Craft Jumble Sale

When: Saturday 20th November 2010

Time: 2pm-4pm

Where: Harlington Centre, Fleet

After the positive feedback last July I have organised another second-hand craft sale! If you like crafting, come and grab some bargains! There will be new and used craft stash, including some Stampin' Up! goodies (retired). Please let your friends know and I look forward to seeing you there. I'm trying to persuade my sister to come home for the weekend and bake for it but we'll have to see...

If you have stash that you would like to sell, contact me to book a table.

Jammy-licious

One of my colleagues kindly gave me a bag of damsons so I cooked up some jam! This is the finished result. I used some retired Old Olive DSP and layered on Pale Plum CS stamped with Elegant Eggplant ink using Just Perfect Alphabet stamps and then finished with Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon.

You can barely see the top of the jar but I stamped with Old Olive ink using a stamp from Baroque Motifs and then layered it on a scalloped circle of Pale Plum CS.

Now I've been given another bag of damsons, I'll have to think of something else to make!

Aiden's birthday celebration

Today we went to a birthday celebration for a little boy called Aiden (aka Munchkin's boyfriend). I cased this idea from the brilliant Monica Gale and had a great time with my Sweet Pea stack of papers (soooo sad that these are retiring, but heck, what a bargain they are at the mo!) and my alphabet stamps.The main base is Brocade Blue, a retiring colour. The balloon basket is stamped using Big Bold Birthday and the 3D treatcup provides the balloon and is filled with yummy chocolate raisins (perfect for a one year old?!). Hope he likes his card. He had an amazing birthday cake and lots of friends playing with him, and I bet Munchkin is looking forward to her birthday even more now.

Also been preparing for my Catalogue Launch Party (next Saturday). Sooo much to do but I'm happy that lots of samples are in progress as well as the goodie bags. Not long now til the new catalogue!!!! Only 5 more sleeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tealight holder

Today's project is something I whipped up while Munchkin took a short nap. I got the tutorial from ILWS, I think it was designed by Melanie Reid. (If you know, please let me know via the comments!) The idea is to use a battery operated tealight as the vellum etc. is obviously highly flammable. Unfortunately I couldn't locate my battery ones so I was very bad and used a regular tealight, just for the photos.

The colours used are Pink Passion, Orchid Opulence, Glorious Green and Pixie Pink. The patterned paper strip is from the Simply Scrappin' kit, Sunny Day, which is sadly not being carried over to the new catalogue! I couldn't resist using some stitched felt to decorate the outside of the holder too!

This shot shows you a birds-eye view of the tealight holder. This project was sooo quick to put together but I think the result is pretty effective.

Check out my new kit by mail - it's available now!

Hope you are having a good day and are not too soggy. It's pouring with rain here so we're entertaining ourselves indoors until Nanny and Uncle Philip arrive to play!

Another magic folding mini book

Many people have been asking for a preview of the magic folding minibook class. Sadly, as it features DSP papers from the new catalogue, I cannot reveal it just yet.

Still, here is another version I made using the gorgeous Cottage Garden DSP, which is not in the current catalogue, but was brought out later in the year and features Rich Razzleberry - YUM YUM new colour. I've combined it here with some Old Olive and some Close to Cocoa for a striking minibook. I am very naughty though, and I've not finished it off with some pictures... I promise there will be pictures in the sample for the class so you can see just what it will look like when it is all finished.

Other than that, I've not been too well so I've had to take it easy the last few days. I'm still counting down to my catalogue launch party... only 10 days to go!!!! Have a great Wednesday.

What's new with you?

Hope you are having a great weekend. Above is the class I held on Thursday night. We had a lovely time chatting and making this cute handbag (designed by Monica Gale) and this flowery card (desgined by me!). The card uses the same stamp for all 4 flowers, but each flower demonstrates a different stamping technique (as described on a previous post).

I loved the handbag when I made it at a class so I couldn't help but share the lushness of this project with my ladies!

These are the little ribbon bundles I gave to people who have ordered from me in September. I tried to give each person colours that they would use and enjoy. The tag was cut with the large tag punch, and has Trendy Trees images that have been clear embossed. The sewing edge was drawn by hand and the finished tag was attached with a little linen thread.

Yesterday DH went to play rugby so Munchkin and I went with a friend to BirdWorld. A fun time was had by all!!

Enjoy your Sunday!

Sale continues

Just a quick post to say that SU have reduced their sale prices even more! You can click on the picture to the right of the sale list or here.

This time it's even easier as they've added a column highlighting which items have been further reduced. Of particular note are the ink pads, many of which are a steal at £2.13 each. Also, lots of the embellishments, for example the Pretties kit is reduced to just £11.63 and many of the ribbons are reduced more too. In the Mini catalogue the Sweet Pea DSP stack and Stitched felt is now half price - what a bargain!!!

I'm still placing orders regularly so if there's something you'd like, let me know! blueangelcrafts@gmail.com

Have a great Friday!!!