Stampin’ Up!–Banner Blast sale a bration

sharing a sale a bration stamp set today with a new product from the spring & summer cattie – not seen them yet check them out via the links on the right hand side of my blog or if you prefer a copy in your hands let me know and i will post you a copy/copies out for free today..
heres what i made

i just simply love Banner blast and the gorgeous coordinating punch 2 of many free gifts available during sale-a-bration – to get the Banner Blast stamp set for free simply place an order via my online shop today for £45 today to order now click here to get both the stamp set and punch place an order for £90 and get both…

did you spot the tag peeking out the side?? its made using a New tag punch available now from stampin up and only £20.95 theres two style the scallop as above and also an angled punch both make making tags a doddle… also the new gold bakers twine is brand new which also comes in Silver – all very on trend right now…

Im entering my card in to this weeks ‘Paper players’ Sketch Challenge

Supplies Used – Click on image below to go direct to my online shop – dont forget with every £45 spend you get to choose a FREE sale a Bration Gift
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Please dont hesitate to contact me if you have a question or need some advice you can call me on 01842 828643 or email me at laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk
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Thank you for coming by today til next time, happy stampin’
Laura Mackie

Happy 40th Birthday

Half way to the weekend yey!! Today is my friend Darrens 40th Birthday here is the card i made for him using my Simply Stars Stamp set with Tape It and Gorgeous Grunge..

Ive used a colour combination of Crushed Curry, Midnight Muse and Whisper White... i wasnt a lover of Crushed Curry to start with but its growing on me and im liking it alot with the Midnight Muse... I do love the Chevron Ribbon :)

What Ive Used:

Stamps - Tape It, Simply Stars, Gorgeous Grunge and Teeny Tiny Wishes

Colours - Midnight Muse, Crushed Curry and Whisper White.

Ribbon - Crushed Curry Chevron Ribbon and Whisper white Bakers Twine

Numbers - Bigz Alphabet Dies

(ALL STAMPIN' UP!)

Please dont hesitate to contact me if you have any questions... im always happy to help

If you would like to order Stampin' Up! products 24/7 by emailing me on laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk i will then call or email you for payment or you can send me a paypal payment or Cheque, Card payments over the phone taken for VISA, MasterCard and Visa Debit.

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Starfruit swallowtail

happy Monday crafters... Comes round way to,quick doesn't it :( ....

I had a play yesterday with a new stamp... It's from the Stampin up spring and summer catalogue... And it the single stamp swallowtail.... Take a look...

  

I had a play with the stamp, experimenting with different techniques, and then came across the challenge below... So then made another card with my new favourite stamp...

Have a closer look... 

I stamped the image with summer Starfruit, on to very vanilla card stock, 

I couldn't resist using a piece of the sycamore street DSP, its from a free pack of paper available with a £45 order during sale a Bration only, 

What I've used

Stamps - Swallowtail and teeny tiny wishes stamp set

Card stock - Sahara sand, very vanilla and summer Starfruit.

Sycamore street DSP.

Liked what Ive shown you today don't forget you can keep up to date with my posts by clicking on the follow me button, on the right hand side of my blog or my entering your email address in the follow by email link, again on the right side of my blog..

Interested in anything i have made or used today?? please dont hesitate to contact me i would love to help you, I pride myself on excellent and fast customer service, Orders can be delivered to any UK or European address  - call me on (+44) 01842 828643 or email on laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk 

Thank you for visiting me today,

Happy craftin' Laura xx

Elephants sorry

Happy Sunday... 

I'm sorry Ive lacked on blog updates since Wednesday... I haven't stopped :( but I'm back in blog land again, and pleasantly surprised to see a few of my cards have been picked as favourites in challenges happy days... Today I'm off with my lil sis and mum to a wedding fayre, but before I leave I thought I'd share this card with you...

 

My card today is inspired by this weeks challenge over at Inkspirational check it out below: click on the pic to go to their blog

It's using the wonderful free set patterned occasions... Free during sale a Bration with a £45 order...

Take a closer look

I've coloured the cute elephant with my SU markers, the leaf DSP is from sycamore street again as part of this years sale a Bration, which ends on 23rd march.

My sentiment is from teeny tiny wishes.... The little flowers are punched from one of the flowers in the Itty bitty 3 pack set. 

