Oranges and Limes

Lemon Zest Bundle

I had a lovely day yesterday – I had a relaxing morning chatting with a friend I haven’t seen for a long while and we talked non stop for at least 2 hours. She describes herself as a planner geek she was really impressed with the Stampin’ Up Planner kit. She is going to share some planner set up and decorating ideas with me – so watch this space – more planner ideas to come! Then in the afternoon I spent time with my Stampin’ Up colleague – we crafted together with some of my recent purchases. Stamping really is my happy place and I love sharing it with others. Here is one of the cards I made…. I’m really pleased with it and for the first time ever I have used Always Artichoke! Maybe one day soon I will use Cajun Craze. For some reason I have never used these two colours. Everything you need to make this card is available in my online shop. I would be delighted to be your demonstrator.

July 2017 Host Code: P4GR3CVG

If you are placing an order please use the hostess code to get free product! If your order is over £150, please do not use this code as You become the hostess and get the Rewards!

If you are reading this in July 2017 – this is a fantastic month to shop with me as for every £45.00 you spend Stampin’ Up! will give you a £4.50 voucher to spend in August. No limit on how many vouchers you can earn! So spend spend spend.

If you love crafting, and want to make it pay for itself, but want to work at your own pace, want to work hours that you set yourself to fit in with family life or other jobs, and without any pressure of targets, then Stampin’ Up is the perfect opportunity for you. You choose your own career path, you may want to do many or on only a few parties. You may not want to do any at all, some demonstrators do all their business online! You may even want to be your own customer and hostess!
It’s a wonderful opportunity to get quality, coordinating products at a discount price and share your love for them with other people. The starter kit is COMPLETELY customisable. You choose what YOU would like in it.
There are so many different ways you can make Stampin’ Up! work for you, that you needn’t feel any pressure. There are no hard targets set by the company, all you need to do is sell £270 worth of retail sales every 3 calendar months to remain active. (does not include the quarter you join in, you do get some breathing space to settle in first!) If you never meet the target it doesn’t matter as everything is yours to keep whatever! So if you are planning to spend around £99.00 on craft products you have nothing to lose!

For  £99 (129 €) you get to choose up to £130 (175 €)worth of products, plus a business pack (order forms, catalogues, flyers, the essentials to start your business!)

AND

Between 1 and 31 July, every new recruit gets an Essentials Gift Pack (worth 63,50 € / £47) plus the Carols of Christmas Stamp Set (worth 24 € / £18) from the upcoming autumn/winter catalogue added to their starter kit for free! This means that new recruits will get products and business supplies worth a whopping 262,50 € / £195 for just 129 € / £99 with free shipping!

If you want to talk about this a bit more please get in touch. 07896966823 or janice.mcglen@gmail.com THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO JOIN MY TEAM

 

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Planner

There’s a new Planner on the block!

I’m so excited about this planner. Its so clever as it is not fixed to particular dates. It comes in a kit named Love Today Planner Kit. It contains all you need to get started.

 

Throughout July there is a fantastic offer on so why don’t you treat yourself? the offer is called Bonus Days – every £45.00 you spend at one go in July you will receive a £4.50 voucher to spend how you like in August! Amazing isn’t it and there is no limit on how many you can earn! So spend, spend, spend and save, save, save!!! On the product list below I have suggested some items you might use with your planner. Add on any combination to bring your order up to £45.00 or multiples of £45.00 and start earning those vouchers. Also use my July hostess code P4GR3CVG and I will send you a small gift in August! Clicking on any of the products below will take you to my online shop where you can order with me and have your items delivered straight to you.

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New Catalogue Hop June 2017

June 2017 New Catalogue Blog hop – well nearly!

 

I will become a regular blogger! I’m starting to enjoy it and find my way around the site. Still loads of widgets and plugins to add ahahaha! I need to find out what a Ninja Form is too!

However I do know what a permalink is so with that I can take part in blog hops and I’m thrilled to be taking part in this years New Catalogue Hop with this cheerful wee card. This card is almost too simple but I think very effective.

