May Scrapbook Club

Hello everyone, oh dear just when I thought nothing else could go wrong  in my life my laptop decided to start misbehaving, I think I will have to part with some money soon and replace it as it went off yesterday and tried ever since to get it going again. It s slow and driving me mad.

Anyhow I am so behind showing you stuff, today I am sharing  our May Scrapbooking club layouts.

We worked with the Paisley Petals papers and I have to admit that I would have never have looked at these papers twice if it wasn’t for a swap I received from one of my team members Hayley. She made some pretty cards and her accent was Rich Razzleberry and it just popped and it made me love it. The background is Crumb Cake and the fabby pleated ribbon in Pear pizzaz brings it all together. We fussy cut around the motif to create a wide border and more accents have been added using the swairl sizzlet punched flowers and flat backed pearls.

Here’s the other page

This time we added a fabulous textured bird cut on the Big Shot machine with the exclusive Stampin Up! Elegant Bird Die.

A few more shots of the details close up

 

The bird was embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and the pages was spritzed with brown ink and the spritzing tool for a more shabby vintage look.

I am also sharing another project I recently completed with the same Elegant Bird die, its a fabulously sparkly ornament.

It was so hard to take a decent picture of it and I still feel that no camera will ever translate its beauty and real life sparkle, its dazzling for sure

It was extremely easy to make, I used some thick hardboard that came with the glimmer paper and used the very clever Sticky Sheets. as they are double sided you simply adhere to both sides of your thick card, cut two wings in the same way, peel off the protective sheets adhere the wings to the body and pour the glitter all over!!!  Next tombow glue will be needed to cover the edges and more glitter. As easy as that !!!

I have mixed some of our galaxy fine glitter here, I mixed silver and gold for my bird here but I cannot wait to make a dozen more in all the colours.

A simple rosette made from Victoria lace pinned in place with a antique brad a sentiment from the Beautiful season stamp set and Voila!!

Thank you for stopping by hope to be with you again tomorrow, till then big hugs xxx

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In London

Hello everyone I hope you are well and enjoying the sunshine. I am in London with poorly little Luca, he’s been having such a rotten 4 weeks. He developed a throat infection after his operation and then he got chicken pox. So I am on babysitting duties to the loveliest spottiest boy . 

I have however photographed lots of things ready to share with you all so you can still pop in to have a look.

Today I am sharing one of the cards from our first Christmas Club session.

A funky colour combo of Pool Party, Regal Rose and Wild Wasabi. The stamp set is Polar Party and I love it as its an easy one to colour. I love colouring but i get bored with sets that take to long.

we used the aquapainters and ink pads to colour the trees then the markers to add in the decorations.

Here’s a close up

The pink layer was embossed using the stripes exclusive embossing folder and the Big Shot machine from Stampin’Up!.

Dazzling diamonds were added as a last step for extra sparkle.

And here’s the second one

Pines and Poinsettia set this time and I love this image, it uses the wonderful markers and it stamps amazingly every time. The comination is Wild Wasabi, Real Red and a bit of Chocolate Chip. The satin ribbon is perfect for lush looking bows.

The frame is cut out with the useful Framelits and the sentiment cut by hand and set on dimensionals.

More dazzling diamonds for sparkle of course.

Thank you for stopping by come back tomorrow and I will share another layout from our Scrapbooking Club then back to Christmas by Thursday.

Till then big hugs xxx

 

 

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A lovely break in the Sun…

Hello there hope you had a fabulous weekend. At the end of this week we got back from a lovely break in the Sun with friends. I often confess on here how very grateful I am having Stampin’Up! in my life, it has brought me so much good and enabled me to forge some very special friendships.
And one of these special friendships I made is with one crazy French girl called Vanou. It all started with the very first European Convention and we've been friends ever since. Earlier this year we got to spend some time with her entire family in Alsace and last week we joined them for some fun in the sun. They were renting a villa in Puerto Pollensa Spain and just so it happen that they had a spare bedroom with an adjoining bathroom going empty. Needless to say within 2 days after the invite flights were booked and off we went :).



