Birthday Passionette !!!

Is Sally's Happy Birthday today!! Sally was my first ever recruit and she joined my team soon after I joined myself. This is the card I made for her special day

Sally loves the colour pink so of course I included this into my card but I decided to stay clear from the *too pink* combo and paired a Pretty in Pink nestability layer with Always Artichoke and some So Saffron designer paper for a feminine feel. The main image comes from the ever so beautiful Soft Summer stamp set and sentiment from the Sincere Salutations set, taffeta ribbon in Pretty in Pink was tied in a bow. Hope you truly had a lovely day Sally and I hope you liked the card.

Now have you heard about the special offer on the designer papers yet? How about the special offer to join as a demonstrator? Oh the possibilities!!!!!! The special offer for may is for the designer series papers, Buy THREE packs of designer papers and get the FOURTH pack FREE. A super deal indeed and a perfect opportunity for a paper share. For just £15 including postage you will receive one 6x6 sheet of double sided patterned paper from each of the following paper packs:

Summer Picnic

Haiku

Rainbow Sherbet

Holiday Treasures

Junior Varsity

Sweet Always

Tea & Crumpets

Spiced Cider

Bashful Blue Patterns

So Saffron Patterns

Chocolate Chip Patterns

Rose Red Patterns

Old Olive Patterns

Pumpkin Pie Patterns

Washington Apple (from the mini)

Tea Party (from the mini)

Ski Slope (from the mini)

Fall Flowers (retired)

Cutie Pie (retired)

An amazing 120 sheets of 6x6 different designer series paper. A fabulous deal and a super way of sampling all of them at this special price. To take a place in the share email me at telemech01@aol.com

I reserve the right to substitute any retired packs of paper if they happen to go out of stock at the time of ordering .

Also did you know that you can join my team for just £99 in the month of May ? An amazing opportunity signing up with this special scrapbooking focused Starter Kit. Get in touch with me if you would like to find out more about becoming a demonstrator and starting your own business at this low,low price. Thanks M xxx

Still Alive..

Hello, gosh what a week I ve had !!!!! Keep saying this lately don't I? lol, but honestly I was.
The Launch of SWUS went with a bang last Friday and we are having so much fun already, we had nothing but good feedback from the attendants which is a wonderful thing as we were pretty nervous about meeting their expectations, and we are only a few days into it. You can still join in the fun as all the projects will be available on the site until the end of May. Here s a photo of my first class a hinged box with 5 fresh cut decorated notes.
The colour combo is Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue and So Saffron, the fresh cut notes are decorated in similar colours for a coordinated look. This class planner is now available as a single purchase. For £7.50 you will get a PDF with step by step instructions and clear photographs, a list of all the materials used as well as a shopping list so that if you are a demo you can easily at a glance price your class. Use the buy it now button below if you would like to purchase this planner

I also had to make a Christening cake for a sweet little angel called Charlotte. I designed this two tier creation in white and Pretty in Pink. I have used SU pretty in pink striped grosgrain ribbon to edge the tiers as I though it looked more stylish then the satin one I had for cakes, and a few piped dots were all the decoration needed, I was really pleased with the result and I am hoping Charlotte's mummy was too. When we first discussed details I was thinking of pink bootees with white ribbons but Christine asked if she could have white bootees with pink ribbons instead, I couldn't see it at first but I am so happy she did ask for white as I think they are a better choice definitely. Here s a close up


Bottom tier was a fruit cake the couple kept from their wedding day (frozen for the last two years), and the top was a plain vanilla sponge with luscious vanilla butter cream. It looked so very cute and stylish. Then Saturday straight after work we travelled down to London for the weekend to spend some time with this little chap and to chill out a bit.
Not sure about the chilling out bit I returned home shattered he sure is energetic and he s idea of an early morning and mine are miles apart, 6.30 he was up and straight into our bedroom looking for us and shouting Mimi and Pete, not impressed as there s only one 6.30 in my life and that s pm not am, but surprisingly I was fully awake at the first sound of his sweet voice, I do love him more than my own life I have to tell you, he is Mimi's precious little diamond. We are in Hyde Park here and he was going through the routine of one of his favorite nursery rhymes. Something on the lines of 2 little sausages sizzling in the pan... here is ready to do the *POP* bit, bless him.
Right then I am sorry for my long absence once again, hopefully I will be a better blogger from now on. Hugs Monica xx

Sharing...

hello like I told you in my last email I have something special to share with you. This is an email i have received from Alison a lovely lady and a customer partial to some SU stash. This is what she sent me

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Hi Monica,
I just wanted to share with you a card I made yesterday to send to my sister using the All in the Family set and accessories.....I had such fun making it!!!
Last Monday was my hubby's and I's 18th Wedding Anniversary and also my brother in laws birthday and my niece's boyfriends birthday!!!

All my family met down at my sisters for the day....the first time in 2 years we have all been together....17 humans and 1 dog Benji !!!!

It was quite a challenge trying to get the people grouped and I had to try masking some of them....adding the glasses was even harder!!!

I used the heart from the 'send with love' stamp that came with my sale-a-bration set.

My sixteen year old son Alex, laughed when he saw the card trying to work out who was who, and I have called in my daughter, India's skills in photographing the card to send to you!..

