Its Here.... the waiting is over.....

I thought I would start off my previews with my favourite stamp set from the new catalogue. If you have a new catalogue you will notice that a lot of the stamp sets come in the normal wooden block mounted or the new clear mount which mount on to blocks. I would just like to mention that the name is misleading, they are not clear but are the red rubber mounted onto grey rubber but you can see the picture through the acrylic block so it is much easier to stamp in the right place without the use of the Stampamajig. You can also add more than one stamp at a time to create images.... The acrylic blocks are also gorgeous (can an acrylic block be gorgeous?) they have grooves around in which your fingers fit nicely and they come in loads of different sizes so that there will always be one to fit your stamp...

This first card I made because I just had to use the stamp set. I had also just grasped brayering, and although you cannot see the gradiation in the reds very much in this photograph, it does go from dark red which is the new Cherry Cobbler, to a light red which is a new "in colour" Poppy Parade. The newsprint background is the new Patterned Paper, called Newsprint. I also stamped the image from the Artistic Etching Stamp Set onto the red and black embossed it, I then stamped some of the other images onto the Newsprint PP in Cherry Cobbler Ink and Basic Black.... More images were used for the Amour and were punched out using the Oval Punch and Oval Scallop Punch. I then finished it off with Black and Very Vanilla Grosgrain Striped Ribbon which now comes in more colours than before....

This tag I made for Stampin Up Training in High Wycombe, I again used the Artistic Etching stamp set, Newsprint Patterned Paper and Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla and Basic Black Cardstock. I finished it off with Very Vanilla Grosgrain Ribbon. I had to make 70 of these for swaps...... wish I hadn't of embossed the Eiffel Tower image as my whole desk was covered in black embossing powder by the time I had finished.... lol

So there you have it, the first previews from the new catalogue. I will be back tomorrow with some more, hope to see you all then. xx

Wish List Service

I am offering my Wish List Service again this year, I had some very happy customers last year and would just like to repeat this service for them, but this year there is an added bonus, depending on the amount your loved ones spend depends on what extra stash you get added to your parcel.

All you have to do is send me your wishlist (email me at LindaLloyd@gmx.net or email me for my phone number and I can talk to you personally). Then point your friends and relatives in my direction when they ask you what you would like for Christmas and I will help them to chose the goodies you will really like.

So here is my offer... if your friends and relatives spend:-

£30 on your Christmas Pressies you will get a free 1/4 grosgrain ribbon - colour of yours or their choice. Page 87

£35 - free Classic Inkpad - Colour of choice - p 72 - 73

£40 - Free Snail Adhesive - p 91

£45 - Free pack Designer Buttons - p 83

£50 - free pack of Mixed A4 Cardstock. Pick between Earth Elements, Soft Subtles, Bold Brights and Rich Regails - p 72.73

£55 - Free pair of Paper Snips - p 90

£60 - Free Mat Pack - p 91

£65 - Free Stamp A Ma Jig - p 90

£70 - Free Hello Again Stamp Set - p 48

£75 - £10 of free goodies of yours or their choice from the catalogue.

For any amount over this I will still give free gifts according to the amount spent. P&P will be £3.95 and I can even gift wrap your prezzies if required complete with handmade tags. Plus there will even be a little gift wrapped prezzie included for your friend or relative as well.

So get writing those lists girls and hand them out to your friends and relatives today... I look forward to hearing from you.

Take care xx

A Couple of Things For You Today.....

Yep, thought I would treat you with a couple of things today, first a card I made which I adapted so would be suitable for 2 challenges at once, and the little image folder that I made for my downline.



So firstly the image folder, I used the new stamp set Good Friend, and the new Perfect Plum Patterned Paper, also Elegant Eggplant Cardstock and the new Pumpkin Pie Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, I also used Stampin Up Brads, and Stamp Set for the For You.

I used DL sized Vellum envelopes for the pockets, cut them in half and then punched the tops with the new eyelet border punch. I then punched more Perfect Plum PP with the tab punch to make little tabs for the tops of the pockets. I then finished off by stamping some images to put in the pockets and posted them out to my 5 downline. But the creating didn't stop there, I made some little folders to post out the image folders in, but I thought that as everyone would rip them over I would use some of my retired Stampin Up Patterned Paper along with Sage Shadow Cardstock and here are the finished projects waiting to be posted.