The Villa was very beautiful and so comfortable, set in beautiful gardens and a massive fruit orchard totally secluded and not overlooked, well I am saying not overlooked we did have some neighbours
We spent a blissful week with mornings checking out the beautiful nearby beaches


Vanou, the cute 5 year old Lou Salome (otherwise known as *ma Lolotte*) whom I just adore , moi and Timothee the most lovely boy, polite and so well behaved he is also very handsome ( he takes after his mum of course)
The afternoons were lazily spent by the pool at times(look at us both in this picture LOL). Oh and check out the beautiful views we had, breakfast was a very special affair every morning

And in this holiday instead of packing all my shoes I packed my beloved Thermomix,  it wasn't to be a vacation for him though *wink*

Quite the opposite it never stopped working the whole week, from fresh orange juice for breakfast, to milkshakes for the children, cocktails for adults ( we lived on Fresh Strawberry Daiquiri's and fresh Pina Colada’s ), sauces, pizza dough, puree’s, sorbets, chocolate fondues, crepes and other sweet treats, salads, full meals for lunch and some of the evenings when we didn’t feel like going to a restaurant, it was always busy whizzing and cooking up a storm. The only downside I am now on a very strict diet . And here’s the last picture just as we were leaving, luckily they all had another week left to get over having us there.  It was a fabulous break thank you the Wirkels we loved every minute of your company bring on the Maldives!!!!!!!

So I have been catching up with life since getting back. Today however I got a double dose of crafty events, it was our Scrapbook club followed by the Christmas Club.
And here’s the pages we did.

 
We worked with the ever so gorgeous Tea Time scrapping kit and we knocked this pages in no time at all, here’s some of the lovely details

 
The colours are fabulous for Summery pictures and I bet you can’t guess which picture I will use for these pages *wink*. The colours are Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, pool Party and Blushing Bride.
I will share the Christmas Club projects next till then big hugs and thank you for stopping by. xxx

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Everything Eleanor once more

Hello there today the sun is shining and I am sharing our last card from our last Card Club.

The colour combination is the same Pool Party, Regal Rose and elegant Eggplant.

It’s a gate fold card made with such ease using the simply Scored board. the main frame was rock and rolled an easy and very handsome technique and the flowers stamped in Regal Rose and coloured with the aquapainter using no excess ink for a more intense look to them.

The Lace border punch creates beautiful looking lace in every colour card you wish for but for this card I kept to simple very vanilla. To create a similar effect simply scrunch up your punched paper strip until it becomes soft and pliable then attach to your projects.

The sentiment form  the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set has been punched out with the Word Window punch and layered onto the Modern label punch. I love the tiny cute bird from the same stamp set Everything Eleanor.

Hope you like today’s card don’t forget my Christmas Card Club starts this weekend if you wish to take part you need to let me know by Friday latest. Find out more HERE.

See you again soon till then BIG HUGS xx

The All Inclusive Box

Hello everyone today I am sharing the last project we made in Card club and is a little gift box. Now the box was named the All Inclusive Box by my crazy French friend Vanou. I believe its called a twist box in real life but basically we had fun recreating a version of this box after going through my box of swaps from Convention last year. The original box was designed by a fellow demo Carolyn Exwood.

It is basically an all in one box, the lid lifts up to enable you to access the contents of the box. The original example had a lovely decorated tea light inside a battery operated one of course.

So I spruced up the one that was in the original package to match my colours and design.

And here’s the box opened the side cave in to allow you to access the gift.

Hope you like my little project and if you need any of the products showcased please do not hesitate to contact me at telemech01@aoldotcom.

Look forward seeing you again soon, hugs xxx

Everything Eleanor Stampin’Up!

Hello everyone!! Today I am sharing the second card I made for our July Card Club. Is a similar design to the card I have sent to Erika for her Birthday as I designed them at the same time while looking after Luca and with limited supplies.

