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Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Mikaela Titheridge

Take Care and Flock Together

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This past week I have been preparing for my forthcoming Craft evening, where I plan on making use of two stamp sets, ‘Take Care’ and ‘Flock Together’ along with the gorgeous ‘Birds of a Feather’ Designer Series Paper.

I have tailored this class to Easter and thought the birds in both of these sets, lend themselves perfectly. 

This is just a taster of what we’ll be making. I shall reveal more once the class dates arrive.

Roll on Easter and the Springtime weather that we seem to be getting a taster of these past few days. 

Punch Art Lion

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This week saw the 2nd Birthday of a friend’s little girl, who was having a Jungle Themed Birthday Party. I love using Punch Art for kids cards and saw all sorts of inspiration online for this one. Isn’t he cute?

Fill your heart with love …

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Happy Valentines Day everyone! 

Well I was spoilt rotten this morning to some gorgeous underwear from hubby, so I don’t expect any flowers to be delivered to the house today, but I do expect a UPS delivery, which can only mean one thing! …… A Stampin’ Up! delivery of goodies!! How very exciting!! I so love opening the box, even if the contents isn’t for me, and searching through the lovely new products to inspire me.

To make this card, I used both the Heart a Flutter Stamp Set and matching Framelits Dies from the Spring/Summer Catalogue. Stampin’ Up! are now offering many co-ordinating sets like this in a Savings Bundle, saving you 15% when bought together. I also used the Stamp Set, That’s the Ticket … Call me old fashioned, but I just love the look and feel of a traditional ticket, so I absolutely love this stamp set and it’s so versatile. 

Hearts a Flutter (8 Images)
Wood: 129249 £22.95
Clear: 129252 £17.95

Framelits Dies 130159 £20.95

Bundle:
Wood: 131098 £36.95
Clear: 131097 £32.95

I also used the new Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – Honeycomb 129378 £7.50. I’ve seen some great things using this, one of which inspired this card. 

Enjoy your day and if you don’t have a Valentine in your life, remember you can fill your heart with the love of many things …. 

Vintage Verses – Sale-a-Bration

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I’ve enjoyed an unexpected afternoon of crafting and have been surprised at the amount I’ve managed to achieve.

Finally, thanks to Sale-a-Bration, I have another Sentiments Stamp Set, which I just love!

I decided to cover one of the Stampin’ Up! Kraft Gift Boxes with the gorgeous Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper, available FREE during Sale-a-Bration. The Rich Razzleberry button used to embellish is also part of one of the FREE choices available during this promotion and comes with two other colours, Pool Party and Tangerine Tango, along with matching ribbons.

Here I have used more of the Sycamore Street DSP along with half of a Paper Doilie, available in the new Spring/Summer Catalogue and embellished the sentiment with a cute little butterfly from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits (118138 £9.95). Butterflies seem to be the big rage at the moment and you get several sizes on this Embosslit. 
I just love the multi coloured Designer Series Paper that I’ve chosen to use as the banner strip on this card, so I thought I’d use the same colours on the Sentiment, Thanks!

…. and there is still one sentiment that I’ve not used.

Yet another great FREE Stamp Set available to choose from when you spend £45 on Stampin’ Up! products during Sale-a-Bration. 

Remember, these sets are exclusive to Sale-a-Bration and are unlikely to be available when the Promotion ends.

Madison Avenue – Sale-a-bration

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Today I’ve been having a play with another one of the lovely FREE stamp sets available during Sale-a-bration. 

I find this layering flower just so pretty and just so versatile. Here I have chosen to ink up only one segment of it to scatter across the card in Sahara Sand and Pool Party. The base card is the Midnight Muse In Colour.

Below I have chosen just one flower to make a simple note card and scattered that right across the card in Summer Starfruit, which is slowly becoming a firm favourite of mine.
The little punched flowers below are from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack set from the Annual Catalogue 2012-2013 – £15.50 (118309). I’ve layered Crumb Cake on Rich Razzleberry and highlighted with the vibrant Tangerine Tango. I just love this combination of colour.

Can you believe this gorgeous set is FREE with a £45 spend during Sale-a-bration? If you like it, don’t miss out … Sale-a-bration will end on 22 March. Contact me to place your order or to ask me for more details about this amazing promotion.

To my Valentine …

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Today I have been making a few Valentines Cards …. just a few! …. I’ve no idea quite why our 2yr old needs so many, but I’ll ask no questions … 😉

It gave me a good excuse to sit down and trial the lovely new stamp set, ‘Hearts a Flutter’ from the new Spring/Summer Catalogue, along with the co-ordinating Framelits Dies.

Hearts a Flutter (8 images)

Wood £22.95 (129249)
Clear £17.95 (129252)

Framelits £20.95 (130159)

Hearts a Flutter Bundle 15% saving!!
Wood: £36.95 (131098)
Clear: £32.95 (131097)

Stampin’ Up! love co-ordinating things and they couldn’t have created a bundle better with a 15% saving! You’ll use the bunting/banners time and time again, doubling up as gift tags. So versatile!

