CPS Sketch

Evening everyone,

Well I had a good birthday today, had to go to work which is normally unheard of on my birthday, also full of cold so had a nice cosy night in with a take away!! Thanks guys for all of your lovely birthday wishes and cards!!

Did get a chance to make a card as got out of work on time too!!!

Its for this weeks CPS Sketch Challenge...

And remember with this months fab promotion from Stampin Up, if you order this stamp set you can buy the co-ordinating punch for only £10!!!!!!

xxxx

More cards....

Well these are the last of the cards I made at Julie's card class. All of the cards I made (12 in total) where using the Sunny Day set and 1 reel of ribbon. This was fantastic as I have still got loads leftover!

Hope you are all having a fab weekend xxx

CPS Sketch

Morning,

Here is my card for this weeks CPS Sketch Challenge...

Check out all of the other wonderful samples on their blog...

Also wanted to thank the gorgeous Nicci for my award!!!!

So the idea is to list 10 things that make you happy and then link to 5 other people and get them to link to your blog and then pass on to another 5 and so on...

10 things that make me happy -

1) Chris

2) Crafting

3) Stampin UP!

4) Family & Friends

5) Tea

6) Dancing

7) Good movie

8) Shopping

9) Blogging

10) Money!!!

Now I am going to pass this on to...

Nikki

SJ

Sara

Jan

Kate

Thats all for now, see you soon xxxx

More cards from class...

Hi everyone,

Well I am feeling very sorry for myself today as have been to the hospital to be prodded and poked loads!! They stuck a needle in my neck too which was awful, so painful and I was a complete woos as I was on my own!!! lol

Anyway thought I would show you some more of the wonderful cards I made from the kit I got at the card class!!









Remember guys I am starting classses in Braintree as of April. If you are interested in coming along let me know as soon as possible as we only have limited spaces.

Speak soon xxx

All day card class

As promised here are some more of the projects from the all day card class I went to last week...

3D Box - which is absolutely fab as it has a calendar in the lid so as not to forget those special dates!!!

And here are 2 of the cards...

I promise I will show you the other 10 cards I have made from just one kit!!

Have a good Monday xxx

Sketch Saturday challenge....

Hi guys,

Well the Saturday Sketch Challenge was my challenge for the day! There are some fabulous examples over on their blog ...

Here is my take on the Sketch ....

Everything used here apart from Prima Flowers and Patterned Paper is Stampin Up! I just love the way Stampin Up colours co-ordinate with everything else in my craft room!

If you would like to order anything please let me know!

Siobhan xxx

Hen Weekend Invites

Well I have been very busy over the past week making my best friends hen weekend invitations. We are all off to Butlins in Skegness for a school reunion weekend. I wanted to make the invites more 'schooly' but that idea didn't go down very well, so we compromised. The theme of the Friday night is 'Pink' so I have made the invites with those colours, but you will see on the black layer I have written in white so it looks (hopefully) like a blackboard!

I hope you like them, the hearts are the fabulous Heart to Heart punch from Stampin Up!

See you soon!

Love / Valentine Swap

Well myself and a few other ladies from In Love with Stamping entered in to a Love / Valentine Swap recently. I loved making this card as it was using 2 of my favourite colours, pretty in pink and rose red...

Here are the other wonderful cards I received....

Above are from - Jo & Deborah

These ones are from - Linden & Sandra

And this one is from Sharen

Aren't they gorgeous!! Thank you all so much for joining in this swap, its so nice to see other peoples ideas! A very good source of inspiration.

Good night everyone xxx

Gorgeous 3d Projects

Hi guys,

Well I thought I would show you some piccies of the 3d projects we completed at Julies class at the weekend!!

This is a gorgeous sweetie box...

This is a chocolate holder...

This is the side view so you can see the chocolate....

Both of these projects were made using the bold brights range from Stampin Up! which is a colour range I don't often use, but I love them!!!!

If you would like to order anything from Stampin Up let me know, I am offering a 5% discount on all orders over £45 by 28th February and don't forget you will also get a gree stamp set with sale-a-brathon!!!

Be back later in the week with more bits and bobs xxx

All Day Craft Class...!!!

Happy Valentines Day everyone!!!!

