Stampin' Up! Creative Tour Swaps

Hi everyone, tonight I'm going to Stampin' Up's Creative Tour in Loughborough. I'm not sure what to expect but we've all been invited to make swaps.

Swaps are made by the demonstrators and, guess what.... they are swapped. This gives everyone lots of samples using current products.

I didn't have a lot of time to make my swaps so I've kept it very simple, using the Tape It stamp set. This isn't marketed as a Christmas Stamp Set but I think, by using Christmassy colours, it works just fine.

 

The greeting is from a stamp set that has been carried over from last year. It's not in the catalogue but if you click here, you'll find a PDF with carried over stamps (Autumn/Winter Carryover). This set is called Greetings of the Season. I used Real Red, Old Olive and Crumb Cake for my colour scheme. Here are a few more. In total I made about 20:

 

 

All products can be ordered from my online store by clicking HERE.

 

I'll be back with more news from the evening soon. x

Flower shop class - Wednesday 25th September

Hi everyone. Plenty of advance notice for a change for the next class. Here's a bit of a preview:

We will be using the fabulous Flower Shop stamp set and the matching Pansy punch. These are available as a bundle, saving you 15%. You can order these from my on line shop. Click WOOD for the wood mount bundle, and CLEAR for the clear mount set. 

If you would like to join us for this class, please contact me on 07970 708348 or email me at mapleleafstampin@yahoo.co.uk

Card Class 31st August

Hi everyone, here's a quick picture of what we will be making on Wednesday. There is a card wallet and 4 matching cards:

Here's a clearer picture of the wallet:

 

If you would like to join us please contact me on 07970 708348. I'll show you the rest in more detail later. x

By the Tide

Hi everyone, I have been absent for so long, I bet you've forgotten me. I've been on holiday and although I had lots of projects and photos prepared to show you, while I was away, I didn't get round to sorting it. We had very dodgy internet acces while away, so you ended up with nothing!!

I'm going to try and make it up to you by showing you all the things I had prepared, over the next few weeks.

This card uses the By The Tide stamp set which is in the new catalogue. I did a class with this set this week so will post those projects too, over the next few days. Although this one says Father's Day, you can obviously make it for any occassion.



I gold embossed the coral behind the 3D shapes. You can see it better here:





The block of colour which creates the background was done by inking a clear stamp block, all over, with Crumb Cake ink and then spritzing it with water, and using it as a stamp. Once it dries it leaves a lovely, 'textured' background.

I even stamped the insert: 

and the envelope:

I hope you like this. I will show you the other By The Tide projects soon. x

Best of Everything Gift Set

Good morning, today I am showing you some projects we made in card class in May. I'm so behind with blogging that I didn't get a chance to show them to you in advance. 
In this class we made a gift box, containing 4 cards which were made with the  Best Of Everything stamp set. I love this set. It's clean and modern and looks great in any colour.

We used some retired Designer Papers in this class but obviously you can use any designer papers you like. The cardstock colours are: Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral. Here are the 4 cards:













And here's the box. We made the rosette on the Simply Scored board, and made the insert for the clear box:

Here are all of the projects together. I'm sorry the picture quality isn't better but I took these photos very late at night. x

 

 

Class projects 5th June

Hi everyone, the next class on 5th June is a little bit different because you can choose your projects. You can either make Masculine cards similar to this one:

 

 

or you can make 6 calendar inserts for the Desktop Calendar display case like this one, which we made for the first half of the year. In this class we will be making the inserts for July-December and if you don't have the display case already, this will be included in your class price:

 

 

If you would like to join us for this class, please contact me by Sunday 2nd June 6pm, to book your place.  

I will be posting the rest of the other projects later on. x

Masculine Cards part 2

Hi Everyone, I have been so bad at blogging lately. I have no excuses. I want to show you the other projects we made in our Masculine Cards class. Although this class was some time ago, we haven't had Father's Day yet, so the projects are still very relevant.

I showed you the 2 cards we made in my last post. In this one, I will show you the decorated gift box and the gift card holder.

Here's the gift box:

 

These Kraft gift boxes are fantastic. You can transform them in so many ways and they are a great bargain at £2.75 for 4 boxes.

We also made this gift card holder. This fits on a bottle (a wine bottle is always good) and holds a gift card/voucher. These are a great way to jazz up giving a voucher which can be a bit boring. What do you think?

 

Here are all of the projects together:

 

 

Just look at the state of the garden! Luckily my husband was there, in the background, cutting the grass.

 

Although we had this class at the beginning of May, you have another chance to make these projects. In card class on Wed 5th June we will be making calendar inserts for the last 6 months of the year, following on from this class or you can choose to make masculine cards along similar lines to the ones posted here. If you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible. It's not too late for Father's Day. x