and they look so happy together, very fresh and festive. The JOY word is from the Welcome Christmas set. The designer paper in Baja Breeze is positively yum. A touch of Old Olive was added with the tafetta ribbon and card stock for the branches.
Here's a nice close up of the little flowers in Cherry Cobbler which were made using the Boho Blossom punch.

I only wish I would have used a slightly bigger pearl for the eye of the bird is sort of lost in that smaller size, I will change it I think.
So my new look causes for a celebration. I am offering my blog readers the chance to win some yummy Stampin'Up! products. In order to qualify you will need to subscribe to my blog become a follower and leave me a comment answering what is your favourite Christmas colour combination. While you are here you might want to subscribe to my mailing list as well, you will find the box top left corner of this page. I have some exciting things planned for 2011 so you might want to be on my list to find out about them.
The Giveaway closes on Wednesday December 15th at 12 am. The winner will be determined by a random number generator and announced on Thursday 16 th December.
Want to see what's up for grabs? Have a peek at this yummy lot.

A full stack of 12x12 Sweet Pea designer paper, yummy colours and patterns all double sided sheets wonderful quality thick enough for gift bags and handbags, scrapbooking card making etc.
A Stamp A Ma Jig- wonderful tool should be part of every crafter's arsenal, this is a positioner that will allow you to stamp straight every time, or to stamp something in the exact desired spot, ideal for the two step sets as well for perfect alignment.
Two full reels of ribbon- Certainly Celery poly twill ties like a dream and So Saffron gorgeous grosgrain.
Also included in this giveaway are not one but 2 brand new stamp sets.
The one on the left is a level 2 retired hostess set and the one on the right is a useful sentiment set that just about covers every occasion, yummy font as well.
Let's see if I can reach 360 subscribers, tell your friends and GOOD LUCK !!!!

Welcome Christmas Stampin'Up! video

Hello my lovely blog reader, thank goodness is the weekend. I am particularly excited as I am in London enjoying a relaxing weekend with my sister and her family. Of course this means spending lots of time with my delicious little nephew Luca, I cannot wait and I am sure that by the end of this weekend I will have some cute pictures to share with you.

I am still in Christmas mode and I have tons of cards left to make, so here's a lovely Christmas card using my favourite Christmas set from the new catalogue, WELCOME CHRISTMAS.

I am also in love with the combination as well, very shabby chic, it reminds me of a authentic Scandinavian interior.
Cherry Cobbler and Basic Gray grounded with crisp whisper white.

 I have embossed both images in white powder and I love the neat trick using the hole punch to add the cute berries. The wreath also makes a wonderful background. This set is party of the promotion for November and December, order the set and the gorgeous Christmas Cocoa designer papers and claim a free reel of ribbon absoluetly FREE> here s the ribbon choice and the lovely papers.

I have a few examples to share with you next week using those gorgeous papers. I do love those papers some of the designs are flocked totally gorgeous and delicious. But the ribbon is even more pretty. The table is here should you want to see the ordering codes.

Back to my card featured here is the quick video for it and a different close view.

 Enjoy it and till next time BIG HUGS xxx