You are Loved Sympathy Cards

The cards I am going to share with you today are my least favourite kind of cards to make - Sympathy Cards.  Unfortunately I have needed a few of these recently.

The two cards are basically the same design, but in very different colour ways.  This first one is traditional colours.

While this second one is more reflective of the person I was sending it to.

Both cards feature the wonderful flower from the You are Loved Stamp Set, a stamp set which is not just for Valentines Day, but which is also idea for anytime you want to tell someone how special they are.  To purchase this stamp set or any of the other items used to make this card please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Hello Monday!

Hello Monday - its good to see you and to start another week!  Today I am going to share some Hello Cards I made for some very special ladies who have been going through a bit of a tough time recently.

The card features the lovely Spiced Paisley Papers along with a flower from the delicious Blossom Party Die.  The wonderful little greeting is from the fantastic Swirls and Curls Verses Stamp Set which is exclusively available to hostesses.  You can find it on page 5 of the Mini Catalogue.  I think the greetings in this set are really pretty and will work for so many different occasions and cards.

If you would like to earn yourself some Hostess Pounds to spend on this stamp set, or indeed any of the other exclusive Hostess Goodies, or come to that on anything you want email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk and lets make it happen!  You can earn Hostess Pounds when you host a fun party at your home, when you host a virtual party or when you join a Hostess Club.  Don't forget that during Sale-A-Bration you and your guests can also earn extra free exclusive stamp sets and Designer Series Papers. 

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Happy Birthday Cupcake!

Today I am going to share with you a Cupcake Birthday Card I made for a young friend of mine.  Can you guess how old she is?

The card features the lovely Cupcake Stamp Set and matching Cupcake Punch as well as the 6cm Scallop Circle Punch.  The greeting is from the lovely and FREE Outlines Occasions Stamp Set.  If you were to purchase the two punches I have used on this card and the Cupcake Stamp Set, you could also have this stamp set for free!  Got to love Sale-a-Bration!  Click here for full details.

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Scrapbook Saturday - Everyday Enchantment Album

Welcome to this week's Scrapbook Saturday - and today I am going to show you an album featuring the wonderful and FREE Everyday Enchantment Papers which are available as part of this year's Sale-a-Bration!

I am totally enchanted by these papers and would love to use them every day - so they are certainly well named.

I have kept the pages really simple so we can really see these scrummy papers.  I just need to add the photos and some journalling.  Here are the opening and closing pages.

And the rest of the pages

If you were to purchase this album, the ribbon, the brads, the scallop edge punch and the very vanilla card stock you would get a full pack of 12 sheets of  this delicious 12 x 12 inch papers FREE!  Brilliant.

To place your order email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk.

I have to dash - its time to get ready for the last two performances of our Pirate Pantomime!  Oh yes it is!

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Find Out About Friday - 3 Reasons you Should Join my Team of Stampin' Superstars Now!

Today, for our Find Out About Friday,  I am going to share with you the top 3 reasons that you should join my team, the Stampin' Superstars, right now.  I can't believe its time for another Find Out About Friday already!  This week seems to have rushed by in a blur of rehearsals and then yesterday the opening night of the village panto - we had lots to do this week to be ready but I am a happy director this morning.

So what are the top 3 reasons you should join my Stampin' Up! team now?

Reason Number 1 - This is THE best time of year to join Stampin' Up!  

• During Sale-a-Bration Stampin' Up! add an extra stamp set of any value to your starter kit.  This means for an investment of £119 you get kit worth up to £300
• You will be launching your business at a time when your customers and hostesses can benefit from the excellent Sale-a-Bration offers helping you to get off to a flying start and making money sharing what you love quickly.
• There are additional rewards available to Demonstrators as part of Sale-a-Bration and you too could benefit from them.  These include free stamp sets and products that will not be available to buy until the 2012/13 Idea Book and Catalogue Launches

Reason Number 2 - Great Recognition, Rewards and Support

• Stampin' Up! offer great rewards and recognition schemes.  As well as the income you can earn you can also qualify for free products, free luxury holidays and even get the cost of your starter kit back.  Stampin' Up! give you access to training and support to achieve these things which includes a dedicated demonstrator web site with training materials, newsletters and live training events (the next ones are in April/May)
• Additionally my team get one on one coaching, monthly and quarterly team training, monthly hints and tips by email, a team website with hints, tips and project ideas,  and twice a year we have team social stamping day.  You will be joining one of the most active and successful teams in the UK and you will benefit from the whole team's experience.
• When you start you will get a welcome pack from me which includes some tools that will help you grow your business, and be able to benefit from the additional incentives I have put in place for my team.  

