Thank You, You Wonderful Thing You - Theme Challenge with the Global Design Project #GDP027
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
There is a theme challenge over at the Global Design Project this week and theme is Thank You.
I'm a bit limited with time this week so I thought it was the perfect occasion to show you this cute card and gift bag that I made a few weeks ago but hadn't had a opportunity to blog about yet. Its now officially my entry into challege #GDP027
After looking through the It's My Party Designer Series Paper Stack from the Spring/Summer Catalogue, I decided that I just had to use the paper with stars all over. I also love the colour Melon Mambo so with all of this I mind, I created this fun card and matching mini gift bag, with DSP as the main focus.
The sentiment I chose Thank You, You Wonderful Thing You from the You're So Lovely Stamp Set was perfect and as an added bonus it also fit within the tag I punched out using the Note Tag Punch.
I also made a gold version of the card and gift bag but I think the silver is definitely my favourite with this colourway.
If you get a chance, come and play along. Full instructions can be found here.
Please vote for my thank you card showcased in Kylie's international blog highlight!
Friday, March 11, 2016 Somerset, UK
Kylie is fantastic at bringing demonstrators and crafters together and showcasing their talents. Its lovely to see women supporting each other, especially seeing it was International Women's day earlier this week!
The theme of today's Blog Highlight is Thank You. Crafters from all over the world will be voting for their favourite projects showcased on Kylie's blog.
My project is a matching set of cards and gifts bags that I made to say thank you to attendees at my very first craft workshop. The gift bags contained an assortment of chocolates, needless to say they were gone in no time!
To see pictures from the workshop and the coordinating projects we made for Mothers Day, please click here!
I used Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bride and Rose Red ink and the Watercolour Wings, Watercolour Thank You and Timeless Textures stamp sets to stamp the design on the front of the card and the gift bags.
I even made coordinating tool kits - how cute are these?
Inside each thank you card was a gift tag numbered 1, 2, 3 or 4 made with the Number of Years stamp set, the Large Numbers Framelits Dies and the Ornate Tag Topper Punch.
I placed the four cards down on the four tables randomly and the guest who had number 1, won the Watercolour Wishes Card Kit! No-one walked away empty handed though, the other three guests all took home enough supplies to make 3 cards from the You're So Lovely Project Kit!
Please vote for me!
I hope you've enjoyed looking at my projects today! I would be so happy if you could vote for me by clicking here to visit Kylie's website.
To vote, all you need to do is click the heart symbol in the top right hand corner of the photo. You can place 5 votes in total and it would absolutely make my day if you choose my card as one of your top 5.
If my card receives enough votes to make it into the overall top 5, I will get a chance to take part in Kylie's international blog hop!
I'm playing along with the Global Design Project again this week with this brilliant sketch challenge designed by Teneale Williams.
Make sure you check out all of the designers amazing cards that are based on this sketch for challenge #GDP026. Keep checking back all week to see all of the amazing entries! Just click here to have a look!
I haven't had a chance to use the gold Wink of Stella glitter pen yet but I am so glad I picked it up today as I got this amazing effect on the butterfly die cut from Basic Black cardstock.
I also used my clear Wink of Stella Pen on some Vellum cardstock on the butterfly punched out with the Elegant Butterfly punch.
If you have been following my blog, you probably know that I love anything that sparkles. It just makes me happy, I can't explain why!
I hope you've enjoyed looking at my project today, please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by!
Happy Mothers day! I hope you are having a lovely day either being spoilt or just putting your feet up. I am sat on the sofa watching a film while my husband is at work. Both my little cats are with me - bliss!
My Mum has just called to say she just received her flowers, I hope she likes them and the card I sent her!
Last weekend I ran my very first workshop and it was such fun! The theme was mothers day and we had 6 hours to make a matching collection of gifts - a card in a box, a bag in a box (which included the small tin that fit perfectly inside) and large tin.
I gave the four ladies Abi, Aimee, Kelly & Laura a choice of 2 designer series papers - Timeless Elegance or Birthday Bouquet. Abi and Aimee chose Birthday Bouquet and Kelly & Laura chose Timeless Elegance.
I like to give a choice as we all have different preferences. My personal favourite is Timeless Elegance but the Birthday Bouquet paper has really given me a chance to work with such pretty colours over the last few months, I shall be sad to see this one go (if you really like it but haven't ordered it yet, you've only got just over 2 months to order it!)
I ended up changing the design of the Birthday Bouquet card in a box at the last minute, instead of a Blushing Bride layer, I changed it to Pool Party and instead of the pink striped pattern of DSP on the bottom level, I changed it to the flowers, I feel this works so much better now.
I gave all four ladies packs containing all of the DSP and cardstock needed and also gave some options for them to change the colours of the flowers etc so they could make it their own. My version below uses Very Vanilla and Basic Black for the flowers, but Laura chose to use Sahara Sand instead of Very Vanilla and I think it worked just as well.
