SCRAPBOOKING THE TREE HOUSE

Hi Stampers

Today's pages were created around the photos taken when my grandaughter and her best friend ,  at the time ,decided to build a tree house . You'll see hubbie there with the saw doing the work safe thing !

I reall enjoyed creating this LO and it was great to see how each page looked so different when the ladies chose different colours  , from a wedding by the river using Blushing Bride with Tip Top Taupe ribbon to camping  or wood gathering at the river using Delightful Dijon and Watermelon Wonder .

Supplies used 

Stamps 

Sheltering Tree

Kinda Eclectic

Work Of Art

Sprinkles Of Life

Butterfly Basics

Awesomely Artistic

Epic Alphabet

Tools 

Tree Builder Punch

Scalloped Tag Topper Punch

New Catalogue Launch Day

Wonderful day today with 15 ladies in my little home over two sessions this morning and this afternoon . Here are some photos of my display out on the patio .

I've had a busy few weeks planning for this huge event and making little gifts to spoil my ladies who support me so well .Here are some photos of the gifts I popped inside the bags that I'd also decorated using our new cotton paper.

Inside these babies I popped some retired ribbons , some punched shapes and a scissor holder sewn together using some Stampin ' Up ! reitred fabric .

These bags were made using the gift bag die and I filled them with all sorts of yumminess including a lovely satchet of a hot chocolate melt on a stick I purchased from Aldi .

Here are the decorated bags that held everything .

The ladies made these two cards and one matching envelope to showcase our new envelope paper and also the envelope punch board.

The winner of the Treasure Hunt for the morning session was Dawn Morris and Pam Waldron won it at the afternoon session .

Gail Sayers won the major lucky door prize in the morning and Lynette McRae was the winner this afternoon.

I served a lovely Devonshire  tea at both sessions  . All of my ladies said they'd had a lovely day .

My next class will be Scrapbooking next Sunday the 21 st June . 😀

A special gift for a sweet friend

A few weeks ago I made a special gift for a sweet friend of mine . She is a nursing buddy I trained with and also my up line @ Stampin ' Up ! I can't believe I forgot to post it to my blog so here you go !

I adore the sale-a-brat ion stamp Lotus Blossom and it was so much fun to create this for my friend . I then created a matching pop up book card .

The front of the card was created using the Bokeh technique . I just love this design and these colours together.

Supplies:

Stamps : Lotus Blossom , Butterfly Basics , Summer Silhouettes .

Inks : Rich Razzleberry , Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Wild Wasabi .

Tools : Note Tag Punch , Butterfly framelits 

Paper : Whisper White , Rich Razzleberry, Pink Pirouette.

My friend loved her gift so I was inspired to creat another similar project which I gave away as a lucky door prize at my last card class . The winner was and is still in awe of it and cannot get over the effort I put into it ! So sweet of her to say !

SCRAPBOOKING

Hi Stampers .

What fun we had today ! I helped my ladies create what would have to be one of my favourite layouts !

The first is my grandson Sam dressed up as a pirate . He's such a cutie don't you think !

I've used some retired , but still favourite sets for these layouts .

Products used : Real Red , Basic Black , Basic Gray cardstock and Typeset DSP .

Circles Framelits .

Stamp sets : Open Sea , Calm Seas ,Just Jawing and Grunge Rock.

Ink : Craft White , Memento Black

In this page Liam , my oldest grandson is dressed as Harry Potter - how cool does he look !

This time I chose Cherry Cobbler cardstock  Typeset and Back To Black DSP and the Alphabet embossing folder was spritzed with Vanilla Smooch to give it authenticity .

I used the Spider Web and Perfect Print embossing folders to stamp with - have you tried it yet ? It's really cool !

Stamp sets used were Choose Happiness ,  Artistic Etchings , Affection Collection , Grunge Rock and Sheltering Tree - love those spooky trees ! This was easily adapted by Coral to make a Halloween LO for her grandaughter and it looked amazing !

That's all for today ! My next class will be a launch day for our new catalogue which goes live on June 2 nd . My launch will be Sunday 14 th June .

Mother' s Day Themed card class

Hi Stampers !

