Springtime Vintage Workshop

Yesterday afternoon I had a lovely workshop making some pretty projects using beautiful Springtime Vintage papers and the Baby Blossom stamp set. 

Everyone recieved a "goody bag" of Stampin' Up! products to use for their projects including a 6"x6" frame and complete instructions to take away so they can re-create more projects at home.

I had booked my local community centre for this event and it was perfect!! 

This is the room all set up just before everyone arrived, I had made a little mini milk carton box with a few treats inside as a "thank you" for the ladies attending the workshop.  I would also like to thank my friends Liz and Jo for helping me to set up the room, I wouldn't have been ready on time with out them!!

Margaret and Judith busy making their projects.

This is just one of the matching gift bags and cards I made to show the Springtime Vintage papers, I made 6 sets in total so the ladies could select their prefered  design - now all I need to do is find suitable gifts to fill them with for the teachers at school!! 

Jo busy getting to grips with gathering her seem binding ribbon.

This is my version of the punched collage the ladies also made.  It was lovely to see everyone being creative and so many different designs put into their collages.  This was certainly a popular choice and everyone enjoyed making the collage.

I had baked a selection of treats to have with a cuppa, the blueberry cake was very popular.

Congratulations to the lucky ladies who won some fabulous Stampin' Up! goodies in my raffle, I hope you enjoy using them!!!

I would like to thank everyone who came making yesterday a successful afternoon. If you would like to join us at the next event it will be held on Saturday 3rd September.  I will post more details later this week.

Angela x

Friday Nigth's Class Projects

I have been having a few problems with my internet this week, we have up-graded it and its certainly no better - the speed is slower than before.  I do hope in September when the fibre optic cables have been put in place in our area we will benefit from a faster connection, cable TV and broadband stop at the house next door to us!!

So on to the projects we made on Friday night.

The papers we used are the from the mini catalogue - Springtime Vintage.

The wreath was stamped with the Baby Blossoms stamp set, with a little Dazzaling Diamonds glitter.

A band of contrasting paper was wrapped around the pocket and a large flower punched layered with circle punches and a large matching button .

This is the second card we made and it didn't take very long to put together but it is very effective and a great way to use some of the scraps we all accumulate.

The squares were punched from the Springtime Vintage papers and glued on to copier paper, then it was cut with the exclusive Top Note die - I'm so happy we now have the Stampin' Up! Big shot!!  The patchwork panel was then embossed with the square lattice embossing folder, giving the papers a new texture.  We used Baja Breeze seam binding ribbon tied and gathered and a sentiment from Sincere Salutations stamp set.

I have been busy making up some business tools ready for the newest members of my team.  I do have a spare set ready to post to the next person who joins my team so if you are thinking of signing up as an Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator why not contact me and find out more about our successful team of Sparkly Angels.

Angela x

Happy Mothers Day

I know I'm a little late in posting my card toady  but its just been one of those days with lots of things to do as usual.  It was a little bit of a last minute card too as I only finished it last night!!  This card also proved difficult to get a straight photo of so I apologise for some of the odd angles.

 I have made a double gate fold card for my Mum, using the new exclusive to Stampin' Up! sizzix Top Note Die for the centre piece with some delicate Embosslit Butterflies. I  added some of the gorgeous new seam binding and ruffled it along the side of the card adding the largest of the Embosslit Butterflies.

I cut and layered the frame from the Baby Blossom stamp set and used the large oval punch along with a punched scalloped oval cut in half to layer up the centre . I stamped the leaves and small blossoms directly on to the oval and stamped and cut out the large roses so I could layer them up for some interest.

I decorated the inside of my card with more of the Springtime Vintage papers, the sentiment is from the Occasional Greetings stamp set, with another of the cut out roses.

The colours are Rose red, Pear Pizzaz, regal Rose and Pretty in Pink.

Hope you had a lovely day and got some well deserved treats - I got a lovely new Hummingbird Bakery Cake book and planned to use fresh rhubarb from the garden to make one of their cakes but I'm not feeling very well today as I'm full of cold so maybe tomorrow!! Still going to finish the ironing before I'm off for an early night.

I will share my card from my Mini Catalogue launch on Friday night tomorrow.

Angela x

In Love With Stampin' Blog Hop

Welcome to the In Love With Stampin' mini catalogue blog hop, a large group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators are taking part in today's hop to show case the new products in the mini catalogue and share some inspiration. 

There are 4 groups in the mini catalogue blog hop - this is group 2.

I have decided I would like to share my cross over pocket card using the beautiful  new Springtime Vintage papers and the Baby Blossoms stamp set.

I have made the base of my card and the criss cross pocket using Rose Red card, covering the front with the Springtime Vintage papers, I have wrapped the pocket with some In Colours Pear Pizzaz ribbon and made a flat bow.  The card has a layer of Very Vanilla card and I have rounded the corners of the layers to make it easier to take in and out of the pocket.  I stamped  a variety of the leaves in an oval, then I used the stamp-ma-jig to line up the flowers, adding a little dazzling diamonds for a bit of sparle.  The greeting is from the Sincere Salutaions stamp set.

If you would like to continue with the hop the next stop is Anthea's blog.

Group 1 starts here.

Group 3 starts here.

Group 4 starts here.