Stampin Up In This World behind the door

As you know from watching my blog these past couple of days I have been playing with this fab set In This World. Today I have done a card using the door and carefully cutting round three sides to open it (I used a craft knife) and then putting the chair behind the door with the sentiment.

Really pleased with this idea and again have not seen this elsewhere so if you CASE please credit me Jane Allmark.

I used Sahara sand, soft suede, and primrose petals inks and watercoloured the images using the aqua painter and ink.

Shop at the link above for all your Stampin Up needs as there are lots of lovely papercraft goodies in the annual catalogue. When checking your order out please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice. I'm not one of the big boys so every single order matters to me :)

Stampin Up Timeless Textures

This is one of my favourite stamp sets as the backgrounds you can create are just lovely. The flower flourish is just lovely in blues and yellows for a fresh Spring feel. I then used the small dots in smoky slate to just tie all the white space together.  Simply mounted on a white cardstock blank and then embellished with a sentiment and a butterfly, this makes an easy yet very effective professional looking card.

All products used are from Stampin Up so check out the link above and when ordering please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Don't forget there are some retired products at the moment but they are selling fast so please do rush to order.

Stampin Up Retired Products - Selling Fast

Just a quick heads up. The Stampin Up retired list which is all products not being carried over to the new catalogue which launches 1st June 2016 is now available.

These retiring products sells out very very quickly. So if there is something that you would like then get in ther fast.

Follow the link at the top of the page and use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Hope you get what you want before it sells out and is gone forever.

Happy shopping.

Stampin Up From Land To Sea

This is a lovely versatile stamp set and I really love the lanterns so I decided to make a make card using them.  I tore round the card edges and inked to give a textured feel and then mounted on some coordinating designer series paper in smoky slate.  The burlap is a lovely rustic textures so put this across the card and tore a sentiment to go one top.  Mounting the whole think on night of navy cardstock added just enough colour and I think it makes a great masculine card.

Stampin Up products can be purchased through the link above and please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Stampin Up Timeless Textures & Ribbon Clearance Rack

Something you may not be aware of Stampin Up has a Clearance Rack ( click on link above and when ordering use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice) The Clearance rack is updated with all sorts of bargains and I recently picked up some gorgeous ribbon at just a few pounds, absolute bargain.

So today I thought I would use the Timless Textures background stamps and create a lovely backdrop for this card.  I stamped the sentiment using the oval dies and dimensionals to make it pop. I used two different coloured ribbons for added texture and the effect was gorgeous.

Love these fresh Spring colours, I used crushed curry which matched the ribbon and various shades of blue marina mist and island indigo and the sentiment was in night of navy.  

Have a look at the Stampin Up website as there are some many lovely things to buy. Again Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice when ordering.

Thanks for dropping by

Stampin Up Timeless Textures

This is a wonderful stamp set for creating some lovely backgrounds

I used pool party, island indigo and calypso coral for the different elements and then stamped the sentiment in night of navy and mounted on a piece of night of navy cardstock.

I used the confetti hearts punch to add some interest at the top of the card.

Click on the link at the top of the page and when ordering use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Have a great Friday.

Stampin Up Butterflies

There are some really lovely butterfly punches, dies and stamps that you can purchase through Stampin Up. Butterflies are always lovely to add to a card, make the focal point, stamp as a background and many more other ideas.

This card is using the butterfly dies which are beautiful and intricate and make for a lovely card.

Layering to the dies on top of each other gives great dimension.

Follow the link above to purchase Stampin Up products and when ordering use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Thanks

Stampin Up Botanical Blooms most popular

Morning everyone on this bright and sunny morning.

When you love what you do it rubs off and my favourite stamp set bundle is Botanical Blooms as I just love all the gorgeous flowers you can make and they are gorgeous for all sorts of projects. A bundle is a great way to buy as you get 15% off and get the stamp set, coordinating die and a pack of coordinating designer series paper.

I have been showcasing this set on the blog, Twitter and Facebook and my workshops and classes and it has proved my best seller, as a lot of you like me have bought this fab bundle.

140757 stamp set containing 17 stamps £15

140583 designer series paper £10 for 12 sheets of double sided 12"x12"

140625 framelits containing 14 dies for £30

Bundle of all three 140819 save 15% is £46.75

Click on the catalogue link at the top of the page use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice to order.

Gorgeous example of recent card I made using the stamp set and dies.

Gilding wax with wood grain & thinlets

Just love gilding wax. I have the trio of Pebeo waxes and love to make a card that gives a really metallic look

This is a very simple design. Stampin Up wood grain embossing folder gilded in three tones and then the thinlets gilded in silver.

Love the simplicity but the wax really makes it pop.

Stampin Up products can be bought through the link above & using Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Stampin Up all about the blues 4 days to go!

Yes only 4 days to go and Stampin Up Saleabration will be over. So still time to get yourself a free stamp set, pack of designer series paper, card kit, embellishments and more.

Check out the link above because there are only 4 days left to take advantage of this, so what do you have to lose?

This gorgeous card has been made using one of the free stamps and some of the gorgeous designer series paper.