The above photo was the front and I just stuck an address label on the patterned paper, again I used the eyelet border Stampin Up Punch.

And the above photo is the back of the CD folder, I used the scallop border Punch and Grey Taffeta Ribbon.

My next project was a Get Well Soon Card, for this I used my Whiff of Joy Stamp as I thought it was really cute with the angel blowing kisses, I thought these could be get well kisses....


I used Glorious Green and Pumpkin Pie Cardstock and Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon, I also used the Sincere Salutations Stamp Set for the Get Well Soon sentiment, although I did use the Stamp a ma jig to shuffle the writing around a bit so it would fit into a circle punch. And as with all my cards I decorated the inside to match....

If you would like details of any of the items I have used or would like to purchase any Stampin Up items, then just drop us a line at LindaLloyd@gmx.net and I will do my best to help you out.

Take care everyone, have a great weekend.

Not so nice Monday....

The weather here has been apalling this afternoon, it has winded, it has rained and all at once too and just at the time the children come out of school, funny enough now it is evening, the sun has come out at last. My daughter drove down to Cornwall yesterday and she says the weather is lovely there, infact I saw for myself as she sent me photos, the sky is blue, the sun is shining, but they also have the wind, which was just as well as she was going surfing today.

I had a lovely Mother's Day (well actually I did more work than ever and even cooked my dinner for everyone) and got some lovely presents, 2 CDs that I wanted, the new Tim Hughes, Happy Day and the new Delirious Album which is possibly their last ever. I also got a gorgeous blue toiletry bag full of Dove toiletries, some chocolates and wine, 3 books, 1 of which I asked for and the other 2 were surprises, my 12 year old son bought me a rose and then weeded all the overgrown garden and planted it for me, and my 6 year old made daddy go out and buy me some flowers..... from my son of course... lol I also got some gorgeous flower candles, but they are truly too beautiful to burn, so am going to have to think on that one.... lol because what is the point in having candles if you dont use them...

Today I have been making a bag and card for my Sister's birthday tomorrow, they are totally matching, and I have no idea how she is going to open the bag. It started off as a brown lunch bag, I folded the top over and then put panels on the front and back and joined them at the top, so I am thinking she is going to have to cut it open... lol not my problem. So here they are...

I have been using new stash from the New Mini Catalogue which comes out on 1st April, and the new items are truly scrummy... I used So Saffron and Certainly Celery Cardstock, the new Playful Petals Stamp Set plus the Ovals All Stamp Set along with the Oval Scallop Punch and the Oval Punch, these are proving to be really popular, I have sold 3 sets of these already. The Patterned Paper is called Tea Party and the ribbon is Certainly Celery Grosgrain. On the bag I actually used the stamp from Ovals All, but on the card I used the stamp from Ovals All but only coloured in the flower part with my Stampin Up Marker in So Saffron, then using my Stamp a ma jig I stamped Happy Birthday from the Very Versatile Stamp Set and punched it out using the Oval Punch. How versatile are these sets when you can just mix and match.

I have one place left in my Paper and Ribbon Share, this will be sent to you at the beginning of April sometime as some of the paper and ribbon is from the new Mini Catalogue and I cannot order this until 1st April, but I promise you, the items will be ordered on 1st April, so you dont have long to wait now.

Dont forget the fantastic offer on the Starter Kit, just £125, and if you add just the stash up it comes to £217, so one really big bargain here, and all you have to do after signing up as a demonstrator and receiving this kit is to meet a target every quarter (and guess what, the first quarter doesn't count, you dont have to reach your targets until your second quarter, but you do need to sign up this evening, or tomorrow to get the Starter Kit at this price).

Off to Beavers now, sewn on the badge I need to and I will be staying to help, so need to get dinner ready so that they can just put it in the oven and cook it... have a great evening all xx

Hope You All Had A Very Merry Christmas....

And a Happy New Year, here's me wishing you all a Prosperous New Year....

Just wanted to let you know more about Stampin' Up!s special Saleabration Offer. For every £45 you spend, you can choose a Limited Edition Stamp Set for Free....... if you spend £90 you can have 2 Free Limited Edition Stamp Sets... and so on. If you would like to hold a workshop and your workshop achieves sales of over £300 you will be entitled to a Free Saleabration set too... and if you would like to become a Demonstrator and claim 3 Free Stamp Sets, please read my post below....

