Monthly Card Class - May

Here are the cards we made in May's monthly card class...

I didn't have a particular theme for this month's class, but as usual I wanted to showcase different stamps, accessories and techniques.

This card features the pretty Birthday Basic papers, and the Cupcake Builder Punch and Create a Cupcake stamp set. This stamp set is retiring at the end of June!

The crumb cake card is based on a design I found by a German demonstrator on her on her blog Stampin Club.  It uses one of the Gorgeous Grunge stamps to create a spritzed effect background, then we used washi tape and itty bitty  punched flowers to decorate. The sentiment is from Label Love.

A very simple but effective card and a favourite among the ladies at the class! The bow is made using the envelope punch board. There's loads of YouTube videos and tutorials out there for different ways to make bows if you want to google it, but I used this easy to follow tutorial for my bow.

Our fourth card was another simple but effective card using only 2 colours - Island Indigo and Soft Sky. The stamp is Flowering Flourishes - one of my favourites!

I host these regular classes on the second Thursday of every month at my house and they are becoming more and more popular. I have ladies who come every month and hate to miss one, and also I have new faces come along. Everyone is welcome and it's a really relaxed, friendly evening! See my classes and events page for details of upcoming classes.

Bird house New Home card

Here's a card I made recently for Julie Kettlewell after moving into her long-awaited new home. I was so pleased to be able to give her this card and its great to see the family enjoying their amazing house at last.  And I'm not at all jealous of Julie's new craft room - honestly!!

Products used:

Card stock: Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink, Gumball Green, White Naturals

Papers: Natural Composition

Punches: Bird Builder, Itty Bitty Shapes, 1" Circle, Scallop Border

Other: Pearls, Early Espresso marker

Kylie x

Little bird thank you!

Just a quick post tonight (just can't seem to get an early night this week!!).  I am sharing a little thank you card I made for a customer recently.  All my customers get a handmade thank you card along with their order (and often some extra little treats in the bag too!!).

The background papers are the Natural Composition Speciality papers - well they are actually more like card - and they are my favourites for making really special gift bags and boxes.

Kylie x

Cupcake post-it note holders

Good afternoon!  I'm back with a quick post today to show you some of my post-it note holders that I made for a recent craft fair. I got the design idea from Victoria Rogers at Blue Jelly Stampin and I used the Sunshine and Sprinkles designer series papers which are just so colourful and jolly!

Supplies used:

Stamps: Create a Cupcake

Card stock: Marina Mist, Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight

Ink: Marina Mist, Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight

Punches: Cupcake Builder, Circle, Scallop Circle, Itty Bitty

Equipment: Simply Scored

I'll post some more of my craft fair projects soon!

Kylie x

Hello baby

I seem to be making at least one baby card a week at the moment!  There's a lot of Spring babies this year!!     Here are three cards I have recently made.  I need to make a pile of these to have on hand for future requests!

Supplies used:

Stamps: Four Frames, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Fox and Friends (Retired)

Inks: Pretty in Pink, Baja Breeze

Card Stock: Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight

Papers: Subtles Designer Paper Stack

Punches: Itty Bitty, Decorative Label, Circle, Scallop Circle

Equipment: Perfect Dots Embossing Folder

Embellishments: Taffeta Ribon, Bakers Twine, Itty Bitty Buttons, Pearls

Sycamore Street thank you card

This is a quick card I CASEd from Julie's display table which showcases 3 of the products you can get for free during Sale-a-Bration.

Firstly the papers - these are Sycamore Street and are such happy vibrant colours!  Secondly I used one of the stamps from Madison Avenue and I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to create a border.  Lastly is the ribbon - this comes in a set of 3 reels and also includes a pack of buttons too.

Products used:

Stamps: Madison Avenue (SAB), Perfectly Penned

Card Stock: Rich Razzleberry, Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, Summer Starfruit, Island Indigo

Papers: Sycamore Street Designer Series Papers (SAB)

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Equipment: Itty Bitty Punches

Embellishments: Sycamore Street Ribbon and Button set (SAB), Rhinestones

Julie's Jems Blog Hop

Today is Blog Hop day!

Me and 15 other demonstrators in Julie Kettlewell's team (Julie's Jems) are taking part.  We have each created special and unique projects using new Stampin' Up! products and will be sharing them today on our blogs.

All you have to do is hop from one blog to the next using the buttons at the bottom of this post and enjoy the crafty loveliness!  (If you've hopped here from Jane's page, you'll have seen some fabulous creations already!)

I really love the More Amore product suite in the new Spring/Summer catalogue so I was inspired to create something with a love theme - especially as it's coming up to Valentine's Day.  I decided to make a 'Love' wall hanging.