The combo is Pool party, Elegant Eggplant and Regal Rose.
Newsprint designer paper is such an easy background paper to work with and I love using it as a mat for my cards. The enveloped die from SU have been cut on the Big Shot machine and embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper folder.
Love the tiny regal rose grosgrain ribbon

The flowers stamped and cut out by hand and centres adorned with a bit of bling. sorry for the short post today. Hope you enjoyed my pretty today. Hugs xxx

Twiterpated Gift Holders

Hi and Happy Monday. Today I am sharing some really quick voucher holders. I was asked by the mum of two crafters if  I would help her gift her girls a shopping spree in the SU catalogue. Of course i was happy to obliged and had to design a lovely wallet to present the vouchers in. And here’s the design I settled on.

Yep Twiterpated papers again!! I told you I really, really like them and I cannot stop using them. I have also used my fave Apothecary Art stamp set with the matching framelits. You cannot make a bad project with these goodies and they look so very professional with very minimal effort.
The colours here are Baja Breeze, Ridinghood Red and Blushing Bride a soft and warm shade of pink.
The construction is a simple fold over to house the voucher and the folded wallet is held in place with a belly band made from designer paper. A bit of pleated ribbon behind the framelits mat adds softness to the whole project and a few rhinestones along with some tiny flowers punched with the Itty Bitty punch add sparkle and extra dimension.


I coloured the stamped image with our markers  and the decoratibe border was punched out with the Scallop trim border punch.
I hope you like today’s offering I have to shoot now but will be back soon promise. till then hugs xxx

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More Training Projects

Hello I hope you’re having a gret weekend. I am finishing off sharing the projects from our July training.
Here’s a simple make n take suitable card using the fabulous Pennant Parade stamp set and matching punch

This is a sweet and quick to mass produce card, you could take it to the next level by adding more bling a bit of sponging some embossing to the bottom layer or simply douse in lots of shimmer spray and call it done. I used this design a lot last year for last minute cards and tags. The matching punch is a Godsend. The sentiment is included in the set and it fits the tiny tag punch perfectly.
I am also sharing a card that lovely Bekka designed for us.
Is a fabby fold easy to make with the aid of the Simply Scored. It has a clever pocket and it uses the Delightful decorations stamp set and matching punch, another time saver.
Thank you for checking out todays post have a fabulous weekend. Hugs xxx

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A Christmas mini book

Hello again, I bet you’re wondering what got into me with this frequent postings. Today I have another training project to share. A lovely mini book

Everyone got half a pack of Twiterpated papers a full reel of pleated ribbon, a full pack of rhinestones, some bakers twine and all the card stock needed for all the projects in their kit.
This is an envelope mini album and the front of it has been decorated with a fabulous 3 dimensional wreath.

It has tons of room for photographs, the envelopes are hinged to the base of the album so can be flipped also they act as pockets for more mats that can be decorated further with more photographs.
it all folds up and is secured with a velcro dot.
The wreath on the front was simply made using the Boho Blossom punch and a water spritzer bottle.

It was mounted on a double mat cut with the Framelits on the Big Shot machine and the word JOY was cut using the Junior Alphabet die from Stampin’Up!
to place an order for any of these products please email me at telemech01@aoldotcom
Thank you for stopping by see you again soon. Hugs xx

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Christmas in July

Hello again like promised I am here to share more Christmassy projects from our Quarterly Training Event with you
One of the projects is always a 3D and this one came to life after a chat with Bekka, she gave me the idea of a 3D angel and I set to work and made it happen. It turned out soo cute

