Oh, Hello...A New Way to Emboss??

Hello!

I'm writing this late Saturday night, the only way to describe the way I feel is completely shattered!! So very very much looking forward to going to sleep and a lie in tomorrow. This post is getting scheduled so you can all enjoy it while I'm still snugly in my bed! 

I thought I'd show you a card using one of the new tools in the Spring/Summer catty...another plate for the score board! This one has loads of fancy decorative edges that you can score on your card. Now, if you don't have/can't afford a big shot, this is definitely the way forward to getting embossed designs onto your cards!! 

Stamp Set: Oh Hello

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Cardstock: Crumb Cake

DSP: Sycamore Street (SAB)

Simply Scored: Borders Plate

The plate has a lots of cool things on it - you totally get your money's worth and I feel I've hardly grazed the surface with this card!! I'm thinking I'll do a quick little video sometime this week on how to use the new plate, would you all like that?? 

So this card is super easy and you could do a whole bunch of these with everything you need for £45 and get a free SAB item. 

Oh Hello (clear) £17.95

Simply Scored Borders Plate £13.50

Cardstock (Crumb Cake) £6.25

Ink Pad £4.95

Snail Refil £3.75

= £46.40 and get the SAB paper free!!!

Anyway I said this would be short and sweet, tomorrow I'll try and have a bit longer blog post for you! Enjoy! 

Have a blessed Sunday,

Amanda xx

Hello, Sale-A-Bration!

Hello!! 

Today is the first day of Stampin' Up!'s biggest promotion of the year, Sale-A-Bration!! 

This year its even bigger and better than ever before! There are literally tons of products to choose from! 

It runs from January 22nd - March 22nd! How can you earn free SAB products I hear you say? Well, its super simple! For every £45 you spend you can choose one of the free stamp sets/paper/embellishments/punch from the exclusive SAB list! 

Right, onto today's project! I've got a fun and quick card I've had lying around here for a while now and kept meaning to post but what with Christmas and forgetting to post, it just hasn't made it up yet. 

I hope you're having a good day and keeping warm, its cold out there in that snow! 

Stamp Set: Curly Cute

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Cardstock: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry

DSP: International Bazaar

Simply Scored Board

Embellishments: Cajun Craze Button, Rhinestones

Simply Scored Board £25.95

Whisper White £7.50

Ink: £4.95

Buttons £8.25

= £46.65 and get the Sycamore Street DSP for free to make some cards very similar to this design!! 

If you already have the Simply Scored board how about a sentiment set (Curly Cute £13.95), Rhinestones (£4.50) and some coloured cardstock (£6.25) and you'd be at the £45 mark too! 

Shoot me a email or call me if you'd like to place an order for your free SAB product! 

Happy Stampin',

Amanda x

have a break, take a sip!

This month's card club was Tea and Cake theme. I've got the cards we made to show you another day but today I thought I'd show you a couple simple little cards I made with the Take A Sip wheel that I made while I was thinking of what cards to do for card club (we did another card with take a sip).

Stamp Set: Take a Sip wheel, Tea Shoppe

Ink: Basic Black, Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink, Perfect Plum, So Saffron, Rose Red, Crumb Cake

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum. Whisper White

Punch: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border, Modern Label

Other: Simply Scored

Stamp Set: Take a Sip

Ink: Basic Black, Perfect Plum, Pretty in Pink

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Perfect Plum, Whisper White

Punches: Scallop Circle, 1" Circle, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border

So some really simple cards, just using the wheel to add tea cups and mugs to the background, one I coloured in all of them and the second was just one of the cups that I coloured on a separate scrap of paper and layered it over top with some punches. The dotted scallop ribbon border is great for adding a little extra detail and border to the wheeled image! 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out today's brief little post! 

Happy Stampin',

Amanda xox

simple romance

I just realised that I never posted the invitations that I made to send to my customers to invite them to a special launch party for the Summer Mini back in May! Wow long time ago!!

Romance Flowers

Stamp Set: Bordering on Romance

Ink: Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Riding Hood Red, Basic Black

Extra: Simply Scored

This card couldn't be simpler! I used the score board to make a double frame around the edge of the card and then stamped the flowers in the bottom right hand corner above the score lines. It was coloured in with the stampin' write markers and that's it! Simple cards are great when you have lots to do and quick! 

So have you ordered your goodies from the summer mini yet?! Don't forget its only available til the end of August so you haven't got long to grab your bits before they go!! Don't miss out!

Hope you enjoyed this quickie today! 

Happy Stampin',

Amanda xx

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Good morning folks! Back today with a Simply Stampin' Challenge today. We're back on a colour challenge today and its a beaut! I am actually in love! 

