Is it a little late OR mega early?

This is a pop up Christmas tree that i made with the ladies at my class before Christmas, i decided to be a little different and go for a totally different colour theme from the traditional red and green.  I just love the SU melon mambo colour and decided to be daring and use it for the top of my tree.  I have kept mine fairly simple here, but it is one of those projects that you could really go to town on.

i have added organaz ribbon through the top pieces to make it easier to lift away from the base, i  have added gems to decorate and the SU ex large flower punch to create my flower in the centre.  All the ladies made some lovely trees and they were all very different, i just wish i had taken a picture to show you all.  I could have cheated and told you that i was just SO super organised and made this for next Christmas.........but well......anyone who knows me would know that i would NEVER be THAT organised!

Just Believe

This stamp set - Just Believe - is fantastic and is so vesatile for lots of occasions - i just love it.   One of the many benefits of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is that when you attend any of the SU Training days or convention you normally are lucky enough to be given some freebies - all those who attended this years convention got  two lovely sets free and this was one of them - what a delight!

The main image is from Just Believe and the sentiment is from Perfect Punches, colours used are Rich Razzleberry and old olive

Penny Black Saturday challenge week 134

Been ages since i did any challenges, but as Penny Blacks are one of my all time favourite stamps, i thought i would ease myself into some challenges again by starting with the Penny Black Saturday challenge wk 134  this week it was a buffet choice -never done one of them before, quite ingenious!  You had to pick 4 items from their buffet cart and make a card with your items.

 

The four items i went for were -  patterened papers, 3 flowers, 3 gems and ribbon.

My papers were all Stampin' Up! and the flowers were handmade with an SU punch and scrunchedwith little flower brads in the centres, image coloured with copics and edges dusted with chalks, corners punche with the new SU scallop edge corner punch, ribbon and 3 gems from my stash and SU sentiment.  Hope it fits the bill xx

Growing Green

Hi everyone

I have had a couple of stamp sets that hadn't seen any ink and decided that the time had come to introduce them to each other!  Both sets are currently available from the SU catalogue and can be ordered through me if you would like them.  The sets, are called Growing Green and buterfly prints and i am sure the detectives amongst you will be able to decide which is which!

I have used the gorgeous  SU Rich razzleberry design series paper from the Brights DSPstack and have used the matching Rich razleberry ink - my favourite thing about Stampin' Up! is that they have everything that co-ordinates,card, papers, ribbons,ink,buttons, pens - it just makes it all soooooo much easier!

i have randomly stamepd around the edge of some whisper white card - and used my waterbrush to pull the colour into the flower design, i have then stamped  2 butterflies on another piece of card,  which have been punched out with the matching punch and have had some pearls added.  The sentiment is from the butterfly prints set and is just perfect.

i have added this card to enfys week long party challenge for day 1 - your card was to have a bug/butterfly etc - hope she likes it x

Well....... did i mention that this could quickly become one of my favourite stamps.....think i may have!!!

It is so veratile and lovley in so many differnt colours!

Have gone wirh Melon Mambo and Old Olive as my colours for today and i think they go great together!

A very simple card for today and i have used the same papers( Brights DSP stack) as before and added some of the lovely old olive satin ribbon. xx

toodlepip........ till tomorrow x

Sweet Summer Cards in a bag

This was a project for my craft class last week - happy to say that they all seemed to love it and they all made some lovely variations of the cards.

My colour combo was Concord Crush and Melon Mambo and  I used the lovely Sweet Summer Sale-a- bration set again. For the mini cards I have used a selection of Stampin'Up! thank you stamp sentiments, the scalloped square punch, boho blossom punch and faithful scalloped circleall had an outing too!

Made it a box of mini thank you cards, as at this time of year we normally have lots of peole to say thank you to.   One of my  big thanks goes to Samantha-Marie  who kindly shared her tutorial for this little bag -

 hope i did it justice x

ILWS January DT Challenge

  This card was my entry for one of this months challenges over on ILWS.

This was this months colour challenge, where we were challenged to use  Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie.

