Time to Say Goodbye to Vintage Vogue

One of my long term favourite go to stamp sets, Vintage Vogue is on the Stampin' Up! Last Chance List, which means it is only available to purchase while stocks last or until the end of the month, which ever is sooner.

This versatile set will allow you to make cards for just about any occasion and today I am going to share a handful of the projects I have made over the years with this wonderful stamp set

If you would like this Vintage Vogue Stamp Set, or any of the others that are on the Last Chance List  (which you can see here) I would urge you to let me know as soon as possible - items are selling out fast.  To place your order email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Vintage Vogue Birthday Card

Today I have another Birthday card to share with you.  This one features one of my favourite stamp sets Vintage Vogue – I also happen to know that the birthday girl loves it too!

The colours used are Sahara Sand, Wild Wasabi. Perfect Plum and Pretty in Pink.  Here they have been teamed with some First Edition Speciality Papers and some wonderful Crochet Trim.  The birthday girl is also a lover of all things that sparkle so the Rhinestones were a must!

The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes – the hostess stamp set I was telling you about yesterday – It is certainly seeing a lot of ink at the moment here!  If you would like to earn this stamp set for free don’t forget to email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Sweet Sunday

Today I will be making my way home from Paris - I say making my way when really it will be very easy as my lovely friend Zoe will be driving us so she will be doing all the work!

Now I don't know about you but for long car journeys I think sweets are a must! So for each of the ladies I a travelling with I put together a little pot of sweets, and had some fun decorating them.

The flowers on each one were different variations using the wonderful Vintage Vogue Stamp Set

I hope you enjoy looking and that the girls enjoyed their sweets!

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It's Showtime - Hobbycraft Showtime

Today is the first day of the Hobbycraft Show at the NEC and along with some of my team I will be on Stand C16 sharing Stampin’ Up! with everyone who comes to visit us.

Would you like a little peek at one of the things I have made for our displays?

This frame features the wonderful Vintage Vogue – I adore this stamp set!

If you are visiting the show I will be there on Thursday and Saturday so please make sure you stop by, say hello and let me know you read this blog – I would love your feedback.

I hope to meet lots of you soon!

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Springtime Vintage Butterflies

Today I am going to share a card with you that features some of the wonderful Springtime Vintage Papers that are only available until the end of the month. Thank goodness the lovely stamp set Vintage Vogue is not on the list of stamps that are retiring.

For this card I wanted some Seam Binding in Soft Suede. Now you probably know that Stampin’ Up! don’t have a Soft Suede Seam Binding so I took some Crumb Cake and coloured it with my Soft Suede Ink Pad.

If you want to order anything on the retiring list please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk as soon as possible as

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Vintage Vogue - Thank You

On Monday I started showing you some cards made with the lovely Vintage Vogue Stamp Set which had been a bit neglected until this last weekend. I find it is the kind of stamp set that once I have it out I just want to keep stamping with so the answer to the question from Tuesday is no – I did not stop at just two cards - there were more!

Lots more and today I am going to share a card I made lots of! It also features one of my new favourite colour combinations – River Rock, Pretty in Pink and Rich Razzleberry.

Most of the stamps are from the Vinatge Vogue Stamp Set and here I have teamed it with one of the sentiments from Wedding Sweet Stamp Set.  I love how the two different stamp sets work together!

The card also features some of the gorgeous Rich Razzleberry Wide Striped Ribbon which I got free from Stampin’ Up! Check out this post to find out how you can get yours and then email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

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Neglected Stamps - Vintage Vogue

Do you sometimes find that you have neglected one of your favourite stamp sets for a while? A little while ago one of my lovely customers (Hello Ellie!) happened to mention that she had noticed that I had not used the wonderful Vintage Vogue Stamp Set for a while. I thought that seemed odd but when I thought about it I realised she was right and it was time I did something about it!

So today I am going to share a card which teams the Vintage Vogue Stamps with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder.

The colours are Riding Hood Red and Early Espresso. The butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and the the Beautiful Butterflies Die are cut from Very Vanilla card. The central butterfly is decorated with the delicious flower and leaf swirl from Vintage Vogue. The sentiment is from Wedding Sweet.