As it is Easter Sunday I am hoping that the skies are going to be blue as it is forecast for heavy rain.

So have a fab Easter Day and don't eat too many chocolates

Stampin Up Botanical Blooms Wedding Card

I love it when I am asked to do a special card for someone. This is a gorgeous wedding card made for an order. The Botanical Blooms set is just perfect for the flower embellishments and I used tones of white and silver for this card. The centre of each flower has a pearl inside for that added luxury.

I used the couples initials to make this a really personalised card and the sentiment is embossed with silver.

Stampin Up products are Avila le to purchase through the link above just use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice. Thanks

Happy Spring Equinox

Today is Spring Equinox and Spring is well and truly here. The daffodils are out the crocus blooming and the trees are starting to bud. Thoughts of warmer longer days put a spring in everyone's step and life begins it' cycle again with birds nesting and lambs being born.

Today's card is a double embossed card in silver and white and has a sponged background which reminded me of the lovely colours of Spring.

All products used are from Stampin Up so have a look clicking the link above and when ordering please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Have a lovely Sunday, Spring Equinox.

Stampin Up Best of Thoughts Hostess Set

This gorgeous hostess set which you can purchase when you host a party or spend over £150 makes the most background stamps.

I used this background as the main focal point of the card and just added one of the sentiments from the set.  I sponged the cardstock first, stamped the image and then used the blender pens to just highlight the flowers. Really love the warm feel this card .

Stampin Up products are available by following the link above and please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice

Stampin Up Gorgeous Vintage/Rustic Botanical Blooms

Morning everyone! Well after two days at the MakeIt show in Farnborough I am exhausted, happy and with very empty pockets. I had two full days of crafting, trying out new crafts and generally having a fab time. I love having an eclectic mix of crafting products and ideas as there is so much out there however Stampin Up quality is right up there as some of the best products on the market.

Today is something a little different. I took some whisper White cardstock and sponged it with crumb cake, tore the edges for a vintage look and then die cut one of the botanical blooms and did the same. A little tag and a pearl and this lovely card was created.

 

The Stampin Up ink pads have such great pigment that they cover really well hence being able to create this lovely natural craft card look.

As always all Stampin Up products can be bought from their website the link of which is above. Please chose me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely Sunday.

Stampin Up Butterfly thinlets

Morning everyone. Bright chilly morning but the sun is out and looks like it is going to be a sunny chilly day here in the south east of England. Tuesday is my oldies card making class at work. As some of you know I work with elderly especially those with dementia and it is the most rewarding job ever. The age range is from late seventies through to mid nineties and I have a wonderful 93 year old lady in my card making class. So from time to time you will see some of the lovely work they do here but for today I am showcasing the gorgeous butterfly thinlets.

These can be layered up together or placed singley to create wonderful cards.

I've used crumb cake probably the most lovely colour to combine with absolutely everything and then just a little piece of dsp and some ribbon and a brad to embellish with. I just love how the hint of colour just makes the whole card pop.

You can purchase this lovely die set 137360 priced £22 for the set of three dies from the current annual catalogue page 172 and if you click on the link above it will take you to the Stampin Up official website. Please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice. Thanks so much.

Stampin' Up. Straightening Big Shot Acrylic Plates Easy & Simple Tip

I have as many of you probably do bent and curvy acrylic plates for my big shot. I try turning them, using different areas of the plate and all sorts of other ways but without fail they always bend. Now I recently purchased the metal base plate for intricate dies. This is amazing and cuts all my intricate dies easily. However my goodness does it bend the acrylic plate that you sandwich on top. Ok so this is only one of the plates, as you only use one acrylic plate with the metal base plate, but still really frustrating.

So off I went to the Internet. Hot water or put it in the oven! Ok hot water is never going to get hot enough to bend and even boiling water from the kettle is only going to heat the acrylic and not flatten it. The oven well that just plain scared me with visions of melting acrylic and suffocating from the fumes.

So I suddenly thought what can I do to heat the acrylic and slowly flatten it. Eureka moment an iron and ironing board. So I heated the iron to its highest temperature covered the acrylic plate with a tea towel and then slowly ironed the acrylic plate. Every couple of minutes I would turn the plate and with an oven glove on to stop burning myself press down firmly on the plate. It took about 15 minutes working each side and pressing down until the plate straightened. I then left it on the side to cool.

So now I have two straight acrylic plates.

So this is my tip of the day iron your acrylic plates to straighten them 💜

Stampin Up Botanical Blooms Bundle

Happy Monday everyone hope your all having a good day and the start to the week. Today I am showing you the botanical bloom bundles again but today I have used the gorgeous coordinating dsp and the fab die which cuts a leafy border.

The flowers in the set are just stunning as they can be colour coordinated for any project and two of the dies the flower petals pop up.