Its made from Stampin’Up!’s petal cone die cut on the Big shot machine in whisper white card stock. Nearly every single component for this box is on the same die.
The head is made from the scallop circle punch and  1 1/4”circle punch. I will have to ask you to imagine the head positioned lower down to meet the lace punch layer ( I never realised until now that I stuck the head down to high up )
Sentiment from the ever so fabulous Curly Cute and the hands were made using the Word Window punch.
The wings have been embossed using the Vintage wallpaper embossing folder and the Big Shot machine.
Rhinestones were added as a halo.
It felt good to design Christmas projects for this training. And I had to do more designing for my first Christmas Club of the year.
Christmas Club is brilliant as its designed to help you get the bulk of your cards done ahead of time so near Christmas you are left with plenty of time to make your more special cards and presents. Each month from July till December we meet and make 8 cards in one session, by December you will have 48 cards ready to post. The best of it is that you receive envelopes as well so you can write and address 8 cards each month so again you do not have to write and address 50 of them in one go.

The first session takes place on the 22 July and you will get to make 8 cards 2 each of four different designs with envelopes included for £12.99.

Venue details below:

Carlton Village Hall
CHURCH LANE, CARLTON
GOOLE
DN14 9PB
If you would like to please email me to reserve your spot. Do you live to far but would like to start building your stash of Christmas cards? I can have a kit delivered to your door each month ready for you to assemble. All you have to do is email me and request a KIT BY MAIL.
See you again tomorrow, till then hugs xx

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Passionettes Quarterly Team Training

Hello there hope you’re well and your week is going well. Today I want to share with you some snippets of our Training Event on the 1st July. I love crafty get togethers and love getting together with my teamies and fellow demonstrators.
It was particularly exciting as my two good friends and French demos come to visit me and attend the training. Here’s Moira finishing off her swaps in my kitchen 

On Saturday we had another of my good friends and fellow demo visit us my Convention roomie Zoe.
We did some crafting then we had a lovely lunch

then on our way back i had to pop into the shops for fresh milk and some goodies for the training day and while I was in the girls had a bit of fun on the wet street


LOL
and then on Sunday morning bright and early we set off for Peterborough.
And we pulled all the stops to decorate the room for our special guests LOL ,  the room before everyone arrived.

As well as our French guest we also had our Country manager Paula Gorry attend, Vanou loved her patriotic lunch bag

Soon the room is filling up.

And before long the day was underway.
Swapping

Crafting and having fun

Admiring the displays


Product display as well, Carole offers some fabulous business tools for demonstrators to help with their businesses.


Training and finding it hard to understand how on Earth you can work during your lunch break ? ( the French would NEVER do this so the moment had to be captured for eternity)

And before we knew it the day was over and it was time for our raffle prizes and goodbyes. Below you can see the lovely Bekka my lovely partner in crime organizing and running these events, she is one special lady and I am very grateful to know her.

Being a demonstrator has so many benefits and every single event is special and great fun. I always bang on about this but I feel so lucky to be able to do what I love, lucky to have made some really special friendships and lucky to share such happy memories with so many lovely people.
if you would like to find out more about becoming a demonstrator please do not hesitate to contact me, the benefits are great and if I can do it everyone can.
I want to introduce you to Anita one of our newest team members. Her proud up-upline my lovely downline Susan sent me this lovely picture, doesn’t she looks lovely in her Stampin’Up! apron?
I had the pleasure of meeting Anita she is a lovely and very talented crafter and really she is excited about her new venture. Her classes are very popular and she will be a fabulous demo I am sure. She lives in Mitcheldean so if you are in the area and want to check out her workshops out get in touch.
Gosh this has turned out into an almighty post hasn’t it? I want to share one of the projects we did on the day. Our theme was Christmas and here’s one of the cards we did highlighting the Ghosting technique.

Ridinghood Red, Shimmery Gold, Crumb cake and Very Vanilla.
The gold card was scalloped using the scallop trim border punch, the sentiment from Delightful Dozen cut out with the framelits and the Big shot machine from Stampin’Up! and the lovely poinsettia made using the 5 petal flower punch. The background was stamped with the Serene Snowflakes set.
Thank you for visiting me please come back tomorrow for more projects from our training. Hugs xx

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