Stampin' Up! FREE stamps

Sorry to have been AWOL for a few days - I've been recovering after the Spark's birthday weekend. It's official - Jelly is too old to party and spent all day Monday on the sofa recovering!

So I have been having another play with Reason to Smile - the stamp set you can get for FREE this month when you spend £60 or more with me on Stampin' Up! products. Here is the card I've made.

It's a Crumb Cake base with a sentiment from Heard from the Heart in Soft Suede. To create my frame I've used one of the Designer Frames Embossing folders and embossed both Crumb Cake and Pool Party Card. I cut them both out, making sure the Crumb Cake one was trimmed to fit inside the Pool Party frame. Next I stamped the flower, with the plain base in Pool Party and the more detailed of the two step stamp in Melon Mambo - with a touch of colouring using a Blender Pen. Then I got out my trusty Paper Snips and carefully cut it out.

You can just about see on the photo above the gentle Pool Party twist running through the Bakers Twine. The designer paper strip is from the Sweet Shop product suite.

Now I must dash as Commander Chaos is on day two of his potty training and leaving him for more than five minutes could result in yet more wet pants and disinfecting for Jelly to do!

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Stampin' Up! Guest Designer

Good morning, it's not so sunny today so I have planed lots of games to play with the Mini Beasts. We're going to start with a tray full of things that are blue and work out which items go missing and the sounds the objects start with. So as my day is all about my boys, I've a project ready to share with you.

I've been lucky enough to be invited to be a Guest Designer this week at Simply Stampin' Challenge and the theme this week is Let's Hear it For the Boys. Here's my card:

It's a 7"x5" card and one I made from the Mini Beasts  to give to the Spark yesterday for his Birthday. My colour combo is Concord Crush, Old Olive and Bashful Blue. I stamped the family using All in the Family with the help of my Stamp-ma-jig in Basic Black ink. To make sure I cut my circle out in the right place I used this handy trick:

Use a bit of tape to hold a piece of card in place over your die (Big Shot Circles #2) and run through the Big Shot. Slide your image underneath the cut card to position where you want it (great for photos) and pop through the machine again and ......

Perfect! I did a spot of paper piecing using the yummy Cheerful Treat Designer Papers. These are exclusive to party hostesses or to you if you place an order of £150 with me. I've used the same papers to decorate my card and finished with a strip of Concord Crush Ribbon.

Going to leave you with a photo of the Spark with Major Mayhem and Commander Chaos taken last night when we went out to celebrate his Birthday:

Please hop over to Simply Stampin' to see what the girls have created and have a go and join in too.

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Stampin' Up! Up! Up! and Away

Today it is the Spark''s Birthday - Happy Birthday Hun - now don't look at the picture on your i-phone or you'll see your card before I give it to you later!

Ahem - should have planned this a bit better shouldn't I? So, as you can see, it's Spark's Birthday today and this is the card I made for him:

It's a 6" square card in Pear Pizazz, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake. The stamp sets are Up, Up and Away and Funky Four. I felt the need to add some greenery to give the concept of land beneath the balloons.

The images have all been coloured with Markers and then stamped and cut or punched out.

Even the little clouds. If you want this stamp set please remember that it is in the Summer mini and products in there are only available until the end of August - that's this month if time is flying by too fast for you.

I'm off now to bake Birthday cupcakes with the Mini Beasts - a must have for any Birthday in the house of Jelly. The plan was then to get out in the garden again with the paddling pool but of course we have had a paddling pool related mishap. Said mishap was actually Commander Chaos wondering how much damage he would cause by throwing a garden trowel in to the pool. Answer - quite a bit and Mummy didn't glue the emergency patch on until this morning so said pool is now out of action until tomorrow. Oops.

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Stampin' Up! Reason to Smile Vellum

Cor check out the sunshine, isn't it beautiful? I predict another afternoon in the garden with the paddling pool and the Mini Beasts of course, not one for paddling on my own these days!

I've been playing with the gorgeous Reason to Smile set again this morning. You know the one you can get for FREE this month when you place an order of £60 on Stampin' Up! products with me. That or you can just buy it - either way it's only available this month so don't delay.

