Apologies- Ive been away for a while

Hi, Im sorry if you have been checking on my blog for the past 5 weeks, I have had a very hectic time, One of my best friends who now lives in Australia, came to stay with her family after her mum sadly passed away.  She came with her Husband and two young children, so consequently I seemed to have very little time in my day between working and spending time with them.  Then in the middle of it all my goddaughter from America came to visit. So 5 extra people.  But boy I did enjoy the company.  But I'm back now so will post tommorow with a craft project I will be doing with them.

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Some exciting new products from the 2015-2016 Catalogue released 02 JUNE 2015

To see more items and other project ideas take a look at the NEW 2015-2016 Catalogue on line  9By clicking the catalogue picture on the right further down, or contact me to get a copy sent to your door.

NEW CATALOGUE RELEASE

Hello Stampers

THE NEW CATALOGUE BEGINS TODAY! 

Today is your last chances to order any retiring merchandise that has not yet sold out before the OLD CATALOGUE ENDS TONIGHT.

2015-2016 NEW catalogue

June 2nd Only — One Day To Order From ALL Catalogues! 

For today only, you can order from both the retiring 2014-2015 Annual Catalogue AND the brand new 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue, Plus the Occasions Catalogue! 

Order Now — New Prices & Stampin’ Rewards Coming June 3

There are some changes in the new catalogue to be aware of, as outlined below.

Price Changes —  Orders placed on June 2 will still receive the “old” pricing.

Please note the there are a few items that will see more significant price changes:

▪   Ink pads and refills: Our last price increase for ink pads and refills was in 2009. Over time, our costs have gone up, resulting in a small price increase.

▪   Extra-large punches: Our punch supplier increased our cost on some of our punches, necessitating a price increase on our largest punch-body style.

▪   Big Shot, cutting pads, and crease pads: Our supplier has raised their prices, and we’ve adjusted our prices to be in line with those changes.

▪   Price Decrease on Embossing Folders: We are happy to announce that we’ve been able to negotiate a cost savings on Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, which has made it possible for us to lower the price of all embossing folders.

NEW Stampin’ Rewards—Stampin’ Up! has restructured the Hostess Benefits into a new, simplified Stampin’ Rewards program that will officially begin on June 3, 2015.  Orders placed on June 2 will go toward earning the “old” Hostess Benefits, but you’ll be able to select hostess exclusive items from ANY of the catalogues on that day only.

Earn Rewards For Every Pound!  This new, simplified version of rewards uses percentages to allow stampers to maximize every pound of sales toward their order!

How It Works — If your workshop order / personal order is £200, for example, you’ll earn £20 in Stampin’ Reward pounds to spend, but that total increases with every additional order.  So, if you added £40 to it, you’d earn £24 in Stampin’ Rewards pounds to spend!  Unlike the old program, you don’t have to get to the next level to earn additional benefits!  Fabulous!

NEW!  Use Stampin’ Rewards To Purchase A Starter Kit! — Also new to this catalogue is that you’ll be able to use Stampin’ Rewards pounds toward the purchase of a Starter Kit!  So you can grab a spot on my Stampin group for a discounted price or even FREE!  That’s a fantastic deal

NEW Recruit Special Begins Tomorrow, Too! 

As if the catalogue transition wasn’t enough, tomorrow is the first day of a new Recruiting Special!  Between June 2-30, purchase a £99 Starter Kit and select TWO stamps sets of your choice for FREE! 

Not only can you pick your normal £130 for just £99, you can pick another two stamp sets of your choice in addition to that too!  And if you join in June, you will be able to take advantage of the 30% discount off of your first order (£150+ ) in your first 45 days too for the last time!

Contact me if you would like any further information or if I can clarify anything that you may be unsure of.

Bidding farewell to the SU Blendabilities

Here are another two colour combinations for the NEW stamp set "You've got this" and using some of the NEW inks and cards from the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! catalogue..  Mint Macaron and Tip Top Taupe. And the last to complete the set is made with Watermelon wonder and Sky blue.

