Best of Christmas Stamp Set

As the schools all start to go back many of us start to think about Christmas - there I have said it, the dreaded C word!  Just as we start planning our Christmas Crafting projects Stampin' Up! have not only released the wonderful Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue, but also given us a fantastic collection of Christmas Images for this month's Best of Stamp Set.

How beautiful are those images!  Two of my favourite images make a return (Dasher and the lovely Father Christmas). I love the nativity scene and it has not been available in the UK before, and the new bauble image coordinates with the new Bauble Punch in the Autumn Winter Catalogue.  Fantastic!  

Click here to download the flier.  To order your Best of Christmas Stamp Set just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

PS - don't forget to check out the growing list of Christmas Classes, Plan the Perfect Christmas and the Stamp and Stay Christmas Weekend - all aiming to help you have a fun, craft filled and special festive season!

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Express Yourself Flower Shop Cards

Today I am going to share two cards featuring the lovely Flower Shop Stamp Set, that share one design but were for very different occasions.

 

These cards also feature some of the wonderful Season of Style Paper Stack papers - I just love them! They are a fantastic size for cards and they are suitable for just about any occasion.  You can see them on page 22 of the autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue here.  To order yours just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

The greetings are both from the Express Yourself Stamp Set which is fantastic for cards like this and seems to have the right sentiments for so many occasions.

Happy Stampin'

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Find Out About Friday - 10 Gems you may have missed in the new Autumn Winter Catalogue from Stampin' Up!

I am always so excited when there is a new Catalogue from Stampin' Up!  - so many new crafting goodies to play with! The new Autumn Winter Catalogue is no exception.  As a veteran of every new Catalogue Stampin' Up! have introduced in the UK I have discovered that there are two kinds of new products in every new Catalogue - those that jump right off the page at you and you know you need them - and the hidden gems - the products that you don't notice the first few times you look at the catalogue but which go on to become some of your favourite items!  

For this week's Find Out About Friday we are going to look beyond all the stunning new stamp sets (Festive Flurries anyone?), the new dies (check out the Expressions Thinlets and the Envelope Liners for example), embossing folders that are not just for Christmas, the stunning new papers and the glitter and sparkling accessories (Frosted Finish Embelishments - be still my beating heart!) and take a look at my top 10 hidden gems.  These are in the order they appear in the Catalogue ...click here to see it ...

1. Burlap Ribbon on page 18.  Burlap is very fashionable right now and this ribbon is great for accessorizing and for making statement pieces - I know there are some burlap roses in my future!  Burlap will see you right through the autumn to Christmas and then onto Spring - one ribbon for all seasons!

2. White Stampin' Chalk Marker on page 20.  Ideal for writing on darker surfaces and for giving that fashionable white board look.  This permanent ink is going to look great on so many projects and I can't wait to use it with some Cherry Cobbler - you have spotted that you can get textured 12x12 card stock in Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Smoky Slate and Island Indigo haven't you?

3. Seasonal Stripes 8x8 inch album with divided page protectors, journalling tags and coodinating paper and accessories on page 22.  I am so excited about this album - it is going to be great for scapping those special events or to use as an everyday album.  Add the coordinating accessories and it is going to be a great album to do a Journal Your Christmas / December Daily / Festive Project Life type project.  It would also make a wonderful gift to give someone so they can scrap their Christmas photos.

4. The Paper Stacks on page 22 and 29.  These wonderful paper stacks are just the right size for cardmaking and coordinate beautifully with the Season of Style and Winter Frost Collections.  Each stack has 48 sheets of double sided papers, 24 of each two sided design.  The papers are fantastic to use for your Christmas Cards and any you have left over will look great on your non Christmas Projects too.

5. Chevron Border Punch on page 23.  Punch Stylish and stunning borders in moments, I am sure this will feature on lots of cards and scrapbook pages - both the bits that get punched out and the border itself.

