Blooming with Kindness Easter Treats

I know with all the snow that is falling round here it is hard to believe but next weekend is Easter Weekend, so today I thought I would share some little treats that would make lovely Easter Gifts or Table Treats.

Inside each of these treats are some Cadbury Mini Eggs.  The Cello Bags have been tied in one direction with Early Espresso Bakers Twine.  I have then added one of the tags from the Pop Up Posies Designer Kit which I have stamped with Early Espresso Ink and Embossed with Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder.  The sentiment is also from the Pop Up Posies Designer Kit.

What Easter treats will you be making?

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More Reason to Smile

Goodness me the Olympics have been exciting and I am thrilled with how well Team GB are doing, to be third on the medal table is a wonderful achievement.  

In case that is not enought to make you smile Stampin' Up! have given us another one - a gorgeous stamp set called Reason to Smile.  It is only available in August and you can either purchase it or earn it for free - check this link for details.

Today I am going to show you a pair of water coloured birthday cards I have made with this beautiful set.

The image was coloured with my Stampin' Write Markers onto Watercolour Paper, then coloured using a water brush.  Next I stamped over the top of it with the matching solid image in versamark ink and used clear embossing powder so that I could then wash colour all over the background.

This technique allows you to decide how much colour you keep on your flower, I am not sure which I prefer, the darker one of the lighter one.

If you would like to order the Reason to Smile Stamp Set please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

I hope you day is filled with Reasons to Smile!

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Find Out About Friday - How to make a Diamond Patterned Background

Since I posted this card I have had several emails asking me how the Background Quilted Diamond Effect was made so for this Week's Find Out About Friday I thought I would share that with you.

To make the pattered panel you need to start with a square of card, mine was 10 cm / 4 inches square.  Using the Diagonal Plate on my Simply Scored! I scored a line at 0, then 1/8 inch, then 1 inch, then 11/8 inch etc all the way across.  The easy way to remember this is every inch and then every groove next to it!  

When you have done this once you will have score lines across half your card.  Turn it through 90 degrees and repeat, scoring as before.  You will then need to do this twice more.

If you want to start with a rectangle of card then you will need to use the measures along the side of the Simply Scored! as well as the ones along the top and score all the diagonals across the card before turning it.

For this card I then added a piece of matching card to the the quilted panel to make it the size of the layer I wanted on my finished card and stamped my greeting on it, and the bottom edge punched with the Scallop Trim Border Punch.  

The Crochet Trim and Baker's Twine were wrapped around to cover the join before this was mounted onto my card base.

The flower was created using the Rock and Roll Technique (inking in one colour and then rolling the edge of the stamp in another colour) and by layering different elements of the stamp.  The In Colour Brad holds the layers of the flower together and was opened out before the flower was attached using foam Dimensional Pads.

I then added the small Rhinestones to highlight the intersections of the diagonal lines to highlight the pattern

I hope you have fun creating backgrounds like this one and if you have any questions or would like to order your own Simply Scored! and Diagonal Plate please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Mouthwatering Apple Teacher Thank You Card

As we approach the end of the school year many people are sending Thank You Cards to Teachers and today I am going to share one I made using the Mouthwatering Stamp Set.  Now when you first look at this stamp set you will see Ice Lollys, Ice Creams, Cherries and a Slice of Watermelon, but not an apple.  However when you stamp two slices side by side ...

You have a Mouthwatering Apple

What are you looking forward to about the school holidays?  I hope it will mean more time for you to stamp and do creative things.  I will be sharing some ideas using your stamps and crafting supplies that will help keep kids amused over the summer holidays in the next edition of my newsletter which is out this week.  To get your free copy make sure you are subscribed by adding your email address to the box at the top right hand side of this blog.

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Scrapbook Saturday - Stenciled Christmas Page

For this week's Scrapbook Saturday I am going to share a page I taught at our Recent Team Training.  Our theme for the day was Christmas and this page shows how you can use non Christmas Papers on a Christmas page.

The papers are from the gorgeous Twitterpated Pack and the page also demonstrates a couple of techniques, using a punch as a stencil and creating a border with your Simply Scored!

I really enjoy team training and love helping the team reach their goals and hearing about their successes.  I never expected to be able to find a way to combine making money with my love of crafting, but Stampin' Up! has allowed me to do just that.  It has also done much much more than that for me - it has brought some wonderful friends into my life, helped me develop my crafting skills (and they really really really needed some developing!), it challenges me to be creative, great holidays and more fun than I ever could have imagined!

If you are a Scrapbooker who is looking to make money from your hobby Stampin' Up! could be what you are looking for.  Scrapbooking is growing in the UK and I have a number of successful people in my team whose business is built around Scrapbooking and we would love for you to join us.  To find out more email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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Bright Blossoms Team Congratulations Cards

I am really enjoying using the Bright Blossoms Stamp Set from Stampin' Up! and today I am going to show you some congratulations cards I made for some of the lovely ladies in my team.  

The colours are Pool Party, Island indigo, Lucky Limeade and Rich Razzleberry and in addition to the Bright Blossoms Stamps I have also used the Woodgrain Background Stamp and the sentiment comes from the Curly Cute Stamp Set.