As you may be aware Stampin' Up! called time on the Blendabilities (alcohol Pens) , due to the inferior product which is good in one respect, because it shows their commitment to excellent products, but sad as we now need to wait to see if they can team up with another manufacturer. I love alcohol pens, so was soooo excited when they announced they were launching them, but as much as i love them the quality was way off the mark.

So as I prepare to return all of mine, I felt I needed to make a farewell card to bid goodbye.

Here it is

 The card is made up of some new products which are being released on 2nd Jun and some old faithfuls that are still current.

Colouring done with the retiring Blentabilities.

NEW - Stampset / coloured base card and ink - Sorry you will have to wait until the big reveal to find out what they are.

Check back here after 2nd Jun for the product information.

Thanks for stopping by

       

      Yvonne

COMING SOON - new catalogue 02nd Jun 2015

NEW CATALOGUE RELEASE

02nd JUN

NEW IN COLOURS 2015-2017

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I already have my favourite - which one will be yours?   

Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe,Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush & Delightful Dijon.

  

Check back over the next few weeks to see some projects made with the new products, which as a demonstrator I am able to get a sneak selection of products a month before the catalogue is released.

So I'm currently in California but once home early next week I will start on some projects to post on here.

If you would like to become a demonstrator and get the chance to get products early and have a  20% discount to boot, check out the "JOIN MY TEAM" button at the top.

If you would like a copy of the catalogue, then feel free to contact me.

Catalogues are free if you place an order for £25 or more.  Or £4.50 if you just want this amazing 189 page cattie to brouse it has some great projects in for you look at as well as all the current products and they are some fabulous items.

Also contact me if you are interested in classes/workshops.

CREATIVE BLOG HOP - Come and look

So this week i was nominated by the lovely and telented Kim Fee HERE whom I have met and have become good friends with over the last 18months, shes insperational. Since joining Stampin' Up! I have met many insperational people and i can't tell you how much they have helped me along the way, a special thanks to Leslie Lendon HERE

I am nominating two more people to blog hop so be sure to check out there blogs next monday (13th April)


Fiona Harris - Krftyfi.blogspot.co.uk

Cayleigh May - Cayleigcards.com

Before I show you my creation I would like to answer the questions that have been put before me........

1. What are you working on right now?

I am working on projects for my APRIL/MAY classes, I love teaching new techniques and love how peoples faces light up when they finish a card and in there head i can here them saying " I made that" I am nominating my lovely downline Fiona Harris HERE who has not only been an amazing friend and support to me over the last 7yrs but is becoming a very talented Crafter and Cayleigh MayHERE who is an awsome talent not only crafing but her organisational and business skills are invaluable. Thank you ladies ...

2. How does your work differ from others in your genre?
I dont usually stamp direct on to a card base, so thought i would push myself to show how to make quick cards, I am pretty pleased, I also used a stamp set that i hadnt really liked other than having it for the words, now im like why did i not use that before.

3. Why do you create what you do?

I'm addicted to it Haha! I LOVE IT, I have always been creative, i used to sew ( my mum was a seemstress), i made my two best friends wedding dresses and studied for an interior design degree. When my husband passed away 6 yrs ago it was my therapy, my saviour along with good friends i got thru it and I just cant put it down now.

4. How does your creative process work?

I get a stamp set, and just stamp it onto photo copy paper first then start adding then think Na not right go again and then eventually theres a pile on the floor and the winning fomular on my desk and there it is. I find insperation in magazines and pinterest, you see colours tgthr and go wow that works now let's try it with what i have got...

Now onto my cards which are very spring like you can what ever sentiments you like to these.. i hope you like them.

Crazy about you stamp set - BY Stampin' Up! 