My base card is chocolate chip, but looks darker in photo somehow?!? I used papers from the fabulous new Brights paper stack (40 double sided patterend paper for only £15.50) happy to order these for anyone in need of a paper fix!   I have used a lovely flower and sentiment stamp from one of the Sale-a-bration sets called Punch Bunch - i love this stamp and will use it loads, it is quickly becoming a favourite.  And the bonus is that as the set name, PUNCH BUNCH may give  it away - it matches 2 of our most popular punches, the scallop circle and the matching 1 3/8 plain circle punch.  I have coloured directly onto my stamp with my markers in melon mambo and pumkin pie and added some lilttle flowers using the boho blossom punch with some plain brads. 

Now i just need to have a go at the other challenges,  a sketch, a technique using wax and a scrapook layout - best get my thinking cap on!

Sweet Summer

At last, a camera cable!  I can get back to uploading some of the things i have made recently.

As you may have seen from the post at the stop of my blog Stampin' Up! currently have this years Sale- a Bration  Offer on for the months of January and February.  This  card was made with one of the four stamp sets that you can earn free when spending £45 from the catalogue.

I was lucky enough to be given one of these fabulous sets free when attending The Stampin'Up! convention last November - what a very welcome surprise that was!!I just love FREE stamps - don't you? This year convention is heading to Disneyland Paris, so if you would like to be there and get lots freebies too, contact me and let me tell you how you can be there too.

This card was made using Whisper white card stock for the base card and also for the flower and stamped image. I created some backgound card by stamping a couple of the stamps from the sweet summer set in  tangerine tango and daffodil delight ink to create a background for the base of the card , the image was stamped using the 2 step stamping technique and the flower was watercoloured ,  I sprayed my punched flowers with water and scrunched them up, inked the edges and added the centre, which was stamped using another stamp from another one of the sale a bration sets called punch bunch.  Finished off with the delightful pear pizzaz ribbon - hope you like it x

I won Candy!

Wowee what a surprise for me when i popped over to Claudia Rose's blog - Pretty Pressings  to find that I had  been lucky enough to win her fabulous Elizabeth Arden Blog candy - wooohoo!

  I don't often win anything so this was a super surprise and can't thank Claudia enough - thanks so much hunni xx  What a lovely ' For Me' treat, can't wait till it arrives now, will be stalking my poor postie!!

Back Soon with some piccies...........honest!

I have been a bit of a naughty blogger and not  been keeping my blog as upto date lately as i would like - have made a concious decision to try and do much better at keeping my blog up to date!!  The biggest problem is that my lot keep using my camera cable and my phone cable and not putting it back where it should be...aaaaaggghhhh so when i have something to upload  I can never find my cables - think the solution might be to invest in a spare set and hide them!!!! Have lots to show you! 

Anyway i have a few blogs that i love to pop around and low and behold the delight  when i was hopping tonight -check  out the blogs below for some amazing candy they are all offering - not to be missed -

I would love to win and i am sure you all would too -

  jacqui -

Dawny P  

   Bev

   Kathy

   Lena Katrine

   Dena

    Claudia Rosa

   Jacque

 Marlene

   Heather

Moni

Fingers and everything else crossed xxx

Get set for Christmas- time to Bundle Up

Christmas is fast approaching and now is a great time to start and get organised and Stampin' Up! has made it  so much easier! - We now have some fabulous Christmas Bundles for you to take advantage of.........and the best bit is you get freebies too!! The bundles are available from 1st November until 29 December 2010, For every bundle purchased you get to choose a limited edition free roll of Christmas ribbon - not to be missed!! Check out the bundles below and see if  we can tempt you- if you are interested in ordering you can contact me at evsline@hotmail.com and i will be happy to help xx

Just look at them!  They are just Soooooo yummy! I want them all!!

But please remember, they are not available for purchase separately so get them with the bundles while you can.What are in these bundles, I hear you ask?

The Gifted Bundle:

Gifted Stamp Set and a pack of Jolly Holiday Designer Series papers.

Wood mount £35.70  Clear Mount £30.70 

The Welcome Christmas Bundle:

Welcome Christmas Stamp Set and Christmas Cocoa Speciality Designer Series Paper.