I started with some old coasters and I covered these in the More Amore designer series papers.

I cut out the letters with the typeset alphabet dies and my Big Shot and then just went crazy embellishing each coaster with hearts, flowers, butterflies, pearls and and rhinestones! I think you can get away with going a teeny bit over the top for Valentine's!!

I made holes in the coasters using my crop-a-dile and I threaded Primrose Petals stitched satin ribbon through the holes to tie the coasters together.

The bunting behind the 'L' was made with a stamp from the Hearts a Flutter set and matching framelit die.  The hearts are punched from the More Amore papers with the small heart punch.

I punched out two flowers with the Blossom Punch and added an Itty Bitty punched flower in the centre with a large pearl on top (you can find these in the annual catalogue!).

The butterflies - a stamp from the Sale-a-Bration stamp set Bloomin' Marvellous - were punched out with the brand new Bitty Butterfly punch.

I couldn't resist making a couple of spiral flowers too, and some small flowers punched with the Itty Bitty Punches.  The red heart is cut from a sheet of the More Amore papers and the newsprint heart is the First Edition designer papers punched out with the Full Heart punch.

The colours are Primrose Petals, Pool Party, Real Red and Very Vanilla.

I hope you like my project - please leave a comment before you hop onto to the next blog, which is Sharon's!




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Other Jems taking part in the Blog Hop:

Debbi Taylor - Bee Crafty and Stamp
Karyn Davies - KD Crafts
Elizabeth Youd - Stampin' and Creatin'
Rebekah Cornford - Stamping Becky
Angela Dawes - Sparkly Cards and Papercrafts
Nicola Worrillow - Crafting Out Loud
Alex Spence - My Cards and Crafts
Yvonne Hunt - Vonnies World 
Amanda Bates - The Craft Spa
Mel Hughes -  Mels Papercrafting World
Kate Martin - Krafts by Kate
Jane Bisby - Stamps and Paw Prints 
Sharon Glynn - Shari-Anne Happy Crafter
Angie Hutton - Feather Tassel
Emma Williams - Ditsy Daisy Stamper
Julie Kettlewell - Julie's Japes

Apothecary Art and Attic Boutique

I'm still loving the Apothecary Art stamp set from the Summer Mini catalogue!  And I've also only just realised how beautiful the Attic Boutique papers (also in the Summer Mini) actually are!  I bought them ages ago but have only recently started using them. 

This card has more of the spiral flowers which I really like making...

Products Used:

Stamps: Apothecary Art

Inks: Pool Party, Crumb Cake,

Stamp write markers: Pool Party, So Saffron, Always Artichoke

Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, So Saffron, Soft Suede

Embellishments: Pearls

Equipment: Label Framelit dies, Circle punch, Bird builder punch, Itty Bitty punches

Easy events and wedding wishes

At last I've got my hands on some stamps I've wanted for a while.  Easy Events are a set of eight stamps for different occasions and are so cute.  And they're probably the most versatile set in the current catalogue.

Easy Events Stamp Set, Main Catalogue page 43

The designs are outlines so you can stamp and leave them blank or colour them in using the stampwrite markers or blender pen (or even the water colours or pastels!)


I made a wedding card this week using this stamp set - I just love the birds!  I added colour using a blender pen with the ink pads.

Products used:

Stamps: Easy Events, Baroque Motifs

Inks: Basic Grey, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Regal Rose

Equipment: Framelits, Perfect Dots Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty punch

Embellishments: Rhinestones

I know I'm going to get a lot of use out of these stamps!!

Happy Birthday Butterfly

Another Beautiful Butterfly card, and using up some scraps of the retired sale-a-bration papers Everyday Enchantment.

Products used:

Stamps: Petite Pairs

Ink: Pool Party, Crumb Cake (for edges)

Papers: Everyday Enchantment (SAB)

Card stock: Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Very Vanilla

Equipment: Beautiful Butterflies Die,  Perfect Dots Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Punches, Circle Punches

Other: Calypso Coral Bakers Twine, Pearls

New home card

I saw a really lovely bird house card on a blog (click here) this weekend and wanted to recreate it to make a New Home card.

The fence is particularly effective I think - it is punched with the scallop border and then scored using the new Simple Scored tool.  Simple!

The paper I have used for the bird was the Sale-a-Bration papers Everyday Elegance, and the cloud stamp is from the retired Good Neighbours stamp set.

I printed out the sentiment and used the word window to punch it out.

Stamps: Good Neighbours

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Poppy Parade

Inks: Whisper White

Equipment: Simply Scored, Scallop Border punch, Bird Builder punch, Itty Bitty punches, Circle punch, Word Window punch

Others: Linen Thread, Brads, Pearls