~ TGI Friday! ~

Hello there!

 

Working shifts means I never really get that Friday feeling unless its for a holiday, but my other half frequently lets me know. So tonight, in accordance with that happy feeling many of you will be having I'm sharing a layout I created of a selfie taken on my birthday.

 

 

We went in to Sheffield to Peddler Market. We had a lovely afternoon listening to live music, eating street food, drinking real ale and cocktails. This photo shows us sat on the pavement eating pizza made in a mobile wood burning stove. It was scrummy!

 

These beautiful papers and embellishments are from the Maggie Holmes Confetti range. I absolutely love the versatility of this range.

 

We are having a relaxing friday night at home with Chinese takeaway and I'm on my second glass of prosecco. Any crafting done now could be rather wonky! If anyone asks it was meant to be like that!

 

Happy Crafting!

 

Terri

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~ Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrators ~

Hello there!

I'm a new Stampin' Up Demonstrator based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. If you've not heard of Stampin' Up then you are in for a treat! Stampin' Up is a fantastic company that produce amazing co-ordinating stamps, inks and papers along with other products. 

Feel free to browse the online catalogue on their Website (website) and drop me an email (stampin_terri@hotmail.com) or call (01709 612660) to order some super products. If you are unsure what you might like then why don't you host a little workshop for your family or friends! I will come along and show you some of the products available and provide a 'Make and Take' project. You could even earn free or discounted products! It's a great way to get people together.

Please contact me for more details.

Cheers 

Terri

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~ Getting all grungy ~

This is the first project I have cased recently, however I sorry I can't remember where from so can't credit the original design. I have altered it slightly, including the colour scheme. I've made 2 similar cards but with different colour variants.

I really like the result of these 2 cards. Simple in technique but love the grungy effect with feminine colours. I used the 2013-2015 in colour scheme from Stampin' Up. I've fallen in love with their natural white card stock which has specks of brown throughout and isn't quite as bright.

I'm loving sitting in my craft room on a sunny afternoon, just need some inspiration to strike.

Happy Crafting!

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~ Lack of Mojo! ~

Today I had the whole day off to myself with very few chores to do so I planned to spend the whole afternoon crafting. Unfortunately I really struggled to get any inspiration so I made a batch of cards pretty much the same using another of Monica Gale's fabulous designs as a base. Below are my 3 interpretations.

I'm really pleased with the results and I'm thankfully getting a little stock up on birthday cards which is unusual for me. This is Monica's card which I pretty much copied.

Such a beautiful card. Can't wait until her classes start up again. Hopefully I'll be back soon with some more cards/layouts/projects of my own design.

Ta x

~ Happy New Year ~

Here's hoping that this years blogging is better than the last. I started out well in 2013 but fizzled out after March. I feel it's going to be a busy year for us, hopefully with plenty of crafting along the way.

We might even get round to making sone wedding plans! Can't wait to make save the dates and invites.

Here is a card I made for a challenge whilst on retreat with Monica Gale in September. We were only allowed to use 2 colours eek! Check out her blog for some amazing Stampin' Up inspiration.

I absolutely love the dictionary background stamp and have recently purchased it so watch this space for more use to that. I'm excited to get crafting at the moment which is good as my mojo disappeared along with any time I may have had. So now I'm back in to my crafting I need to get Scrapbooking again. I had so many fantastic experiences last year that I desperately need to scrap. Roll on ScrapaGoGo in March.

Bye for now

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~ Happy Birthday Mum! ~

It was my mums birthday last week so I made her a card. We went out for a lovely evening meal at 450 above in Rotherham.

I loved this card so much that I've made another for a friends birthday.

~ Love is in the air ~

On Sunday, I had a fab time at Monica Gale's Stampin' Up class. It was great to see her as I hadn't managed to get since before I went to Vietnam.

As per usual she had an array of fabulous projects for us to do, 2 cards and a gift holder. She used some of the new stamps from this years catalogue. Some of which I desperately need!

We created a lovely pink elephant card which I have already ear marked for a friends birthday. This was such a cute and easy card to make. Next we made the bunting card using a technique which creates a chalkboard style background. Finally we made a Valentine's gift holder which was so cute and quite simple to make.

Happy Crafting!

Terri
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~ A jar of hearts ~

These cards were made using the Scrapagogo April kit, as I said I'm trying to use up as much stash as I can (then I can buy more!). These cards were inspired by Scrapagogo's Design Team member Nicola Kerridge's fabulous card.

I used a Stampin' Up flower stamp and a Papermania Urban sentiment added to the monthly kit. These cards were so simple to make but I think they are really cute!

Well unfortunately this weekend I'm working so no fun and games for me. Looking forward to a few days away next weekend!

Happy Crafting!

~ A regal birthday! ~

Well I had grand crafting plans for my weeks holiday and so far they have all been a flop! Hopefully I will have more joy over the Bank Holiday Weekend. I have managed to have a play with some Stampin' Up goodies though.

This Birthday card was made using Stampin' Up SAB free stamp set and paper pack. I used regal colour collection to stamp the images and also for the co-ordinating cardstock. I'm really enjoying being part of a Virtual Hostess Stampin' Up group, Monica gives you so many ideas.   

Happy Crafting!