I am so proud of each of the four ladies who received one of these cards, each has reached a personal goal as well as a milestone in their Stampin' Up! Business.  I know each will go on and achieve even more and I feel so lucky to be part of their Stampin Up! adventure.  

If you are considering joining Stampin' Up! please get in touch and lets discuss how by joining my successful team I can help and support you in achieving your goals be they to be able to buy all the stamps and crafting goodies you want or to build a full time income.  Email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk and lets arrange a no obligation chat

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Find Out About Friday - Baker's Twine from Stampin' up!

This week's Find Out About Friday is going to focus on the fantastic Baker's Twine from Stampin' Up!.  This 100% cotton is available in 6 colour ways and is very versatile.  What is even better is that it is incredible value at just £2.50 for approximately 22.9 meters which means you don't need to worry about how much you are using!

So what can you use Baker's Twine For?

Well it looks great on cards, wrapped round like this, 

or this

It looks great on Scrapbook Pages like this

You can use it to create embelishments

and to finish off buttons

Or to decorate a pretty parcel

The Stampin' Up! Bakers Twine is available in the 5 In Colours for this year, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Island Indigo and Calypso Coral.  It is also available in plain white, which you can either use as is or colour to match your project.

To order your Baker's Twine email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Welcome Home

For us the excitement did not end when we came home from Vienna.  That evening Joe became a Granddad again and we welcomed this little chap

I want them to call him Midge - as in Midge Ure from Ultravox who sung the song Vienna, and he is very little - his parents however have different ideas.

Here is the card I made for him

I have used the lovely Baby Prints Stamp Set for this card and I already plan to use it to scrap his baby photos!

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Scrapbook Saturday - Love London?

For this week's Scrapbook Saturday I am going to share a page with you that explores my relationship with London.  At the moment I am rediscovering its beauty but I still find all the people challenging!

The page features the lovely Attic Boutique Papers and has been stamped using one of my favorite stamp sets, Everything Eleanor.  Bakers Twine and some Butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit.

This was one of the pages I put together with last month's Feeling Crafty Scrapbook Club Kit.  I have one of these kits spare so if you would like one please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Bright Blossoms Flowers in a Vase

Today I am going to share one of the cards we made at a recent Card Making Class, featuring the lovely Bright Blossoms Stamp Set.  This adorable little stamp set is so versatile that I feel I have only just started to scratch the surface of things I can do with it and I am looking forward to playing with it some more.

This card also features a recessed frame created with the Labels Collection Framelits, by creating a frame this way you add visual interest without making the card deeper and more expensive to post.

There are still a few places available to take this class on Thursday 28 June in Eaton Bray.  The details are here and if you would like to book a place please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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I Heart Artistic Etchings

Today I am going to show you a card made with the wonderful Artistic Etchings Stamp Set.

This Lucky Limeade and Rose Red card also features the scrummy hearts embossing folder from the Adorning Accents Set.  They add such a great texture to the card.

Today I am going to be mostly getting ready for our trip to Vienna with Stampin' Up!  I am so excited.  I will schedule some posts for you while I am away and then tell you all about it when I am back.  I am so lucky to be associated with a company who treat us so well.  If you would like to know more about working with Stampin' Up! please get in touch

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Scrapbook Saturday - Twitterpated on the London Eye!

Last month we fulfilled an ambition to take a flight on the London Eye, it is something we have been meaning to do for a very long time and it did not disappoint!


This page features the wonderful Twitterpated Papers.  I took the photo before I added the journalling, which is now directly under the photos.  It rained a lot the day we were there but luckily it cleared while we were on the Eye and the views were amazing - and yes there are lots more photos to scrap!

I cut out some embellishments from the Twitterpated Papers and added some of the cute little coordinating Twitterpated Buttons complete with Baker's Twine

This month is a great month to stock up on your Patterned Papers - when you order any three of the Designer Series Papers you can choose a fourth for free - you can see the full details here, but for £29.85 plus post and packing you get 48 double sided sheets of designer series papers


To order you papers email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk


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Olympic Rings Card

Today is just 50 days until the London 2012 Olympics and today I am going to share a card featuring the Olympic Rings.  This certainly is a great summer for the UK and I am looking forward to it.

The card features the wonderful Artistic Etchings Stamp Set, my trusted Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, and some delicious Bakers Twine.  The sentiment is from the Heard From the Heart Stamp Set.

If you would like to purchase these or any other Stampin' Up! products please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Spirelli Card with Butterfly

Today I am going to show you something fun you can do with your Baker's Twine and a Scallop Circle Punch.  As a child I was fascinated by the pictures people could make by wrapping metallic threads around pins, and the combination of curves and straight lines still appeals to me. Spirelli is the art of wrapping thread around a series of points to make a geometric shape and the technique gives some fun possibilities for our cards and scrapbook pages.

This card features three Spirelli Frames created by wrapping some of the wonderful Stampin Up! Baker's Twine around the points of a Scallop Circle.  The card was stamped with the circular image from the Artistic Etchings Stamp Set before it was punched out with the Scallop Circle Punch.

I have also used my Simply Scored! to give texture to the Concord Crush Layer.  If you are interested in finding out more about what the Simply Scored! can do check out this link for details of the I Scored! Packages that I am offering and the introductory offers that are available this month.

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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

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