Snowflake Perfection

Wow have you seen the amazing new limited edition items from Stampin’ Up! They are gorgeous! It is a fabulous collection of snowflakes,christmasy and non christmas images. There are some gorgeous sentiments which are useful for so many different cards. I especially love the sentiments especially ‘sending positive thoughts,’ this would be perfect to send to a friend. Its a ‘not a birthday set!’

The video below, from Stampin’ Up! shows all the items, in the suite. There are stamps, embellishments and some gorgeous flocked paper. There are some amazing examples on Pinterest, demos have been coming up with some amazing ideas. The Strawberry Stampers have been sharing their ideas, it looks amazing with Night of Navy, Merry Merlot and Silver. The Stampin’ Up! examples are on the right.

The foil edged gold and silver cards go perfectly with this set. They are gorgeous too. These save on foiled sheets bonus!

Annual Catalogue - Star of Light

Although the gorgeous Autumn Winter collection is currently in full swing. Don’t forget that there are some gorgeous sets in the Annual Catalogue. There are some gorgeous sets which are prefect for your christmas cards, I love the Candycane Christmas. A set that I have had for a number of years is the Star of Light. I Love this set it is the perfect combination of traditional and non traditional greetings. The videos below show my examples and walk through.

So many pretty sets so little time. I hope you like my examples as much as I do.

Santa's Workshop Box

In my Santa’s Workshop examples, I showed a Santa Box, made using the Santas Workshop speciality DSP. It is super super cute, I must confess that I CASEd the idea from Scrimping Mommy she made an amazing castle box. Whilst mine does not look like a castle the basic design is the same. The dimensions mean that the largest die cut (the Santa and list) will fit with a boarder. I had planned to do a video but haven’t got round to it (someone stole all my spoons again.)

I used the dies to cut out Santa, the elves and Mrs Santa (Mrs Claus sounds better) from the DSP. Of course you could use the stamps and colour using blends or Stampin’ write markers. It works with either option.

The dimensions are:

Box:(Poppy Parade) - cut card to 8 15/16 x 8 15/16 score on all four sides at 3"

Lid:(Poppy Parade)- cut card to 4 1/2” x 4 1/2" score on all four sides at 3/4"

4 x Decoration Panels: 2 7/8” x 2 7/8” (5 if want to add panel to top of box.)

I hope you like the box. I love it. I hope to create a video soon.

Strawberry Swaps - August

My video today is of the cards that the Strawberries made, The Strawberries are demonstrators whose upline is the gorgeously lovely Sarah Berry. I do have to confess that I have had these for a while, but haven’t shared these. Sorry! But I am sharing these now.

You have seen my swap as it was the Under the sea card which I made in August. I still love this card, with seaweed. The other swaps are gorgeous. I love them. The team have definetly inspired me. I love seeing what they come up with and the different ways we all use our supplies. Amazingly there was only 1 repeat stamp set, which was Perennial Birthday. The video is below showing all our ideads and cards (because we post the ideas, to each others and 3d items can be expensive to post.

I have so much inspiration it makes me want to pull out some of my stamp sets and play!

Santa's Workshop Cards

One of the most amazing suites in the Autumn Winter Catalogue is the Santa’s workshop suite. It is a large suite with stamps, dies, a punch, ribbon and other embellishments. It is gorgeous collection, I have shown you the cards which I made using the Santa’s Workshop memories and more Cards. I have already created cards using the Memories and More pack, so I decided to play with the other items in the suite.

I had so much fun, it is so cute. one of the other Strawberries is not keen on the elves, I think they are amazing! I love the ones carrying presents and think that they make super simple, super cute. The papers can be fussy cute or some of the pictures can also be cut out using the dies, It is the perfect paper to put in your cutting machine. There is no glitter on the paper! so it is easier to scan the lines in!! But it is also easy to fussy cut.

The video below shows the examples which I have made and also gives a close up of the suite.

You can find the images in the gallery, I still have lots of ideas for this suite. I love the small santas sacks, I have cut out a few too many.