Here's what I used

Stamps - patterned occasions (SAB) and teeny teeny wishes

Tangerine tango and island indigo markers

Sycamore street DSP

Itty bitty punch and the dotted scallop ribbon border punch

Liked what Ive shown you today don't forget you can keep up to date with my posts by clicking on the follow me button, on the right hand side of my blog or my entering your email address in the follow by email link, again on the right side of my blog..

Interested in anything i have made or used today?? please dont hesitate to contact me i would love to help you, I pride myself on excellent and fast customer service, Orders can be delivered to any UK or European address  - call me on (+44) 01842 828643 or email on laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk 

Thank you for popping by...

Happy craftin' Laura xx

Bloomin' Happy Easter

Hi Crafters... 

Ive been having a play with my bird punch again... i started off making little chicks, then i started making flowers.... take a look

Todays card fits in rather well with two challenges one over at Less is More... link below and the other at Casology link below

http://casology.blogspot.co.uk/

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/week-108-paper-piercing.html

Ive used 3 of the birds wings to make a tulip... and then the birds branch stem to make the stem for the tulip...

heres a closer look

Ive punched a 2 1/2" circle paper pierced the edges and added my flowers on to it, Ive tied the bunch of tulips with a piece of white bakers twine...

See the sentiment... Ive used the Happy Easter stamp from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set and the Bloomin' from the Sale-a-Bration set Bloomin' Marvelous - get it flowers bloom - bloomin Easter ... 

What ive used

Stamp sets - Bloomin' Marvelous, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink - Wisteria Wonder

Punches - 2 1/2" Circle, Bird punch

Card Stock - So Saffron, White and Wisteria Wonder

Whisper White Bakers Twine

Interested in anything i have made or used today?? please dont hesitate to contact me i would love to help you, I pride myself on excellent and fast customer service, Orders can be delivered to any UK or European address  - call me on (+44) 01842 828643 or email on laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk 

Mothers Day is fast approaching.... dont forget to tell you children they can buy you the perfect gift.. A Stampin' Up! voucher available in any of the following £5, £10, £15, £20, £25, £30, £40 or £50 amounts, they can call or email me with there order, payment can be made via cheque or paypal, and there gift voucher will then be sent to them 1st class recorded complete with envelope - ready to give to you :) 

Enjoy your monday... 

Thank you for coming by today, Laura xx

My Friend Madison

Thank you for coming by today.... 

Hope your week is going well?? My son has been with his dad until last night, so today im working a half day then Im going to enjoy spending some qualitity time with him... which knowing him he'll want to do 'making' Mummy wont argue with that lol....

Todays card im showing you is for a Challenge over at Inkspirational I was introduced to there challenges last week if you would likt to play along too click on the link below...

http://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-8.html

Take a look at my card...

First off when i saw the colours red and green i thought Christmas card... and why not?? its never to early to start making them in my book... then I saw my Madison Avenue stamp set, (a FREE stamp set during Sale-a-Bration) and then this little card came together... 

have a closer look ...

Ive used Lucky Limeade and Real Red ink, with Whisper white and Read Red card stock, 

Heres what i used to make my card:

Stamps - Madison Avenue (FREE with a £45 order during sale-a-bration), Teeny Tiny Wishes

Punched - Itty Bitty Punch, Modern Label and Word Window.

Ink - Read Red and Lucky Limeade

Card stock - Real Red and Whisper White

Embellishments - Basic rhinestones and white satin ribbon (retired).

Interested in anything i have made or used today?? please dont hesitate to contact me i would love to help you, I pride myself on excellent and fast customer service, Orders can be delivered to any UK address  - call me on 01842 828643 or email on laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk 

Sale-a-Bration is still going strong dont miss out on earning FREE goodies for every £45 order, and even more FREEBIES when you host a party... call or email me for all the details or questions. Sale-a-Bration ends on friday 22nd March 2013.

Thank you for coming by today, Laura xx

Be my Valentine?!?

 

After slacking yesterday on the crafting front, today i could’nt resist in joining in on the Blog challenge over at http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.co.uk , its such a cute card sketch and my thoughts straight away was ooooo Valentines.. Im determined as ever to actively craft and blog as much as i can, heres what ive been making today…

I love Primrose Petals and love even more Primrose Petals and Early Espresso combination with the cleanness of the Very Vanilla a combination i will definately use again. its lovely using different colours, i feel the last few months all ive been using is reds and greens…

 

The card i made for the challenge uses all Stampin’ Up! card and products, detailed as below:

Early Espresso, Very Vanilla and Primrose Petals Card Stock, Primrose Petals ink, Heart Punch, Heart of Hearts Embosslits, and the heart from the Itty Bitty punch Pack, Dry embossed lines using the Stampin’ Up! simply scoreboard,  Bitty Banners Framelits for sentiment and Scallop Trim Border Punch.