So I hope I am forgiven by you all and of course by the lovely Vintage Vogue Stamp Set – which will be inky again very soon!

Are there any other stamp sets in my collection you think should get some inky love? Email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk or leave a comment below.

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More Baby Cards

Are you ready for another baby post? Well I guess its only kind of a baby post, but that depends on when you think a baby stops being a baby!  Last year my partner became a Grandfather and last month his Granddaughter turned one. It is amazing how much she has grown and is even uttering her first words and almost walking.

For her birthday we had a big family picnic, our family as well as the baby’s fathers family. Chloe was very spoilt so I made lots of thank you cards for her Mum to give people to say thank you. When Chloe was born I made photo cards with her picture in the middle for everyone, so I did the same with a photo taken on her first birthday.

The card is Pretty in Pink and the papers are from the Tea Party Designer Series Paper Pack. The stamps are from Vintage Vogue and Live Your Dreams.

Thank you for stopping by today

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Stamp with Us Sunday

Well it’s Sunday so time for another Stamp With Us Challenge and this week it’s a sketch challenge. Now it’s been a while since I scrapped and when I saw this sketch I knew straight away I wanted to make a layout using it.


Here is the sketch

And here is my layout.

One of the things I look forward to as spring settles into being here is the Wisteria coming out. I adore these beautiful flowers and most years take more pictures of them than I probably should! As well as being beautiful these flowers tell me that summer and sunshine really are on their way. Our Wisteria has only really just bloomed in the last week or so. I know it is important to plan ahead and at about the same time the Wisteria bloomed I was invited to the first meeting about next year’s panto! It seems very early to be thinking about something which is so closely associated with winter – this year’s panto was quite disrupted by all the snow – what a contrast to the lovely weather we are having at the moment!

The layout just documents this contrast. I have used a sheet of patterned papers from the Sweet Pea Stack as my base. The photo is mounted on some Chocolate Chip Card and the a layer of Almost Amethyst which has been stamped using the Greenhouse Garden Stamp Set in Almost Amethyst and Lavender Lace. This was then covered in Champaign Mist Shimmer Paint. I have also used some of the delicious Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon and made my journaling block using the Frames with Flourishes Stamp Set. I finished off the page with three flowers made by rocking and rolling the Vintage Vogue flower. I stamped and cut out two images for each flower and added a yellow rhinestone brad to the centre of each to mirror the colours in the Wisteria.

I enjoyed making this and hope it inspires you to use the sketch. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the team’s creations.

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Vogue for a Hostess

A little while ago I mentioned that I was going to be presenting at some of the Stampin’ Up! Regional Training Events, and I even showed you a picture of my swap card for Coventry and Reading. When I got back I was swept away with excitement about the new mini catalogue and don’t think I told you about the actual Regional Events! Whoops.

I was very honoured, very excited and totally nervous to have been invited to present at the Coventry Regional Training. One of the great things about Stampin’ Up! is the level of support we get from the company and this round of training was focussed on helping us to deliver great workshops and parties to our customers. I love doing parties and if you have not hosted a party or been to one I suggest you contact either me or your Demo to get one organised – fun and the chance of free goodies – what could be better, but I digress!

As well as sharing with the other demos who were at the event how I get ready for a Stampin’ Up! Party I shared this project with them. I also shared it with the huge number of people who came to the evening event to discover what Stampin’ Up! is all about. Now what I have noticed is that when I make these at home my hands are really steady, but put me by Elmo (a supposedly friendly projector that shows people what you are doing) and I can’t stop my hands shaking, makes for interesting results! This project shows the rock and roll technique on the flowers and also happens to be the kind of gift I give to hostesses as a little thank you from me.

I have used a mix of Elegant Eggplant, Almost Amethyst and Mellow Moss for this set along with the adorable Vintage Vogue set (I am working on using some other stamps honest!) and French Script. Now I have been asked by a few people to do a tutorial on this project so if you would like instructions on how to make it please drop me an email (bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk) and I will sent it to you as soon as it is written.

Despite the nerves I really enjoyed the training events, it is always such fun to hang out with inspiring crafty friends.

