Scrapbook Saturday - A Special Weekend

Last year saw a number of special celebrations for my family and somewhat unusually for me I have finished scrapping the first of them well within a year of it actually happening!  Thank you Project Life by Stampin' Up!  Today I am going to share the first three pages of this section in my album and I will share the other three tomorrow.  

I have used the Playground Card Collection and Accessories for these pages which may not seem the obvious choice for a 70th Birthday Celebration but I love the colour and how they make these photos really pop.

One of the things I am enjoying about Project Life by Stampin' Up!, apart from how quickly I can get pages done, is that I can keep adding to the pages and at the moment I have room to add more if I want to!

This page includes a little peek through to what follows - one of the pockets being filled with a decorated acetate sheet.  Let's have a look at the page without the one behind it so you can see it on a black background.

If you have photos you would like to get off your computer and into a book,or more photos than you think you will get round to scrapping, please check out Memory Keeping Monthly here.  If you are an experienced Scrapper this will be a great way to add more photos to your albums to complement and supplement your 12x12 pages.

Happy Stampin'

How to Make A Celebrate Today Shaker Card - Free Tutorial Available

For this week's Find Out About Friday I thought I would share a fun celebration card with you and give you the chance to get a tutorial on how to make it for free.

So here is the card - it is a fun shaker card featuring the lovely Celebrate Today Stamp Set and matching Balloon Framelits.  Did you know if you purchase the two together you can save 15% by using this link.  The card also features the beautiful Irresistibly Your Papers and the Birthday Bash Washi Sheets.

If you would like a tutorial with full instructions on how to make this project please email your request to bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk and I will email them to you as soon as possible.

Happy Stampin'

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Perpetual Birthday Calendar Class Is Still Available

A little while ago I shared a sneak peek of the Perpetual Birthday Calendar Class that I ran earlier this month and today I am going to show you everything that we made at that class.

If you would like to take this class it is still available by post - please contact me for details, and if there is sufficient demand I will also put in another date to run the class again in person.  Please just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk to let me know

Happy Stampin'

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It's Time For A Friend to Celebrate Her Birthday!

One of my lovely friends is having a big birthday party soon, and as soon as she saw this cocktail drinking girl from the In This Together Stamp Set she knew she wanted it on her invitations.  Since I know the invites have now been sent I can share the design we came up with.

The image was coloured with Blendanilities, the Coastal Cabana and Skin Tone Selections.  Some Silver Glimmer Paper adds the necessary sparkle to the Real Red Outers.

All that is left to do now is to enjoy the party!

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Simply Wonderful Thank You Cards

Today I am sharing some thank you cards made with the Simply Wonderful Stamp Set and the Gorgeous Best Year Ever Papers.  

The Best Year Ever Papers are in themselves wonderful, gorgeous designs and so versatile.  The Thank You Sentiment from the Simply Wonderful Stamp Set was Stamped in Soft Suede and coloured with a Coastal Cabana Marker.  It was then stamped out with the Extra Large Oval Punch and the Decorative Label Punch.  The boarder was punched with the Scallop Edge Border Punch and the banner was cut with the Balloon Famelits.

All the items used on this card are available here.  The stamps and papers are both available free between now and the end of March.  Get all the details here.

Happy Stampin'

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Big Day Birthday Card for a Boy featuring Sale-a-Bration Products

I love the beautiful papers that are available as part of this year's Sale-a-Bration from Stampin' Up! UK - the only problem I have is deciding which side of which sheet to use.  It is a problem I like to have :-)  Today I am sharing a card featuring the Best Year Ever Papers.

Here I have teamed them with the Big Day Stamp Set which is also a available Free between now and the end of March.  

During this Sale-a-Bration Promotion you can get one of the exclusive choices for free with every £45 that you spend, and with lots of lovely goodies available I am sure your only problems will be deciding which of lovely products to get and how big a budget can you put together!  You can find all the details here.  

If you find that your wish list comes to over £130 there is something I can do to help you so please get in touch, bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk, or click here to buy a starter kit with your choice of products in it.

Happy Stampin'

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Best Day Ever Roses Note Cards

Last week I showed a little sneak peek of some cards I was working on and today I thought I would share the finished card.

