FREE STAMP SETS

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Yes that's right, you can get free stamp sets. From 30 December - 28 February Stampin' Up! have their Sale a bration. If you spend £45 (before p+p) or host a workshop of £300 (before p+p) you can get one of the following sets for free.




If you join Stampin' UP! during their sale a bration you can choose a free stamp set from the catalogue up to the value of £38.95 (not including hostess sets) and I will give you a sale a bration set as well.

Please contact me tracey.rossos2@hotmail.com

For the boys from the girls

Puff and the weekend was gone. I must say that I have had lots of sleep over the weekend and feel bright as a button for busy week ahead. I have also had a good weekend food wise. I attend a Slimmers World class as I am hoping to get rid of 1lb a week and so far so good. I will let you know on Thursday how good I have been this week.

Did you know that there is a craft club on a Friday night in Derby? Its the Derby Dabblers and we meet the first Friday of each month. It is more of a social event really and we all have a good time. Well we met last Friday for the first time since Christmas and all I did in 3 hours craft wise was to stamp one image and colour it in but wow, it was so nice to catch up with everyone. So if you fancy joining us one night just let me know.

Thought I would share these cards I made for the twins to give to their boyfriends.

I was lucky enough to receive the stamp as a Christmas present and I cant tell you how many times I have used it for wedding anniversaries and an engagement card. Thank you Santa.

I hope you have a great start to the week and look forward to reading your comments.

Tracey

Get those sunglasses out

for this bright card.

We made this at our team meeting using the itty bitty buds hostess set, which really is a great set. It is a bit bright and I do hope that Janet liked it.

The Sale a Bration is only on for a couple of more weeks so if you want to get your hands on one of those free sets, just let me know.

Have a great day, whatever you are up to.

Tracey

Busy Weekend

Last weekend was such a busy one but so nice. I was at Pauline's on Sunday at Stampin Up event. Thank you so much Pauline, I had a lovely time and hope that everyone enjoyed themselves. Here are a couple of pictures of everyone being very busy.



I havent done any baking for a while and told the lads at work that it was their turn, jokingly. Well, what a surprise I had recently when Luke brought in these scrummy cakes.

I was expecting wives and girlfriends to make cakes but no, Luke and his young daughter made these. To top it all he went to all the trouble of puting everyones name on a cake AND, he wrote out the girls name in pink. I do wonder if he did that so we couldnt eat more than one each.
Luke is a star.

Have a great day, whatever you are up to.

Tracey

White Rabbit White Rabbit White Rabbit

does anyone do White Rabbit at the start of the month anymore?

1st Feb and a whole new month to look forward to. Its going to be a busy month for me, two workshops at home, Derby Dabblers, two parties that my team have organised, Valentine's Day and at the end of the month a weekend retreat ohhh, how exciting.

I have been so organised that I made all my birthday cards for February and can I find them, nope. I have looked everywhere and they have all vanished. I dont want to have to make them again so its going to be another hunt for them tomorrow night.

Here is another card made with the medallion stamp but I went a bit OTT with it.

First of all I think it would look better the other way up.

I stamped the inside with bits of the medallion and went a bit overboard.

Have a great Monday and I look forward to reading your comments over a cuppa when I get back from my real job.

Tracey

So where did January go?

Its already the end of January, where did it go? I cant believe that the month has flown by so quickly.

Halfway through the weekend and I have a workshop to look forward to today. Everything all packed and ready to go. I have the ironing to do before I leave, yakky. Is there anyone who actually enjoys ironing?

Here are a couple of cards that I made, for loyalty cards.





I have scored the card diagonally and then used my daubers to colour in the background. The image on these is from Blooming with Beauty, one of my favourite sets.

My loyalty scheme is for every £15 spent you get a stamp. When you have 5 stamps you can get either a roll of grosgrain ribbon, an ink pad or a pack of A4 single coloured card. If you attend my workshops you get a stamp for each event and the 6th one is free.

Bring a friend along to a workshop and you get your next one at half price.

Details of workshops can be found on the right hand side of this blog.

Have a great day, whatever you are up to and please, do leave a comment if you have time.