Everything Stampin Up is able from their official website click on the catalogue image at the top of the page and when ordering please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice. Thanks so much

Stampin' Up! Jane Allmark Independent Demonstrator Yippee Skippee I've Done It

Well this is so exciting I have actually done it! What you ask? Well as I have already mentioned several times I am a complete dinosaur with regard to anything techie and I struggle desperately in making my blog interactive and putting links with pictures on my blog.

so today being Sunday and a day of rest lol I thought I would tackle this problem and see if I could put a picture of the current Stampin' Up! annual catalogue with a link through to the Stampin' Up! Official website www.stampinup.co.uk Now for those techie people this is probably where you all start falling about laughing, but for me this was an obstacle that I thought I would never achieve.

Several hours of trawling thought "how to's" and deciding that there was no way that I could understand this strange lanuguage they were talking and that included the "Dummies" site I was almost giving up and resigning myself to the fact that I would never be able to get to grips with this task when Eureka Yippee Skippee I came across a lovely lady called Heather and her blog with easy, yes easy step by step instructions.

So with two screens up on the old laptop (this wasnt possible on my ipad, dont ask me why it just doesnt allow me to change my blog at all, just write it) I started by finding a picture and saving it in my pictures library, a feat in itself as I couldnt find where the devil it was in amongst all my thousand of pictures and then yippee skippee it was at the end of all my pictures just there on it's own smiling at me. So I took said picture added the code word and symbol by word and symbol (thinking to myself if this gobbledegook works it will be a miracle) and yes it worked.

Now for the little drawback I have a wonderful picture of the current Stampin' Up! catalogue and if you click on it YES it goes through to the UK Stampin' Up! website where you can browse and order whatever you like. However please please please put in the top right hand corner where it say Find Demonstrator put JANE ALLMARK which is me as I cannot link to me directly.

I am so pleased and yes when I read this I am giggling to myself, well actually gaffawing out loud, at how long it has taken me to do this (4 hours today and years of having my blog) but as the saying goes from little acorns mighty oaks grow and I feel like a mighty oak today.

So I do hope that you will give this link a go, have a browse at all the lovely products that Stampin' Up! has to offer and if pennies allow order something from me, but remember to use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Thank you all so much for your views, comments and making my little blog a little bigger. Now I'm off to do something more productive like making some more cards and projects. Phew! what an adventure.

Stampin Up Botanical Blooms white on white

Morning everyone happy Sunday. So I wonder what you all get up to at the weekends? For me it is a time to spend with my families and their wonderful children. Yes I am blessed with two sons and daughter in laws and six wonderful grandchildren under 10 years old. Families are such a blessing and the joy that they all bring is something I treasure always. I also as you all know am an avid crafter and so every weekend I always take time to craft. This is a way for me to relax and completely lose myself in making something beautiful from paper and cardstock.

The Stampin Up botanical blooms bundle is my absolute favourite as there are so many flower stamps and dies that are to be honest quite old fashioned and traditional. Which is fine for certain projects but the botanical blooms is fresh and quite modern. The intricate fern die is quite ingenious, who would have thought a die could produce such a fine leaf and with the new metal plate and die brush cutting out is a breeze too. The flowers are gorgeous and two of them the petals pop up giving fab dimension. Stampin Up really is at the cutting edge of die technology and these certainly do not disappoint.

So I have used some fab card stocks in wonderful vibrant and tonal colours but I thought I would show you all that a white on white with a little smoky slate for the stamens really makes a wonderful card suitable for weddings anniversaries or just because.

I embossed a background using the Stampin Up dots embossing folder to add more texture and then just buillt up the flowers and leaves using dimensionals. I haven't put a sentiment on as I can do this later but it kinda stands alone without quite well.

As you all know I am an Independent Stampin Up demonstrator and as such if you purchase any Stampin Up products it would be great if you used me as your demonstrator of choice. Now I am a bit of a dinosaur with modern technology so I haven't got all the bells and whistles and links etc on my blog because I haven't got a clue how to do this lol. I'm a crafter not a techie however finding the official Stampin up website is quite easy and then it's just about who you choose as your demonstrator when you order and it would be great if you chose me Jane Allmark. Thank you all so much for following my blog it is very much appreciated and makes me smile and want to post more when I see how many of you are reading it 😊

Stampin Up Botanical Blooms Picture Frame

Good morning everyone and a happy Saturday. Well the threat of snow that we had earlier in the week never materialised and in fact here down in the south east of Englamd it has turned lovely and mild even if we have had some rain.

If you saw my blog a week or so ago I showed you how to make a mitred picture frame out of cardstock. Have a look back to see how it is made. The gorgeous Stampin Up botanical blooms bundle is just perfect to decorate the frame before assembling and filling with gorgeous leaves and flowers.

I used one of the gorgeous wooden embellishments that say Congrats Celebrate & thank you and at only £4.50 for 15 pieces they are a steel. They were a wonderful gift from my up line. I'm not normally much of an embellishment person but these are super cute so I think they will be used often.

I think the thing I like best from this botanical blooms bundle is the fern leaves as they are so delicate but are easy to cut out using the big shot and the metal plate and the flowers that pop up the petals so gorgeous. If you would like to purchase this bundle then go to Stampin Up official website and choose me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator. Thank you so much for your dropping by 💜