Hope it makes you smile

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And here is the card

Not only it made me smile but it nearly made me cry. Having a large family( mum is one of 5 and dad one of 11, uhu gran and grandma had no telly) I know first hand how wonderful and special family reunions are, and of course living 2000 miles apart from your loved ones makes it even harder to get together. I adore this card and is one I am planning on recreating myself one day including all my family members. Thank you so much Alison for sharing this with me and for allowing me to share it with all my readers, I think is wonderful and it just shows that no amount of shop bought cards will ever be as special as a hand made one. This creation is one I am sure will be kept forever.

ps how cute is little Benji? he hee

And this is what I have been doing, preparing little surprises for all our class participants. I loved posting all those white envies stamped with the sweet Fabulous Friend stamp from the Oval all set. I am soo excited we only have 2 DAYS LEFT!!!!! I shot the welcome video and OMG!! It took me like forever I was getting out of my mind with having to retake parts over and over again, and then you know when you get interrupted so many times that hysteria starts to set in? Well it happen and I ended up adding the bloopers at the end for a larf. Oh and I look rough, very rough even though I had more makeup than Coco the clown on, hee hee never mind I am sure people wont mind it, the projects are looking good so that s what matters. I will see you soon hugs M xxx

Birthday Passionette !!!

Woohoo today ( actually is yesterday now oops) is Linda's Happy Birthday. Her favorite colour is black and this is the card I made her

Now I was a bit stumped for ideas when it came to this card and it was the black that did it. I really didn't want to do an all black card for her Birthday but I wanted to work with black and in the end combined my favorite colour(red) with hers and ended up with this. Polka dot background stamped in black over Whisper White, Blooming with beauty stamp set coloured using markers, real red ribbon and a beautiful brad from the silver hodgepodge box. I know she loved her card as she left a message on the demo forum we all visit, so Linda I hope you had a beautiful day. xx
Right off I go to bed now will share something cool tomorrow and no is nothing I have made, wait and see. hugs Monica xxx

ONE WHOLE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been away for! Time does fly and I seem to have lost a whole week. We are less than a week away from the StampWithUs online classes so the heath intensifies as you can imagine, loads to organize and set up before next Friday. The projects are looking FABULOUS even if I say so myself and I only hope our participants will think the same. I have to say I was, in fact the three of us were amazed at the amount of you joining us but then it shouldn't really be that surprising as you do get such fabulous value for money. We have added more information about the classes on HERE and I have also designed a sweet all in one box, as a Free bonus project for all of you that have been supporting Stamp With Us by joining in our challenges and leaving such encouraging comments. You are truly LOVELY thank you . So here it is enjoy and don't forget to post a link to my blog if you have tried it out.

You can download the pdf HERE.

My next card is one I have made for our current recipe challenge on SWUS . Use two pattern papers, four brads, and some ribbon.

Now when I started this I had a different looking card in mind and I am sorry to tell you that it looked nothing like this. LOL
Mr and Mrs stamp set, gold brads, Very Vanilla wide grosgrain ribbon, Washington Apple and So saffron designer paper. My image was coloured using Pumpkin Pie and Apricot Appeal SU markers.

I also made a card for a colour challenge over on ILWS hosted by Kate. This was the inspirational picture
And this was my interpretation, a card made for the lovely Julie one of my Passionettes to celebrate her recent promotion.

Regal Rose, Old Olive and Whisper White card stock, Always Artichoke narrow grosgrain ribbon and a touch of Bashful Blue sponged behind the two step flowers and leaves from the Happiness Always hostess level 3 stamp set. Oh and I caved in and got some Nesties, actually I believe those are called Megabilities. I will see you all tomorrow as I have an important post to make. Hugs Monica xxx

Three little ..............

....sausage dogs!!!!!!!!!!! Heloo just a quick one as I am really busy. I though you might like to see something other than a card and I have just delivered this little beauty.Kate my hairdresser asked me if I would make her a cake for her mum's 50th birthday. And I said yes I will do it as long as it a simple design and wont take me longer than 5 hours. Which is what we did kept it simple and it only took me 3 hours in total( cooling the ganache before whipping was what took the longest), made the doggies while cake was cooking then put it all together in super fast time. Kate's mum has 3 gorgoeus daschund's and they are her life, she sows them and constantly wins all those rosettes with them. So we just decided to make 3 sugar models of the girls and that s what I did. here s a peek
How cute are they???????? The dust like speck that you can see is edibile glitter so it all shimmers lovely. Anyway had an appointment today and took it in with me, Kate loved it and I hope her mum will too. I will be back tomorrow and I have something very exciting for you all on SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hugs M xxxx

Birthday Passionette !!!

Well, did you have a fabby weekend? I do hope so mine was lovely but passed over so very quick and I am now back to normal. The response for our SWUS online classes has been overwhelming and I cannot wait to get started, I am working hard at it at the minute and I have to say I am delighted with the projects finished so far, and you will be too I am sure. CANNOT WAIT!!!


Today, Jo one of my fab Passionettes celebrates her birthday!!!!!!!. There are quite a few Passionettes with birthdays around this time of the year, I love it. And here is the card I made for Jo.


Jo's favorite colour is blue and I choose to work with Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery and Old Olive as my combo for her card. Then I inked some new rubber. I had this Level 3 hostess set **Happiness Always** for a while now and I finally broke into it. I love butterflies and I am not sure Jo is a flowery kind of girl so I went for feminine still but without the flowers. The background was stamped with En Francaise and sponged with Ballet Blue ink. The celery circle was dotted with a black marker and I was surprised to find that it looks like is been pierced. The ribbon is Certainly Celery and I've added some tiny pearls that Anna one of my online friends got for me from Lakeland an age ago. Jo I hope you will have a super day while being spoilt rotten by Paul and Sidney. Happy Birthday sweetheart Hugs M xx