It's a 4" square card with the base being Basic Gray. Next I took a piece of White Vellum Paper and stamped the flowers with Versamark and heat embossed with White Embossing Powder. Before sticking down on the card I popped a punched strip of Pretty in Pink card underneath. Held in place with a knotted length of Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon. the sentiment is from Oval All.

The next card is very similar and uses the rest of the embossed Vellum Paper. This time I used a piece of Flirtatious Designer Papers instead of Pretty in Pink and stamped my sentiment on it too.

Here's a close up of the embossing and the sentiment:

And here are both cards together:

Placing an order is really easy, you can email me at bluejellystampin@sky.com or phone or text me on 07748 707845 or post your order to my address shown at the bottom of my blog. I can take payment via cash, cheque, online bank transfer, MasterCard or Visa Credit or Debit cards.

I'm off now to entertain the boys, we did so much yesterday I've got a lot to live up to!

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Stampin' Up! Glitter Play Dough - recipe

Well it's now almost mid way through the Summer holiday and today I found a fabulous recipe on line to make no-cook play dough. Wow the Mini Beasts love it! So for today's craft project with a difference you will need:

1. 4oz salt
2. 8oz flour (I used self raising)
3. 1 tablespoon baking powder or cream of tartar powder or bicarb powder
4. 1 tablespoon oil (I used a mix of olive and cocoa butter oil)
5. 8fl oz boiling water (from the kettle)
6. food colouring
7. Stampin' Glitter
8. Kids!!!

Pop everything in a bowl and add some Stampin' Glitter and mix thoroughly. OK so a spoon won't do it - get your hands in! Mmmm pink - on request of Zac, we may have to make more colours later this week.

It's fab stuff and it's not sticky. Here is Commander Chaos making wiggly worms:

And alongside Major Mayhem making Daddy a Birthday cake for Friday:

I'd better go and do the washing up now. Back tomorrow with some paper craft for you.

 Sharing the recipe with Polka Dot Pretties in this weeks link up party.

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Stampin' Up! Vienna Incentive Trip First Layout

Hurrah - at last Jelly has a new printer and can now print some photos to scrap! Couldn't be happier. So to start I have printed a few photos from the welcome dinner and done my first two pages. The first side shows a photo of myself and my Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Great Grandma Natalie. Seems funny calling her that - especially when I'm older than she is (just!). There is another version of this photo which is much funnier but I wanted to scrap this one.

I've used Crumb Cake 12x12 card for the base and mixed with Whisper White, Night of Navy and Real Red. The large scalloped border was created by punching out several circles in Whisper White using the 1 3/4" Circle Punch, half hidden under a strip of Real Red Card. The title and date are die cut using Simple Numbers and Simple Letters Big Shot dies.

Here's the opposite page:

I bought these shoes especially for the trip to match my polka dot dress and I love them to bits. I was lucky that a few of the other achievers took photos of them them and sent them my way so I could use them in a layout. The letters on this side are Timeless Type Sizzlits Dies.

All I've done to accent my pages is to add several red and white circles punched in various sizes.

Here are the pages together:

I've taken some great photos of the boys so far this Summer too - I just need an extra Summer to scrap them all.

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Stampin' Up! Show Kits

Ooh I've proper lost me 'oooh' this morning! Feel like I should still be in bed after a busy weekend but the mini beasts dived on me at 5.30am and I've been awake since. Good job really as my friend Clare will be here soon to sort out Jelly's hair as 'tis very much in need of sorting.

Anyway, I thought I'd say 'hello' to everyone who stopped by my stand yesterday to say hi, place an order, buy Idea Books and kits etc and a special wave to those of you who are thinking about becoming Stampin' Up! demonstrators yourselves and joining Team Jelly.

Been so busy not had time to craft so instead sharing with you the kits I had on sale yesterday. Here are the purses:

The kits contained everything to make these five purses, already cut or punched along with photo instructions. they are made in this years In Colours Pool Party, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral and Wisteria Wonder. They also feature punched flowers using the gorgeous Blossom Punch.

Next up my Santa and elf pillow box kits:

Again the kits contained everything ready to make these cute boxes made with the Pillow Box Big Shot die. Simples - just add glue and gifts for the inside.

