HAPPY 4TH JULY !!!!!!!!!!!

Hello there and Happy 4th if you indeed celebrate it!!
Today is also my friend's Claudia special day so a very Happy Birthday to you sweetheart, I miss you loads and I cannot wait till your next trip to Europe.

Here's the card I have made for Clau

Some splattering and distressing on this card I really love this set (Whimsical Wings) so much I have used it lots so far.
Combo is Kraft card base, Pretty in Pink, Sage Shadow and Chocolate Chip. I used the markers to add colour to the main image and the FRIEND sentiment is from the glorious stamp from the Occasional Greetings set.
 Whimsical Wings is a level 2 hostess set and this means you can earn it for FREE by hosting a workshop. Host a workshop during July and if your total is £250 or more you get an extra £20 worth of free money to spend as you wish in the catalogue, you can EVEN host a VIRTUAL WORKSHOP with me (ask me how). Contact me to book yours, I have a few evenings free in July.
Now if you've been debating about joining up as a demo or you simply just want to find out what being a demonstrator involves why don't you come along at my all day event on July 18?
This is a team training event held in Peterborough  it starts at 10 am and we aim to finish at 4pm.
The cost is £26 and we are getting ready for Christmas. Your kit will include more than £17 worth of yummy Stampin'Up! products and you will get the chance to complete at least 5 different projects.
I have a little sneak peek for you

If you are a demonstrator belonging to a different team you are more than welcome to join us along with your downline. Everyone is welcomed, we have such a blast at those events well I am sure you know that happens when you get together with like minded people.
We also swap for ideas at all our events so if you wish you can participate by making multiple of the same project and swap on the day with all the others. FUN!!!
 Please note lunch is not included in the price but there are plenty of places nearby that offer a wide range from pizza to fresh filled sandwiches etc. Refreshments and some sweet goodies are provided and plentiful.
Fancy coming? I would love to see you there, to register simply click on the Buy it now button below to reserve your spot, I will be in touch with all the info and venue details .

Thank you for stopping by , next time I have a video for you so make sure you pop by.
Till then BIG HUGS xx

Birthday Passionette !!!

Hello there, are you having a lovely weekend? I think for us today is meant to be the last nice day, the weather is changing but hopefully not for long, I am enjoying the bright and sunny days, I really am.
Today is Jules birthday !!! YAY!! She is 21 again yeah right !!
Now she loves cupcakes like you wouldn't believe so it was natural I made a card that had a cupcake on. I have saw a brilliant card in a Stampin'Up! publication on the 1st of July and as soon as I saw this card I knew I would have to make it for her birthday.
Here it is

Jules likes brown as well so I chose a Choc Chip base and I used the big cupcake from Crazy for Cupcakes set, I have coloured the image using markers (I love those for quick intense colouring). Jules also likes her alpha sets for adding personal messages or names to her cards one of another reason why this was so perfect for her. The girl word was stamped with the aid of the Stamp a ma Jig using the Just Schoolbook Seriff alphabet. A touch of pink and bashful blue and a bit of silver cord completes this sweet card. I really like how it turned out I just hope she does too.
Jules I hope you had the most wonderful day ever HAPPY BIRTHDAY sweetie.
The next lot of crafty makes I have to share with you are those sweet cards

In the last week I got some not so nice news, a  few close friends are going through some hard times at the minute so I had to make a few cards just to say **I am thinking of you**.
Again I chose a SU publication for inspiration and this time the idea was provided by our last Mini catalogue. I changed the colours and layout just like with Julie's card but the main idea was from there.
Choc Chip base again, and the strips are Certainly Celery, Old Olive and Rose Red card stock.
The dear from the Forest friends stamp set was inked with markers to get the two tone effect, and the lovely sentiment stamp is from Occasional Greetings.
I used Choc Chip, Old Olive and Rose Red  markers to ink the sentiment stamp. How sweet is this sentiment used in conjunction with this stamp? My hope is that this card brought a smile to those lovely girls.
Ok I am off now as I just had tea  (chinese takeaway) and have 50 thnak you cards to go thorugh.
Have a great rest of weekend. Till tomorrow
Big Hugs xxx

We're back!!!

