ILWS new catalogue blog hop …

Hello and welcome to the In Love With Stamping (ILWS) blog hop.

Today sees the launch of the brand new Stampin’ Up!® annual catalogue and, together with the recently launched autumn/winter catalogue, we now have more choice than ever before of the beautiful Stampin’ Up!® products.

To celebrate, a group of us on In Love With Stamping got together for a blog hop to showcase lots of fabulous items from both catalogues, which are now available to order.  You should have arrived here from Beckie’s page – if not, do make sure you take a look at her beautiful projects.

For today’s hop, I chose to make Christmas projects using something old and something new …

I used one of the gorgeous stamps from the ornament keepsakes set with the matching die,

these are available to purchase separately from the autumn/winter catalogue,

or you can purchase them together as a bundle and make a great saving …

I added a strip of the gorgeous festival of prints dsp in a matching colour,

a tiny bow of cherry cobbler scalloped tulle ribbon and some adhesive pearls.

~~~

For my second card, I used the delightful decorations set with the matching ornament punch,

this time stamping a strip of very vanilla with one of the smaller stamps from the set …

more tiny tulle bows and adhesive pearls completed the look.

~~~

 And finally, for my last project, I used a different stamp from the same set,

stamped 5 images in cherry cobbler and punched them out with the ornament punch,

scored and folded them to make this cute decoration for my Christmas tree…

And here are all three projects together …

The sentiment is from another one of my favourite sets - beautiful season,

and was stamped in early espresso ink.

~~~~~

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

cardstock: naturals ivory, very vanilla; stamp sets:  ornament keepsakes, delightful decorations, beautiful season; ink: cherry cobbler, early espresso; accessories:  festival of prints dsp, corner rounder and ornament punches, holiday ornaments framelits dies, big shot machine, cherry cobbler scalloped tulle ribbon, linen thread, tombow multi glue, mini glue dots, stampin’ dimensionals, adhesive pearls.

I’d be delighted to order any of these items for you and have them delivered to your door at any UK address. To place your order, you can email me at lilybygilly@gmail.com or call me on 0772 980 8152 and I’d be happy to help.

Now it’s time to hop to Diane’s blog to see what she’s been making.

Thanks for dropping by today

Delightful decorations …

I love this little Christmas card – clean, simple and cute! 

I had to make a whole bunch of them – too many to fit in the photo – here’s a small selection… 

 

I love the certainly celery and melon mambo colours together – gorgeous! 

Stamp sets used: Tree Trimmings, Delightful Decorations and Contempo Christmas. 

 For some reason this one turned out a little mottled…but I loved the effect and it was my absolute favourite!

 

 

A rhinestone made for the perfect finishing touch.

All supplies from Stampin’ Up!

Thanks for dropping by today

Sneak peek, jolly holiday and old faves…

Well, it’s only 88 days to go now …yes, it’s nearly that most wonderful time of the year again

So when I got together with my friends last week, here’s what we made…

I loved using the medallion stamp from Stampin Up as the main image rather than using it as a background stamp, and the lucky limeade ink we used looked so lovely in real life!   It even went so well with the old olive cardstock.  Everything toned so beautifully together – love it!   We cut “berries” from real red cardstock with the cropadile, and added them to the card using tombow mono multi glue.  Then came the part the ladies love …making bows! We tied a bow from real red satin ribbon from Stampin Up and adhered it to the card using glue dots. 

Then we used some designer series paper from the Jolly Holiday paper pack to make the card and the gift box too.  The label was stamped using the delightful decorations stamp set, and tied to the box with gold elastic cord. 

So at least I’ve made a start on my Christmas cards for this year… two down, 98 to go …  ho, ho, ho!

Thanks for dropping by today

Better late than never …

I thought whilst I was on the subject of Christmas, I would post a pic of the card I made for my hubby… better late than never…

 

 

I learned how to make the punch-art snowman on Dawn’s blog, and used it as a topper for the card, adding some real red striped ribbon.

He loved it! (although I think he’s biased)

Stampin’ Up! supplies used:

Cardstock: whisper white, real red, bashful blue, pumpkin pie, black, brushed gold from my stash; Inks: bashful blue, real red; Stamp sets: delightful decorations; Punches: heart to heart, large tag, scallop edge, ornament, ¾” circle, word window, corner rounder, crop-o-dile; Accessories: white gel pen, black stampin’ write marker, stampin’ dimensionals, sticky strip, real red striped grosgrain ribbon.

Thanks for dropping by today