Here I coupled Pool Party, with Real Red on Whisper white and layered it onto Crumb Cake Card stock. Simple and striking for the love of friendship.
I wonder if he’ll have made his mummy one? … 

Sympathy ….

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I’ve a whole host of cards that need making for this month, but sadly the first and most important one, was a Sympathy card. 

I wanted something quite pure and simple, so I used the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder along with the Beautiful Wings Embosslits all in Whisper White. Very simple, but very effective. 

Flattering Femininity

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This weeks classes were all about Femininity and everything beautiful, which seemed the perfect way to launch the new Spring/Summer Seasonal Catalogue. 

Packed full of beautiful and unusual embellishments, this catalogue left me inspired. I had Mothering Sunday in mind when I thought of this class, but each item could be suitably tailored to any other occasion. The new Catalogue takes us right through Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Easter, Father’s Day, Weddings and Bridal/Baby Showers it really packs a punch for a 39 page publication.

In bygone years, ladies were adorned with Lace, pearls, flowers and brooches and so I simply couldn’t resist but make use of the Soda Pop Bottle Tops, flattened by going once through the Big Shot, to make a stunning Brooch effect. Who would have thought that a retro bottle cap could be used in this way? 

The Soda Pop Tops come as a pack of 16 in total, 8 each of 2 sizes for just £3.75 (129388) and you’ll see how I used the smaller ones in my second card on the flowers. You can punch custom centres from Designer Series Paper or stamped images using the 1/2″ and 1″ circle punches to fit. Here I used the gorgeous ‘Collage Curios’ Stamp set for the image and covered it with a layer of Crystal Effects to give a gentle glaze to the surface. A little goes a long way with the Paper Doilies, so I gathered half of one behind to gave a pretty lace back drop. You get 24 doilies, each 10.2cm diameter in white for just £2.75 (129399).
 
Collage Curios Stamp Set (9 images)
Wood: 129099 £18.95
Clear: 129102 £14.95
Co-ordinates with 1″ Circle Punch
For subtle added detailing, I used the ever so pretty new Textured Impressions Embossing Folders that come as a pack of two, ‘Needlepoint Border’ £7.50 (129383), which I just love and I’m sure you will be seeing again, so subtle, but ever so pretty!
The colours I chose coordinated with the ‘More Amore speciality Designer Series Paper’  ….. Pool Party, Primrose Petals, Very Vanilla and Basic Grey.
I’ve seen these Plant Pot cards all over the internet and couldn’t resist but make one, as what lady wouldn’t want to receive flowers, Mothering Sunday or not? The flowers were spritzed with Stampin’ Mist Stamp Cleaner and scrunched in my hand before leaving to air dry a little and layered. The centre of the flowers were once again embellished with the smaller Soda Pop Caps, flattened. There’s something about an old fashioned ticket and I just love the Stamp Set ‘That’s the Ticket’, which I used for the sentiment tags. I chose to adapt the Precious Baby ticket for 100% Perfect Mum, from the ‘For my Family’ Stamp set.

That’s the Ticket (8 images)

Wood 128072 £20.95
Clear  128075 £16.95

Co-ordinates with Ticket Duo Builder Punch from the Annual Catalogue

The Kraft Gift Boxes are available in packs of 4 for just £2.75 (124106) and are really quite sturdy. 

A pretty strip of More Amore speciality Designer Series Paper and three Vintage dimensional flowers that I gently added Primrose Petals ink to, by using a dauber. You can add whatever colour you like to coordinate with your project or simply leave them Vanilla, they are so pretty. 
Now, if you don’t already have a copy of the new Seasonal Catalogue, get in contact or click the photo of it on my home page to view online … put your feet up and enjoy!

The changing of the seasons …

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We’ve just four more days to go of the Autumn/Winter Seasonal Catalogue, so take one last look to be sure there isn’t something there you couldn’t live without … because once it’s gone …. it’s gone!

From Winter, we see Spring …. and the 1st February sees the launch of the new Spring/Summer Seasonal Catalogue and there are yet some more beauties in there to excite you. Pure elegance helps celebrate 25 Years of Stampin’ Up! ….. that I simply can’t wait to share!

Patterned Occasions – Sale-a-bration 2013

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Just how cute is this Stamp Set? …. Patterned Occasions is one of the many gorgeous products that you can choose for FREE, when you spend £45 during Sale-a-bration. Even the striking Sycamore Street Designer Series Papers are one of the 17 choices given to you during this fantastic promotion.

For every £45 you spend with me on Stampin’ Up! products, you get to choose one item for FREE from a range of no less than 17 gorgeous products. Some of which are exclusive to Sale-a-bration and some are from the current Annual Catalogue 2012-2013. 

From Stamp Sets, Punches, Designer Series Papers, Ribbons and Buttons, Embossing Folders to name but a few … there is plenty to excite you.

Contact me today for more information or to place your order and receive your FREE goodies.

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