SU! Convention 2009

This last weekend was the very first ever European SU! Convention in Frankfurt. I was lucky enough to go and it was absolutely fantastic! Here's a few photos to show what went on:

The UK Massive!

Shelli opening the proceedings.


Paper and marker session, where we got to make charts of all the delicious SU! colours.

Gorgeous things to buy in Memento Mall.

Beautiful swaps to be had.

Four fabby make and takes.

On Friday night we had a Gala dinner and awards ceremony.

I am now an honorary member of the Tartan Stampers who all made my stay much more enjoyable! Here I am with the lovely Emma, Elaine, Dawn and Kirsteen.


The UK contingent in all their finery (along with Shelli).

More photos will follow when I have them sorted!

TFL! Jo x

Christmas is Coming.....

I have been having a fabby time playing with the new SU! goodies, especially the Christmas Jingle kit. I made this pennant banner out of old cereal packets (in true Blue Peter style!). I also added some extra sparkle with the gorgeous new glitters we have and some ribbon and chipboard.

I also made some cards using the same kit. I made ten in all and I've still got loads of the kit left. It really is great value. 8 sheets of cardstock, 6 sheets of double sided patterned paper and 6 sheets of self adhesive die cuts, all for £15.50. Bargain! It's proving very popular, having sold out once already.

These cards I've made are a mixture of my own designs and some beautiful designs by Ilina over at her blog My Creations. I showed all these to the ladies at our crop on Saturday and they all asked me to take pictures, so here they are. Enjoy!

TFL!

Joanne x

Summer Design Challenge

As those of you who know me will already know, I absolutely adore "A Rose is a Rose", the stamp set by Stampin' Up!

When I first heard about the Summer Design Challenge, this is what I decided to use to make my design. Basically I did a one sheet wonder, this is where you stamp your images randomly all over a sheet of either A4 or 12x12 cardstock and then cut it up and use it on your cards. I used a 12x12 sheet and made a box with 10 cards. Here's the results:

Sorry, some of the photos are a bit rubbish, but I'm no David Bailey and I don't have a great camera.

The colours I used were Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Old Olive, So Saffron, Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue and Chocolate Chip in various mediums of ribbons, inks, cardstock and patterned paper. Other sets used were Occasional Greetings, Circle of Friendship, Basic Phrases, Frames with a Flourish and Sincere Salutations.

TFL! Joanne xx

TA-DAH! It's here!

The All New Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalogue 2009-2010 is now LIVE! Click on the little catalogue picture on the right hand side and that should take you straight through to the new catty! Enjoy browsing and fill your boots!!

Tart & Tangy Shrinky-Dinks!

Hi all! I did this card for It's A Creative World today, so thought I'd share it here too. I just got Tart & Tangy, a set from Stampin' Up! and thought I'd have a play.

I used to love Shrinky-Dinks as a child and so decided to dig my shrink plastic out and make some earrings out of them. I love the clean lines of this citrus slice stamp, I think it's fab!

Colours used were Yo Yo Yellow, Gable Green and Only Orange.

More posting soon - Last Chance List goes up tonight, so watch this space! :OD

TFL! xx

Stampotiques

I absolutely love the Daniel Torrente stamps produced by Stampotique. I feel I can relate to them by the fact that they look like I feel most of the time! Anyway, here's a couple of cards I've done with them over the weekend.

I'm not too keen on this one, but I do love my Japanese/Chinese postal stamps that I got ages ago from Ma Vinci's Reliquary. I fancy doing my hair that colour pink. Hmmm......

I like this one. I used my postal stamps again and the starry set is from Papertrey Ink. The name escapes me at the minute as to what it's called. Sorry about the rubbish photos. I'm never going to be a photoshop genius. :O)

TFL! Jo xxx

Finally.....

......a bit of me time! The past few weeks have been pretty hectic, what with the school holidays and family coming to stay. Today I had a bit of me time and of course, wanted to get creating. Unfortunately I've not had much in the way of enthusiasm or mojo recently, but I've been checking out the Stamp With Us site. My very talented downline Sara is on their design team. To help give my mojo a much needed boost I decided to have a go at their sketch challenge this week, and here is the result!

The stamp set I used is SU! Nursery Necessities (one of my current favourites) and Tea Party DSP. The cardstock used is Regal Rose and the inks are Pretty In Pink and Barely Banana.

I'm going to challenge myself to try and keep up with some challenges. It's a good way to get my mojo going!

TFL! Jo x