Vintage Vogue Revisted

I've had a busy time lately. A Team Training Event all day on Sunday, a class first thing Monday morning and another class last night - phew! All very enjoyable with lots of laughs and chatting which goes without saying really.

This weeks class we revisited Vintage Vogue - loved this set when we first received it a few years back and it's one that will remain as part of my collection for every and a day I reckon. It's so easy to use - whether it's a CAS card or a full on OTT. It's beautiful.

Here's what we made...

One of the Desktop Card Holders from my template here. The measurements for this have been changed and I'll update next month when I've some exciting news to tell you about - stay tuned.

We also made 3 pretty cards to go inside.

The colour combo for this class was Crumb Cake, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Melon Mambo & Early Espresso.

Right, I've got to get cracking. This coming Friday I have a Stamp-a Stack Event and 240 cards to prep...eeek!

Stamp-a-Stack

Friday 20th April

6.30pm to 10.30pm

12 cards

(6 designs, 2 of each)

£15 or FREE with a £45 Order*

PLUS

*Receive a FREE pack of Designer Paper with this month Promotion from Stampin' Up!

 Includes Refreshments and Cake!

Last day to book!

Email jodumbleton@aol.co.uk to reserve your place.

 

Cute Vintage Vogue Treat Bags

Joanne, a fellow Demo on ILWS has made a cute little treat bag which involves no cutting at all. It's similar folds to the boxes we made at the Extravaganza and a pretty neat idea it is too. The bags that Joanne made were created from one sheet of A4 and I wanted to make something a little smaller so using her design and adjusting the measurements slightly I came up with one made from an A5 piece of cardstock.

Once I'd made one I got a bit carried away and made another 3 for my crafting friends. Each one has some choccie inside of course. ;) The colours used, from left to right are Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede and Pale Plum. I can't keep away from these colours at the mo - luv 'em.

Tfl,

Rich Razzleberry is in the house!

My order of the NEW products arrived on Thurs and I've been itching to play, but with one thing and another it didn't happen until today. I was pretty excited when the box arrived, I know..how sad is that, and I wasn't disappointed when I opened the box. All three of the NEW colours are gorgeous and the Cottage Wall DSP, well what can I say....it's lush! So I've made one of my desktop card holders (the template and tutorial can be found here) and teamed it with my favourite stamp set - Vintage Vogue.

Because I like to embellish my cards quite heavily I've made 3 cards to go inside the cardholder, it could easily fit 4 maybe 5 if they were flatter.I'm also loving the Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon....gorgeous!

I hope to get a bit more crafting time soon to use Melon Mambo and Soft Suede, again stunning colours but I have to say Rich Razzleberry is definately my favourite.

If you're loving these 3 NEW colours, RICH RAZZLEBERRY, MELON MAMBO AND SOFT SUEDE and you'd like a more affordable way of purchasing them, then see this post here for my NEW COLOUR BUNDLE.

I'm still here

It's been awhile hasn't it? I'm soo sorry to all you wonderful followers out there, hectic is a bit of an understatement but I'm alive and well and now Jake is back to school I hope to get back into a routine. In future I'll have to call a halt to blogging when there's school holidays, nothing gets done fast and unfortunately blogging came bottom of the to-do-list this past two weeks. It's not that I didn't want to blog, it was finding the time being the problem. Anyway, lots has been happening in my absence and the main thing for me was my Mini Catalogue Open House last Friday. Thank you to everyone who came along! I always enjoy these events and plan to have another in October for the launch of the New Idea Book and Catalogue so if you were anable to attend last weeks, you're more than welcome to come to the next. It should be very exciting too especially with the announcement that's been made about the new Colour Renovation! I'm really pleased about the changes and looking forward to more lovely colours to play with, but I won't go into that now, I'm sure you've heard all about it through other blogs and it's old news now so I'll save my excitement for nearer the time with lots of lovely samples. So, fancy something to look at? It's a scrapbook page for a change, one that I'd made for my Open House. I am really a scrapbooker but since SU! I've gone back to card making. This page came together so easy and I'm really pleased with the results. It was nice to do something different - I need to get back into my scrapbooking really, I've missed it. I've used my 'sacred' black spotty acetate from the 'Night and Day' papers, 'Vintage Vogue' stamp set with the 'Platinum Shimmer paint', 'Framed with love' for the journalling blocks, the gorgeous 'Real Red satin ribbon' and the 'Tiny Tags' set and matching 'Medium Jewelery Tag' punch. All from the New Mini Catalogue. Not bad going huh? I've also used the scallop border punch, Schoolbook Serif Alphabet for the title and the hat pin and beads from my most precious Pretties Kit. The mug shot is of myself and my hubs on our wedding day...aaaah bless...lol I can't get enough of the fantastic Platinum Shimmer paint lately. I'm daubing everything with it as you can see from these Vintage Vogue flowers.... More daubed flowers.... ...and the lush satin ribbon and hat pin. I demonstrated a few techniques with the shimmer paints at my Open House, they're so lovely and a must have now in my craft box. Especially as you can make shimmer mist with the Champagne Mist Paint. It's the sparkliest shimmer I've ever seen! Just like fairy dust.... Right I'm going to have to stop there as I've a newsletter to write and 'hopefully' I will see you tomorrow. Tfl and thanks for bearing with me.