6. Perforating Stampin Trimmer Rotary Cutting Blade on page 24.  Idea for creating RSVP slips on all your party invitations, for creating pull off strips and tags, and how about advent calenders, this new blade works with the Rotary Attachment for your Stampin' Trimmer.

7. Season of Style This and That Designer Stickers on page 25.  These brilliant festive stickers would make a wonderful addition to your regular diary on the run into Christmas.  They would be fantastic on cards and on Scrapbook Pages and of course work beautifully with the Season of Style This and That Journal.  If you are looking to see this journal in action and want your very own Christmas Planner check out the Plan The Perfect Christmas Class here.

8. Merry Little Christmas Simply Creative Card Kit on page 27.  This wonderful kit contains everything you need for 8 luxuary Christmas Cards - all cut and ready for you to assemble!  All you need to do is stamp on your favourite greeting (or purchase the coodrinating Merry Little Christmas Stamp and save 15%) assemble, write and post!  Fab and fast.  These kits could easily be adapted for other occasions too and would make a lovely gift for someone.

9. Foil Sheets on page 28.  Add some extra shine to your projects with this highly reflective paper.  It punches beautifully and works beautifully with your big shot dies and feamelets- oh and it is Acid free so totally safe to use in your scrapbooks!

10. Goody Gear Simply Creative Kits on page 32.  Need goodie Bags in a hurry?  Let these beautiful kits take all the work out of it for you - just add a greeting (check out the Oh Goodie Set on the same page) or write your message, fill, tie and add the tags and you are good to go!  Obviously you can do more to them if you want but a great product to have on hand for last moment gift giving or as party favours.

All these products are available to order now - just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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Best Wishes from this Owl!

In November's card making class we featured the wonderful Owl Occasions Stamp Set from the Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue.  I adore this little owl and the stamp set is not just for Christmas, it can take you all through the year.  To show you what I mean, today I am going to share a Best Wishes Card made with it.

This card also features the wonderful Natural Composition Papers which here have been inked in places with Soft Suede to give this dark luxurious look which really shows off the pattern in the papers.

The Seasonal Catalogue has lots of wonderful stamps and accessories in it and I wanted to remind you that they are only available until the end of this month - so if there is something you want in there please don't delay in placing your orders - just email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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Halloween Treat Bag

I have been having some fun playing with the spooktacularly cute Ghoulish Googlies Designer Kit from the Stampin' Up! Autumn Winter Catalogue and making some Halloween Treat Bags.

You can quickly and easily make the cutest treat bags with this kit which contains 10 glassine bags, 20 double sided tags, 50 googly eyes, and 10 pieces of bakers twine in Pumkin Pie.

You could just assemble the kits and you are ready to go, but using the coordinating stamp set I decided to play a bit

As well as the Googly Ghouls Stamp Set I have also used the Manhattan Flowers Embossing Folder and some Dazzling Details.  And yes I have filled it with ribbons - so its really a treat for a crafter!

If you want to make some fun halloween treats and would like to purchase the Ghoulish Googlies Designer Kit please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

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Snowflake Garland

One of the things I was very excited to see in the Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue was the Snow Flurry Die and when I got it I was not disappointed!  It is fantastic and I love how easy it is to create beautiful snowflakes for cards, scrapbook pages and much much more - I know you are going to see a lot more of this die round here!  Today I am going to show you a snowflake garland that I had a lot of fun putting together.

The snowflakes are cut from shimmer white card and the gorgeous gold glimmer paper - I am also totally in love with this!  I love how sparkly it is and how easy and mess free it is to use.  

The snowflakes are joined together with gold brads

I hope you like this and if you would like to order your Snow Flurries Die, Gold Glimmer Paper and Shimmer White Card stock to make this project please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk

Happy Stampin'

PS - have you checked out the Last Chance Lists - some items are going out of stock very fast and I know you will not want to miss out on a bargain!

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The New Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue from Stampin' Up!