Wood Mount  £36.90 Clear Mount £31.90 

 This Designer Series Paper is only available as part of this bundle and only while stocks last!

The Season of Joy Bundle:

Season of Joy Stamp Set and So Swirly Stampin’ Around Wheel.

 £36.45 Wood Mount only

The Delightful Decorations Bundle:

Delightful Decorations Stamp Set and the Ornament Punch

£37.45 Wood Mount only.

And here are the free ribbons you get to choose - you get one reel of free ribbon per bundle - only available while stocks last - so hurry don't miss out!

Are these ribbons not just delicious! don't miss out!

Amazing 4 days at Convention

Wow - what an amazing 4 days i had at the 2nd European Stampin' Up Convention in London- oooohh where do i begin to tell you the fun I had!

My fun began with meeting up with the lovely Debbi  and Helen and Gatwick airport on the Thursday lunch time and then a mega thanks has to go to StampingCaz(Caroline) for arranging to collect us from Gatwick - thank you so much - you made it so easy!  Caz dropped off Debbi and Helen at the Croydon Park Hotel and then we continued on to our Hotel, the Hilton Croydon.  It was here that i had the chance to meet up (for the first time!) with my SU mummy - the lovely Jules and all the rest of my teamies. It was a delight to meet up with them all at last, face to face, they were all lovely and so welcoming, so thanks girls for making me feel part of it all!  I also met up with my roomie Claire who i had not met before, so thanks Claire for putting up with me for 4 days - hope it wasn't too unbearable!

We all trotted off to Pizza Hut for an early dinner, which turned out to be a treat from our SU mummy - thanks again Julie, we had lots of fun and 'talking tommy' certainly raised a few laughs!  We returned to our Hotel to join in Monica's pre- convention party- as we are part of Monicas downline were were presented with a delicious bag of goodies - a free stamp set, a lovely little sports watch and the must have sweeties,thanks Monica x We did a couple of M&T's, loads of swopping and mega amounts of chatting before turning in for the night, we had an early start the next day!!

Early breakfast, then onto our buses to head to the amazing AddingtonPalace, where we were met by our lovley  CEO Shelli Gardiner - what a delight she is!

We had to register and queue up for our Convention bags - can you imagine the noise of almost 300 eager and excited ladies waiting in line!! OOOh the fun of all the swopping - it got rather frenzied at times!  We had some informative classes and the chance to check out memento mall before lunch - the goodies were beckoning us all, so another queue formed and the swopping fun began all over again!  I got speaking to a lovley French demo while standing in line and she has asked me to be her penfriend, how wonderful and i am looking forward to hearing from her. I have had some lovely swops from some very talented ladies and will treasure them all - so mega thanks goes to everyone who i  managed to swop with xxxx

My lovley supportive SU Mummy, Julie Kettlewell did a fabby presentation and kept us all thoroughly entertained, she even managed to rope in Chris the cameraman - what a hoot! well done Ma - you did us proud xx

The awards dinner was superb - everyone dressed up in their finery and we had a lovely evening, This is just some of the girls in our team, Me,Jules, Melanie(adopted jem for the weekend) Kate and Lynda.

Day 2 followed with more swopping and we got the chance to do some stamping -  we had received 2 new stamp sets  in our convention bags - wooohooo!  We made four projects - well some did - others were so busy chatting that they took there projects home to complete! Some more fantastic presentations, both Shelli and Pam Morgans demo's were inspiring.  We were also told about next years convention - well we all knew that we would be heading to France as we were in Germany last year and the Uk this year - but oooooohhhh the excitement and the cheers when the venue for next year was announced.........we are off to DISNEYLAND PARIS   for convention next year - so if you to would like to join the fun contact me soon to find out about becoming an SU Demonstrator - you won't regret it!   

will catch up soon with more piccies from an amazing weekend

 

Virtual Hostess Club

Love Stampin' Up! goodies then how about spreading the cost of all these fabulous items by joining one of my Stampers Groups. All Stampers Clubs will commence when they are full, and are open to anyone in the U.K. This is how it works:

