Sale-a-brate good times, come on!

It’s a sale-a-bration!

(OK, so now that song will be going around my head for the rest of the day!)

I made this gift set using some of the fabulous stamp sets available for FREE during Stampin’ Up’s sale-a-bration

– madison avenue, vintage verses and patterned occasions (my favourite)…

The colour inspiration came from the candlelight Christmas specialty designer series paper – a great way to use up any Christmas papers you may still have around…

Hints of sparkle were added with small hearts punched from champagne glimmer paper, and tiny bows of early espresso scalloped tulle ribbon for texture.

I bought some chocolate hearts from my local suparmarket and adhered to the card with mini glue dots …

These projects are good for Valentines, anniversaries, birthdays or just because …

and they fitted in perfectly with my cake from cake class this week…

… a coffee cake covered with chocolate icing, embossed with roses.

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Here’s what you need to make today’s card – all supplies from Stampin’ Up!:

stamps: sale-a-bration sets – patterned occasions, madison avenue, vintage verses; cardstock: whisper white, early espresso, champagne glimmer; punches: heart, small heart, circle, scallop circle; accessories: stamp-a-majig, candlelight Christmas specialty dsp, early espresso tulle ribbon, mini glue dots; additional: chocolate heart.

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Winter white wedding …

With Christmas just over, there is new cause for celebrations today -

a wedding is taking place …

what a wonderful time of year for a couple to get married and start a new life together…

I printed the sentiment and names onto whisper white smooth cardstock

which goes so easily through my home printer,

and used textured whisper white cardstock (retired) for the base card and punched hearts.

I adhered the hearts with dimensionals to raise them up a little from the card.

I love using white on white, and added some adhesive rhinestones for sparkle.

I hope the weather is kind to the happy couple and the rain holds off -

it’s been a very wet Christmas here in the UK,

but I’m sure even the weather will not dampen their happy hearts today.

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Here’s what you need to make today’s card – all supplies from Stampin’ Up!:

cardstock: whisper white; punches: heart, small heart; accessories: adhesive rhinestones, stampin’ dimensionals.

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Stampin’ Up medallion for Ruby Wedding wishes…

My friend Jill and her husband celebrated their Ruby Wedding anniversary this week, so I wanted to make a special card for them. I started by stamping the beautiful medallion background stamp from Stampin’ Up in cherry cobbler ink onto very vanilla smooth cardstock…

There were some areas that didn’t stamp fully but that added to the look I wanted and gave it a vintage feel. I then mounted it onto a cherry cobbler A5 card base.

I added some gorgeous victoria crochet trim, pleated across the card and stamped the sentiment underneath. The numbers and 2 sizes of hearts were die cut with my timeless type junior alphabet dies run through my big shot machine, and then adhered with stampin’ dimensionals.

Finally, I used 3 sizes of adhesive pearls on the card, giving a luxurious feel.

Jill and her hubby are going on holiday back to where they had their honeymoon… this time to enjoy visiting there with some money in their pockets – bless! But how romantic is that? Still in love after 40 years of marriage – bliss.

Papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: very vanilla, cherry cobbler; stamp sets: medallion, sentiment (retired); inks: cherry cobbler; accessories: timeless type junior alphabet dies, big shot machine, stampin dimensionals, adhesive pearls, victoria crochet trim, sticky strip, stamp-a-majig.

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Confetti, celebrations and cupcakes …

My friend, Jon, took his girlfriend to Paris for her 30th birthday – you might remember the 30th birthday card I made for Rachel here. 

One fabulous evening in Paris, under a beautifully lit Eiffel Tower, he got down on one knee and proposed.  How romantic!  And of course she said yes. 

Inspired by the gorgeous projects Jenni Pauli has on her blog, I used the Eiffel tower image from the Artistic Etchings stamp set, and the appropriately named Confetti stamp set from Stampin’ Up! to create this modern looking engagement card in whisper white and pool party, with a little touch of crumb cake too …

I used stampin’ dimensionals to adhere the hearts and the whisper white layer to the card. 

A sprinkling of adhesive rhinestones added some bling, and a tiny bow in crumb cake seam binding ribbon completed the card. 

 And I’ve been doing a bit of baking …

 my daughter asked if I would make cakes for her friend’s wedding

… a large cupcake for cutting … 

and some individual cupcakes too …

Such fun to do and yummy too!

The bride wanted white buttercream icing on the cupcakes, which is really difficult to do as butter is yellow!  So I asked everyone I know – including my cake teacher - and also searched the internet … and the solution?  Goat’s butter!  Not only is goat’s butter really pale (almost white to begin with) but it is delicious too!  And the more you beat it, the paler it gets! 

I added a double layer of whisper white satin ribbon from Stampin’ Up! around the base of the large cupcake.  Stampin’ Up!’s ribbon is not only good for card making, it’s ideal for cake decorating too and is a bargain at only £6.75 for a whole roll! 

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Papercraft supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Card recipe: cardstock: whisper white, pool party; stamp sets: artistic etchings, confetti; inks: crumb cake; accessories: stampin dimensionals, mini glue dots, adhesive rhinestones, word window punch, scallop heart of hearts embosslit, small heart punch, crumb cake seam binding ribbon, stamp-a-majig.

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