Good things with You've Got This from Stampin' Up!

The sun is beaming down on the heart of England and the flowers are showing off their beautiful colours. What an inspiration for card makers!

To make this simple card, I stamped the crosshatch background stamp in one corner and added the flower over the top.

The petals were coloured with Blushing Bride and Pink Pirouette Stampin' Write markers - they've blended rather well I think :)

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You've Got This Wood-Mount Stamp Set £35.00

Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad £6.00

Subtles Stampin' Write Markers £27.50

My shop is open 24/7 so you can buy Stampin' Up products from me any time, day or night.

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I love it when a heatwave sweeps the British Isles - people move more slowly and are quicker to smile. It's not quite so much fun when you're wearing a large fur coat though. No, not me, my friend:

That look is telling me that she is disappointed with me for giving her a bowl of water. 'I can't get in there!' she's thinking. 'Why can't we just go and live in the river?!' Oh yes, Eva has taken up swimming in quite a major way!

See you tomorrow,

Say hello with You've Got This by Stampin' Up

When life goes a little crazy, it's lovely to be able to rustle up a card in a few minutes. Today's note card is quick and simple but (hopefully!) effective. Come and see:

The recipe for this card is:

• Ink up the flower head with red and green markers and stamp onto a panel (repeat 3 times.)
• Colour the stamens if you like.
• Add a sentiment.
• Attach to a card base.

Yes, that's all folks!

The sentiment is one of my hot favourites at the moment - a ticker tape-style greeting from the gorgeous hostess set Silhouettes and Script. And here's a tip for people that hate the pressure of drawing a frame: Run the edge of a black marker gently along the edges of a panel instead for a similar look :)

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You've Got This Wood-Mount Stamp Set £35.00	Brights Stampin' Write Markers £27.50
Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker £3.25	Silhouettes & Script Wood-Mount Stamp £13.00

My shop is open 24/7 so you can buy Stampin' Up products from me any time, day or night.

If you have any queries, or prefer to speak to me, I'm happy to help.

You can contact me by email or phone on 01280 820593.

The peonies in my little garden have somehow managed to escape the ravages of The Beige Beast but haven't yet come into flower. They're late aren't they - but perhaps they're terrified to draw attention to themselves!

Do come back and visit tomorrow won't you as it'll be Artisan Design Team blog hop day and there'll be hostess trolley-loads of inspiration! See you then,

Crafting for a good cause with Stampin' Up

I love how excited us crafters get when the new Stampin' Up annual catalogue is released! Have you checked it out yet? One of my favourite new items is the Tree Builder punch. Oh the possibilities! Here's a simple little card designed to cheer someone up.

I stamped the fab crosshatch stamp from You've Got This onto a panel and topped it with a clouds, an emerging sun, some raindrops and a wonderfully uplifting sentiment.

The cloud was punched twice, once with Basic Grey card stock and once with Silver Foil sheet. I layered them together to create the silver lining mentioned in the sentiment. Isn't that fun?! Oh and there's a gold foil sunshine peeping out from behind those clouds as a further symbol of hope :)

The striped vellum and card stock trim adds a bit of extra interest :)

If you're a fan of the Owl, Bird and Cupcake punches, you'll adore this fabulous new punch, with an apple, flower, bird, raindrop, branch and cloud/tree foliage all in one! It doesn't get much better than that... but no, WAIT! Yes it does because there's a wonderful stamp set that coordinates with it!

Sprinkles of Life is a brand new photopolymer stamp set designed to help you make the most of your Tree Builder Punch. Cupcakes, ice creams, trees, clouds - it's SO versatile! But even that isn't all!

Every time this set is sold, Stampin' Up donates £2 to the Ronald McDonald House Charity which helps families stay together when children have to travel to receive medical treatment. I'm horrified at the thought of an ill child having to go for treatment without mum so this charity definitely gets my support.

So, go ahead - buy this fabulous punch and stamp set together, smile and feel happy that you're doing something good for others as well as for you :)

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Sprinkles Of Life Photopolymer Stamp Set £19.00	Tree Builder Punch £16.00	You've Got This Clear-Mount Stamp Set £25.00	Silver Foil Sheets £3.75
Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad £6.00	Gold Foil Sheets £3.75	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock £6.50	Gold Fancy Designer Vellum Foil £10.00

My shop is open 24/7 so you can buy Stampin' Up products from me any time, day or night.

