Sneak Peek - Thank You Card

Goodness - Just one more sleep until I can show you the new Summer Mini Catalogue from Stampin' Up! and I am so excited about it!  There are so many gorgeous things I know you are just going to love as much as I do ...

So that you can see a little of what I am excited about today I am going to share a Thank You Card featuring lots of new products.

Can you spot what is new?

I had so much fun colouring in the images on this card that I know you will be seeing them again.

The new Summer Mini Catalogue launches tomorrow which mean you have just a few hours left to get anything else you want from the Spring Mini Catalogue - if you do have anything else you want to order please contact me very urgently (bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk)

Check back tomorrow to see the whole Summer Mini Catalogue and for a fun competition

Happy Stampin'

Sneak Peek - Stampin' Up! My Way Badge

I had an amazing day yesterday at the Stampin' Up! Regional Training in Reading!  It was fantastic to spend some time with some of the people in my team, to catch up with friends and make new ones.  We had some wonderful presentations and I have come away with lots of ideas that I am looking forward to sharing with you all soon.  Stampin' Up! really do know how to put on a good event and have some amazing things in store for us all over the next few months.

One of the themes for the training was Stampin' Up! My Way - all about how to make the Stampin' Up! business work for us, what ever our circumstances and what ever we want to get out of it.  As part of that theme we got to make our own name badges - our way.  Here is mine

Yes there are some products I use a lot of there, the Beautiful Wings Embosslit, the Victoria Crochet Trim and Everything Eleanor Stamps, but it is also packed with new products too - new papers, new stamps, new ribbon and new Dies!  I know you are going to see a lot more of each of these new things from me as I can't stop using them and have so many ideas for them.  

All will be revealed on Tuesday...  Make sure you are on my newsletter email list (box at the top right hand side of my blog) to get a copy emailed to you.

I am so lucky to work with such a wonderful company and such uplifting people.  Yesterday reminded me of that and if you would like to join us for the next Stampin' Up! Event you can.  As well as the Regional Training this year Stampin' Up! are offering Leadership Training for those who have a team and then later in the year (November) there is the European Convention which is open to every Demonstrator in Europe.  This year is is going to be in Mainz in Germany and promises to be a very very exciting event.  I would love for you to come with me and share what will be a magical experience.  Email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk to find out how you can.

Happy Stampin'

Scrapbook Saturday - Sneak Peeks!

Today I am going to share a page with you that I designed for our recent Team Training in Peterborough.  It features some products from the Summer Mini Catalogue which launches on the 1st of May, so that is just three sleeps until I can show you the Summer Mini Catalogue - so excited!

What I can tell you now is that it has 

• lots of lovely new stamp sets
• the most delicious papers that I am loving using
• ribbon to die for
• scrummy accessories
• very special new dies and embossing folders for your Big Shot
• and a new tool which I have been desperate to get for the longest time!  

You are going to LOVE it. Make sure you check back on Tuesday to see it or if you would like the details emailed to you make sure you are signed up for my newsletter (box at the top right of this blog).

And back to the page for today.  It uses the lovely Tickets and Tags Scrapbooking Kit.  I love the colours and the papers and the die cut adhesives in this kit, they are fantastic for so many occasions and for so many styles. I have shown you some pages using it already and have lots more to show you too!

So can you spot what is new here?

One of the things I love about being a Demonstrator is that I get to see and use the new products before they are available for general sale.  

By the time you read this I will be spending the day with more of my team and my fellow Demonstrators and that is another thing I love about being a Demonstrator, spending time with other creative people who understand my love of pretty paper and all things stamping!

On 1st May there are also some exciting changes coming for those who want to join us - email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk to find out all about them and how you can join my successful team and make money doing what you love

Happy Stampin'

Find Our About Friday - How to Make your stamped images look like they are speeding along.

For this week's Find Out About Friday I am going to share with you how to make your stamped images look like they are speeding along your card.

This card features the lovely speedboat image from the Need for Speed Stamp Set and was one of the cards we made at my last card class.

Creating this effect is fun and easy, and everyone enjoyed trying it and got great results.  

Ink your chosen stamp well with a non permanent ink like the Stampin' Up! Classic Inks.  Stamp where you want your image, in this case the speedboat, to end up.  

Quickly and without reinking the stamp, move the stamp back a little in the direction you want your image to come from, stamp again and then repeat this step until you have created a long enough trail.  Each time you stamp the image it will be a bit paler, creating this fun effect of movement.

