The Craft Room, Derby: July 2023

Wednesday

Days out, Inked & Tiled and a catch up

Good morning.

Life does keep getting in the way and for those that know by now, the blog is the first thing that gets put on hold.

It was our wedding anniversary at the weekend and we treated ourselves by going to Tatton Park for the RHS show. We did this last year and really enjoyed it. Well we knew it would rain but we were not expecting it to be continuously raining all the time we were there. We were well prepared for it and to be honest, it didnt spoil our day but we didnt linger as long as we would have done. There were some beautiful displays, flowers we had never heard of and of course so many pretty ideas that I would like to copy.

Heres me with Bill and Ben, the flower pot men, arriving at the show....in the pouring rain.

A couple of the pretty plants I saw that I havent seen before and are on my shopping list for next year.

Mid afternoon when it was still raining and no signs of it letting up

on the way out of the park we were right up close to this wonderful Stag

Then it was over to the Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel for another wonderful evening in an amazing hotel. The trip back home on Monday was through the Peak District. I had certainly forgotten what wonderful scenery we have on our doorstep. It was breathtaking.

Of course there has been lots of crafting taking place too. I am trying to use up some very pretty papers I have and I saw this card on pintrest so thought I would have a go at making my own version. It is using the Inked and Tiled stamp set, co-ordinating 6x6 papers along with the new Pebbled Path card stock and ribbon.

Stamped the images directly onto patterned papers, something I dont do often enough. I wonder if you do this?

We have our Derby Dabblers Craft Club this Friday night and it would be wonderful if you wanted to join us. We shall have a game of bingo and there will be lots of crafty chatter.

These are the last few days that you can grab a bonus day coupon. When you spend £45 in July on an order, you will receive a coupon for £4.50 to use in August so if there is anything that you would like to order please, do get in touch or click on the link below to place an order.

Well I had best go and get ready to start my day. I am in the craft room all day as I have lots of projects to finish and put away, a few birthday cards to arrange for some very special friends and I must try and take some more photographs. Thank you so much for having a read and I hope you have a wonderful day. Tracey

Catalogues, promotions and links below

There are still some discounts on the Clearance Rack and I shall be putting an order in on Friday. If you are local to Derby, let me know what you want and you can pick it up from me. If you click on the image below it will take you to the Stamin' Up! Clearance Rack

Did you see the brand new products in the Online Exclusives page? Click on the image below and it will open up a new page for you.

A brand new kit, slimline cards too, click on the image to find out more.

Another kit which has only just made it to the UK, click on the image for more details.

Bonus Day are will us right up to the end of 31st July. If you need more help with this, please do get in touch x

If you click on the catalogue image below, you are able to have a flick through the pages. It will open up in a new window.

Please do let me know if you would like to purchase anything if you are not confident in ordering yourself via the on line shop as I will be very happy to order for you for delivery to your home address or for collection from me, in Derby.

If you fancy having a browse through the Stampin' Up! Shop, and browse through the new kits and everything else that there is, here is a link, just click on the image below.

Any queries, please do get in touch

The Craft Room Shares

Core Color Share

As there has been a colour refresh with the new Stampin' Up! catalogue, there are 11 new core colours and I shall organise a monthly share of all these colours.

Here are the brand new colours

Here are the 7 returning colours

You can pick one new ink pad, two, three or as many as you wish for the price of £7.66 each and once all 11 colours have been chosen by everyone, I shall place the order for a bundle of them, getting them at a bundle/discounted price. For 94p you can get 2 sheets of each colour of A4 card, £3.46 for a co-ordinating Stampin' Write marker as well as opting for blend pens, ink refills etc.

If this is something you may be interested in please do get in touch. I shall continuing having this share each month until everyone has all the colours they want. There will even be a exclusive Face Book Group for all participants to share there makes.

Here are details of where you can get in touch with me. I am also on facebook if that is easier, just send me a message.

Product List

Tuesday

Sale

Good morning. Stampin' Up! have announched a stamp sale tomorrow for one day only (ending at 11pm tomorrow night). You can get a 15% discount on all stamps in the Annual Catalogue with the exception of the host sets.

If you need any help with placing an order, do get in touch as I am always happy to help.

I shall place an order at around 8pm tomorrow night and will happily add any products that you may want .

Wishing you a terrefic Tuesday x

Monday

Paper Party card number 1-Inked Botanical DSP & Inked and Tiled Stamps

Good morning and here we are starting another week. They do come round quite quickly.

So did anyone watch the tennis over the last couple of weeks? Tennis is one of my mums favourites so we spent an hour with her yesterday watching the final. I then came home to watch the rest of it and enjoyed it.

Mum has had a good few days which is always positive. It took me 3 hours last Monday to get through to the doctors and see if I could get someone to visit mum. Well it didnt happen but I did manage to get through on Friday and she had a visit from a nurse practisioner. This nurse is going to recommend that mum goes for some tests and she has increased one of mums tablets so hopefully, she will soon feel better than she did.

Whoop whoop I am so pleased to say that it has returned, I have found it and am using it up as quick as I can. My crafting 'mojo' is back. I have had an amazing weekend crafting with papers, coming up with card ideas using up some of the wonderful papers that I own. Here is one of them, a simple card using the Inked Botanical papers from Stampin' Up!

This is a book binding template (but I am sure it has other names too). I used both sides of the papers and some linen thread. Those Brushed Brass Butterflies are getting on all my projects but they are so cute. Did you notice the Sentiment Dies? These are my latest favourite and are called Something Fancy Dies. More details are below.

I shall be sharing how I made this card today, on Facebook in our group called The Craft Room, Derby-Craft Forum. A list of all the products that I used is below.

If you would like to add to your collection of papers, I have a massive selection of 6x6 papers, 15 sheets for £1 available for collection from the Craft Room. Some of my retired products can be found in a facebook group called Derby Crafting Marketplace. Well worth a look as quite a few other ladies sell their crafting products there too.

Click on the image below and it will take you to the facebook page and you may have to ask to join.

I have a couple of cards to make, a craft room to clean and quite a few emails to send out (sounds a bit like work). Hope you have a brilliant start to the week and thank you so much for having a read. If you dont already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator to help you please, do get in touch as I shall be very happy to help if I can. Tracey x