If you have any queries, or prefer to speak to me, I'm happy to help.

You can contact me by email or phone on 01280 820593.

When the boys and I are breakfasting by the window in the mornings, we always see a couple meet under a garage shelter across the road. They're a boy and girl, who go to one of the local secondary schools, and we've nick-named them Romeo and Juliette as they are obviously deeply in love. They hover there, smoke a cigarette together and then walk slowly off to school, hand in hand. "I love how close they are," I remarked one morning. "But I just want to tell them to stop smoking so they can live happily ever after." My youngest son nodded. "It's supposed to be quite difficult to give up smoking," he said. "I'd advise them to try those electronic cigarettes." He is definitely my old head on young shoulders!

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You've got This - Stampin' Up artisan blog hop

Hello, and welcome to another zoom round the globe to see what Stampin' Up's fab bunch of artisan designers have been up to! The company has sent us all boxes bursting with exciting new goodies from the upcoming new annual catalogue so you'll be getting some sneaky peeks to get your stampin' taste buds watering!

A PASSION FOR PEONIES!
I'm certain the stamp set I'm using today is going to be super popular when it becomes available on 2nd June! It's called You've Got This and features a brilliant cross hatch background, a stunning peony flower to colour, plus three sentiments in bang up-to-date cursive fonts! Come and see:

The first card I'm showing you features a cut-away front and a fold-in section. For those of you that like measurementt's made with a 28.5cm x 12cm (11 1/4" x 4 3/4") piece of Whisper White card stock scored at 9.5cm and 18cm (3 3/4" and 7 1/2") When I'd folded it I glued a 9.5cm x 12cm (3 3/4" x 4 3/4") piece of Soft Sky card stock onto the back of the card which folds in to form the background for the cut-away flower section.

After stamping the peonies on the front in Rose Red ink, I snipped away the white space with my sharp paper snips. The flowers were watercoloured with Rose Red and Melon Mambo inks while the stem and leaves were coloured with markers in Garden Green and the new in-colour Cucumber Crush. The background was filled in with a Soft Sky marker.

I stamped this heart-warming sentiment when the card was folded so that I could position it neatly. I love how it fits perfectly in the cut-away space! The folding section means there's loads of space to write a message - wouldn't this card be perfect for writing about good news to someone special?!

A POSY FOR YOU

I fell in love with this summery colour scheme and used it again on another card!

This time I used a Soft Sky card base in a standard tent fold. I stamped the cross hatch image onto the card front using Whisper White craft ink for a subtle look. TIP: you could use white heat embossing if you wanted it to show up more.

The peonies were stamped and watercoloured, and the stems and leaves stamped and coloured with markers, and then everything was cut out with my sharp paper snips and attached to the card.

I added a label tied on with white bakers twine. The sentiment on that label usually says 'I'm here for you' but I cut out the 'for you' part with a 1" circle punch after stamping it.

I hope you enjoyed these cards and that You've Got This will go on your wish list for 2nd June when the new Stampin' Up annual catalogue launches! Fancy some more sneaky peeks? Just click the button below to visit the next artisan on the blog hop, Allison Okamitsu.

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Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad £4.95	Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad £4.95	Card Stock A4 Soft Sky £6.25
Paper Snips Scissors £8.95	Twine Baker's Whisper White £2.50	1" Circle Punch £11.50

My shop is open 24/7 so you can buy Stampin' Up products from me any time, day or night.

If you have any queries, or prefer to speak to me, I'm happy to help.

You can contact me by email or phone on 01280 820593.

I adore peonies and have a patch in my garden that did nothing for years and then suddenly came to life two years ago. Each year there are more flowers and this year I've counted six buds which will be opening out into gorgeous cerise coloured blooms in the next week or so...

... unless my new 'gardener' gets hold of them first that is!

See you tomorrow when I'll have LOADS of exciting news you won't want to miss!