Stawberry slush

Daffodil Delght/ Hello Honey

Pink Pirouette /Stawberry slush 

Perfect Plum

I made a mask using a the scolloped punch to enable me to stamp the leaves and small flower buds behind the main image. You do this by first stampin the large flower onto the card then placing the scolloped punch out over the top you can then stamp the leaves and medium flowers then add the tiny flower stamp to the leaves.

On the Perfect Plum and Stawberry slush card I added stitch lines around the large flower and on the other two I added the stitch lines around the outside of the cards. I used four colours but you could make them all the same if you wish.

Then Add a greeting of your choice.

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A few cards

We had a team day on Saturday - Thank you Natalie Oshea for the day, a good time was had by all and this is the project that we worked on.  Love this colour combo and the designs, Unfortunatly The Butterfly dies are currently out of  stock, so I will make a new set up using some different butterflies for the class.

 I will post the items used for this by tommorow as I need to go to work now.

I will be doing a class and will be posting information soon with dates along with some other projects.  

New classes including a  mens card class thanks to Kim Fee for the inspiration for that class her cards were awsome, and she kindly said we could use her technique.  So I promise to get the details out this weekend.

All for now, Thanks for dropping by

Yvonne

SALE-A-BRATION ENDING SOON

Sale-a-bration ends 31st March.. Get your free Products before the 31st march. Dont fortget spend £45.00 and pick a free product.

Contact me for further details

Stampin' Up! One 12 x 12 page - 6 card project using Painted Blooms designer series paper.

I JUST LOVE THIS PAPER
1 sheet of 12 x 12 Designer paper can be transformed into 6 gorgeous cards with a few little extras.

How would you like to make this 12 x 12 sheet of paper from the Painted Blooms designer paper stack 

Into these 6 lovely cards  

I used the following products along with some sentiment stamps from my stash.- I saw a similar project on Pinterest by Jessica Taylor

I will be holding a class in April for this project and it will include all you need to make the six cards, if you are interested in coming along please email or call me for further information.

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NEWS-BLENDABILITIES QUALITY ISSUES

BLENDABILITIES QUALITY ISSUES

27 February 2015

We are experiencing a quality issue with our Blendabilities product line. Except for the Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad (item #132708) and the Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad Refill (item #133456), all item numbers have been Suspended; this includes Blendabilities Sale-A-Bration item numbers. 

We thank you for your patience and will update you as soon as we have more information. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Project Life Memory keeping

WANT TO REORGANISE YOUR PHOTOS HAVE YOU GOT YOUR PHOTOS IN BOXES??
(or on your phone or computer and not even printed out?) I am looking for people interested in memory keeping (NOT scrapbooking) or any burned out scrapbookers who want to document their photos without draining time, energy and wallets. No creativity required!!! Message me! No gluing or cropping! It is so quick, easy, and very affordable. I'd LOVE to show you how you can create beautiful albums documenting your story without all of the time and energy of traditional scrapbooking!

12 x 12 or 6 x 8 , how about getting the kid's to do the smaller one while you do the large one. contact me if you are interested in this new amazing way of documenting your photo's

Sale-A-Bration coming soon

WOW its coming the fantastic Sale-a-bration,  Whats that you may ask?
Each year Stampin' Up! have this fabulous offer on for every £45 you spend on products you get to pick a free product from the SAB catalogue and oh my there are some fab items in that book, I think its the best yet.

SO KEEP WATCHING for some projects made from the freebies.

They also on the same date launch the Spring/Summer mini catalogue and Boy they are fabulous again over the next few weeks I will be posting some items made from that catalogue.  today here are a couple of cards I made using one of the stamps from the Spring / summer catalogue. i am not able to post any details about the stamp used, so you will need to check back for detail.

SALE-A-BRATION  & SPRING / SUMMER CATALOGUES 

Coming soon 

January 2015 - 31st March 2015

If you would like a SAB or Spring summer catalogue please contact me and I will post one out or you will be able to look at a digital version on January 6th.

watch out for more project using the new products.

