Decorated Wooden Tag

I decorated a wooden tag last weekend as a gift to my Stampin Up mum - my up line Julie Kettlewell. She is opening her own little crafting paradise and all her classes are going to run from this new venue, so I wanted to send my best wishes, and a good luck message. I hope she liked it, it should have been delivered now.

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More cards made last weekend

I made these last weekend and they have been appearing on my Stampin Up Facebook page over this week, so I thought I better let you all take a look at them as well. Check out my Facebook page and any questions just contact me at any time. Hope you have all got over eating all those pancakes on Tuesday!

I have been trying to use up some scraps of paper.

Fathers day with Stampin Up products

This was my fathers day gift bag and card, made using Stampin Up paper, card, stamps and accessories. I covered a Body shop bag both sides with paper and decorated, then I used four or five different stamp sets to to get the background, the ship, the word Dad and the sentiment.

Stampin' Up Cutie pie Thinlits Die

I have been playing with my new dies, the forst being the Stampin' up Cutie pie thinlits die. You can make a number of them to make a cake, or singularly for a different sort of gift box. I had fun using them, and this was my first attempt.

Stampin Up Mini Treat Bag Addiction

I have to admit I love the mini treat bag die from Stampin up. I have mentioned before that this die will not go through my cuttlebug, and I have not purchased a big shot at the moment, so I have used my sisters big shot to cut some bags, and have started to decorate.

I have made an insert for my first one that will take a gift card.

The others have just been decorated but an insert can be made at any time.

I know!.....it is an addiction!!

I still have more to decorate. :)

As you can also see the sale-a-bration free stamp set 'lotus blossom' is a great stamp to use on cards, gift tags and also to decorate bags.

Spend £45 with me to get the free stamp set.

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Stampin᾿ Up! Supplies

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Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies	Lotus Blossom Photopolymer Stamp Set	Best Year Ever Designer Series Paper	Flower Pot Designer Series Paper
Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack	Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

New Stampin Up products - Paper bag die - available 6th January 2015

The new paper bag die it is called Mini Treat Bag Thinlits die and will be item number 137547 in the spring summer and sale-a-bration catalogue release.

I loved the idea of this die and could not wait to try it. I have found out something about the die...it will NOT fit in the Cuttlebug, it is too wide. I have not yet purchased the big shot from Stampin up as I am limited for space, and the next machine I wanted to buy would have been an A4 machine, and hopefully one that folded like the Cuttlebug. I have used the die by using some else's machine and I do love it.

The word dies are included, as is the bow. It is not a Christmas set, but I wanted to make these just before Christmas, they would be great for a small quick gift.

Get well card

My sister had to miss our Silver Wedding Anniversary meal as she was poorly, so I sent back a get well soon card, with a little note in side. She has a great eye regarding interior design and colours and arranging things, and the gift she sent over with my dad, was beautifully decorated and arranged. Thank you Sis xx.

She also made a cake, but only iced it the day before she was ill, so she did not know if we wanted to eat it! At the time of writing, we are still wondering! It is fruit so it will be OK to wait a while. I loved the glitter icing on our names, and she was going to bring a chocolate one as well, we were very spoilt.

My colleague at work also made a cake, this one was sponge so we are eating this one first.

This was the gift arrangement from my sister, it was fabulous.

Stampin' Up Gift box punch board

I have been having a go with the Gift Box Punch Board from Stampin Up. It is great, the paper sizes needed are from 6 x 6 which would make a 1.75" x 1.75" x 1.75" box, up to a 12 x 12 paper which would give a 4" Square box. The box will not need any adhesive, but I actually like to glue back the pieces that fold to the middle, that way the box keeps solid when open.

I have wrapped the Burlap ribbon around the box, and the topper has been made with the thick bakers twine in baked brown sugar. I found my flower loom that I had when I was a child and made the flower topper. Never throw away anything crafty you WILL use it again!

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Gift Box Punch Board	Baked Brown Sugar Thick Baker's Twine	1-1/4" Burlap Ribbon	1-3/4 Inch Scallop Circle Punch
Very Vintage Designer Buttons	Linen Thread

Baby Boy Exploding Box smothered in Stampin up

Congratulations to my Cousin Darren and his lovely partner Jurate, they have a beautiful baby Michael Christopher Pickett. The baby was born on August 13th at 9pm, and I made them this exploding box card the weekend after, as I do not like making things like this until the baby has been born. It was posted off on Monday and they should have it by now. There are a lot of photos and I have used so many stamps, punches, colours, dies and papers from Stampin up that I can't list them all at the bottom so have only listed a few!

This is the bottom layer before I put the box together.

Washi tape along the top of each square.

Don't tell me off, I have used one of last years Stampin' Up ribbons that is not available this year, but I did not have anything to trim the bottom edge of the shoe. Our current lace trim is cream colour and it did not match the white of the paper. I bought extra of this ribbon before it went out of stock, it is elasticated and I will cry when I have used it.

I put our hand written greeting in the the box lid, I hope they see this or they will think it is a mystery RAK until they see it on my Facebook page!

Here goes at trying to remember what I have used.

Stampin᾿ Up! Supplies

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Something For Baby Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Groovy Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set	That's The Ticket Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Label Love
Teeny Tiny Sentiments Clear-Mount Stamp Set	A Fitting Occasion Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Itty Bitty Baby Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Itty Bitty Banners Clear-Mount Stamp Set
Banner Banter Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Petite Pairs - Clear-Mount Stamp	Baby's First Framelits Die	Chalk Talk Framelits Dies
Bitty Banners Framelits Die	Sweetheart Punch	Banner Punch	1 Inch Circle Punch
Artisan Label Punch	7/8" Scallop Circle Punch	Petite Curly Label Punch	Borders Scoring Plate Simply Scored
Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents	Marina Mist 3/4" Chevron Ribbon	Pistachio Pudding Thick Baker's Twine	Beach House Designer Washi Tape
Lullaby Designer Series Paper	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad	Pistachio Pudding Classic Stampin' Pad	Hello Honey Classic Stampin' Pad
Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin' Pad	2013-2015 In Color A4 Cardstock