I hope you are all having a fabulous time!

I wanted to share with you what a wonderful weekend I have had, I travelled to Pudsey, Leeds to see my Stampin Up mum (Julie) to attend one of her world famous classes. I was so excited as it meant meeting up with lots of good friends! Myself and my downline Nikki travelled there yesterday morning at 6am!! AGGGGHHHH! We had our all day class which was fabulous, although most of us were too busy talking to make any cards!! lol Then last night we went out for dinner which was lovely. Here are some of the piccies I took, sorry for such a long post!!

This is the lovely Julie!!!

The gorgeous SJ and me!

Our 'messy' table!!

Nikki working away!!

I will be back tomorrow with some of the projects we completed!

xxx

Jem's Weekend

Well finally I have managed to take piccies of all of the beautiful cards I made last weekend with my Jems!!!

Toni's Card

Sonia's Card

Sarah-Jane's Card

Sarah P's Card

Sarah B's Card

Nikki's Card

Marlene's Card

Julie's Card

Jeanette's Card

Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!!

Do you like my new look blog???

xxx

CPS Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday everyone!!!

Here is my entry for this week's CPS sketch Challenge...

Arty farty angle...

Hope you all have a fab Friday!!!

xxx

Papertake Challenge

Morning all,

Here is a card that I made for my friends birthday who is having a very hard time with life at the moment. I wanted to make her something thoughtful and pretty, I hope this fits the bill! I have entered this in to this week's Papertake Weekly Sketch Challenge.

I love these colours together, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive!

Arty farty angle!

Well I will hopefully be back later to show you piccies of all the gorgeous cards I made on the weekend! >align=center>

If you would like to order any Stampin Up products please contact me.

craftmaidens@yahoo.co.uk

xxxx

My Shoe Box Project

Hi guys,

Well I promised to be back to show you all of the fabulous shoe box cards that we made, so thought I would start with showing you what card I made....

Arty farty angle....

The pictures don't really do this card any justice, it is really glittery!!

I have used the gorgeous 'Wondrous Gift' set which is still available in our new catty woohoo! I love this set and it is a bargain for £19.95 for a set of 6 stamps, the tree is really gorgeous and big and looks good just stamped in a colour or for a bit more pazzazz add a bit of glitter!

The papers I have used were 'Ski Slope' which were in the mini catalogue. Unfortunately they are not available anymore but we have an even better christmas paper set in the new catty called 'Merry Moments' which is only £7.75 for 12 double sided sheets!!

If you would like to order any stampin up products please contact me!

Remember free new catalogue for anyone who places an order with me before Friday!

xxx

Jems Weekend Away!!!

Well I have been away on a fabulous weekend with all my fellow Jems!!

We went to a place called 'Little Rissington' and stayed in the most beautiful house. We did not set foot outside the house from Friday to Sunday!!

I have stolen this fab piccie from the lovely Marlene (hope you don't mind hun)

From left to right are:

Julie, Toni, Jeanette, Sarah-Jane, Marlene, Sarah B, Me, Sonia, Nikki and Sarah P

Nikki and I arrived on Friday night after having a nightmare journey on the M25! I bought some cupcakes for all of my lovely ladies to enjoy but unfortunately they took a little bit of a battering on the journey! lol

That didn't seem to stop people enjoying them!

On Saturday we did a Shoebox Swap which is where we all made a sample card, then 10 kits to make that card. We put all of the equipment with kits in a box and passed it around the table to take turns making each project. I will upload all of the wonderful projects over the next few days.

It was my wonderful (Stampin Up 'mum') Julie that organised this weekend and I just wanted to say another big thank you as I enjoyed it so much! When we arrived the gorgeous Jules and Sarah-Jane had left us beautiful gifts on our pillows!

Julies gift

Sarah-Janes gift - Sarah did have her goodies packed up in a gorgeous gift bag which I meant to take a piccie of but couldn't wait to open!!

That's all for now! I will be back later in the week with all of the projects we did! I am now going to drool over the new catty and put my order together.

If you would like to order anything from Stampin Up let me know soon as anyone who places an order with me this week will get a new cattie absolutely free!!!

craftmaidens@yahoo.co.uk