Reason Number 3 - You can grow your business your way

• You will be in control of the hours you work .  You can fit your business around your family, another job and your other commitments
• You will be in control of the money you make - your rewards will be proportional to your efforts.  The more you do the more you will earn
• You will be able to benefit from the rewards running a successful business brings

Contact me (bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk or call 07990 837 990) and lets chat and find out if Stampin' Up! is for you.  

The sooner you contact me the sooner you could be  enjoying all these benefits!

Happy Stampin'

Sale-a-bration Fresh Vintage

I could not resist showing you another pair of cards made with the gorgeous and Free Sale-a-Bration Stamp Set Fresh Vintage.  I love all of the images in this set and have so many ideas for it.  I suspect you will be seeing a lot more of it round here!

The colours on today's cards were inspired by the Everyday Enchantment Papers that you can also earn free during Sale-a-Bration.  You can find full details of Sale-a-Bration here, as a customer you get to choose one free Sale-a-Bration item for every £45 you spend.  There are four gorgeous stamp sets and a scrummy pack of Designer Series Papers to collect.  There are fantastic offers for Hostesses and New Recruits  too!

If you would like to get yourself this stamp set or any of the other Sale-a-Bration items please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Sale-a-bration Fresh Vintage Box of Cards

As far as I am concerned there is only one thing better than new stamp sets and that is free new stamp sets!  I am really enjoying using the new Sale-a-bration Stamp Sets and Papers I shared with you yesterday.  In fact the hardest thing for me is deciding which to use - the only solution is going to be to collect them all!!!

Today I am going to share a project with you that features the wonderful Fresh Vintage Stamp Set - a box of cards that would look beautiful sat on any desk.  I can see me making lots more of these.

Here is the box

The cards show you all the different stamps in this set -here they are - there is easily room for two of each design with their envelopes in the finished box.

If you purchase the In Color Designer Paper Pack, the Postage Stamp Punch, the Glimmer Brads and the In Color Ribbon that I have used before the end of March, you would earn yourself this gorgeous Fresh Vintage Stamp Set for FREE!  What is more if you purchase these items from me I will also email you FREE my tutorial on how to make this project.

To place your order email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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How to Earn FREE Stamps and Free Designer Series Papers.

Would you like some Free Stamp Sets and Free Double Sided Designer Series Papers?  OK, I know that is a daft question, so let me share with you how you can!

Today is the first day of the most wonderful promotion of the Stampin' Up! year, Sale-a-Bration and I am so excited to be able to finally share the details with you.  

Click here to download the brochure.  Sale-a-Bration runs until 31 March

For every £45 you spend (before post and packing) you will earn one selection from the Sale-a-Bration Brochure.  The four stamp sets you can choose between are stunning and are not available for sale - you can only get them as part of this promotion.  This year for the first time there is also a full pack of 12x12 Double Sided Designer Series Papers to choose - and my are they lush!  I know I am going to need lots and lots of those papers!  

Sounds pretty good so far!  But that is just the start.  When you host a party during Sale-a-Bration you can also get yourself another selection from the brochure ...

Or if you join my team you can choose any stamp set of any value from either the main Idea Book and Catalogue or the Mini Catalogue to be added to your starter kit absolutely free!  The starter kit is fantastic value - it costs just £119 and with this stamp set it could be worth £300 - that really is what I call value!  You would also be joining Stampin' Up! at a great time of year to start making money sharing what you love.  There are more details here.

Over the next few days I will share projects made with these wonderful products but for now I will leave you with pictures of what you could be choosing for FREE

You see - there really is something for everyone this Sale-a-Bration!  Download the brochure here and then just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk or call 07990 837 990 to take advantage of any of these offers

Happy Stampin'

Material Monday - No Sew Fabric Flower Bookmark

How did it get to be Monday again already!  I had a great weekend but I am excited that this week is here - Sale-A-Bration starts tomorrow!  It is simply THE best promotion in the Stampin' Up! year with lots of free stamps and gorgeous papers on offer - I can't wait to share it with you so you can see why I am so excited about these beautiful goodies.  Only one more sleep!

One of the fun things I got to do this weekend was spend a some time curled up with a good book, so today I thought I would share a fun and fast fabric project with you - a No Sew Fabric Flower Bookmark.  

The flower was cut from the fabby Blossom Party Die using the lovely Spice Cake fabric.  The Die Cut layers and the stamped layer are held together using a gorgeous In Color Brad.  There is another large flower stuck to the back of the bookmark covering the ends of the brad.

If you were to purchase the die, the fabric, the ribbon and the ink pad I have used tomorrow, you would get the stamp that I used Free!  I can't wait for it and I know you are going to love all the stamps and papers on offer, so be sure to check back tomorrow

Happy Stampin'

Birthday Cupcake Card for a Man

Today I am going to share a card I made for my OH's recent birthday.  This seemed like the perfect excuse - I mean chance - to use the wonderful Create a Cupcake Stamp Set and matching Cupcake Punch that had just arrived on my desk!  

