Final Two Fruit stand Suite Projects

Good evening! I am even later today, it has been a busy one. We did some Christmas makes at Lumby Craft and Cuppa today and it was very odd given how warm it was outside. I am thinking I will leave further Christmas crafting until October when it will probably feel a bit cooler.

I wont stay long as I need to pack my bags ready for another class tomorrow. In the final two projects we used the Strawberry stamp and papers. They look fab teamed with Emerald Envy, I have really come to love this colour.

This was the first card I had made using this card design and I admit to having made several more since with various different stamp sets/ suites . I always like to make a 3D item in my classes so we had to make a matching box!

Finally here is a picture of them both together...

Thank you for your visit, Nic.

Harvest Time....

Hello... Did you have a good weekend? It was quite a busy one for us as a family and among all the various things we got up to this weekend there was one activity that stood out. Luke and I went to Lotheron Hall which is an ex stately home now run by our local council. They hold various events each year and as we live very close we have a season pass. Well yesterday it was their Apple Picking Day, they have a small orchard where they grow a fair few varieties of apples and once a year they invite people who visit to pick their favorites to take away. So armed with a book to distinguish which apples were which variety (whether they were desert or cooking) we wondered round and picked the ones we fancied the look of. As we went round and Luke was referring to apples as being Real Red or Rose Red I realised how much time he spends with me and my SU supplies. He has caught the bug of referring to colours by their Stampin' Up! Colour names!

Anyway rather appropriately I have some projects to share with you this week that use the Fruit Stand Suite from the annual catalogue. We made these at a recent Lumby Craft and Cuppa session. Today I will share the most difficult of the three projects. Well the ladies told me it was the most difficult and they were a little flustered making this card.

Why you may ask? as it looks quite simple well firstly it has a surprise inner and secondly because this was their first introduction to two step stamping and as you will see from the photo below I had them stamping multiple images. This pear requires four lots of stamping, two for the outlines and two for the stamps that colour in the middle. You stamp the pear outline and then the leaf outline which both then need filling in.

This is an explosion card and really packs a wow in my book and is so simple to make, its an oldie but still a favorite with me. I love the sentiments that come with this set and this one reads ' We Age Not By Years But By Stories'

Anyway I will leave you there, I am mid prep for the next Craft and Cuppa at Lumby Garden Centre which is this Wednesday 14th September, If you live in Leeds or the surrounding area you are very welcome to drop in and join us we will be there from 9.30 am - 11.30 am. You can find out more details on my Facebook page which is linked on the right hand side of my blog. Thank you for joining me today. Nic

That Friday Feeling....

Hello! As promised I am back to share the final card but a little later than planned! I have had an eventful day and everything got pushed back today. A friend and I had decided we would take a walk today to a local landmark as we both want to try and get a little fitter! The walk entailed walking through some woods but we could not find the official path so ended up following some tracks which led us to an area where pheasants are kept. We narrowly avoided stepping into a wire trap, saw a wild fawn and waded through lots of boggy swamp-like mud. Next we got set upon by a very over familiar barking dog thankfully very shortly after we finally found the correct track and made it to the Cafe for much needed refreshments! The detour probably took us out of our way by about a mile on top of the 5.5 round trip, needless to say despite following the direct route home I was shattered on my return home!

Anyway here is the final card in the series, which is quite autumnal....

What I have not previously said is we added a little extra to the middle of each, I particularly like this verse....

 Finally here is a photo of them all lined up. Unfortunately by the time I got to photographing them all a very big dark rain filled cloud was over our house so these are still a little dark.....

Do you have a favourite? I cant decide between the umbrella one or the one with the leaves, I love the new copper foiled card in the new Seasonal. If you would like a copy please drop me a line and I will pop you one in the post. Before I go I will just share some info about the current offers..

If there is anything you fancy you can visit my online shop here.  Once the website opens click on SHOP NOW to start browsing. Thank you for your visit, I will be back on Monday with some more projects. Nic

New School Year And Some Resolutions.....

Hello!

Well September came round very fast didn't it? My son has returned to school and I have had a couple of days of getting used to being able to think for myself again.The time spent with him in the school holidays is precious, but for me there always comes a time when I need a bit of quiet time just to think and reflect on life. September is almost like a second New Year as we look ahead to the next School Academic New Year and as such I have set my self a few goals which have been churning around in my mind when I have had a spare moment. Do you do this too?

Anyway enough of my ramblings, I thought I would share some cards we made at my last Craft and Cuppa at Lumby Garden Centre. I have continued to run my sessions over the summer and was chuffed to have a couple of extra young people join us in some or all of these sessions. One Young lady joined us at every session and just seemed to relish learning new techniques. I particularly loved that she often brought along her own creations/versions of the projects we had previously made in the class. We will miss her in the first session back after the holidays! I am looking forward to seeing her version of the shaker cards we made in the last session, here they are.....

The photo is not great as I took it just as the sun was going down, we made three cards in this class. For once I decided to go easy on myself! Initially I had thought we would use several shapes for the Shaker windows but once I had made one that I was happy with I decided to stick with circles only and it worked well.

 I will pop along on Friday and post the final card and In the meantime I will attempt to get some better photos of them all together to share. Thank you for visiting, Nic