Cocktails and a Winner!

Oh yesterday I had a fabby retiring products afternoon at home. Thanks so much to everyone who managed to come along. Keep reading as I'll be announcing the winner of the £30 free spend in the new catalogue in this post!

I made this card for my Step Mum's birthday and I know I'm very safe to blog it now:

It's an A5 card using Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Tangerine Tango, I love these colours together. Both the stamp sets used on this card are retiring this month, Cheers to You for the cocktails and sentiment and Schoolbook Serif Alphabet set. Can you guess I had to use the stamp-ma-jig to get all these lined up? I coloured the cocktails with Markers and also coloured the sentiment stamp with Markers before stamping too. The very gorgeous Sweet and Sour papers are also retiring this month so if you love them as much as I do, please give me a call to place your order before they're all gone.

The orange gems are the Basic Rhinestones, coloured with a permanent pen. I decorated the inside too:

The sentiment stamp used on the inside is the retiring On A Pedestal. Makes me a bit sad as both this set and Cheers to You were in my starter kit when I first joined Stampin' Up!

So.......who has won a £30 spending spree in the new catalogue in October? Congratulations to:

Alex Cross

Well done Alex - I'll get in touch with you in October to let you know when you can choose your goodies!


If you want to order any products, retiring or not did you know you can just give me a call or drop me an email to place your order? UK addresses for delivery only though! Call me on 07748 707845 or email me at bluejellystampin@sky.com


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Cocktails and Rainbows

Morning all. It's a lovely suny day today in contrast to the thunder storms we had yesterday evening! It's also time for another challenge over at Less is More and this time the theme is a one layer card 'in the frame'.

Here's mine:

 

Just for a change I have used Crumb Cake card and stamped my frame, image and sentiment in Versamark ink and heat embossed using white powder. The frame is from one of the sets in the new mini catalogue Sew Lovely and the cocktail and sentiment are from one of my favourite sets Cheers to You. Once I'd embossed it all I coloured the image and frame using a blender pen along with Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie inks.

Taking of the storms last night, I was amazed to see two rainbows together. I had to hurry to get a photo as we were putting the boys to bed and I had to lean out of their bedroom window to take the pics! I hope you can see them both, the lower one is so much clearer:

Hopefully now I'm back off holiday I'll be able to get round to some commenting this week!
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Hen Party Album

I was asked to make a hen party album last week with a cocktail party theme and this is what I came up with:

I started off with a plain On Board Art Journal and covered it with Basic Grey designer paper (it's Melon Mambo on the inside!). The name is made using On Board Alphabet soup, covered in melon Mambo ink and then coated in Crystal Effects and left to dry.

The large scallop circle in the centre is from the other chipboard pack, On Board Mix and Match, I've stamped and coloured the cocktail from Cheers to You and again coated the lot in Crystal Effects and popped some Self Adhesive Rhinestones in too.

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The Reason My Sky Plus Box died.....

Morning on another bright and sunny day. I'm excited today as my MIL is coming round to babysit and we're off out for a double celebration. My lovely downline Tracy's husband celebrates his birthday on Wednesday and I'm celebrating my 40th on Thursday so we're having a joint night out tonight and we're off out for a meal and then to the concert hall to see comedian Mickey Flanagan. I've made a couple of cards for Dean and this is the one from me and James:

It's a nice large card using Crumb Cake for the base with a layer of patterned paper from Woodland Walk. I've used shimmery white card and then masked off the base of the pedestal stamp from On a Pedestal and instead of cupcakes I've layered up the pint glass from Cheers to You. Well, cupcakes are a bit girly aren't they? I've shaded the images with markers and layered up on Soft Suede. The sentiment is also from Cheers to You but I cut out just the word 'cheers' and mounted it in a frame from the Hodgepodge kit.

I've decorated the inside of this one too:

The sentiment is double stamped in Soft Suede using Just Perfect Alpha to help Dean feel like he's already been celebrating and then I inked up a foam circle and randomly stamped it around in an attempt to make it look like a beer glass had been sat on the card. Remember you still have a few days left to buy both the Shimmery White card and the HodgePodge kit on offer this month!

So on to the tale of my Sky+ box. It's not been working very well recently. We could watch tellybox but not actually record anything. So several phone calls to Sky later we established what the problem was. Let me introduce you to Exhibit A:

 

And I quote 'see what your problem is here Mum, you need to take the scart lead out of the X-box and attach it to the shopping trolley, then we could take out those red, blue, yellow and green connector cable things and maybe give them a bit of a chew.....'

Moving on to Exhibit B:

....'right Zac, here's the plan. You hold the tellybox bench and keep watch whilst I start removing the cables and reinserting them in to the shopping trolley, I reckon we can sort this out before Mum makes that cup of coffee.......'

Turns out Blake had 'loosened' the record input cable. I use the term 'loosened' in the vaguest possible sense. He'd pulled it out and yanked the end off it. Wait until I share his latest household adventure with you!

Back tomorrow.
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Man fest

Made you look! I'll be posting a few male themed cards over the next few days as it's my Father in Laws birthday on Tuesday. He came out of hospital last night (yey!). I thought it was his birthday on Sunday but I was wrong. At least that gives me more time to make the cards starting with this one from me and hubby:

I've used Crumb Cake card for the base, just for a change (!) and added a layer of patterned paper from Woodland Walk. The image and sentiment are from Cheers to You, a firm favourite of mine, I can't imagine why! I stamped the beer image on Very Vanilla and coloured in in with inks and a Blender Pen and cut out. Me and my scissors seem to have become very well aquainted these days, chants to self....'need to use more punches, need to use more punches'.....

I've added a patterned self adhesive strip from the Play Date Quick Accents pack, much better than ribbon on a blokey card me thinks. 'Dad' was stamped using the Just Perfect Alpha set in Chocolate Chip, love that you don't have to be precise with this set, or maybe that's just me making excuses!

I've also used a silver frame from the Hodge Podge Hardware set (another fab item on offer this month with 20% discount at £20.76 for the whole tinful). I've punched out a coordinating piece of Chocolate Chip card using the Designer Label Punch and then the sentiment with the 1" circle punch and popped a dimensional underneath for some lift. I didn't use the brads with the frame, just stuck it down with Tombow.

I love the HodgePodge hardware, I bought this tin when I first became a demo in Nov 2009 and I'm still using it now as it has so much in it.

Off to regional training at Leeds tomorrow, can't wait, love meeting up with other demos and even better, having a whole day dedicated to Stampin' Up!

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