Spread the Cost with Stampers 10!!

As promised, I want to share with you details of how you can EARN FREE PRODUCTS, without hosting a workshop or party.....interested.......then join my Stampers 10 Club!!   What is the Stampers 10 Club???
This is an opportunity to be a virtual hostess, and enjoy receiving lovely goodies each month, and then 1 month receive a HOSTESS gift and extra money to spend on more product.  So how does it work?  Spend £15 a month (not including P&P) for 10 months. During 1 of these months, you will be the clubs 'hostess' entitling you to choose a hostess gift from the catalogue, and also additional products. When you join and the club starts I will send you a free catalogue. If you think you would want to spend more than £15 a month, ie £30 why not take 2 slots, and enjoy twice the benefits!!  This is a great way to enjoy purchasing products.  If you are interested please email me at alisonwilkins656@yahoo.co.uk  with the Mini Catalogue launch later this week, this is a great time to join!!!

Mothers Day........Just Believe!!

I have had another busy weekend, my wonderful husband celebrated his birthday yesterday, and I made him a card using one of the fabulous new sets from the new mini, so unfortunately I cannot share it with you just yet!!! 4 more sleeps thats all!!!  My Mum also celebrates her birthday this week, and that will be another card I will enjoy to share with you on Friday..........however I also enjoyed making 2 Mothers Day Cards for my mum and Davids mum.....they are 2 very special ladies, and we love them dearly.  It was not hard to choose my stamp set for this, as I love the Just Believe set......so many stamps and so very versatile.  This time I used Old Olive Card stock and shadow stamped the large flower scene in Old Olive, I then coloured the stamp in using the Old Olive, Daffodil Yellow and Pumpkin Pie Markers....this is a great way to ink up your stamps in a very detailed way, and a quick 'huff' on the stamp before positioning it, moistens the ink again and gives great results...A small flower punched with daffodil yellow card stock using the Boho Blossom punch gave some depth, and finally I used a Button from the brights collection....I am hoping the colours in the combo echo what is in our gardens now spring has finally arrived.

I will have more details tomorrow of a 'Stampers 10'  - a great way to enjoy the benefits of hosting a workshop, as a virtual hostess, and  looking forward to a Stampin' Up! delivery every month for 10 months!!  Bye for now. Ali x

GNPE......what a fabulous weekend!!!

 So sorry it has taken me until Wednesday to update my blog from the weekend.... well it was absolutely fabulous if not a little tiring.....Firstly I met up with Jo, Linzi (fellow demos) and our Stampin' Up! Mummy , Monica on Friday pm to set up our stand, complete with tree!!!  We then enjoyed 2 days meeting lots of lovely crafting ladies and men!!(mostly carrying shopping!) to share our ideas with. I hope everyone who visited us found some inspiration, and could see first hand the fabulous colour coordination available from our products!!

By Sunday afternoon, about 3.30pm things quietened down a little and Linz, treated us all to an icecream!!!

Will be back later this week with some more news, watch out for details of ways to spread your crafting costs and still benefit from hostess gifts, in our 'Virtual Hostess' Clubs....perfect with the launch on the 1st April of the new mini catalogue.....Bye for now. Ali x

Greenhouse Garden Cards

Last Monday 7 lovely ladies joined India and I to make 10 cards using the Greenhouse Garden Stamp Set. I really love this set, and this was also the first set I used when I attended a class at Monicas, my lovely Upline!
Monica is a real inspiration to myself and many of  my fellow demonstrators and we used the 'One Sheet Wonder' technique that Monica had shown us! These are the cards that we made. Colours used were, So Saffron, Rose Red and Certainly Celery. I hope you like them...

This weekend I will be at the Great Northern Papercraft Extravaganza at the Yorkshire Showground with 3 fellow demonstrators, please come and see us if you're there!

Happy Anniversary!!

Today is my sister and her husbands 34th Wedding Anniversary...and I would like to share with you the card that I made for them.

The stamp set 'All in the Family' was my 1st ever Stampin' Up! purchase from Monica, and I will try and show you the card I first made with it another day. Main colours are Crumb Cake and Real Red, and I have used the heart punch and crimped the card. Hope you like it Liz and that you both have a great day! xx

Brights Colour Combo....

For our recent training event down in Peterboro' I used 3 colours from our fabulous brights range for my swap, and the 'Printed Petals' stamp set. Colours used were Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight.

Liking this color combo a lot I then made my nieces card for her birthday using the same 3 colours and the 'Big Bold Birthday Set'.  Hope you like them!

Leeds Swaps...

Last Saturday was a training day for 70 Stampin Up! Demos, where we met to discover and play with some of the wonderful products you will be able to order from the Mini Catalogue when it is launched on the 1st April............all I can say is WOW and start saving your pennies now, because you'll want it all!!!  I had a great day, met some lovely ladies and swapped 40+ card swaps, that I'd designed. The idea of swaps is an exchange of ideas, and it is like Christmas giving and receiving!!  The cards I had made were on more of a masculine theme as I struggle a bit with male cards (won't do from the 1st April..hint! hint!)

I used the Circle Circus  Set, and colours Night of Navy, More Mustard and Cajun Craze, stamped and punched and accessorised with coordinating brads and buttons from the Regals Collection. Here they are:

I have not included a sentiment on the front, which you could do, but chose on cards I have sent to include on an insert inside the card. Hope to be back tomorrow to share some more cards I have made.