Stampin' Up Demonstrator Michelle Last

Gift Giving Guide and off to convention.....

Hi ladies,

There is a great offer from Stampin Up, if you purchase £45 worth of any items from the Gift Giving Guide below you get a free tag punch free of charge, which would be perfect for Christmas.  You can choose the large or small tag punch and if you purchase £90 worth of items from the guide you could have both!  The offer runs from 1 November - 29 December 09.  Please contact me if you would like to place an order.  Follow this link to the SU website for more information.

I am flying of to Frankfurt tomorrow for the annual Stampin Up convention.  My posh frock it packed for the awards dinner and all the little gift packages for the members of my team attending are in my suitcase too.  I will post photo's on my return but I don;t want to spoil the surprise.

I have been so busy making 180 swaps and hope that I have done enough, can;t wait to meet all the other demo's there from UK, France and Germany and also meet Shelli the co-founder and CEO.

I am sure we will have a great time and I will be back Saturday with lots of photo's to post so I hope to see you then x

Happy Halloween

I adore halloween and even though my children are getting older we still carve pumpkins and welcome trick or treaters.  Here is a little display of all things Halloween.  The pumpkin card in the middle was made by one of my most favourite Stampin Up customers, Tomoe.  When she places an order with me she sends it in the post with a beautifully made card and look what turned up this week, the most beautiful halloween card I have ever seen.

And an order too, what could be better?  Thank you Tomoe x

We also have a very cute pet hamster called Pumpkin and it seemed wrong to leave it out of the photo shoot so here she is with her little pumpkin stalk hat that Amy made, cute eh!?  Our hamster also loves pumkin seeds that have been dried in the oven.

And also finally Amy made this pumkin out of a full un-rolled roll of toilet paper.  She wrapped orange paper round it and tucked it in the tube at the top.  She then rolled some brown felt for a stalk and cut out a leaf pattern and attached a pipe cleaner so that she could fix the shape.  A great idea if you don't have any pumpkins for this evening.

Enjoy your evening and I hope you don't get any tricks.....
 

Some Christmas Cards and Christmas Shopping Notebook

It's not like me to be organised and it's still not like me to be organised as these are the first contributions to Christmas I have made so far this year.  Us card makers are supposed to be organised and happily making Christmas cards in the summer - but not me!!  I will be frantically making my cards after the last posting date, stressed to the eyeballs which is as much part of my Christmas traditions as decorating the tree.  I really love the Notebook in the middle which was made using the new Stampin Up Christmas Jungle Simply Scrappin kit.  I still have loads of supplies left over and so will make some other items using this kit and show you more photo's of the inside once I have lots of items to show you.

The Christmas cards I made were made using the basic black, whisper white, old olive cardstock, old olive patterns paper and vellum.  I really loved the colour scheme and tried to steer away from the traditional red and green combo.  The snowflake stamp is from the Winter Post set which is £23.95
and for me the cherry on the top is the most gorgeous ribbon I have ever seen!  It's the new striped grosgrain ribbon, 1 1/4" wide and £8.95 for 9.1m so less than £1 per metre.  It comes in pumpkin pie  (perfect for Halloween), Chocolate Chip, Basic Black and Old Olive.  I guarantee that you will be the ribbon lots more on my blog and I am sad enough to choose my Christmas wrapping paper to compliment the ribbon :-).

Have a great weekend and thank for stopping by....

Become a new demonstrator and join my team......

Welcome to all my ladies and if you joined my team which free stamp set would you choose?

The starter kit you will be receiving will be sent out this week to you as I am just waiting for the last of the patterned paper so that I can send a sample keyring of all the paper for your reference. 

If you join my team this month you can choose any free stamp set of your choice to the value of £25.  You will also receive a punch template, keyring of all cardstock and a keyring of all the patterned paper and some little thank you's from me.

Would you like to own all the ink pads and the storage caddy for all the inks??  I am looking for 3 more members of my Ink Pad Club.  You will find all the details here and I am looking for three more members of the club which will run for 10 months. If you already have a few of the ink pads I can substitute the ones you already have for other items of your choice.

PS I still have some catalogues at the special offer price of £3.75 inc p&p and you could find a little coupon book inside to make your purchases all the sweeter. 