Tea for Two

Stamp Set: Tea Shoppe

Ink: Crumb Cake, Bashful Blue, Lucky Limeade

Cardstock: Wisper White, Lucky Limeade, Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake

Punch: Decorative Label

Accessories: Pearls

Baker's Twine: Lucky Limeade 

Other: Simply Scored Board

So I colour and stamped the tea cup using my stampin' write markers. Then cut it out and layered it on top of some Bashful Blue and Lucky Limeade cardstock - this provides a background and gives an added pop of colour to the rather subtle tea cup! I then added some score lines using the Simply Scored board - my goodness, EVERYONE needs one of these - they're fantastic!! I stamped the sentiment below the score lines and embellished with a few pearls! On the inside I coloured and stamped the Tea for Two image and punched it out with the decorative label punch - for another pop of colour I added a little frame of Limeade using the decorative label punch again.

I hope you enjoyed this CAS card. There's some stunning design team entries over at the Simply Stampin' blog so please go and check them out, oh and leave me a comment? :) I love reading them. 

Have a wonderful and sunny weekend! 

Amanda xx

addicted to baker's twine??

Now, the new mini catalogue is just crammed full of lovely new stamps, ribbon, punches, paper and of course the score board but I think the product I am most excited about is the Baker's Twine! For those of you who don't know me, I have developed an obsession with baker's twine - I've seen so many projects on the internet using it and I've been LONGING (as my long suffering customers well know) for Stampin' Up! to bring out some baker's twine for us over here! And now we have 6 fantastic colours! 

Baker's twine is a mixture of white and coloured threads twisted together to make up a pretty twine that can be used for wrapping around cards, gifts and so much more. 

What I love about it is that its got colour which is thin and subtle that won't detract from the main focal point. Its also really inexpensive at £2.50 for 22.9 metres of the stuff which means that you can wrap it several times around a card or gift guilt free!!! 

So, I've been having great fun playing with the twine and have some projects using it to show you over the next few days. Today I thought I'd really go all out and use baker's twine as the main theme of my card...

Entwined in Baker's Twine

Stamp Set: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Lucky Limeade

Cardstock: Whisper White

Big Shot: Lots of Tags

Punch: Modern Label

Twine: Island Indigo, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Calypso Coral

Accessories: Rhinestones

Extras: Simply Scored, Lime Green Sharpie

I wrapped the baker's twine around the whisper white cardstock in bands of colour - I thought that wrapping the twine around white cardstock would really help make the coloured strand running through the twine pop! I made a simple scored frame on my whisper white card base for the twine to sit inside. On top of that I layered up a few tag/label punches, again in white with limeade of the sentiment and for a little glitz I added some rhinestones which had been coloured with a lime permanent marker. And that's the card folks. I love it - definitely a subtle card but a great way to showcase the lovely baker's twine! 

So are you lovin' baker's twine too? I really hope you are and if you haven't tried it yet, go on...its only a couple pounds for a whole lot of joy and goodness!

Happy Stampin',

Amanda xx

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Good morning! 

Simply Stampin' time again. This week's challenge is a a sketch, you ready to see it?!

And now on to my creation...

Boutique Thanks

Stamp Set: Tea Shoppe

Ink: Soft Suede

Cardstock: Crumb Cake

DSP: Attic Boutique

Big Shot: Fun Flowers, Adorning Accents Edgelit & Impressions

Punches: 5 Petal Flower, Boho Blossoms, Corner Rounder

Accessories: Pool Party Designer Printed Brad

Thread: Pool Party Baker's Twine

Extras: Simply Scored

So first off I kind of flipped the sketch around a bit. It wasn't that I couldn't make it work how it was but I wanted to use a piece of crumb cake that had a random score line in it and I thought I'd incorporate it into my design - especially that's what I'd intended to do for the vertical strip anyway! And if it meant I could use one of the MANY scraps I have then al the better! woohoo! Anyway, back to the card, I scored a couple more lines using the new Simply Scored scoring board by SU! (didn't realise how exciting this thing was til it came and I started playing with it - its freakin' wonderful!!!!) So I used the adorning accents to cut and emboss my horizontal strips for the bottom. I kept them in crumb cake because I wanted to make a real feature of the dsp! I'd decided I wanted to use some of the new Attic Boutique paper - love that pool party pattern at the back so I cut out and layered quite a few flowers and a pool party brad to match. I've kind of deviated from the sketch here as its not a boxy shape like on the sketch but it just didn't fit for me and hey a sketch is just a spring board really isn't it!?! So I finishd off this card with some pool party bakers twine at the bottom and the thanks from Tea Shoppe.

What do you think to this card? Aren't you just LOVING all the new stuff?!! Look forward to reading your comments.

Happy Stampin',

Amanda x