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?

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!

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 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.