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Push the Envelope

I had a wonderful time in Sunny Somerset and in Plymouth over the weekend. As well as crafting with friends and spending time with some adorable people, I even got to visit two lighthouses and get sand between my toes – for me it really does not get a lot better than that!

There are lots of things that demos like to do when they get together – chat, laugh, craft, swap ideas and inspiration etc. One way we did this at the training event was the demo choice competition. I decided to enter this little mini album.

It is made from four envelopes stuck together. I made mine using the Stampin’ Up! envelopes as they are such good quality. Once they had been stuck together I decorated each panel with papers from the Autumn Moments Designer Series Pack and the coordinating colours of card stock. I adore the papers in this pack – the wood grain pattern is just divine and the others are pretty scrummy too!

The album is held together with some of the new Chocolate Chip Satin ribbon which I have heard described as liquid chocolate...  I also made an accent for the front of the album using the wonderful new Bird Punch.

The inserts were made from coordinating card stock and stamped with images from my current favourite stamp set – Vintage Vogue. I also added journaling blocks made using images from Framed with love stamped onto more of the papers from Autumn Moments.

I also made this little accent for the back page using the flowers and sentiment from Vintage Vogue and a frame from Framed with love

There were some stunning entries and I did not win, however I hope you like this little album. If you would like to make one of your own I offer it as a class so please do get in touch.

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Stamp with Us Sunday

As you read this I will be in what I hope is a sunny Devon – visiting with the lovely Stevie and her family and attending the Stampin’ Up! Training and Experience Event – so hello if we met yesterday :-D

Can you believe its Sunday again already and today is a Stamp with Us Challenge Sunday. This week it’s a sketch challenge. I really enjoy these challenges and hope you will play along too.

So here is this week’s sketch

And my card

I have turned to the lovely Vintage Vogue stamp set again – this one is earning a regular place on my craft table. Here I have stamped the flowers in Pretty in Pink, Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue, Lavender Lace and Sage Shadow. The big flower has been rocked and rolled with Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose. The base is Almost Amethyst and the layers are Not Quite Navy. The sentiment has been framed with one of the scrummy new Framed with Love Stamps.

I hope you enjoyed today’s card and that you will have a go at this challenge

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Two

Not long now – just two more sleeps until the new Mini Catalogue from Stampin’ Up!

Today I am going to share with you some more sneak peaks of the yummy stuff you will find inside. Yesterday we looked at the delicious Night and Day Papers and today’s post was inspired by another new set of papers, Autumn Moments. Now hang on a moment you may be thinking, could we do Spring and Summer before we get to Autumn? As I sit here listening to the rain on the conservatory roof I would agree, bring on the spring! These papers are however delicious and I was very drawn to them so had a little play.

For the recent Stampin’ Up! Regional Training Days I made a little gift for myself and each of the Stampin’ Superstars who attended. I knew the day was going to be packed with things they would want to remember so I made a little notebook for each. These are the lovely Stampin’ Up! journals covered with the Autumn Moments Papers. They are delicious and detailed and did not require much decoration. However I thought a little bird might be in order (and since I am in love with that punch too!) so I added one, nesting on a large heart made with the punch which is only available this month (so if you want it, order it now!).

The colours from this paper also inspired my swaps for the sessions, when demo’s get together they like to make cards for each other. This is the card I made, using the colours from the Autumn Moments Papers and the Vintage Vogue Stamp Set.

Here the base card is Natural Ivory which gives a lovely soft aged look to the card. The background was stamped with the French Script Background Stamp in More Mustard. The flourishes were stamped in the corners around this in Close to Cocoa and the border was stamped with Taken with Teal. Have you spotted the scrummy ribbon along the card? It is the delicious satin ribbon in Chocolate Chip. When the catalogue launches we will have three colours of wonderful double sided satin – it is so lovely to work with and I am addicted to all the colours we are getting so I am sure you can guess what they may be! I used the scrummy Platinum Shimmer Paint to create the focal image. You already know I love this stuff but did you realise how little of it you need? It goes a seriously long way and I love how it looks on the Taken with Teal Background. I know you are going to have a lot of fun playing with it too.

I will be back with the final stage of this countdown tomorrow and then on Thursday for the big reveal and with some very special offers so please be sure to check back.

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