Stampin Up Independent Demonstrator Dawn Howard

More Tea for Two ..and some cakes as well   Last Friday I was priviledged to host my Tea for Two class and around the table we had a set of very talented and crafty women. The class included Stampin' UPs designer series paper, Tea for Two and a selection of cardstock and ribbon and instructions for making several cards and a Tea Caddy. However everyone always likes to put their own twist on things and here is a picture of a georgeous pen pot created by the lovely Tracyann. It's for her daughters room and I hope it takes pride of place. It really shows how versatile the tea for two designer paper is as the look is completely different to my prototype.   We also had yummy cupcakes made by Rebecca from Dolly Train cakes .... well when I say we, I really mean everyone else - I'm on a diet and showed remarkable resilence in saying No. I hope the scales reward me.  Here's a couple of pictures to whet your appetities.   Happy crafting everyo...

    Happy Valentine's Day       Here's a CASE I have made from the spring/summer mini catalogue. I've loved using the Hearts a Flutter framelits and stamps and they will be ideal for lots of occasions as well as Valentine's Day.   Despite all my card making we're not very good at actually observing special dates ourselves. I may however give this one to Mike - it might make him feel a tad guilty for not getting me anything. In fact we are quite shocking at remembering our wedding  anniversary - it's usually while we are on summer holiday so you're not really keeping a note of the date. Perhaps this year will be different as it's 20 years - I was hoing to re-do our honeymoon which was to West Coast America but it's a bit pricey with the children so perhaps it can wait until 25 years when they are older and won't want to come with us.   My evening isn't going to be very romantic either as it's a case of the usual Mu...

Tea for Two   The new Spring/Summer catalogue launched on 1st February and I adore the tea for two designer series paper. I'm hoping to share this with lots of people and have a class planned including a tea caddy, cards plus lots of extra paper and card to take home. See my Classes page for more details. Here are the photos of my samples.

New Baby Easel Card   Here's an easel card I made to welcome baby Anna into the world. It is very simple to make these easel cards using framelits or bigz dies and they look so effective. All materials are from Stampin' UP and include -Stamp set - Easy events, colours whisper white, pretty in pink and primrose petals, modern label punch and word window punch.   

From now until the 21st January Stampin Up has a limited edition stamp set available. It's called "My Little Valentine" and costos £9.95. If you purchase the set, which is only available in clear mount, you get a pack of Simply Sent sealed with Love abolutely FREE. This is a fantastic offer and I will be posting details tomorrow of a class I will be running using both My Little Valentine and Sealed with Love. Today I have 3 samples of cards made using mainly  My Little Valentine and fashionable heart embosslits(available at £9.95) with a colour theme of raspberry ripple, primrose petals, pretty in ponk and whisper white. The cards shown below will feature in a drop in craft session starting soon at my local cafe. Watch out for more details. Hope you Like the cards.

CandleLight Christmas   I've been saving up my Candlelight Christmas papers as they are so lovely - in particular this flocked acetate - and almost too good to use. However they are no good in the box so here is the card I've made for my Mum and Dad which also uses early expresso tuille,an antique brad, greetings of the season stamp set and apothecary accents framelits.   One of the huge advantages of Stampin Up products is the colour co-ordination and this card showcases that perfectly with just 3 colours - real red, very vanilla and early expresso.   I've been pretty busy this week making lots of things. Last Friday I went to my first ever WI meeting. It was great and we made bath bombs so I came home and made lots more plus pretty boxes to put them in. I do have a tendancy to get obsessed by making different things and buying all the supplies necessry for a new craft so I am trying very hard to restrain myself from getting every ess...

Happy Hour Gift Tags             This evening my husband announces "oh I need a secret Santa present for tomorrow " and " have you any spare cards for my team" plus " I thought I'd give me team wine - but I don't like bottle bags - can you make anything? So we picked up the secret santa and wine while doing the weekly shop and I have just made these wine bottle tags pretty quickly. They were very easy and you get 3 of the bases from 1 sheet of A4 card. I've used my happy hour stamp set, Be of Good Cheer paper and punches, framelits. So perhaps after all my endeavours I deserve a glass of something sparkly myself. (I got the broad idea from a post on pinterest from a US demo called Susan Horn.)