You're as young as you feel

I was having a chat with a good friend of mine last week about our birthdays and our ages and we both decided we're still very young at heart. Ms Sugar is a massive fan of anything pink so I made her a little girl's card instead of a grown up one!

I've used a variety of pinks including Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose mixed with Crumb Cake. The giant cake is paper pieced using Big Bold Birthday. The pink birthday girl was stamped using All in the Family with a crown from Every Little Bit. The heart balloons are stamped with I {Heart} Hearts and punched out with Heart to Heart punch. I chose the sentiment from the level one hostess set Afterthoughts. What a combination on one card! I decorated the inside to match:

 

The present is a combination of Playful Pieces (Level 3 hostess set) and Big Bold Birthday. I know I'm safe to blog this now as Susie has her card!

Had a fun afternoon with the boys and Zac's best friend Aimee and her Mum. It stayed dry after lunch for us to play out in the garden and nowmy bubbas are shattered - yey!

Back tomorrow.
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Baby Blossoms Class

My next classes are on  
Saturday 21st May at 10.30am and again at 1.30pm.
We'll be using Baby Blossoms and making some gorgeous creations. Here is a little peek for you:

We'll be making several cards and a gift item too. I still have some spaces so if you like what you see and you'd like to come along, the cost of the class is £15. Or you can pay £35 and get the wood mounted Baby Blossoms stamp set included with your kit or £29 with the unmounted stamps. If you get these it's worth getting one of the smaller clear mount blocks too.

Want to see a bit more?

I'd love you to join us. Places need to be booked and paid for by Sunday 15th May. If you're visiting the Max Papercraft Show at the Harvey Hadden Stadium in Nottingham you can book your class place there. Otherwise please email me at bluejellystampin@sky.com or phone me on 07748 707845.

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A thank you gift

On Friday Zac was invited to a birthday party, yesterday I showed you the card I made for the little boy. Today I'm sharing the thank you gift I made for his Mum. My lovely downline Tracy showed me one of these boxes she'd made so I had to have a go too!

I went all bright and cheerful and used Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie. The patterned papers are Sweet and Sour Speciality - some of the papers are embossed and glossy, very yummy. I've used the Top Note die to make the box and the Fun Flowers big Shot die for the decoration. The box itself is / was filled with yumy Thorntons chocolates. Here's a close up of the flower:

You can see I've used both the Perfect Polka Dots and the Square Lattice Embossing Folders. I'm loving being able to add texture to my projects now. The Pumpkin Pie button is from the Brights selection.

Don't forget I have my Big Shot bundle offer on until the end of this month, so if you've been toying with the idea of the Big Shot - it makes it very much worth your while. See the post at the top of my blog for more details.

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Boys Birthday

Morning everyone. Hope you've had a wonderful weekend. I've got a card to show you today that I made for one of Zac's school friends Jamie. Zac should have gone to Jamie's birthday party on Friday but as I was ill I couldn't take him, so we've given Jamie his card and present this morning. Here is his card:

It's a 6" square card using Real Red, Bashful Blue, Old Olive and Pacific Point. The colours all match with the Celebrations Quick Accents I've used. Jamie's name and the stars are all chipboard from Alphabet Soup and On Board Mix and Match. I didn't have a chipboard number four, so I used some of the chipboard from a packet of DSP and cut it on the Big Shot using Sizzlits Timeless Type Junior Alphabet. It's a great set as has upper and lower case, numbers and symbols for just £65.95.

I daubed all the chipboard with Whisper White ink and then inked over with the colours. I decorated the inside too:

I'd like to thank everyone who came to my sale and Stampin' Up! event yesterday. It was so lovely to see you all. I have to say thank you to Theresa G and Teresa H for the fabby goodies you brought me! Also thank you to Tracy for all your help and support. I have lots of names down for my all day class on June 12th in Nottingham so please let me know if you'd like to book your place too.

I held a raffle yesterday and I'd like to announce the winner......

Theresa King

Congratulations Theresea, you goodies will be in the post to you later today!

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It's raining so no gardening today

Paper & Sugar Craft Event TODAY

It’s bargain time and if you can get to my Paper & Sugar Craft Event you’re bound to bag a bargain and have lots of fun at the same time.

Lots for sale including card making, scrapbooking & jewellery making supplies – new and second hand. There will also be handmade cards available to buy. And now sugar craft items too!

FREE – prize draw with Stampin' Up! product prize

Discover the creative you with Stampin’ Up! products

Pull up a chair and try out some fabulous Stampin’ Up! craft products, including the Big Shot for free in my ‘make and take’ corner.

Fancy a career in crafting?

Talk to me about how to become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator yourself, working the hours you choose and doing what you love.

