Summer Mini Peeks and swaps

In my last post I told you how I had gone to the WOW PaperKrafters training and Christmas get-together and I showed you the bookmark I had made as a swap.

As promised, here are the swaps I received in return.  What a talented group these girls are.  They all utilise some product from the new Summer Mini released today.

This is the absolutely stunning Christmas card Karen made using the Sweet Treat cups that are now available in the new Summer Mini.  Instead of sweets Karen stamped some cute snowmen behind the cup and filled the cup with a glitter liquid that made it look like swirling snow when shaken.  How clever’s that!  Love the ribbon, also new in the Summer Mini.

This was from Janine using the new Hello Again stamp set – really cute.

Debbie used the new butterfly punch to punch out the sweet little butterflies from the Butterfly Prints stamp set.  Also note the Jumbo Grommett behind the ribbon bow.

This is from the stamp set Something Sweet which can also team up with the Sweet Treat cups.  Sally made this ‘sweet’ and colourful card.  Love those colours. They work really well together.

Last but by no means least, Lesley made not one, but three swaps!  The little bag holds bay leaves.  A great way to give away a little something to someone.  In the centre is a lovely bookmark, which I will be using when next I have time to read my library book.  On the right is a cute little card also using the butterflies.

Hope you are impressed as I was.

But that’s not all (I sound like one of those ads!!!)  Janine demonstrated making these adorable bride and groom boxes.  Imagine these on a wedding table.

             

I’m still not finished because we did a couple of make and takes.  Just look at these

            

A full on afternoon but so much fun.

A cute child's bookmark

Are you giving books to any child this Christmas?  Why not make them a cute little magnetic bookmark.  These are ideal as they stay in place and cannot fall out of the book.  This encourages children to read more if they can easily find which page they are up to.

On the left is the actual bookmark (please excuse fuzzy photography) and on the right you can just see it peeping out from the pages of a book

The stamp set is a sneak peak from the new summer mini catalogue - Animal Stories that I was lucky enough to have received when I was Karen's guest at their Regional Training Day in September.  I couldn't tell you then what it was but can now.  

I made a few of these children's bookmarks to take this afternoon to Karen’s Christmas get-together she was having with her Stampin’ Up team (the WOW PaperKrafters – of which I am lucky enough to be an honorary member!).  These were for the swap and I received some neat swaps back which I will photograph and show you later.

Hope you had a nice day – I know I did.

A new look … what do you think?

Would love to have your feedback on this new layout.  I think a lot of people have given up clicking on links to my blog as it wasn’t formatting correctly and individual posts were appearing at the bottom of the page necessitating a lot of scrolling down to find them.
I am hoping that this will solve the problem and make it easier for my visitors to view. There is still a bit of tweaking to do such as adding in my list of sites I visit, but hope to have this done shortly.
Thanks and look forward to your comments.

A Stem Silhouettes birthday

This is such a lovely stamp set – versatile and practical as it can be used in conjunction with quite a number of other stamp sets.

Today I have used it to make a card for a man.  Kingsley is a keen gardener and though I didn’t quite want to make a flowery card for him, thought this was very appropriate.

I originally made this card, but with flowers instead of the stem silhouettes at one of Karen’s classes so decided to use this concept as it adapted to the stem silhouettes beautifully.

Kingsley is presently recovering from a heart bypass operation so hope he enjoys this and is back in his garden soon – oh, and Happy Birthday!.

PS:  Three blog posts in one day – a record for me!

More Christmas cards …

Variations of the same card that I have been making using the lovely Stampin’ Up set “A Wish for Peace”.  If only all wishes came true!

To get a better look at these, click on the picture to enlarge.

The card on the right has been made using the snowflake technique and looks quite effective.

Well back to creating.