Here I have combined it with strips of the wonderful Spice Cake Papers, woven together to make a fun and textured background.  The Cupcake is sat on a frame made from the Designer Frames Embossing Folder.

Did you know that from Tuesday until 31 March, as part of the wonderful Sale-A-Bration promotion from Stampin' Up!, if you were to purchase the Cupcake Stamp Set in wood mount, the matching Cupcake Punch and a pack of Spice Cake Papers from me you would earn yourself another stamp set for free?  I can't tell you much more about it until Tuesday, but for every £45 you spend during Sale-A-Bration you get to choose either an exclusive Stamp Set or pack of papers that will only ever be available during Sale-A-Bration!  Brilliant so be sure to check back on Tuesday  and to email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk to place your order.

Happy Stampin'

Scrapbook Saturday - Malta at Christmas

This week we had the first meeting of this month's Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club, we had a great time and today I am going to share the page we all made.

This year I was fortunate enough to get a few days away in Malta the week before Christmas - it was wonderful to be in the sunshine and Malta is very beautiful.  There are plenty of photos to scrap so I am sure you will find out more about it as they get scrapped!  One of the things that was lovely but very different to my expectations of Christmas was looking at the Maltese way of getting ready for Christmas.  This photo of a Christmas Tree at the end of the line of Palms sums that up for me.

The papers we are featuring this month are the lovely Holly Berry Specialty Papers.  Just delicious!  I also played with punches to make this lovely wreath embellishment.

Our theme this month is Remember December and for me that is not all about Christmas and the Holly Berry Specialty Papers are also great for Non Christmas Pages.  One of the other December highlights for me was a camera day out in London with my friend and that evening I learnt how to take night photos.  Here is a page I made showing one of my favourite pictures of St Paul's Cathedral.

Here is some of the detail - this was a great page for using some of my scraps!

If you would like to know more about the Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Find Out About Friday - How to make a Pinked Circle from a Scallop Circle Punch

Hello and welcome to this week's Find Out About Friday.  Since I showed you the Progressive Scrapbook Page in this post with these Pinked Circles I have received a lot of questions asking how I made them.  

So for this week's Find Out About Friday I thought I would share with you how to make a pinked circle with a Scallop Circle Punch, and the good news is that it is very easy!

Firstly punch your scallop circle.  Then using a re-positional adhesive, something like the Two Way Glue Pen or your Tombow (let the glue dry before sticking) put this scallop circle on a long thin scrap of card.  Holding the scallop circle by this scrap of card, put it back in the punch and line it up so that the inwards facing points on the punch are in the middle of the bumps on the Scallop Circle, like this

The just punch again and when you remove it from the punch you will have a pretty pinked circle!

I hope this answers your questions and that you enjoy making your own pinked circles.  If you would like to make sure that you receive regular tips like today's mini tutorial which will help you get the most from your Stampin' Up! Products, please make sure you are signed up for my newsletter - just pop over to the box on the right hand side of this blog.

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Simply Adorned Valentines Gift Class

I am loving my Simply Adorned Jewelry!  I love the fact that I can have a necklace and bracelet that match with any outfit, I love that I can wear something I have made and I love the quality of them and how it makes them feel to wear.  That is quite a love of loving!

Today I am going to share some more inserts I have made - and these inserts take full advantage of the locket like feature of the Charms.  Each opens out to reveal a picture.

This first one is for my Step Daughter who loves all things pink

Here is the outside of the insert

And inside there is a picture of her daughter

Then I got to thinking I did not want my OH to feel left out so I made myself a picture one too!

And here it is in more detail.

The stamp sets I have used are Charming, You are Loved, Borderlines and Artistic Etchings.  There are also scraps of Designer Series Paper from the In Color Stack and Beau Chateaux

These would make lovely Valentine's presents and I will be running a special Valentines Class on the evening of Friday 10 February where you can make a Valentines Card and a necklace with an insert that includes your special message. You will also decorate the box making it a very special gift indeed.  The class will cost £35 and includes a 61cm chain and a locket charm the size shown in today's pictures.  To book your place just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk  The last date to book this class is Friday 3 February.

I am also taking commissions for those who can't make the class (so do let the love of your life know - although they would be most welcome at class too!)  The last date for these to be sure of a Valentine's delivery is also Friday 3 February.

I also have a class on Wednesday 15 February featuring these wonderful Simply Adorned Necklaces - details are here, places are starting to fill up so please book soon to avoid disappointment!  Email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'