I am so excited to be able to finally share the wonderful new Autumn Winter Seasonal catalogue from Stampin' Up!  Its 40 pages packed with delicious new products to inspire your creativity.  I love the project on the cover and the message - make something that means something - we all know how special those hand made projects are and how lovely they are to receive and this has made me even more determined to make this Autumn and this Christmas a very special one.

Inside this Catalogue you will find stamp sets to get your fingers itching to be inky many of which come with their own punch or Framelets to make cutting them out a breeze.  You will also find the new larger embossing folders, a gorgeous snowflake die, delicious new ribbons, gorgeous new papers including a flocked window sheet, new scrapping kits, lots of things to make your projects sparkle and much much more!  

There are also products to save you time this Christmas without loosing that home made feel - things like self adhesive gift tags, photo card mounts and calenders and if you are into baking be sure to check out the cookie presses which allow you to mix your love of baking with your love of stamping 

You will also want to check out the bundles - these save you 15%  when you buy coordinating products!  Brilliant - thank you Stampin' Up!

So do you want to look? Well grab a cuppa and click here to download your own copy.  If you would like a paper copy please email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk with your full address, post code and phone number.

Enjoy!

Happy Stampin'

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Find Out About Friday - Larger Embossing Folders from Stampin' Up!

I am very excited that tomorrow I am going to be able to share the new Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue from Stampin' Up! with you.  It is 40 pages of gorgeous products to boost your seasonal crafting and I know you are going to love it!

For this week's Find Out About Friday I am going to share something with you that you may not notice when you first browse the delicious pages!  I am sure you will notice the 3 fantastic new embossing folders - one of which is a pattern I have been wishing I had for the longest time.  What many not be immediately apparent is that as well as being beautiful designs they are also larger - now I can't show you the folders themselves just yet but I can show you what they do ...

On the left you have the impression from one of the new folders while on the right you have the impression from the Square Lattice Embossing folder which is currently available.  The new embossing folders emboss a larger area.  I have left a border around 3 of the sides so you can see I have not trimmed the edges of the embosses area

The Square Lattice Embossing Folder, like the others that are currently available give an embossed area measuring 10.5 cm x 14cm (4.1 inches x 5.5 inches)

The new Embossing Folderes give an embossed area measuring 10.5cm x 15.5 cm (4.1 inches x 6.1 inches)

This extra length is going to add hugely to the versatility of the Embossing Folders and give lots of new ways of using them.  With these new folders it will be possible to emboss the whole of the front of a standard A6 card, to emboss the whole width of a 6 inch square card as well as larger die cut shapes.

I am looking forward to exploring them further and being able to share all the details of the Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue with you tomorrow - so be sure to check back then

Happy Stampin'

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Seasonal Catalogue Sneak Peek

Today I am going to show you a sneak peek of some cards I made for the lovely ladies in our Stampin' Superstars Team.  It features lots of lovely new products, I wonder how many you can spot!

Now really is a great time to join our team.  As well as getting products before they are generally available for purchase, getting a discount on all our supplies, and making lots of new crafting friends, when you join us you will be starting your own business and will have the ability to make money sharing your love of crafting.  It can be a great way of supplementing your income and being able to afford more craft supplies or those special gifts this Christmas.  To find out if joining is the right thing for you email bekka@feeling-crafty.co.uk and we will arrange a no obligation, no pressure chat.

Happy Stampin'

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Seasonal Catalogue Sneak Peek

Today I am going to share a little sneak peek of a project I have made featuring product in the new Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue from Stampin' Up! which launches on Saturday.  I am so excited about all the lovely new products I am going to be able to share with you and I know you are going to love them all.

If you would like to make sure you are one of the first people to see this new Autumn Winter Seasonal Catalogue you will want to be subscribed to my newsletter - subscribers will get a special edition of the newsletter with an electronic copy of the catalogue early on Saturday morning, so will be able to sit down with their favourite drink and enjoy each one of the 40 pages.  

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Happy Stampin'

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