These notecards have a panel of the gorgeous Irresistibly Yours Papers that you can get for free during Sale-a-Bration (check out how here).  I have used the delightful rose die cut panel from the Artisan Embellishment Kit as a stencil to add a gentle pattern to this using Coastal Cabana Ink.  I then stamped the Best Day Ever Greeting (also available as part of one of the stamp sets you can choose for free) using Stazon Ink.  I have used Stazon as this stamps on both the shiny and the non shiny part of the Irresistibly Yours Papers.  The edges were then inked lightly with Blackberry Bliss Ink.

I think these make great Thank You Cards, especially to thank someone who invited you somewhere.  Who would you send one to?

Happy Stampin'

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Scrapbook Start Point For Your Instagram Photos

Do you use Instagram?  I love it and I love shooting square photos so today's Scrapbook Start Point is a page designed to highlight three of your wonderful square photos.  I print my Instagram photos at 4x4 inches, but this design could be adapted easily for other sizes. 

The papers I have used are the wonderful Birthday Bash Specialty Papers - the colours and patterns are such fun together.  I have used the Best Day Ever Stamps which you can get free with a £45 purchase between now and the end of March (see here).

These papers have some lovely gold foil incorporated into the designs - how pretty is this!

I also added some bunting made with the Banner Punch and some Rhinestones.

I hope you have fun using this as a start point for your own Scrapbook Pages using your Instagam (or other square) photos.

Happy Stampin'

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How Stampin' Up! Did Not Meet My Expectations!

A quick look in my diary today would tell you that I should be packing!  And as I sit here in the cold I am pleased as I am going to be packing for Orlando, some time in the sun, and some time with an amazing group of people.

If when I joined Stampin' Up! that I would get the opportunity to travel to amazing places and to call  so many inspiring people my friends I would not have believed you.  I just joined to make my hobby cheaper.  I was never going to do anything more with it, just get some products cheap and some guilt free crafting.  If I got to make a few friends that would be a bonus.

Things did not work out like that for me.

In the time I have been with Stampin' Up! I have made made more friends than I can count all of whom share my passion for pretty papers and for making things, some very local to me, some scattered all over the world.

I have also been able to travel to some amazing places, Prague, Vienna, The Caribbean, Utah, Germany, France lots of places in the UK and now Orlando, including an exclusive event at Disney.

And then there is the crafting - I get to have lots of wonderful stamps and papers etc most of which I earn for free.

I am kinda glad it did not work out how I expected!

If you would like to start your own Stampin' Up! Adventure now is a great time - between now and the end of March when you join my team you can choose either two of the exclusive Sale-a-Bration products of one of the kits in the Spring Summer Catalogue in addition to choosing £130 worth of products for just £99 - and they can be any products that you like.  You will also get an invitation to an exclusive event on 11 April.  

You can join now by clicking here or email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk if you have any questions or would like to talk about how it could work for you.

Join for what ever reason you want but be ready for your expectations to be exceeded!

Happy Stampin'

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Beautiful Butterfly Picture Frame

Today I have something a little different for you - a home decor project that was quick and fun to put together and which you could make for yourself or as a gift - a beautiful Blackberry Bliss Butterfly Picture Frame.  Now try saying that out loud three times fast - its quite a tongue twister!  Any way, here is the frame.

I have cut the butterflies using the beautiful Butterfly Thinlit Die and mounted them on some of the gorgeous Free Irresistibly Yours Papers.  I also inked around the edges a little to highlight the beautiful patterns on this paper.  The colours I have used are Blackberry Bliss and Melon Mambo.  Check out my top tips for using this die here.

Who do you know who would like a frame like this?

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Celebrate Today with a Beautiful Balloon Card

One of the (many) stamp sets I could not wait to play with in the new Spring Summer Catalogue from Stampin' Up! is called Celebrate Today.  I have so many ideas of things I want to do with it and today I am going to show you just one of them.