I hope you decide to have a go at this technique.  If you would like to lean more about upcoming classes and learn new ways to use your stamps check out this link

Happy Stampin'

Need for Speed Men's Card Class - the Cards

Yesterday I started to show you the projects from this month's Card Making Class.  Since many people tell me that the find it difficult to make cards for men this was our theme for this class and we used the wonderful Need for Speed Stamp Set.  The wallet I showed you yesterday holds six cards and those cards are what I am going to share with you today.

All the cards feature the Need for Speed Stamp Set and the sentiments are from Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Check back tomorrow to find out how to make this Speedboat card

The papers that you can see on most of the cards are from the gorgeous Pocketful of Posies Paper Pack which you can earn for free this month - just check out this link and get your order to me urgently as there is not long left!  Email your order to bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Need for Speed Men's Card Class

Lots of people tell me that they find making cards for men difficult, so this month's Card Making Class focused on just that - making cards for men.  We used the fantastic Need for Speed Stamp Set and made a collection of cards in a wallet.

I will show you the cards in more detail over the next few days, all featured papers from the Pocketful of Posies Paper Pack and the Need for Speed Stamps

To find out about upcoming classes click here and to book your place at class just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Pocketful of Posies Scrapbook Page for the Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club

This Thursday is April's Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club and I can't wait!  I realised however that I have not shown you all the pages from last month yet, and since we used the gorgeous Pocketful of Posies Papers which you can get for FREE if you place an order for at least £45 of Stampin' Up! goodies before the end of the month, I thought I should put that right!

This page contrasts how I felt visiting the Natural History Museum when I was a child with how I felt on a recent visit.  As a child I really did not appreciate what an amazing place it is.  The journalling is inside the envelopes.

This page recalls a family Christmas

And in case you missed them here are the pages I have already shown you featuring theses papers.

When you join the Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club you will get a monthly kit which with enough product to make a minimum of four pages.  Your kit can either be posted to you or collected in person at one the two monthly meetings of the Scrapbook Club.  Each month there will be at  least four inspiration pages made from just the kit contents that you can either replicate or use as a start point for your own creations.  Members also have access to a private web site where every inspiration page is shown.

To join the Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Important Information for those who want to order from the Spring Mini Catalogue

The Spring Mini Catalogue from Stampin' Up! is packed full of delicious products and I thought I would just tell you about a few of my favourites.  Then as I read what I had written I realised that I was telling you about everything in the Catalogue!  I love the stamps, I love the papers, I love the accessories, I love the punches and don't get me started on the Simply Adorned range as you may never stop me ...

You can see a copy of this Mini Catalogue here.

But there is something you need to know about this wonderful Spring Mini Catalogue - all the lovely products inside its covers are only available until the end of the month.  Said like that it does not sound too bad, but then when you realise that the end of the month is only a week away it kinda changes!

So my question to you is, do you have everything you want from the Spring Mini Catalogue?  If the answer is yes, brilliant, but if the answer is no please send me your order today so I can get that put right for you!

The 30 April is also the last day you can benefit from the Springtime Gift Offer from Stampin' Up!  If you place an order for £45 or more (excluding post and packing) you can choose on of four packs of Designer Series Papers for free!  You can see your choices here.  To benefit from this offer you need to get your order to me as soon as possible.

The latest I will be able to accept orders on Monday 30 April is mid afternoon.  To process your order I will need your full address, a phone number and to have received your payment or have spoken to you to get a Credit Card Number.  Please don't leave it to the very last moment as I would hate for you to miss out.

To place your order all you have to do is email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Spiced Paisley Stamp Set - Only available to buy for one more week!

When I first saw the Spiced Paisley Stamp Set I was taken straight back to childhood memories (read nightmares) of Paisley Patterned Party Dresses - now there is nothing wrong with Paisley Patterned Party Dresses as such - they just remind me of some incredibly bad childhood parties!

Once however I started playing with the Spiced Paisley Stamps those horrible parties and muted Paisley Patterned Party Dresses were soon forgotten!  I love how easy it is to create fun and fast cards in an array of colours, how you can, as on this card feature the Paisley Pattern, 

or you can achieve more subtle looks like these cards, I showed you a while ago.

If you would like to add the Spiced Paisley Stamp Set, or anything else from the Spring Mini Catalogue to your collection please email your order to bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk, and please do it urgently as in a week's time it will be too late.