Click on the Saleabration Link on the Left Hand Side of my blog and it will take you to an online Saleabration Leaflet, but just to give you a taster, here are the 4 Stamp Sets that you can collect.

Remember though, this offer is only good for orders placed before 28th February 2009!

This one is called Botanical Blooms and is a two way Stamp Set whereas you stamp the coloured bit first, then the edge over the top, it is a good idea to use a Stamp-a-ma-Jig for this, and the image can be coloured using the Stampin Up Waterproof Crayons, just click on the Saleabration Catalogue Cover on the Left Hand Side for ideas on using these Stamps.


Lovely Stamps to use if you are giving someone something edible as a gift, again see the catalogue for more ideas.


Excellent sentiment set, you can use the big Congratulations, then follow on with one of the smaller sayings.

These stamps can be used with the Scallop Circle Punch for the round flower and the 5 Petal Punch for the five petal Stamp, these are excellent for many occasions, but I will be using the heart for some Valentine Cards.

Hopefully once everyone goes back to school next week things will settle down to normal and I will get around to making cards again, that is only if my new computer that is turning up on Saturday behaves itself, I have never had an easy time of swapping all my information across and I will have the added problem this time of my new computer being a 64 bit and this one being a 32 bit, I will have to download updated drivers for most of my software.... and cutting machines...

I will leave you with a card I made recently...

I think the papers are Laura Ashley, and one of the cricut cartridges had a flower so similar I cut it out and stuck it over one of the flowers on the card, if you look carefully you can just about see it, I also sewed around the outside of the card, the sentiment is computer generated.

Have a great evening everyone xx

I Haven't Deserted You, Just Been Really Really Busy.... sorry...

Well I cannot believe it has been nearly a week since I last posted, but life has just taken over at the moment.... Last Thursday I went Christmas Shopping For the 3rd Thursday in a row, hopefully only one more next week and that should be everything finished.... Saturday one of my Inkspots And Markers ladies came over with her husband so that we could do some scrapping together, must say I chatted too much and didn't get much done, but here is the card I made..

Sunday my Step Dad's brother died, although they knew it was going to happen, no-one realised it would be so quickly, and just before Christmas too.... how absolutely awful as he has children and grandchildren... I just had to make a card for him, to show how sorry we all are...

For this card I used Kraft, Real Red and Bashful Blue cardstock, plus some of the Bashful Blue Patterned Paper. I used Stamp Sets Lovely as A Tree and Close as A Memory. The tree was embossed using Black Embossing Powder... I tied some of the Linen Thread around 2 Stampin' Up! Black Brads...

I have been desperately trying to get all my Christmas Cards made so that I could write them and send them out so that I can concentrate on other things that need doing, and apart from around 6 I have finished them. I make the ones I give out in Church all the same (don't want any arguments that yours is better than mine.... lol) and I feel pressured to make my own as our Pastor always says "I have been waiting to see what you would make this year"... so these are the ones I have made for Church, they look a bit dull in this photograph, but look much better and sparkly in realy life, the gems in the righthand bottom corner are silver..

I used the So Swirly wheel with an uninked cartridged inked with versamark, ran this over the cards and then embossed using the Silver Embossing Powder. The main part of the card is a Stamp Set called Christ is Born, I stamped the other sentiment from the set on the inside, onto red card and using Silver Ink.

The next card is the special card that I have made for family and best friends, I used the Stamp Set Silent Night for this, I stamped the image, coloured it in with markers and then using Heat and Stick Powder and Dazzling Diamonds, I went over the top of the whole image to make it nice and sparkly, I used Always Artichoke as the card base and the retired Patterned Paper Dashing, which you can still buy whilst stocks last. And try as I might, even when I used the Stamp A Ma Jig, I could not get the Happy to sit straight, I think I managed it on 1 in 9 cards.... never mind, at least you can tell they are handmade... lol


Tomorrow is another busy day, my little boy is performing in his Christmas Play (he is 6) tomorrow afternoon and of course we all have to go watch him, he is A Cloud and Wind... so should be interesting... hope to get back here as I have something else to show you, but cannot share it today, so watch out for it...

