Thank You and Happy Mail cards made with Stampin' Up!

Hi all! Hope everyone has had a nice week. The autumn weather here has been just perfect this week, blue skies, sunny days and not too hot! Today I decided to make some thank you cards and then decided to make a whole stack to send out to my team downline and customers. We all love to make cards for others but I decided that we also love to receive a hand made card, especially because we usually make a lot more than we get! These are bright and cheerful and were easy to make except that I hand-markered all the flowers which wasn't hard just a bit time consuming, but worth the effort! The flower is from the Stampin' Up! Button Buddies set which is on the US retired list which means it will be retiring here in Australia as well, unfortunately but we can't have exciting new products coming our way without saying goodbye to some as well! The sentiment on these cards (which I now realise you may be unable to read) is a retired one from "Totally Tess" that I love which says "The best things in life are made not bought" which is a favourite of mine and one us papercrafters can very much relate to!.......enjoy your weekend.............cheers Sue :)

3D "Box in a Bag", Card and Bookmark

I made this set for a friend whose birthday is this weekend but she has been sick in hospital so I wanted to make it as bright and cheery as possible! I was going to put chocolates and scratchies in the bag but I'm not sure she can have chocolate now so I might best substitute that part with a little perfume and soap or something. The card is my idea and I got the tutorial for the "Box in a Bag" from Splitcoaststampers and made my own take on it. The material flowers on the card and bookmark are a great idea I got from Jackie Topa's blog (AddictedtoStamping, US demo) you just cut the  material through your Big Shot using the Tasteful Trim die and use a little gathering stitch to pull them together and a couple of stitches in the ends to hold them together, add a button to the centre and you're done! This will brighten my friend up, for sure! Have a good weekend, ooops that's gonna be a long one - just remembered it's school holidays............cheers for now Sue

Stampin' Up! Fabulous Phrases and Buttons

Here is three "easy as" and quick cards I made with using "buttons" in mind! I am not ashamed to admit I have quite a collection of Stampin' Up! in my happy craftin space so sometimes I forget what I actually do have and up the back of where my stamp storage is I found the stamp set called "Fabulous Phrases" - this is a very versatile set of thirty greeting style words that can be mixed up and rearranged to suit lots of ocassions. More often than not I will reach for one of my favourites called "Teeny Tiny Wishes" which I use lots but I'd totally forgotten about my Fabulous Phrases which I have used today and will now move it to the front to prompt me to use it more!!

More creating with Stampin' Up products available to all soon

Made these cards on the weekend too with new products - I can't make things quick enough with all my new toys and ideas!! Loove the new in colours.....I'll be spending my heart out with the new catalogue here!