A ray of Sunshine

It is raining here and I am starting to feel a bit like a duck, the roads are wet and I have been watching the river (the village flooded a few years ago). To avoid the rain I have been playing with the Sunshine Wishes and Sunshine sayings  stamp and die set.

I love this set, I have had it for a long time, I think it was one of the first bundles I bought along with the Balloon punch. The Sunshine Wishes contains 7 dies, a flower, butterfly, heart and the words congrats, sunshine, love and hope. The Sunshine sayings stamp set contains 26 stamps. If you search on pinterest you will find alot of examples using the heart, therefore, whilst looking at inspiration and deciding what to make i have made more with the other dies,

The stamp set gives a number of options to create sentiments, with or without the dies. I love the versatility of the set, they can be combined with other stamps, dies or punches, or used alone. The Videos below show an overview of the stamp and dies, also the examples I have made using the gorgeous stamps and dies.

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I love this set, I am off into the craft room to play with the Sale-a-bration items. What are you playing with?

But it is not Saturday!

I apologise that the Lovely Lattice Video was not uploaded on Saturday, it was a crazy day and I ran out of spoons (I am a not so secret Spoonie!)

As I mentioned last week, one of the gorgeous Sale-a-bration items is Lovely Lattice. I love the gorgeous floral stamps and have been making some examples using the 3 stamps in the stamp set.

I have been pinning ideas on pinterest for weeks before I made some cards. I love the inspiration, I loved the embossed cards although I had to hide my heat gun or all the cards would have been embossed.

I did struggle coming up with ideas for the smaller stamps, but overall I am very happy with the cards I created. The video below shows the cards I have made.

Do you ever want to make lots of cards using the same technique? What is your favourite?

Botanical Butterflies

I adore this Sale-a-bration item, I may have a few packets of this 12"x 12”  designer series paper. The pack contains twelve sheets, two each of six different double-sided designs.

I love all the sides of the paper, they are Coloured on one side but black and white on the other, so you can add colour if you wish to. I have used Blends, Stampin’ Write markers and Water colour pencils, they all look amazing!

Some of the papers also have designs with butterfly which co-ordinate with the Butterfly Duet Punch. The punch is still un-orderable, however, it should be orderable soon. The images are quite simple to fussy cut. I don’t normally fussy cut images but these were simple. Alternatively you could use a cutting machine if you have one.

The videos below give an overview of the suite and also shows some of the examples that I have made using the papers.

I have another video showing how to make the Hershey holder, it is so cute. I hope that you like my examples I adore this paper.

Elements and Butterflies

I have to confess I have really enjoyed playing and designing items including the Butterfly Elements. I loved them from the first time I saw them. The Butterfly Elements, are FREE with a £45 spend, before postage and packing. They were at the top of my free Sale-a-Bration item list along with the Botanical Butterfly DSP.

Although they correspond with the Butterfly Gala bundle, both the stamps and punch, they also can make gorgeous cards without them. As they are available as one of the Sale-a-bration items they are available until the 31st March or whilst stocks last. Stampin’ Up! Have advised Demonstrators that the Butterfly elements are going fast and that they might not last until the end of Sale-a-bration.  So stock up now if you like them, if you haven’t got the Butterfly Duo punch yet, it will should be orderable again in March, but the elements might be gone by then so don’t miss  out!

On Thursday I explained a few ways you are able to add colour to these Wooden Elements, there are 84 pieces on 5 sheets in this Sale-a-bration item. The elements include fabulous flowers, foliage and different sizes of butterflies and butterfly outlines.

The videos below show the items I have made and an overview of the elements.

I love these elements as you can see from my examples, not only do the elements look amazing on cards.  You can add them on to gift wrapping, 3D projects or you may have seen the amazing examples, where they have been made into scissor charms. I have some left, so you may see them popping up in my examples over the next few weeks!

Quick, Easy and Gorgeous cards using Bloom by Bloom Memories and More cards

The Happiness Blooms suite contains lots of gorgeous things.  I love it all! I was unsure at first as the colours are very bright. But I love the colours now!

The Bloom by Bloom Memories and More cards are perfect for creating quick cards, there is a mix of large and small cards, along with 4 sheets of some gorgeous stickers (adhesive elements, I think stickers sounds better!) I love the retro happiness of the cards they are is so bright! I think they have pushed me in to using more bright colours, as I was a subtle’s girl. I find myself reaching for Lovely Lipstick lots.

The  small cards can be placed straight onto the fabulous Night of Navy note cards which come with matching envelopes. One of my favourite things about the envelopes is that they are Whisper White, I struggle with dark envelopes, another fabulous feature is that they are lined with Night of Navy and Whisper White stripes, no fiddling to beautify the envelopes. You will need two packs of envelopes if you want to make all of the Bloom by Bloom Memories and More cards in to greetings cards.

I love these cards and they make amazingly gorgeous cards. I think that they make gorgeous cards and you can add some cute things from your stash.