Email me on michelle@cbdesign.org.uk

  

New Catalogue is on-line and FOCUS ON...... Window Sheets

Well the 1st October has finally arrived and the new catalogue is available to view on-line here  but if you are finding it hard to see the images properly then I still have lots of copies of the catalogues here looking for new homes.  They are £2.50 each + £1.25 postage email me if you would like one michelle@cbdesign.org.uk

I am loving some of the new products in the catalogue and have been playing today with the window sheets.  And here is what I made

I made some little windows in the front of the cards and then used some of the medium window sheets to make a see through window so that you can see an image or sentiment on the inside of the card.  The window sheets are £4.75 for 2 sheets of 12x12 and I just adore them.  Ihave lots more ideas for using them and will post more images once I get a chance to craft again.

Here are some close ups and the supplies used...

Front view (my favourite card of the day :-))

Inside View Supplies used - Barouque Motifs Stamp set £24.95, Frames with a Flourish £32.95 and the flower is from the new Level 2 Hostess set.  Old Olive Ink, Versamark and Gold Embossing Powder £3.25 and Peace Love & Joy is from Occasional Greetings £26.95  The cardstock is Whisper White, Old Olive and Going Gray.

This is the front view of the second card

This is the inside view and the supplies used - Real Red Card, whisper white and going gray cardstock.  versamark, gold embossing powder £3.25 and black embossing powder £3.25, real red ink and real red ribbon.  Window Sheets (medium) and the stamp sets used were Tree trimmings £10.95 and Frames with a Flourish £32.95.  I used a previous hostess set for the sentiment (I couldn't part with that one).

The supplies used here were Olid Olive, real red and whisper white cardstock.  Stamps - Barouque Motifs £24.95, Frames with a flourish £32.95 and the sentiment is from Old Fashioned Christmas £24.95.  The flower and leaf are also from the Level 2 hostess stamp set.  I used gold elastic cord £3.50, versarmark, gold embossing powder and Basic Black Ink.  I love the christmas wishes font!

Hope you like them x

Old Olive and Lovely Lilac what a lovely combination

I needed some cards for some birthdays I have coming up next week and quickly rustled up this cute bunch of cards.  I did my usual 10.5cmx10.5cm square card which is one of my favourites and then had some odd rectangle cards left over which I just made up really simply as I always need a quick thank you card or notelet.  I can then add a sentiment as needed.

I tied the ribbon on the top left card to look like a pressie, i am not sure it worked but I liked the effect anyway.  I used the perfect paisley stamp from Stampin up and embossed it with black embossing powder as per my previous post and managed two get 5 cards out of two paisley stamped backgrounds, pretty good going!

Below is a scrapbook page I made recently.  When I was clearing out my craft room the other weekend (you saw the pictures but let me tell you it doesn't look like that now!) I came across a note that my daughter Amy had written in 2004.  She was 5 1/2 at the time and is now 11 and I just melted when I read it.  I do keep everything (that's the scrapbooker in me) and instead of tucking away in a treasure box somewhere I was determined to put it on a layout.  Anyone who knows me knows that I also love to journal so I put fingers to keyboard and wrote the journalling.  There was so much that I had to create a pocket to fit it in.  I am so pleased to be back scrapbooking again as its been so long since I have had the time and I must do more.

PS I love the way she signed it from Amy Last - so sweet.

 

Don't forget to check out Lousette's blog tonight click here at midnight you could win Stampin Up prizes during the Blog Hope Challenge - good luck x 

Stampin' Up Blog Hop Challenge

It's nearly here - the new catalogue launch from Stampin Up.  From the 1st October you will be able to view the on-line catalogue at the Stampin Up website and it is packed full or gorgous product with some very welcome additions.

Now Stampin Up have invited some inpartial ladies who are already very sucessful bloggers and crafters to receive some of the new products from the catalogue and see what they create.  An old friend Lousette has asked me to let you know about it as it will be a great opportunity for you to see what you can make with some new products and inspire you to do the same.  Lousette's blog is here and go to her blog from 12 o'clock pm and you might also be able to bag yoruself some prizes.

I will definitely be blog hopping, why not join us??

If you would like your own copy of the catalogue then email me and I will post one out to you by first class post.  If you sign up to any of my hostess/marker or ink pad clubs you will receive a copy absolutely free. 

See you at the blog hop x 

New Stampin UP Catalogue anyone?????