I made these adorable little cups and filled them with chocolates as a  Mother's Day treat for my ladies who continually support me in doing what I love. You can find the tutorial here www.getcreativewithtraci.co.uk 

Thanks so much for sharing Traci 😀

At today's class 3 Mother' s Day themed cards were created .

I used some of the retiring in colours for the first two cards .

This one uses the stamp set Mum's Love which is a available  for purchase from the Occasions catalogue . Cased from Pinterest . Some of the ladies used a different greeting .

Used Strawberry Slush , Pink Pirouette , Pistachio Pudding , I Love Lace background stamp ( if you love this get it fast as it is retiring ) , Spring Flowers TEF and Deco Labels framelits . I gave this one to my grandaughter to give her Mum as well as a little cup filled with chocolates .

Then this gorgeous card that I think was the favourite of most class participants  ! Uses Perfect Polka Dots TEF also retiring ,Hello You framelits Crazy For You bundle O.C . Delicate Designs TEF and Saclloped Edgelits also retiring . Also cased from Pinterest. I am giving this one to my Mum for Mother' s Day 😍

Lastly we have another favourite of mine in blues and Smokey Slate . This one uses Lovely Lace TEF ,, Smokey Slate , Night Of Navy and Soft Sky . I hope you like my cards.

I have seen the new catalogue on line and I love it ! Lots of changes , can't wait to have my copy in my hands ! If you'd like a copy please contact me !

THURSDAY CLASS

HELLO YOU THINLITS AND CRAZY ABOUT YOU STAMP SET .

Hello Stampers !

What a great class yesterday !

Six ladies joined me to create three cards . The first card was a collage in Very Vanilla , Baked Brown Sugar , Brushed Gold and Memento Black ink. 

The heart was embossed using the Happy Heart TEF.

It looked stunning embellished with a gold button and gold twine .

Products used : Baked Brown Sugar ! Brushed Gold and Very Vanilla cardstock

Stamps : Butterfly Basics.

Inks : Memento Black

Tools Hello You thinlits

Next was a   For You card using the flower image stamped three times , punched out once , then the next  two sizes were snipped lout with paper snips.

Products used : 

Lost Lagoon , Crumb Cake , Whisper  White and Hello Honey cardstock.

Inks : Cherry Cobbler and Crumb .

Tools : Hello You thinlits, Flower Medallion punch .

Hello Honey Twine .

Stamps Crazy About You .

The last card was fairly simple ,  but very  versatile .

Both the mat and the card front were punched out using the Hezpxagon punch .

Then the greeting was stamped on the inside .

Some punched hexagons completed the card - A great card for males and changing the paper and adding some flowers or butterflies would dress it up for a lady.

Products used : 

Cardstock : Blackberry Bliss , Sahara Sand , Whisper White .

MOONLIGHT DSP STACK

Ink : Blackberry Bliss .

Tools : Six Sided sampler punch , Honetcomb TEF , Hello You thinlits.

I hope you like my cards. 😀

SCRAPBOOKING MY GORGEOUS GRANDAUGHTER !

Lovely group of ladies today for Scrapbooking and oh boy did they work hard and so did I !

Everyone was more than happy with the beautiful pages created .

For the first page I demonstrated the wax paper technique and the Bokeh technique . I'd told the ladies last week that they'd be ironing today - they thought I was joking ! 

The wak paper technique is similar in effect to emboss resist - you cut out your shape using waxed lunch wrap , here we used the butterfly thinlits and the striped scallop thinlit ,  then iron it onto your page with the wax side to the paper . Then you sponge and the design shows through .

The dies were also cut from Bermuda Bay C . S and used to embellish the page . Butterflies and flowers were also stamped and punched and used as embellishments.

A row of Bokeh down the side completed the page .

For the next page we used the Borderettes stamp and the emboss resist technique . 

Hello You thinlit dies were used to cut the word ' happy ' in different colours . The page was sponged in pastel shades this time and and different  stamp sets were used to create a collage effect.

I hope you like my pages as much as I do !

Next class is Thursday 23 rd April when we'll make 3 cards using Hello thinlits and the matching Stamp set Crazy About You . Contact me for more details .