Happy Stampin'

Scrapbook Saturday - Shabby Balconies

Today I am going to share a page featuring the gorgeous Spice Cake Papers and Spice Cake Buttons.  The photos are from our mini holiday in Malta last December, I loved all the shabby balconies and weathered window frames, but found them quite hard to take photos of!

I really enjoyed scrapping with these wonderful Spice Cake Papers and Buttons, and have made lots of pages with them.  

In fact here is another page - it is missing its journalling - but features the lovely Shelli Gardner who co-founded Stampin' Up! and the photo was taken last year on the incentive trip to Prague.

If you have not got yours yet you have just over a week left to get them - they are only available until the end of the month.

To order your Spice Cake Papers and Buttons email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

Find Out About Friday - How to change to look of your Designer Series Papers

I love the Designer Series Papers from Stampin' Up! but sometimes they are not quite what I want for a particular project, so today I thought I would show you how you can easily change the look of your Designer Series Papers.

For these two examples I am going to show you are using the wonderful Beyond the Garden Designer Series Papers (which you could earn for free this month - just ask me how!).  

I love how vibrant and funky they are, but for these two projects I wanted to match them with other colours and to soften their looks.  The same technique would also work to add vibrancy to a soft coloured paper.

Firstly I took the sheet of paper with large white flowers outlined in Pacific Point.  I wanted to use the papers on a River Rock and Ridinghood Red Card so needed to tie them in somehow.  So I coloured the flowers using reinkers and a waterbrush.  Here it is part way through the process

and here is the finished card

Then I took the Wild Wasabi Sheet with the white flowers and leaves outlined in Pacific Point.  It was the paper I used on this Butterfly Card I showed you earlier this week.

I coloured the white spaces using my Watercolour Wonder Crayons in Pretty in Pink and Wild Wasabi.  

This totally changed the feel of the papers and made it suitable to use on this card.

So next time you want to change the look of your Designer Patterned Papers why not get colouring?

Happy Stampin'

My Friend for my Team

When ever I get together with my team as well as having a lot of fun, we make cards to swap with each other and today I am going to share a card using the My Friend Stamp Set for a recent team day.

I love spending time with my team - they are a fantastic group of people.  They have a wide range of experience, some have been crafting and Stamping for as long as they remember while others are quite new to stamping.  They come from a wide range of backgrounds and represent all age groups.  Some have full time jobs, some are stay at home Mums, some work part time.  

What they want from Stampin' Up! varies just as much - and the good news is that for all of them their goals are achievable with Stampin' Up!  With your own Stampin' Up! business you can make a full time income, make some additional money towards the bills or that special treat.  You can also save money on your personal crafting supplies!

What the team do have in common is their love of crafting and the enjoyment they get in sharing that with others.

Does that sound like you?  

To find out more about how you could start your own Stampin' Up! business  and meet your personal and financial goals, email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk and we can talk it through

Happy Stampin'

Congratulations Card Featuring Red Glimmer Paper

Back in this post I told you all about the wonderful product that is Red Glimmer Paper. I love being able to add sparkle to a project without having a lot of mess to clean up!  When a good friend, who happens to love all things glitter, announced her engagement I knew straight away I wanted to use the Red Glimmer Paper on a congratulations card for the happy couple.

This is what I came up with

The Red Glimmer Paper was cut with the Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit.  I have used Shimmer White Card for the base and the layers, along with the hearts from the Confetti Stamp Set and the gorgeous En Francais Background Stamp (I masked off all but a small section of my card).  A liberal sprinkling of Pearls complete this congratulatory card.

Now the Red Glimmer Paper is, like everything else in the Mini Catalogue, only available to purchase until the end of this month - that is less than 2 weeks away.  It is fantastic value at just £3.95 for two 12x12 sheets.  To order this and anything else you want from the Mini Catalogue, email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk but please don't leave it too late as I would not like you to miss out on these wonderful products.

Happy Stampin

Butterflies Beyond the Garden Birthday Card

OK I confess I have a real thing at the moment for using Butterflies on cards and scrapbook pages!  And yes, today I am going to show you a card which features a Butterfly ...

Today's Butterfly was created using the Beautiful Butterflies Die and the smaller white Butterfly was stamped using the fantastic Confetti Stamp Set, while the larger one was embossed using the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. 

The papers on this bright and cheery card are from the Beyond the Garden Paper Pack, which you could earn for free when you spend £45 or more on Stampin' Up! Goodies before the end of this month.  You can find the details here.  To place your order email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk and lets get your goodies and free papers on their way to you

Happy Stampin'