Tracey

Team Meeting

We had a team meeting, YEAH. Last Friday myself, Jacquie, Pam and Lesley all got together for our monthly meeting. We started off the night with Pizza, wedges, dips and then got to work by making a couple of cards. Coffee time and chocolate cup cakes too. I dont know where the time went but it flew by and we all had a great evening.

If you would like to join our team and the Stampin' Up! team now is an ideal time to do it. Whilst Sale a Bration is on you not only get your kit valued at over £200 for £139 but you get a free stamp sets too.

For more details please get in touch tracey.rossos2@hotmail. com or give me a call on 01332 721877. You can come along to our next get together to find out more and ask the 101 questions that you may have.

Have a great day

Medallions

Medallions and large stamps are not usually in my hands cause they aren't cute and I like cute cards but I must say, I have seen some stunning cards made by the Stampin Up medallion stamp and have cased a few. This stamp can not only be used as a focal point but for backgrounds too.

At the last workshop we made a card by inking the stamp up in different colours with daubers. Because the stamp is in the middle of the wooden block, it was very easy to handle. I did find that the best way to get a lovely image was to lie the stamp, wood side down and to put the card down onto the stamp and rub over it gently.

These are the cards we made

And these are the samples that I did to show what else could be done with it

This was done with Whisper White Ink and white embossing powder

I couldnt make my mind up to which one I liked best, the image stamped onto coloured card and then layered onto whisper white or to have the coloured card with a white edging. What do you think?

Mondays Workshop

Last week was such a busy one but so enjoyable.

It started on Monday with the workshop which is proving to be really popular. Instead of doing these once a month I have taken the plunge to do two a month so if you are in the Derby area, free on a Monday night, enjoy crafting, up for a laugh and want to have a go at making a couple of cards, get in touch to book your place tracey.rossos2@hotmail.com

Deep concentration

We had a play with Trendy Trees and Medallion. Not only do we make a card from each set I do lots of other samples of what can be done with the stamp sets. So here are a few of the same style.


What do you think of the "buttons" we made? I have surprised myself and managed to crop the picture to give you a better look

I have seen so many cards made with the Trendy Tree set on my travels around blogs that I just had to case some of them. I would like to give everyone a big "thank you" for your inspiration with this tree set.




The other stamp set that was used was medallion, I shall save these photos for later in the week.

Have a great day whatever you are up to.

Tracey

SALE A BRATION BLOG HOP

Wayhay it's the bog hop today.
If you are here before 10a.m. then not all the links may work as it officially starts at 10.

The are 30 SU demonstrators taking part and we have split ourselves into two groups of 15. If my blog is your first port of call, then you have another 14 amazing blogs to go and look at so if I was you, I would grab yourself a drink, sit back and be inspired.
If you have just arrived from Clare's blog then welcome. What stunning projects Clare has.

Here are some cards that I have made using the Happy Moments set.

Another simple mat and layered card with real red. The sentiment has been punched out using the word window punch. I have put 3 score lines at the bottom of the card







I have used night of navy card for this,
one for the boys







Tempting Turquoise card, ribbon and watercolour pens. The thing that I love about SU is how all the colours match, it really does take all the hard work out of co-ordinating everything. It's all done for you.

These two cards have had the amazing crystal effects on them. I covered the whole
cake in the first card with crystal effects and the sentiment is from another SAB set Whimsical Words

This second card has the crystal effects just on the flowers around the cake and the candles.

You can get yourself one, or all, of the stamp sets in the Sale a Bration, details are at the top of my blog.

The next stop on this blog hop is JOANNE


A big thank you goes to Helen for organising this today, THANK YOU.
Hope to see you again soon
Tracey

Here we go again, another week has started. Tonight I have the workshop that was postponed from last week due to weather and I am really looking forward to it.



Here are my fishing pair. I am really pleased with the way these turned out and must make a few more. I am certainly keeping my NYR (New Year Resolutions) as these were started and not finished. I have been making Christmas cards as well but I think you have all seen enough of those for a while.

Have a great day, whatever you are up to


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Sunday and a day at home planned, although nothing goes to plan these days. Can you believe that we are already half way through January, yikes.
I have been having a bit of a play with my pens and some stamps that haven't been out of their box for a while.




I havent put sentiments on these yet as I am not sure who they are for. They have been put away for a suitable ocassion.


I hope you have a lovely day, whatever you are up to.

Tracey