STAMPERS 6

Needs 6 members

Runs for 6 months

Each member agrees to spend £25 per month plus postage

Each of the members will receive the hostess benefits one month of the 6

A FREE level one stamp set + £15 product from the catalogue

A Free copy of the catalogue plus any supplements that occur during the club

STAMPERS 10

Needs 10 members

Runs for 10 months

Each member agrees to spend £15 per month (plus postage)

Each of the members will receive the hostess benefits one month of the 10

A FREE level one stamp set + £15 product from the catalogue

A FREE copy of the catalogue plus any supplements that occur during the club

This is an excellent way of building up your stash of Stampin Up! goodies and enjoying the Hostess benefits that this club provides....everyone loves freebies....... so if you are interested in joining us then don't delay!

Contact me today

It's Here - the waiting is over

It's here! The new Stampin' Up! Catalogue launches itself today....woooohoo!!

The much awaited launch date is upon us and you will NOT be disapointed, lots of lovely new stamp sets, available for the first time with a choice of unmounted or the original wood mounted - so many more options and some truly amazing punches!

It is a pleasure to be able to share it with you all - if you would like a copy of the new Idea Book & Catalogue 2010-2011 then let me know and i can post one off to you for the special discounted price of £4.50(including postage) or if you would like to place an order contact me on

evsline@hotmail.com

Last Chance for You and them! Don't Miss It

Woww.....Stampin Up have just released their last chance list for their current catalogue - Grab some

 goodies while you can - they are only available until the 30 September and then they will be gone forever -lots of bargains to be had  some have 25% off and others have 50% off- don't miss them,  check them out on the

LAST CHANCE LIST -CLICK HERE

All the items on the list are only available WHILE STOCKS LAST - so if there is something you are after don't delay as when they are gone they are gone!  I am more than happy to order anything you would like from the last chance list or indeed anything else you would like you can contact me Here

The new catalogue launches on the 1st October 2010 and you will not be disapointed - and having had a sneak peak it is bigger and better and better than ever -the new catalogue prices have increased ever so slightly to take into account the ecconomic climate and the forthcoming vat increase - these new prices will not be effected by any other increase----------------grab anything you want this month and get yourself a bargain  a slighlty cheaper price .

Be one of the first to get your hands on the new catalogue

Don't you just love flicking the pages of a new catalogue  especially when it is one that is filled to the brim with new goodies to make our eyes twinkle -the new Stampin Up 2010-2011 catalogue is soon to be released on the 1st October and you don't want to miss it - it is bigger and better than ever, some old favourites are still there and some fabulous new stamps and punches to wet our appetite. 

If you would like to be one of the first to get your hands on the new catty and have it sent direct to your door contact me  to pre- order one at evsline@hotmail.com and for a special  cost of £4.50(normal price£5.95 from October)  I will ship it to you at the end of September when they will be released - you'll be amazed at all the new goodies, secure yours now by pre-ordering and have it for the 1st October

  

1 Week Left to grab a bargain

Gosh only 1 week left to grab a argain from the Stampin' Up! last chance list - when the 30 September rolls around all these lovely goodies will be gone forever!  The list has also been reduced further, so even more bargains for you, check out the updated reduced last chance list  here

Kathy has some fabby candy

Check out Kathy's amazing blog and see the delicious candy she has on offer - Who woudn't love to have these  brill Halloween images to play with - i will be keeping my fingers well and truly crossed!

An award from the lovely Whisper

The lovely Sam has sent me this super award  - thank you so much babe -

I have now to pass it on to7 people who's blog i most admire and fill me with renewed inspiration everytime i look at their wonderful creations - truly amazing blogs - could have had a huge list but as had to pick only 7 here they are:-

Jules

Victoria

Kellie

jaques

Nic

Mina

Bev

I am sure anyone who checks these blogs out will agree with me how great they are xx

I won some surprise candy - woo hoo

How lucky i am.....don't you all love surprises...I know i do...I entered frankiesue's Birthday blog candy and have been lucky enough along with 2 others to win a surprise candy from Sue......Thank you so much Sue.....now i can't wait to find out what it is?!?