Pillow Talk

I am sooo loving my new Sizzix Big Shot - what a fabulous toy! I will try to make something this week without using it but I can't promise. Yesterday I had all day to craft - the best mother's day gift I could have been given I think. So I made these:

 

 

Aren't they pretty? I've used papers from the Springtime Vintage pack, shades of Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzaz and River Rock, such a lovely combo. My little cards are made using Pear Pizzaz card with a layer of the pretty paper, it shows both sides of the same sheet here. Then I die cut the little boxes using the Pillow Box die.

On the first card I've used some of the very delicate Baja Breeze Seam Binding ribbon, it's so lovely to use. I've teamed it up with a frame from Four Frames stamped in Pear Pizzaz and then stamped the sentiment stamp from Oval All in Baja Breeze, colouring in the detail in Pear Pizzaz and adding a large Self Adhesive Pearl.

For my second card, I reversed the paper and unforunately I don't yet have the Pear Pizzaz Seam Binding ribbon so I used some Certainly Celery Tafetta instead. The frame is punched out using the new Decorative Label Punch.

I die cut the two boxes from the same paper and then punched the oval aperture using the large oval punch, popped a piece of Window Sheet behind and made a frame using the large oval and scalloped oval punches.

I've finished them off with some Baja Breeze ribbon and a large Springtime Vintage Button. Back tomorrow with a very cute little purse!

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Vintage Tea And Some Posh Nosh

Oooh I'm having a lush Mother's Day today. Doing as I please.....crafting! I enjoyedthe last Embellish challenge I joined in with so much that I had to have ago at their latest one too, even though the colours aren't very me at all. Another stipulation is to use fancy trim:

I've used some of the gorgeous new mini catty stuff - Springtime Vintage DSP, the fabulous Four Frames and Itty Bitty Bits Stamps, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and a Big Designer Button! My colours are River Rock, Always Artichoke and Certainly Celery. I always, always take poor photos of green shades. I have no idea why!

Once I'd stamped the frames, I cut them in half to make some bunting and stuck them down on dimensionals for lift. I didn't have any of the new seam binding ribbon in Pear Pizzaz which would have looked fab, so I dyed some of the White Organza Ribbon using my River Rock ink pad and once dry, pulled a thread through the centre to ruffle it up. To make my matching thread for the bunting and to attach the button, I cut down the edge of the ribbon as neatly as I could! So cute that the Itty Bitty stamp set have matching punches!

So on to my quite posh lunch out yesterday! The rain stopped - hurrah! My friends took pleasure in planting a massive silver and pink helium balloon on our table with '40' on for the whole world to see (it was more embarassing taking it shopping and then home on the bus with me afterwards to be honest!).

The company was fab and the food was delish. Have to share.......

 

Not convinced I'll be taking tiles off my roof and varnishing them to make plates just yet though. I don't do fish as a rule, I'm allergic to shell fish and anything tasting vaguely fishy generally makes me turn my nose up. But given a choice of fish or brocolli soup, I opted for the fish. Twas OK but couldn't eat a whole one. Next up yummy steak, mash, spring greens and mushroom puree followed by vanilla panacotta with berries and sorbet. The far right pud wasn't mine but it looks yummy doesn't it?

And to help celebrate....

 

 

Ladies wot lunch wouldn't be complete without cocktails would it? Can you guess which is mine? Left to right: negroni, singapore sling and a cosmo.

Well I'm off to play with more goodies from the mini - if you feel tempted to purchase or to have a party or a play, please get in touch and I'll be happy to help.

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Who Ordered Rain?

Seriously it has to stop raining, I'm off out celebrating my 40th later with some girlfriends and I've got a new dress to wear that doesn't go with rain! It goes with sunshine and spring! Anyway, it's time for a new challenge over at Less is More and this week the theme is to use 'a touch of red'. So, taken in the dull conservatoire...

I've used Basic Black card and Whisper White and then used the fabby new Beautiful Butterflies Sizzix Die from the mini catalogue teamed up with some Real Red DSP and the sentiment from Butterfly Prints. I inked it up with Basic Black and Real Red Markers.

Lots of you have been asking, well demanding to know what time I get up on a Saturday. Well the day of the week makes no odds really, Zac wakes up every morning at exactly two minutes past six, demanding to be taken to the toilet and Blake wakes us up at random intervals during the night and usually at around 5.30am demanding to just get up and play! So when Hubby is home, I get a spot of early morning crafting in! Then promprtly pass out again!

Hop over and join in, tis a fabulous challenge.

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Big Mini Announcement

Oh my word - are you ready for this? You can order from the new mini catalogue from today:

This is the best mini EVER. You can view the mini catalogue online HERE or by clicking on the photo in my left hand side bar or you can request a mini catalogue from me. My favourite thing in it so far is...........

Oh yes - it's the Big Shot with 23 dies (17 of them are exclusive to Stampin' Up!), we also have embossing folders and can add texture to our projects - doesn't get mroe exciting than this!!!!

Now I had to hold off unwrapping mine and all my mini goodies because if I'd opened them all when I got them I wouldn't have been able to use my other stash due to the excitement and then I wouldn't have blogged! So yesterday I had a play and made these:

I know I'm usually clean and simple at heart but I just had to go for it and have a play! This is actually a box of flowers:

And a card box to match:

And the contents of the box with everything else:

 

If you'd like to make this set (with your choice of sentiment) please get in touch to book your place in my class on Saturday 23rd April at 10.30am or at 1.30pm. Class costs £15 and includes everything you need to make these projects and a mini catalogue along with a few other surprises too. So book your place ASAP and come along and try out the Big Shot for yourself. Anyone who buys the Big Shot can attend the class for free - but you need to order your Big Shot from me at the time of booking your class place.

PLUS - an offer from me: If you buy a Big Shot from me in April or May and have an extra £10 product spend on me!!!

If you can't make my class, why not book a party or come along to my Big Shot and mini Demonstration event on Sunday 8th May at the Old People's Welfare Centre in Arnold?

Back tomorrow with more mini madness!

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