Stampin Up Convention Paris 2011

Well this was my first convention and boy did I love it :) spending time with the thing I love...... Crafting
First day began early as Memento Mall opened at 8am, so had to get there before then to get our convention bag and then get into the queue to go shopping.

Then it was straight into the first session. The room was amazing. With great ideas on the boards to inspire and also demos on stage from Shelli amongst others

And of cause plenty of swapping was done. It's great to get new ideas from other demos from the UK and both France and Germany.

Here is one of the displays that was in the room it's a mini garden made of paper.

Just to finish off here is a picture of my roomies for the weekend, my upline Victoria and my fellow Jelly member Tracy. Thanks for a great weekend ladies

European Stampin up convention

Well everyone I have been to Paris for the annual Stampin up convention and what a great time I had. I meet some lovely ladies and have a lot of new ideas from the swaps I received from the ladies. I saw Shelli demo some great products and ideas :) I saw my upline Victoria collect a selection of awards on stage at the awards dinner. Well done Victoria.

Also just want to share with you a picture of my cat Sophie whilst I was packing for Convention ...... I think she wanted to come and see Minnie with me lol

Baby girl

Well here is a couple of pictures first one is of a card I made for a friend who had recently had a baby girl first is the card and the second is a 'nappy cake'!

Wedding and christening cards

Following me publishing my wedding card on Facebook a friend asked if I could make both a wedding card and to match a christening card in light olive. So I set about designing the wedding card first....

Then set about designing the matching christening card. This was something I hadn't done before, matching cards but was very happy with the outcome :)

The end result was great and yes my friend loved them. So did the receiver of the cards

Christmas card class

Well I know what you are all thinking not Christmas already but hey as a crafter you have to start early,with so many lush papers to use and my personal favourite colour combo of cherry cobbler and old olive :)
Here are the pictures from my class on Thursday my ladies made 6 cards and decorated a paper bag.

Wedding card

This is a card I want to share with you, I really enjoyed making it and was very pleased with the outcome :)

Giant clothes pegs

After seeing these on a number of American blogs I just so needed them:) so I set about getting me hands on some. I have had to purchase them from the USA as we don't have a stockist here. When they arrived I couldn't wait to start!
So here is the end result ......

Baby Girl Card

I made this for Gemma's work as a colleague had just given birth to a baby girl. Out came my Fun and Fast stamp set, Whisper White Ribbon and Big Shot Butterfly Wings Embosslits Die and what more reason does a girl need to bring in alittle "bling" than to add so rhinestones just to finish it off.

Victoria's all day class

Right I thought I would share with you the lovely things I made at Victoria's (my upline) all day class a couple of weeks ago. First I will share with you a lovely gift box made using the Top Note Die for the Big Shot.

How lush is this :) I really love the colour combination.

Also we made a selection of cards.

These cards are made using the Stampin Up Note cards and the Ornate Flowers and Ornate Blossom stamp set. I was alittle unsure about this stamp set until I got my hands on it and now it has grown on me.
Next is a stamp I have used on a number of occassions and really like, simply but cool.

I really love this patterned paper too, it is the Sweet and Sour Specialty Patterned paper. Using that patterned paper range we made a gift bag which I absolutely love.....

Thanks Victoria for a really enjoyable class :)

Two Step Owl Punch

Well since I ordered this punch I was looking forward to things I could do with this. First I decided to start with something different. I bought some clothes pegs and some magnets and decided to make some novelty fridge magnets.

Just how cute is she :) then i decided to have a go at making other animal people from the punch......

As you can see we have a Penguin, Pig, Fish and a Sheep. Also by popular demand from my craft class ladies here is the Owl Nurse......

21st Birthday Card

I have been recruited by my partners work to make the cards for the staffs birthday and my first card was for James who will be 21 in a couple of weeks. I have used the Cheers to you Stamp set for the beer glasses and the BigShot for the lettering and numbers.

Box Frame Craft Class

So my next class is Thursday 30th June at 7pm. In this class we will be making this-

I first made this project with Victoria my upline a couple of months ago and showed this to my ladies and they couldn't wait to make.Here are some pictures up close.

 Isn't this ace :) and such fun to make as well. Well ladies roll on the 30th June :)

Father's Day Card Class

So on Thursday I went a did my Card class with my ladies Jayne, Helen, Gemma and Shelia......The ladies hadn't previously made cards before so decided to just make three cards. They loved the designs and soon were beavering away. Here are the cards they made.

For this card I have used old olive sahara sand cardstock, patterns designer series paper stack and then the Big Shot Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Sizzlit Dies for the DAD, then used the Cheers to you stamp set for the words and also the beer glasses.

For this card I used Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla Cardstock, Chocolate Chip inkpad and both the Occassional Greeting Stamp set and the Motorcycle Stamp out of the Mini catalogue

And finally for this one I used Concord Crush Cardstock and Inkpad, Whisper white cardstock and again the Occassional stampset also the Designer Serie Paper pack from the Hostess Level One In colour.

Thanks Ladies for a ace night really enjoyed myself and really glad they you did too, roll on the next class :)

So now its busy, busy, busy planning for my next class on Thursday 30th Junewhich in my next blog will show a preview of the class ahead......

30th Birthday Card

This card was for a friend of Gemma's who was thirty a couple of weeks ago. For this I used the Big Shot with the Flower diasy #2 Die.I got my Big Shot for my birthday and have had lots of fun with it.Making lots of different projects which i will share with you

First Craft class

A group of my customers as me if I would start craft classes with them to do a variety of things each month. To start we began with Scrapbooking with the topic of Holidays..... This was quite exciting for me as this was the first time I had lead a group. Also I had recently been on holiday and was looking forward to showing off a couple of snaps that i had taken.....

They really enjoyed and so did I so we then set the date for the next class this time they asked to make Fathers Day cards......... which i will post shortly :)

Ornament Punch becomes fish!!!

Well hello all, here is a picture of a card i made for my friend Helen who loves fish and shows Koi Carp as a hobby.

To make this card i have used the ornament punch, 5 petal Flower punch extra large was used to make the tail and the fins of the fish. I also crimped the paper for the body of the fish to give them texture.......