Am about to go off and make 10 cards for a swap I am in, I have an idea, but as usual I am sure it will all change...

Have a good evening everyone, take care xx

At last...

I have managed to update my blog, been really busy sorting out my 10 ladies for the 10 month club. I also did my first workshop which I was told went well, here are the things I made for it and the make and takes too..

This was made using the Unfrogettable Stamp set and Green Galore and Only Orange cardstock, the big paperclip I got from Staples, I stuck it all together using Stampin Up dimensionals.

This was an example that I showed using the chalks to colour in the butterfly and the blender pen, I used Elegant Eggplant and Lavender Lace cardstock and Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon, I used the Touch of Nature stamp set. I used the white pearls from the Pretties kit.

This little bucket was purchased from Woolworths, I decorated it with Taken with Teal and Elegant Eggplant cardstock, and stamped it using Be Happy, Seeing Spots and the In the Spotlight level 2 hostess stamp sets. I then filled a large cello bag with cookies and handed them to the hostess at tea time so everyone could have some biscuits.

Another card I used as an example on watercolouring with the inkpads. You just squidge the inkpads slightly before opening and then lift the colour from the lid with a watercolour brush. For this I used Old Olive Patterned Paper, Real Red cardstock and grosgrain ribbon, I used Old Olive, Bordering Blue and Black Inkpads for the colouring and coloured the flowers again with blender pens and chalks. The stamp sets I used were Loads of Love and the centre of the flower was Little Pieces. The sentiment was the one from Loads of Love but by using the Stamp-a-ma-Jig I managed to stamp it in a straight line instead of the square it normally is.... excellent.

This was my make and take, I found this brilliant template from Karin on Inlovewithstamping, and made my own photo wallet using her instructions. The top picture is the outside and the one with the photos are the inside.

I used Fall Flowers Patterned paper, always artichoke ribbon, I punched white circles out and stuck underneath to make the scallops in whisper white cardstock and the little stamped circle is from the Seeing Spots stamp set. The little green scallop is Old Olive cardstock, I punched a scallop circle, then a plain circle just inside and made my own scallop by cutting slightly and putting around the edge of the plain circle.

So that is about it for now, will be working hard once I get back from my holiday.

Have a good day xx

My First Card

So inbetween everything else I have managed to make my first card for this blog.
Here it is:-

To make this card I have used Not Quite Navy cardstock matted onto a card made with Whisper White cardstock. I stamped the Not Quite Navy cardstock with a small flower stamp from the Little Flowers stamp set using Not Quite Navy ink. I then matted Bordering Blue cardstock onto more Not Quite Navy cardstock to go across the centre of the card. I then cut lots of small circles and made them into a scallop border top and bottom of this panel. I then stamped the flower stamp from the Seeing Spots set twice in Bordering Blue and punched them out using a punch, I again matted them onto Not Quite Navy Cardstock. I then stamped the Enjoy stamp from the Be Happy set using Not Quite Navy ink, masked it and stamped the Tag stamp from the same set over the top of it in Bordering Blue ink using my Stamp-a-ma-jig to get it in the right place. I coloured all the open dots in with More Mustard Pen and yet again matted it onto Not Quite Navy cardstock. I stuck a strip of More Mustard Grosgrain Ribbon across the centre of the panel and stuck the two circles onto it using the foam pads to give it a bit of dimension. I then added a Jumbo Eyelet to the tag and stuck that to the end of the panel with foam pads. I stamped another of the Little Flowers onto the Whisper White cardstock in More Mustard ink and just punched out the very middle of it and added it to the middle of the circle flowers with a small foam pad and Voila, a finished card. Here is a more close up photo...

Items Used:- Little Flowers, Be Happy, Seeing Spots stamp sets, More Mustard, Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy inkpads, Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White cardstock, Jumbo Eyelet, More Mustard Grosgrain ribbon, 1/4" (6.35mm) Circle Punch, 1 1/4" (3.18cm) Circle Punch, 1 3/8" (3.5cm) Circle Punch, 1/2" (1.3cm) Circle Punch.

Thank you for looking. If you are interested in purchasing any of these items, please contact me at LindaLloyd@gmx.net.