The bag in a box was fun to make. I prepped all of the cardstock so all we had to do was assemble it. It really is so easy, if you haven't made one yet, you must give it a go (click here to watch my friend Caroline Hallet's YouTube video on how to make it)
At the time I made my samples, I had run out of the lovely flowers so I had to use the ice cream cones paper, we didn't use this one on the day but the paper is so cute!
The little tin fits perfectly in the bag in a box and is perfectly for holding a piece of jewellery or gift card.
We also had time to make the large tin. This could be used for so many things. My friend Aimee discovered that it holds two hotel chocolate slabs perfectly - amazing! What is better than receiving a handmade designed tin of chocolates?
The tin is also the perfect size to include some small handmade cards, there are so many options on what you can do with it!
It was so much fun preparing for the workshop and setting up the room. I wanted it to be perfect and set up a table each so we had enough space plus a big shot station.
Each person had a thank you gift bag and card, a sheet of grid paper, a pack of supplies, the metal tins and a brown bag to take everything home in.
I had enough equipment for each pair to share a trimmer and scoreboard, plus I put together a toolkit together for each pair to share.
Aimee brought along her die cutting machine so we could double the amount of flowers cut with this and also using the big shot.
Here is everyone cutting their flowers using the Big Shot. I showed them the plastic bag technique (click here to watch my friend Smiley's youtube video on this) and also using the new Big Shot Die Brush, both techniques are amazing and absolutley essential when cutting large amounts of flowers or intricate dies.
Everyone did an amazing job with the projects - especially as it was Abi's, Kelly's and Laura's first time crafting.
This is what Abi made. I love how she has added a glitter butterfly to the card in a box and how she changed up the butterflies on both tins and the bag in a box. The pearls are simply stunning too and look great in the brads on the bag in a box.
Here is what Laura made. I really like how Laura used Sahara Sand instead of Very Vanilla. I also love her two layer butterflies she made with the Elegant Butterfly punch. The bottom later was cardstock ad the top layer was glimmer paper and some others were the opposite. I will be using this idea myself for sure!
Aimee has recently joined my team and is already in love with the products. I love how she has curled her butterflies on the large tin in the opposite direction to what I did and how she used the reverse side of the DSP on the bottom layer of the card in a box and also for the tins.
Kelly did a great job too, I am just sorry I didn't get a better picture. I love how she has placed two butterflies together on the small tin, its something I never would have thought of doing and it looks so great.
I hope you've enjoyed me sharing my first workshop with you today. I had such a great time and it was a pleasure seeing how well Abi, Aimee, Kelly and Laura did in completing these complex projects and making it their own.
Come back on Friday to see the thank you cards, thank you gift bags and tool kits in more detail!
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Oh my gosh, I have been crazy busy in the last few weeks - what with making swaps for the team training, visiting family, shopping for my husbands birthday, preparing for my first craft workshop (making mothers day cards and gifts), welcoming my first team member Aimee and also having lots going on in my day job, there just hasn't been the time to post about anything I've made. I didn't even get the time to make my husband a birthday card, how awful is that?
First of all, let me tell you we have some NEW Sale-a-Bration freebies that you can earn when you place an order of £45 or more, just click on the image above to have a browse. I've just got to get the glitter tape, it looks amazing!
If you've been building up a wish list of things to order, now's the time to place it as we only have a month left of Sale-a-Bration then its not back again until next year. There are still other items you can choose from the first Sale-a-Bration Catalogue too!
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Now for the swaps - if you remember, the challenge was to swap in smaller groups, using a specific stamp set and spending more time on the swap to make it more detailed. What a great idea and while I found it more challenging than usual, it made me stretch myself outside of my comfort zone to come up with this.
Here are the pictures of the swaps I received, under each picture is the name of the person who created it and a link to their blog. Please visit their blog to check out their work as they are all so talented!
Aren't they all amazing?? Thank you ladies for swapping with me, it was a pleasure.
Next time I'll be sharing pictures from my very first workshop that I held for four ladies on Saturday and what we made for Mothers day. It was such fun and it was also another new challenge for me.
February was a month of firsts for me, earning a stamp set and free attendance to a crafty afternoon for reaching a sales target, recruiting my first team member and organising my first workshop. So exciting! I also booked to attend the On Stage Local Event in Telford in April where I'll get to see the new Annual Catalogue (available in June) and be able to play with some of the new products.
There is only 1 month left to take up the offer that's only available during Sale-a-Bration where you get to choose a whopping £160 of items from the current catalogues to go in your starter kit, for £99, that's £61 of free product only available until 31st March. If you want to know more about joining Stampin' Up! and the benefits available to demonstrators, please do get in touch.
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