As well as being a fun stamp set Celebrate Today has a set of Framelits that go with it that make cutting out the shape quick and easy.  And if you purchase them together you can save 15% Bargain! Here I have teamed the stamps wit some of the wondeful Best Year Ever Papers and some Silver Baker's Twine.  The colours are Coastal Cabana, Blushing Bride and Melon Mambo.

I love that Stampin' Up! gave me these beautiful papers for free with my purchase - and they will do the same for you between now and the end of March - find out all about it here.

Happy Stampin'

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Irresistibly Yours Project Life Page for Team Training

I love our quarterly team training days and getting to spend a whole day with such a wonderful bunch of people.  It is also a lot of fun designing and sharing projects with them.  This time one of the things included in the kits was the delightful Irresistibly Yours Papers.  Now at first glance these papers may not look that exciting but when you start to play with them it is very hard to stop!  The beautiful embossed sections really come to life when you add colour as they resist the inks and the patterns really pop.

One of the projects I shared was this fun Project Life Page

It features lots of lovely things you can do with the papers and a couple of different ways you can colour them.  On this insert I have used the stunning rose panel from the Artisan Embellishment Kit as a mask and gently sponged through it with Bermuda Bay Ink.  I have then stamped on top with Stazon Ink.  You can also see the rose panel in all its glory on the page - way too pretty not to keep! 

For this next panel I have used my Bermuda Bay Ink and carefully only stamped on the non shiny part of the card before inking around the edges of the card.

And on these panels I have added colour by sponging and by adding some pieces of the Birthday Bash Washi Papers.  I have also used one of the stunning Something Borrowed Embellishments to add some sparkle.  

The stamps I have used on this page are the Free Best Day Ever Stamps and the wonderful Remember This Stamps.

We had a brilliant time together on Sunday crafting and sharing lots of business tips.  One of these days I will remember to take some photos while we are all there!  If you would like to know more about joining this wonderful group please get in touch - just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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Could Bows Be The New Butterflies?

It has, not without good reason, been said that I use butterflies a lot on my cards.  Recently however I have been adding a lot of paper bows made with the wonderful Bow Builder Punch from Stampin' Up!  The beautiful bows you can make with it really add something to a project and they are so easy to make - even the most bowphobic of crafters can make them and get perfect bows every time! You can find out how to make three different kinds of bow with it here.

Today I find myself sharing another card with a beautiful bow on it.

This card also features some of the items you can get free during Sale-A-Bration, the gorgeous Best Year Ever Papers and the delightful Big Day Stamp Set.  You can choose one of the exclusive Sale-A-Bration goodies for free for every £45 you spend between now and the end of March, or you could choose 2 when you purchase a starter kit here.

Happy Stampin'

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Sunday Sneak Peek - Best Day Ever

Today I am in Peterborough with some of the lovely people in our team, sharing creative and business ideas.  I thought I would show you one of the projects on my desk as I got ready!

I took a little break from writing the business sessions to make some cards to swap and I think the sentiment on them will be just right for today.  I will show you the full card soon too.

If you want to know more about these fab days and how you can attend just get in touch bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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Scrapbook Saturday - A Different Use for your Project Life Goodies

This week I have something a little different for you - not a scrapbook page at all but a fun way to use your Project Life by Stampin' Up! Supplies to make the every day a little more fun!  As an added bonus it is actually something that I find helps me with my Scrapbooking.

Intrigued?  Well I am talking about my diary.  I would be totally lost with out it and it goes everywhere with me.  Personally I favour a Moleskine Diary I just love the feel of the paper but what I am going to share with you today will work with any diary system you choose.

My Project Life Supplies and in particular the accessory kits, are a great way to decorate and organise my diary - I have used Washi Tape to mark the sections and have used the alphabet stickers to make titles for those sections.  

The stamps from the Project Life Sets and from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set are also great for decorating the pages as are the stickers in the accessory packs.

Looks like a busy few weeks coming up but more of that another time!  My diary is also something I find myself referring back to when I make Project Life and Scrapbook Pages  - I am rubbish at just remembering the details but can always find out where I went and when I went there from my diary. 

How much better would your diary look with a bit of customisation and a bit of colour all quickly and easily added with your Project Life Supplies?  You can get yours here.

Happy Stampin'

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