~ Cutesy Card ~

I'm loving the use of bunting at the moment and quite fancy making some for my house. Instead i made do with putting some on this cute Birthday card.

This image from Lily of the Valley is so cute I couldn't resist it. A very versatile stamp it can be used for all kinds of female card. The image was stamped using Memento ink and then coloured using Promarkers.

I love edge punches at the moment especially those from Martha Stewart. I punched and then inked the edges of the patterened paper to add another layer of interest.

Happy Crafting!

~ Stampin' Up Card Club - Feb ~

As I mentioned earlier in the week, on Sunday I went to my first ever Stampin' Up Card Club held by demonstrator Monica Gale. Below are the 3 projects we completed.

I absolutely love the colours she has chosen to create these items.

This box is actually made using the Stampin' Up Milk carton die. It's amazing what people can do with dies.

This is my favourite of the 2 cards I just love the cute little butterflies. I feel another purchase brewing! Oops!

I love how simple the cards are and how easy they were to make. But they look so elegant. I'm already looking forward to the next one.

Happy Crafting!

~ Simplicity! ~

Well this is quite a simple card. The stamp is from Little Claire and is coloured using promarkers. I absolutely love all my stamps from Little Claire, they stamp fantastically and always come out really nice. You'll see lots more from Little Claire when I startmaking my christmas cards.

Yesterday I hoped to get some time to do a little crafting and I must say that I did manage to sneak in an hour or so. I altered a notebook to use for my Whisky Trail which I'm going on Bank Holiday Weekend. I'll show and tell closer to the time.

Today we are praying for the sun to keep shining as we are BBQing for approx 20 of my fella's work mates. Unfortunately he has left this job for a more senior post so its a house warming/ leaving BBQ.

Happy Crafting!

~ Twit twoo ~

This card has been hanging around my desk for a while. I had stuck the background patterned papers on and then ran out of inspiration for it. So as I'm trying to use up scraps and stash that I've had for a while I decided it was time I had to do something about it.

I stamped the owl (which was free with craft stamper) and coloured it with promarkers, mounted it on card and added a little faux stitching. Once it was stuck in place I just needed to add a sentiment so I stamped a Basic Grey Happy Birthday in black ink.

I'm still not sure about this card, but wonder if it will grow on me?!

Well, I'm off to University this morning hopefully won't need to be there all day.

~ A little gem! ~

I absolutely love this stamp from Pink Gem Designs (I have already bought the winter version ready for christmas!). I have used the skecth over on their challenge blog - hop over to see. As I'm in the process of trying to use some of my stash up, the papers were from a Cleo crafts kit, the collection is American Crafts 'Letterbox'. Although there is still plenty of the kit left. I absolutley love petaloo flowers but they are another stash item that I am trying to use up (I have rather alot of flowers, oops!). 

I love the girly feel to this card I think its really summery and bright - shame the weather isn't at the moment!

A quick question for all you, non-yorkshire people - do you know what Henderson's Relish is? I have come across a few local people who haven't a clue what it is but then a couple of Americans who do. Very odd!

Henderson's Relish is similar to Worcestershire Sauce but made in Sheffield. 

Well I hope you all have an enjoyable evening, I'm off to my cousin's engagement BBQ/party shortly, have got both fingers and toes crossed that the weather holds!

~ A little fairy dust! ~

I will be honest I bought this stamp in the sale at Pink Gem designs because I loved it. But once it arrived I had no idea what to use it for. So when this month's theme over on the Craft Garden was 'Fairys' I new exactly what I wanted to use. I have also combined this with my DT entry for Wags 'n Whiskers Stamps.

I have coloured her in using promarkers and used a selection of patterned MME 'Bloom and Grow' papers (I don't think I have ever used so many different patterns on one card before!). The stamped leave if also MME 'B&G'.

Hope everyone is having a fab weekend, unfortuately I'm working a 14.5 hour shift tomorrow so am making the most of my crafty time today.

~ A Glamour card ... with abit of distress! ~

I made this card for my Godmother's 50th Birthday. She loves her designer items and films so I chose to make her a glamourous distressed looking card. I picked up the Hollywood stamp from Ally Pally for only 50p, what a bargin! The paper is Bo Bunny 'Mammarazzi'. I made a Tim Holtz style tag using a technique from his book.

Had a busy day at work yesterday and am hoping to have a few days to myself now. So much to do to get prepared for Girlguiding UK's Centenary camp at Harewood House in August.

~ A special birthday ~

I made this card quite quickly when I was invited to a 40th Suprise birthday party at very late notice last week (it was the next day). I used my cleo crafts June kit. I love the 'Mamma zazzi' Bo Bunny papers. I find it hard to make masculine cards but was really pleased with this one.

~ A favourite ~

I absolutely love this birthday card - must say its the favourite one I have made recently. I used my Cleo crafts kit which constisted of lots of lovely Fancy Pants papers. I punched out the leaf design from a strip of patterned paper and stuck it down the right handside of the inside the card. I stamped the 'Happy Birthday' in black ink. I cut the front right handside with my scalloped blade trimmer then inked it with fired brick and barn door distress ink.

Have a great weekend, as you read this I will be on my way to Wales for a weeks holiday. I have scheduled some posts for the week so please keep coming by for a visit to see what other delights I have been up to.