Sun 8th May 10.30am - 1.30pm

FREE entry at: Arnold Old People’s Welfare Centre, Nottingham Rd, Arnold (opposite the Greyhound Pub)

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All White

Oooh me likey, this weeks challenge from Diva Mandi and Dame Chrissie is to use White on White with no exceptions. Great excuse to play with the Big Shot I thought. So hop over to Less is More and join in. Here's mine:

 

I've used a mix of Whisper White card and also Shimmery White card, the Shimmery White almost looks like a neutral tone here but that's the joys of early morning photography! I nipped in to the garden to take this in my PJs, thinking no one would see but next door were up and out early and waved hello. Ahem - oops!

So I've used the Big Shot Fun Flowers die here and layered it up using dimensionals for lift. The Button is cut with the Sweet Buttons Embosslits folder as I've run out of white buttons. I don't have any white thread and not wanting to sway from the challenge and use silver thread, I trimmed down the edge of some of the White Organza ribbon to make my own and tied a bow through the button.

I might have to replace these photos later on when the light is better. Right, I can go and have a shower now then. Catch you later LIMettes.

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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Well, this morning I was feeling all sorry for myself as my cough is worse and I had to ask a friend to take Zaqc to pre-school for me and my MIL to pick him up. So I had a chat with my friend Susie and we talked of course about Stampin' Up! and what we have and don't have. I mentioned I'd got some stamps from the new mini that I hadn't used yet and Susie pretty much challenged me to pull my finger out. so......

I've made this card using the Sail Away a la carte stamp - that's one you can buy on it's own rather than a set. I stamped it in Pacific Point and paper pieced the sails with Bashful Blue and Pacific Point DSP. The sentiment is masked off from the whale image in the level two hostess set Longfellows. A few highlights with the white gel pen and three jumbo eyelets for decoration before mounting on Pacific Point base and I'm done!

So about the seaside bit.....my Mum and Father in law just called to say they've booked me, hubby and the boys a holiday by the sea! They are in a points club and found us a short break. Yey!!!!

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A late post and a new addition to the family

Sorry for being such a late poster today. The day has flown by. My afternoon has been filled with fun with Fluff and Sweet Cheeks - our boys are learning to share which is novel! So I haven't had time to sit down and create so whilst washing up I planned a card in my head and then nipped up to the room of craft to create it! It's not disimilar to one I've made before:

The card is River Rock stamped with a sentiment from Heard From the Heart in Always Artichoke. I've stamped the flower in the same ink on to Springtime Vintage DSP using Pick a Petal and then cut out and stuck down. Simples. Just managed to get a good enough photo as it's a bit dull at the moment, didn't even have time to get out the light box!

So, on to the new addition to our family. It was one of those unplanned events....you know how it is. Jelly goes to charity fashion show, Jelly pays £1 to enter the 'guess the birthday of the soft toy' competition and goes and wins it. Here's Stunt Baby with his new pal Boofle:

Not such a fabulous shot of Boofle but you can see he's much bigger than Blake! He sat in the back seat of the car coming home last night and we strapped him in with the seat belt! The plan was to hide Boofle until Blake's second birthday as that was the date I put down for the competition. So i hid the 'small' bear in my wardrobe last night. Of course Zac was straight in there this morning whilst I was in the shower. All I heard was 'Mummy - massive toy in the door'. Need to think about better hiding places for future.

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Massive Paper and Sugar Craft Sale

Come and grab a bargain on

 Sunday 8th May

10.30am - 1.30pm

FREE entry

Old People's Welfare Centre, Arnold. NG5 6JZ

(Opp the Greyhound Pub)

Plenty of bargains for card making, scrapbooking, jewellery making and sugar craft.

Try your hand at a Make & Take in my Stampin' Up! area. Catalogues for sale, orders, class and party bookings taken too.

FREE prize draw for Stampin' Up! goodies on the day

Come and have a chat about joining Team Jelly and becoming a demonstrator yourself!

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Another Gerbera Card

Zac went back to school this morning looking very cute in his new school cap. I would think that though as his Mummy. A quickie post from me as I'm off to a charity fashion show in a little while - leaving hubby in charge of putting the boys to bed and all. So I've made another faux gerbera card using the Flower Daisies #2 Big Shot die:

I'm pretty sure I hadn't allowed the glue to dry before I picked it up to take a photo and the centre has slipped. Oops. I've used Melon Mambo, Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery and Elegant Eggplant. The Certainly Celery square has been given some texture using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.

As you can see from the light and shadows on the photo, it's another beautiful day, even if there is a chilly wind. Fluff and Sweet Cheeks are coming to play again tomorrow so fingers crossed for another day like today so we can have a kiddy picnic in the garden.

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