Hello we got back last night, shattered and just in time for a live event I had organized with the lovely Passionettes. It was a lovely weekend and even though we never did made the London Zoo we still had a lot of fun. We visited the RAF Museum in Colindale Sunday before heading back up North and I really,really enjoyed it!! I didn't think it will fly my plane (not funny I know) but it did, I found it fascinating.
So amazing getting so close to those wonderful planes each with their history, we could have spent hours there but we did not have them to spare. We have decided to return some other time.
I know you re probably wondering how the boy is, well one word will describe him right now and that s boisterous, golly gosh talk about strong minded, I pity my poor sister even though she copes so well with him and manages to keep him told, while I don't stick a chance at telling him off. I was cleaning my teeth Saturday morning and he was assisting me perched on the toilet seat, well you know when you scoop water with your hand to get some water and rinse the toothpaste? I never thought about it and next thing I know he is trying to imitate the exact movement and water gets everywhere. Seeing him doing was sooo funny so instead of telling him to stop all I could do was laugh which sent him laughing and doing it again LOL. Mummy walks in shortly after so by now you get the picture LOL.
We kept laughing about it afterwards. Here s my favourite picture of the weekend an ***All teeth smile*** shot, KUTe!!
Crafting news? well Sunday is the day a new challenge gets posted over at SWUS and this weeks is a 2 designer papers, one ribbon, one piece of hardware. Here is my card
Love this colour combo a lot. Choc chip, Cameo Coral and So Saffron. I used So Saffron designer papers and I have over stamped one layer using the Hostess level 2 stamp set Fall Flair. I had this set since the beginning of this new catalogue and I recently found it behind a unit in my craft room, it must have fell behind it and I forgot that I even got it, needless to say I delved in straight away and used it here. The beautiful sentiment from Occasional Greetings was inked using the markers, taffeta ribbon finishes off this elegant looking card. The ribbon slide was filled with glitter and the brads were glitter covered as well.
Ok I ve got to go as I ve got some projects to finish for some online classes? Have you registered yet?
See you again very soon. Monica xxx

FREE Stamps?

Hello everybody, Would you like some free stamps and free product? Well with SU and my help you can !!!!!. I m starting another Stampers 10 club, because I ve got a few more enquiries for one. The way the benefits for party hostesses work, is by reaching a certain sales figure. You need a minimum of £150 in sales to qualify for one set of free stamps and £15.00 in money to spend as you wish from the catalogue( the more you spend the more freebies you get, example for a £500 club the hostess will receive 2 free stes and £60.00 in free merchandise). Now Stampers 10 is an ideal set up to get you receive the benefits but without forking out £150.00 in one go. I call it a virtual party. You get 10 memebers, it runs for ten months, they each agree to spend a minimum of £ 15.00 /per month, each gets to be the hostess in turn ensuring she gets the freebies. You also get a free copy of the catalogue, so by joining you get the chance to spread the cost while building up your collection, and still being able to enjoy the free benefits. Is that simple. Are you intersted? If yes please drop me an email at telemech01@aol.com

Ok now I ve got some yummies to show you. I m constantly playing with diferent colours, to try and find new exciting combos and with spring in mind and after a stampin session with my lovely downline Sally yesterday, I ve been inspired and pulled out one of my all time favorite(certainly celery) and tried diferent things. Firstly I ve got to show you this little beauty

I v edone this for the march challenge on UKS the theme is spring. Well it can t get any more spingy that this really, yummy ice cream like colours for a sweet and not too fussy card. I ve used my markers for this card to show really just how versatile those are. They are great, I use them to ink the stamp instead of the ink pads ( is cheaper and it gives you instant access to all the colours) making easy later one to only choose to buy the ink pads in the colours you really use a lot, I ve used two colours for the sentiment wich I absolutely adore( what friend wouldn t ?), is from the Ocassional Greetings set, I ve even used the markers to colour the flowers, see how beautifully everything matches? that s what Stampin Up is all about. I ve used the same colours throughout, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink and So Safron. I ve also used two background stamps to add a bit of interest, the paisley was used for the pink layer and the polka dot for the so saffron layer wich I ve embossed with white embossing powder.

My second card is still using the Certainly Celery and the So Saffron but I ve mixed things up a little and introduced some ruby red, I love the result.

What do you think? I ve dyed some ribbon using the markers again, with the intention on using it on this card, but while it was drying I ve completly forgot about it and finished the card without the ribbon on. DOH!!lol at least you can still see just how lovely the white ribbon has taken the dye. I ve also used the ruby red marker to stamp the word *FRIEND* from the above stamp and to colour diferent elements from the *Seeing Spots* set, I ve used some of the punches to make the medalion. The background was done with a stamp from the same set. I ve still got two places left on the markers club ,let me know if you re interested.

Right then I m off back to work now, I ve posted this in my lunch hour lol. Hugs Monica xx