Unfortunately this post didn’t make it to the blog hop due to a wifi failure while I was on holiday but I have published it now so that you can at least see it. – maybe next time I will be successful.

I have used a card from Color Theory Memories and More cards and a sheet from Color Theory Designer Series Paper Stack on a Crushed Curry card base and added a greeting from Beautiful You stamped with Early Espresso on Whisper White and punched with Pretty Label, then backed with Crushed Curry.

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Birthday Blog Hop Card

I am so excited to be taking part in The Pootles Birthday Club during the week of my 60th Birthday. I made this card for my old school chum – we have now been friends for 47 years! I was inspired by a fellow Stampin’ Up! colleague who made a similar card. I have used 2 stamp sets, a punch and 2 die sets and a piece of Designer Series Paper! I know – I’m sorry but these are sets that everyone would want in their collection. If you don’t have these sets I’m sure you can use this technique with something else. If you want to buy any of these items I would be delighted if you choose me to be your demonstrator by buying from my site by clicking on any of the items listed below the picture.

Technique/recipe!

I did use a card blank 17.2 cm square which is available in any craft shop as I wanted this card to be a statement! The first layer is Fresh Florals Berry Burst Designer Series Paper 16.8 cm squared. Next a layer of Whisper White 16.4 squared is stamped and embossed as described below.

First I used Garden in Bloom to stamp the flower outline with versamark and heat embossed that with Stampin Emboss Powder in Gold. I water coloured the flowers with Wink of Stella and Daffodil Delight, Berry Burst and Powder Pink inks. Next I stamped the dragonflies with lemon lime twist and squeezed in a few bees in Basic Black and water coloured in with Daffodil Delight and jazzledazzled the insects up with Wink of Stella on their wings.

The sentiment is stamped with Label Me Pretty on whisper white and punched with Pretty Label. It is accented with a Berry Burst also punched with Pretty Label. (Ask me and I will show you how).

I cut circles in Berry Burst and Whisper White with Layering Circles Framelits. The numbers are cut with Berry Burst and Large Number Framelits.

The card is assembled with SNAIL adhesive and Stampin’ Dimensionals. I hope you like it

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Birthday Brights

I am taking a while to get this new blog up and running – my brain struggles with all the techie stuff. So please feel free to contact me to point out errors or suggest improvements. I appreciate all the help I can get.

As June is my Birthday month, and this year its a big one, I plan to bring you a series of Birthday cards using some of the new items in the new catalogue and also using some of the sets that have carried over.

Anyway I wanted to show you this card I came up with the other day when it was raining and grey outside. I wanted something to brighten my day up so spent my time crafting in bright colours.

The base card is in basic black and is 15cm x 15cm once folded. I added a layer of whisper white stamped with basic black using my very favourite touches of texture stamp set. The squares of whisper white are 5cm and are stamped using the texture background stamp in the colour that they are matted on to.

 The colours I have used for the 5.4 cm square mats are Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo, Pacific Point and Crushed Curry.

The Greeting is from the beautiful Label Me Pretty stamp set and punched out with the Pretty Label Punch. I have punched out in Pumpkin Pie and cut that in half to make a backing for my greeting. I have then adhered that with dimensionals.

I hope you agree this is very simple to make yet very effective.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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One Colour Stamping

I was invited to a ladies craft club that meet about an hour from my hometown. These ladies have way more crafting experience than me but I was told that some of them hadn’t stamped before. I was unsure what to demonstrate so I thought use a stamp set that I love and one colour of ink and just keep it to a single layer stamped card.

Here is what I came up with – a very effective card I think

one colour stamping

The back ground is stamped using the lace stamp from Touches of Texture. I only inked the stamp once and stamped with it four times – that is how I achieved the different shades going from light to dark. I then stamped the flowers and stems and added a sentiment.

I stamped onto a piece of whisper white 10.1 cm x 14.4 cm then stuck that on to the base card with Snail. The base card was made using a sheet Rose Red card cut in half long ways at 10.5 cm then folded in half to make a tent style card.

This is a great card for introducing stamping to new people and it can easily be stepped up in many ways.

 

 

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