I have a few pf each kit left so if you'd like one they are £5 including postage - please email me at bluejellystampin@sky.com as they will be one a first come first served basis.

I was lucky to get a corner stand:

The show was much bigger than I've seen it before and the stands all filled the whole hall.

Catch up tomorrow.

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Stampin' Up! Reason To Smile

Aaah bliss, a peaceful house for the afternoon as Major Mayhem and his partner in crime Commander Chaos have vacated the house of Jelly to stay over with their Grandparents.

So I snuck in a spot of crafting within seconds of them leaving (Mummy does miss you boys!) and had a play with the stamp set you can earn for FREE this month when you spend £60 on products with me.

I made a card and matching tag. the card base is Crumb Cake and my colours are Pool Party, Calypso Coral and Pretty in Pink. To create the effect I stamped the large and small flower randomly with Versamark Ink, sprinkled with White Embossing Powder and set with the Heat Tool. Next step is to use one of our Blender Pens along with some Whisper White Ink and gently colour the whole image to give it a white base.

Once it's dry you then colour over either with Markers or the Blender Pen with ink lifted direct from the pads.

The tag is one from a set for the Big Shot called Two Tags. I added a loop of Pool Party Ruffled Ribbon and a sentiment from Hopeful Thoughts to match the card.

Busy, busy got some kits to prep for the show this Sunday at the Harvey Hadden Stadium in Nottingham. I'll have some fab kits available for you to buy on the day as well as half price Catalogues and retired stamp sets too. As well as fantastic demonstration and loads of inspiration too.

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Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Perks

It's been nearly three years now since I joined Stampin' Up! and it's flown by.

Did you know the new Stampin' Up! Starter Kit is just £99 for £130 worth of product of your choice plus business supplies too? that's your brand new hobby or business all wrapped up!

Now is simply the best time to join Team Jelly and become a demonstrator yourself. We have the rest of the month left with the Summer Mini Catalogue and then we have a scrummy new Seasonal Catalogue which us lucky demo's can order from now whilst everyone else has to wait a whole month. If you join Team Jelly - you'll be able to see it yourself and drool just like me! 

So why is now the best time to join?

• Your first quarterly minimum doesn't need to be met until the end of December!
• That means you get your Starter Kit with £130 worth of product to play with now plus you get to pre-order from the new Seasonal Catalogue - which you will want all of by the way!
• You can get 30% off your first qualifying order so that's huge savings and more stash straight away
• from 1st September you'll be able to sell these new products to your customers as well as being able to offer them items from the last chance list too - the best way to get your feet under the table as a demo.
• You'll also be able to pre-order from the main catalogue which will be available to the public from 1st October - doesn't get much more exciting!
• You'll be joining to start the new Stampin' Up! year (October) strong and be in with a chance to earn the Incentive Trip in 2014 which is a week long Caribbean Cruise!!!!

All this whilst enjoying one of the best and busiest times of the year to grow your business and capitalise on all the lovely new products coming our way.

STOP PRESS - you can now join online

Would you love to know more? 

Please get in touch whichever way suits you:

Phone: 07748 707845

Email: bluejellystampin@sky.com

In person: I'll be at the Ross Paper craft Show on Sunday 5th August in Nottingham and at the Great British Craft Festival at Donnington Park on Sat 18th & Sun 19th August.

I'd love to hear from you and to be able to share so much more about becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.

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Stampin' Up! Blossom Punch Wreath

Finally I got round to making a wreath using Stampin' Up! products. I've seen so many different variations and decided it was about time I had a go - what sort of Stampin' Up! demonstrator would I be without having one to show to my customers?

I've used the Blossoms Punch from the Summer Mini Catalogue and teamed it up with Sweet Shop Designer Series Papers and others from the colour stacks too.

I've used quite a selection of embellishments, firstly layers using the 1" and 3/4" Circles punches, Twitterpated Buttons, Sweet Shop Jelly Bean Brads and a few buttons from some of the other colour collections too.

The colour combo is mainly Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Regal Rose and Blushing Bride. It was really easy to make - I cut a ring of card out from the back of one of the paper packs (I drew around a dinner plate and a bowl - nothing technical!) and then tied the Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon around the top and started punching flowers and sticking them down with Crystal Effects.

Back tomorrow with exciting news!

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