Crafting Weekend.

Hi all,

Hope all's well with you and you've had a good weekend and perhaps managed to do a bit of crafting.

This week has sure flown by, and I had birthday celebrations too (thank you to all those that left messages of birthday wishes) so it has been a very special week for me. With birthday monies I have had a little splash on some crafting bits and bobs. This weekend I have been crafting away and have made numerous cards with a few new stamps that I have recently purchased - Penny Black and Magnolia stamps that I just couldn't resist.

I shall upload these tomorrow along with the sneak peak of the Wedding Anniversary card I posted a little while ago.

Bye for now,

Alex

11.12pm

Happy Birthday

Hi all,

Just wanted to post the card I've been working on this morning. I've seen so many of these cute dresses online that I decided to have a go myself with a matching bag. I used my trusty Nestabilities to create the scallop circle onto the much loved Certainly Celery Designer Series Paper. At the bottom, using a number of different Stampin' Up! punches, I have created a matching bag.

Hope you like:


Have a great day.

Alex

Monday already...

Hi all,

I had a lovely workshop on Saturday morning and the ladies loved the different ways of making a Gift Card Holder to pop a gift card in. In fact, one of my ladies was going to give her lovely card that she had made to her daughter for her birthday!

Now that you've made these gift card holders, once, just replicating the directions along with different colour schemes, papers and stamps allows you to make any themed card. In fact, I can't wait to start making more of these for upcoming events like birthdays and Christmas presents. Watch this space for more gift card holders! lol.

So, I've been playing around with the SAB stamp set "Polka Dot Punches" and white embossing powder and have made a recent wedding card with a blue and white theme. I've used the lovely 1/2" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon in Bashful Blue, the wedding themed stamp set "Mr & Mrs" for the sentiment and I've finally christened my Script embossing folder too, only had it for about a year now!

Here's the final card below:


Be back later with another card I'm working on right now :)

Bye for now,

Alex

Our Next Workshop...

Interested in coming along to my next Stampin' Up! Workshop?
Have you got a couple of hours to spare this Saturday to join myself and some lovely ladies?

Email me at alexhau@rocketmail.com for more details.

We shall be making a couple of Gift Card Holders. The class will allow you to make two variations of holding inside a Gift Card so that you can give that someone special a personalised touch.

Thank you to Niki for allowing me to CASE her card :)

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Bye for now,

Alex

August Promotion

How would you like to enjoy two FREE spools of ribbon?

This post will stay at the top until the end of August.

You can qualify for this offer in two different ways:

• Purchasing £45 worth of Stampin’ Up! products.
• Hosting a £300 workshop.

Ribbon bundle includes:

• Certainly Celery 5/8” (1.59 cm) poly-twill ribbon (9.144 metres)
• So Saffron 5/8” (1.59 cm) grosgrain ribbon (9.144 metres)

Order with me today to enjoy receiving this lovely ribbon only in the month of August.

Click poster above for more details.

Have a good weekend!

Alex

Stampin' Up! Competition Time

This post will remain at the top until 30 August 2009.

Please scroll down for new posts.

How would you like to be in with a chance of winning

£150 worth of Stampin' Up! stamp sets?

Stampin' Up! are holding a Summer Design Challenge Competition.

This summer both Demonstrators and my Customers can win free stamp sets when you participate in the Summer Design Challenge. Simply create a summer-inspired project using Stampin' Up! products from the current UK Idea Book & Catalogue 2008-2009, and submit it no later than 31 August, 2009 for your chance to win!

The Summer Design Challenge is more than just a chance to show your crafting skills, it is also a perfect opportunity to create something based on a summer theme from all your Stampin' Up! goodies :)

Demonstrator First Place: £150 worth of stamps sets.

Customers

• Customer First Place: £150 worth of stamps sets.
• Customer Second and Third Place: £50 worth of stamps sets.

Summer Design Challenge Rules

• Projects must be created using only Stampin' Up! products from the current UK Idea Book & Catalogue 2008-2009.
• Only one project per participant will be accepted.
• Projects can be cards, home decor, scrapbook pages, or 3D items.
• All projects must be summer-themed.
• Projects must be unique, and created for the Summer Design Challenge. Do not just recycle your old projects.
• A list of products used must be included with the project submission.
• Full contact information, including your full name, demonstrator ID (if you are a demonstrator), address, phone number, and e-mail address must be included with the project submission.
• Projects will not be returned as they may be displayed at future Stampin' Up! events or on the Stampin' Up! web site.