Just thought I would share my team with you all

Morning, I thought I would share a picture of my immediate team that I work with, We are all Independent Stampin' up! demonstrators. We are in a bigger team with Natalie O'shea where she has 203 demo's under her. and we 5 are a little branch off from her.

We went to Basinstoke on Thursday for the launch of SALE-A-Bration which starts January 6th.. How it works is for every £45 you spend on Stampim' Up! products you get to pick a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalogue and there are some great products in there, I will post some projects soon, but you will have to wait till Jan 6th to see the catalogue.

So who is who ....Charry who is 2nd from the left is immediately under Natalie and my upline, Rachael (1st left) and myself are under Charry and then Grace next to me and Fiona come under my umbrella (my down lines). They are both super ladies and I love having them in my team.

Charry is a superb upline and we are a great but small ( at this time) team.

There will be some fantastic deals on joining coming up in Jan with lots of free goodies and a kit with extras. its just £99 to join and that gives you a £130 kit with product of your choice plus some more freebies. So contact me if you would like to join and be a member of our team.

Everything ELeanor

This set along with Kinda Eclectic is one of my go to's. You can make some fabulous cards and backgrounds with this set.  I saw a card similar to this on pinterest and this is my version.

Using A6 whisper white card base.

1. Stamp the foliage background stamp From the Everything Eleanor in Olive Green onto a Matt of Whisper white cards took.

2. Using an embossing folder (sorry the script one I used is now retired) stagger the plates on ypur bigshot or machine of choice to enable a strip of the embossing only to go across the centre of the whisper white stamped Matt.

3. Stamp a greeting in the place of your choice, I like top or bottom right.

4. Wrap old olive bakers twine twice Around the card and fasten at the back.

5. Matt the whisper white stamped card onto Melon mambo card stock and add to the front of the card base.

5. Using the large flower from Everything Eleanor stamp 3 images in melon mambo ink  and 1 in old olive.

6. Cut out all 4 of the images. Leaving the 1st pink one full the 2nd removing 1 leaf, 3rd removing 3 leaves.

7. Cut the old olive image in to half to use a leaves, decoupage the flower and add to the stamped and embossed Matt. ( this one does not show the green leaves - but it looks great with them on)

8. Finally add either Rhinestones or candy dots in melon mambo to the foliage.

I hope you like this card as much as I do you can make lots of different versions and colour ways for this card using this lovely set.

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

£7.50

Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

£6.25

Old Olive Baker's Twine

£2.50

Everything Eleanor Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£25.95

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

£5.50

Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

£4.50

Brights Candy Dots

£5.50

Big Shot Die-Cut Machine

£87.95

Love this set - Kinda Eclectic

Using Whisper white card stock A6 in size.

1. I lightly skimmed across the inside of Modern Mosaic embossing folder with Crumb cake ink and laid the front side of the card inside and randomly pressed to give the background image a distressed look.

2. Stamp the Sun blast in Hello Honey

3. Stamp the leaves in Old Olive from the Kinda Eclectic set using 1st 2nd and 3rd generation stamping.

4. Using Pumpkin pie stamp randomly the small butterfly

5. using a strip of DSP in Blackberry bliss cutting either at an angle or a banner style to your preference

6. Add some linen thread

7. stamp a sentiment onto Kraft card and decorate either....
      a) Stamp & Punch out large butterfly and add to sentiment
      b) stamp the butterfly image onto Whisper White and punch the butterfly out of the Kraft card  with the sentiment on and then lay over the butterfly,

8.  Raise with 3-D dimensionals.

9. Punch out and add to card and finish with some rhinestones to complete the look.

Kinda Eclectic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.95

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

£7.50

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

£5.50

Elegant Butterfly Punch

£14.25

Kraft 12" X 12" Card Stock

£5.50

Linen Thread

£3.95

Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

£4.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

£3.25

Modern Mosaic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

£7.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Would you like to make these cards why not Come along to a class to make 6 cards 2 of seach design and a lovely box to give as a gift.

I will be posting new class dates this week they are held in Wivelsfield Green, West Sussex.