Interested in any products ive used today id love to order them for you please call me on 01842 828643 or email me on laura@mycreativeideas.co.uk and I’ll be more than happy to help and advise you.

Thank you for coming by today

Laura xx

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Autumn & Winter and NEW Annual Catalogue Blog Hop

 

Welcome & Thank you for coming by today. 

Today is an exciting day as from 10am this morning around 40 Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators are showcasing products from the Autumn & Winter catalogue and the all new exciting 2012/2013 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue which you can order from TODAY!! To view the new Annual catalogue click on the catalogue picture on the right hand side of my blog.

Why not grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee (and a biscuit or two of course) and have some fun ‘hopping’ from blog to blog for some wonderful inspiration, Please feel free to leave any comments on posts that catch your eye, we all love to hear what out readers think to our creations. 

Dont forget you may need a pen and paper to jot down some of your favourite products along the way and start your wish list. Don’t worry if you end up with loooong list,  Stampin’ Up! at the moment has an exceptional offer, it has never been a better time to sign up as a Demonstrator – just £99 – to earn some of your favourite products for FREE, Plus during October and November new Demonstrators will receive a FREE pack of Designer Series Paper each month for six months.  Why not contact me  today I’d love to help you and I’ll happily and honestly answer any questions you may have. call on 01842 828643 or email me today.

So let me show you what Ive been busy making:

   

This is using the new ‘Worlds Greatest’ wood mounted stamp. available for £8.95. This really doesnt do the card justice as the card is a musical card which i added a cute little birthday message for my son… Musical cards are NEW to SU featured on page 160 of the new Catalogue for £5.50.

BELOW: This card is a card i made for a swap several of us demonstrators did recently to show off new products to SU:

Ive used the new ‘Papillion PotPourri’ and coordinating Elegant Butterfly Punch…  Stamp set available from £13.95 for 7 beautiful butterfly stamps.

 

The Butterflies are all heat embossed with clear powder and coloured in with an ink pad and Blender pen, Ive used the lovely new 2012 in colours for this card, Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals and Raspberry Ripple.

Dont forget to check out all the New 2012/2014 In Colours Page 152 of the NEW Annual Catalogue..

So what else have i got to show you….

Here is another card using the New Papillion Potpourri stamp set.

  And another…

And another….

As its now officially ‘Autumn’ I will also show you the wreath i made using the New Autumn Accents Die and the gorgeous Tulle Ribbon..

I covered my ring with the NEW Tulle Ribbon, Tulle Ribbon £6.25 for a 9mtr Roll.. I’ve then cut and embossed some leaves with the new Woodgrain embossing folder, some I stamped with the ‘En Francais’ and Woodgrain Large Stamps, Ive cut a few out in Hessian fabric, some in plain Card stock, all to give different textures and the feeling of Autumn, the best bit about this wreath it can come out year on year.. it now has pride of place on my entrance door.

The Bigz die is from the A/W Catalogue page 33 (see catalogue link to right) £18.95

           

And too Finish off something for Christmas…..

Christmas Rosette Wreath products used: Be of good cheer DSP - £9.95, Gumball Green card stock, Cherry Cobbler Tulle Ribbon, NEW 1 1/4” Scallop circle punch £14.25, Merry Minis punch pack set of 3 £15.50.

 

Card Below:  Greetings of the season Stamp set and Joyous Celebrations both from the Autumn and Winter Catalogue. (Gumball Green ink and card stock)

Card Below:  Heart of Christmas Stamp @ £7.95, Merry Minis Punch set of 3 @ £15.50/

As I' organised the hop I’m the official start, although you may have arrived here from someone else’s blog if you start here and hop along you’ll get to see all the blogs with all the wonderful inspiration from fellow demonstrators.

From here your next  hop is over to the lovely Margaret’s blog click here to go on to her blog. Hope you’ve enjoyed you visit and I’ve inspired you today, please come back soon..

Interested in any products or supplies used today, would like to get your hands on the new Catalogues?? like to have them delivered direct to your door?? I’d love to order them for you. to place an order email or call me today on 01842 828643 I’ll be more than happy to help you.

P.s don’t forget if you’d like to receive up to date info on my blog click on the ‘follow’ link or add you email address in the bar, both found on the right hand side of my blog..

till next time xx Laura xx