If this is something you'd like to take part in, please feel free to enter the competition. For any of my customers out there reading this, if you enter and send me a picture of your creation, I'll reward you for entering with some Stampin' Up! stash.

Another week...

Hi all,

Hope all's well with you and you're enjoying a nice long weekend :) Shame the weather isn't a little nicer, but it's always the way isn't it, a nice three day weekend, and no sunshine!

Anyway, been a little busy this end making a few cards and thought I'd share a few sneak peeks of them until it's safe to reveal :)

Birthday Card


Child's Birthday Card


Silver Wedding Anniversary Card


Enjoy the rest of the Bank Holiday Weekend!

Alex

Passion For Promarkers Challenge

Hi all,

Hope you're well and having a good week so far. I recently christened some of my cute Magnolia stamps that I bought *cough* back in December, and thought I'd use my Promarkers and give them a go with these cards.

I made two cards recently, in two different colour combos for a couple of friends and thought I'd post them now that it's safe to do so :) Thank you Aimes for suggesting I enter the first one in the Passion For Promarkers Challenge - Week 14 - A Passion For Purple, good idea!

I really enjoyed using this new stamp of mine and can't wait to stamp and colour more in the near future. Hope you like:



Stamps: Hostess Level 1 - Best Yet, Simply Said. Non-SU: Magnolia "Standing Fall Tilda".
Cardstock: Perfect Plum, Almost Amethyst, Whisper White, Pixie Pink, Close To Cocoa and Chocolate Chip.
Ink Pad: SU Almost Amethyst and Close To Cocoa. Versamark Stamp Pad and Memento Tuxedo Black.
Accessories: SU Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch. Promarkers in various colours. Paper Shapers - Large Corner Rounder Punch.

Have a good day.

Bye for now,

Alex

Sunday ramblings

Hi all,

Hope you've all been having a lovely weekend, it certainly was warm here - the sun was just shining all weekend long :)

Anyway, have been busy making a few cards and boxes and thought I'd share. Remember I made a paper piecing card using Crazy For Cupcakes stamp set the other week? Well, I've made a matching box that I'm really pleased with. Here's the complete combo, hope you like:


That's it for now, have a good week.

Alex

Another Week...

Hi all,

It's another week gone by since my last blog post. It's been a very hectic week this week, so apologies for not being able to do any blogging. I can however, show off my sneak peeks that I posted earlier :)

Remember I mentioned that my Mum's friends son and wife had a baby. Here is the card I sent them:


I also made a matching box so that I could fit in some little socks in, but unfortunately, when I bought the little socks there was so much card/packaging, they were unable to fit and I was short of time, so I couldn't make another box :( I'm sure I'll make a use for this box another time:


Have a good weekend.

Bye for now,

Alex

Flaky Friends...

Hi all,

Well what a lovely day it has been. Went to a Macmillan event and the sun just shone all day. I finally completed my Flaky Friends Accordian Card Organiser Box and made five Christmas cards to go inside to bring with me as a raffle prize. You never guess who ended up taking home my box..... My Mum! lol. She liked the box and cards so much and knew how much work went into it, that she couldn't bare seeing it go to someone else, so she chose my gift amongst the other prizes. I don't know, what is she like!

Anyway, here are all the cards I made to go inside the box:










These were all made with Stampin' Up! goodies - cardstock, stamp set, inkpad, Stampin' Write pens, ribbons, embossing powder and punches. Non-SU goodies used were the May Arts red and white dotted ribbon and the green twine.

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely weekend.

Bye for now,

Alex

Accordian Card Organiser Box

Hi all,

Well this week is turning into another beautiful day, weather wise. After making a Christmas card yesterday for the Stamp With Us Challenge, I was in the mood for some more festive themed goodies, so I decided to follow a tutorial and create my own accordian card organiser box to hold my Christmas cards in.

As a first attempt, I'm really pleased with how this turned out :) I'm due to go to a Macmillian Coffee Morning at the end of the week, so I plan to make another one of these with about five matching cards and envelopes as my gift.

Hope you like it, I've used the retired stamp set "Flaky Friends" which I think are adorable :)

Accordian Card Organiser Box

Front View


Top View


Inside View


Side View


Stamps: Flaky Friends.
Cardstock: Garden Green, Real Red, Whisper White.
Ink Pad: SU Bashful Blue. Memento Rich Cocoa.
Accessories: SU Stampin' Write Markers - Various colours for the stamped images. Crop-A-Dile, Green Hemp Twine from my crafting stash and metal photo clasp.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Alex