Guess what I have here waiitng patiently to go to a good home?  Yes, that's right lots of lovely new 09/10 Stampin Up catlaogues.  They are not officially released until 1st October but I pre-ordered lots and they arrived on Friday.  If you would like one I am selling that at £2.50 + £1.25 postage which means you pay £3.75 instead of the usual cover price of £4.95. 

As a thank you I am also enclosing a little voucher booklet to use on any orders and am happy to send out by first class post as soon as you say the word. 

So email me on michelle@cbdesign.org.uk or call me  on 01296 715787 to reserve your copy.  I can take a card payment securely over the phone or send me your paypal address and I will forward a paypal invoice for £3.75.

You could be one of the firs to get your hands on the new goodies!!

I am also looking for ladies to join my new Ink Pad Club.  If you would like to own all the 50 ink pads and the gorgeous colour caddy to store them in then this would be perfect for you as you can spread the cost and recive all the hostess benefits at the same time.

Here is how

There are two choices

5 ladies for 5 months at £52.49 per month +5% = £55.12 = 10 ink pads a month and on your hostess month you would receive FREE catalogue, £25 worth of goods of your choice from the catalogue and Level 1 Hostess Set AND your own COLOUR CADDY to keep your stamps in.

OR

10 ladies for 10 months at £26.25 per month + 5% = £27.56  = 5 ink pads a month and on your hostess month you would receive FREE catalogue, £25 worth of goods of your choice from the catalogue and Level 1 Hostess Set AND your own COLOUR CADDY to keep your stamps in

Please contact me to register your interest and once I have enough ladies to start I will contact you again and check you still

would like to join in.

I hope to hear from you xx

I won the Summer Design Challenge!!

  I am so lucky, what a lovely month I am having full of nice surprises.  Stampin Up has announced its winners for the Summer Design Challenge and I won first prize for projects submitted by demonstrators in the UK.  So I have £150 worth of gorgeous product from Stampin Up absolutely free!  Follow this link to the Stampin Up Website announcement , the entries from the the other demo's and the public were beautiful and I count myself very lucky to have been chosen.

I made the star book whilst I was on holiday in Devon and then filled it with pictures from our holiday.  I was in such a rush to send it off to Kelly in time for the cut off date that I didn't get a chance to take any pictures - doh!! And we don't get the projects back.  I fully intended to make another the same for my own use at workshops etc but of course that never happened and it is unlikely to appear now, especially as today it the first day of Autumn and all I can think about is Halloween and Christmas -perhaps next year!

It is nearly the end of September and the new catalogue launch is getting closer.  please don't forget that some of the items in the current mini catalogue will not be available any longer from September 30th.  So if you love this set as much as I do, you will call me and order this set right away.

Petal Pizzazz £29.95 and you would also qualify for a free copy of the new catalogue.

I am also selling off my old stamps that are wither retired or US sets that I no longer need as I have to make room for lots of new goodies.

If the price is listed in red then this set is no longer available.  Email me on michelle@cbdesign.org.uk or call 01296 715787.

 Happy Spring

£6 for the set

SOLD

Carte Postale

£17 for the set

SOLD

Short Order Alphabet

£25 for the set

Priceless

£25 for the set

SOLD

Brocade Basics

£25 for the set

Petal Prints

£28 for the set

Happiest of Holidays

£10

SOLD

Thanks for looking x

My Craft Space

Hi Girls

I have been busy clearing out and re-organising my craft space and whilst it is still clean and tidy I thought I would take some picture to show you.  I spend £7.50 on some storage for my punches and its amazing what a difference it makes.  I counted how many stamp sets I have and OMG How did that happen - 75 sets with room for more when the new sets are available in the new catalogue!!

I am now ready to get crafting and hope you enjoy the pics

My wall of stamps!

Looking in the other direction...

Great punch storage from Ikea for only £7.50

Tools, paper, ink, ribbon, books, projects and embellishments

The ornament on my printers is a fish my son made :-) just in case you were wondering

Some more ribbon storage and my little gems etc

My A4 Stampin' Up cardstock

I also have lots of things tucked away too like my scrapbook albums and scrapbook paper.  Anyone that knows me knows I LOVE storage.  So there are lots of drawers, tins and pots with lots of lovely goodies hidden away.

It's not a typical US craft room that can fit oodles of people but its mine and I love it. x