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September Goodies!

Three great goodies are coming your way in September!

  1. Starter Kit Promotion
  2. My Birthday Party Live Week
  3. Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

Starter Kit Promotion

This new promotion has been designed to give any new members who sign up in September a kick start into their Stampin’ Up! demonstrator life, giving additional product to get started right away. The additional product includes pre-cut paper, two stamp sets, and embellishments but is only offered for a limited time.

So, if you join my team in September, not only will you receive the above, you will also get £130 / 175 € of product for your starter kit and you shall also receive a business kit including catalogues!

My Birthday Party Live Week

From Monday 7th September, to celebrate my birthday, I shall be launching a special week of Facebook Lives. During this week, I will be live every day at 7:30 pm on my Facebook page – click here to view my page. I will cover a variety of projects including Fancy Fold, 3D boxes, bags and cards. Please feel free to join me live where I shall be answering any questions put to me – or you can watch them back afterwards, as all videos shall be uploaded onto my Youtube channel. There will also be a giveaway – more details for this will be explained in due course!

Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine

It has been known for a little while that Stampin’ Up! were working on a new die cutting machine and it is well worth the wait! From 1st September, you will be able to get your hands on your very own machine. It’s very easy to use, allowing intuitive die-cutting and embossing. All plates are labelled with a number for easy reference when building a sandwich.

The machine is light (1.22kg / 2.7lbs) and convenient to craft on the go – the platforms fold in to make transporting easy (and takes up less space when storing). When purchasing the machine, you get the plates required to get started, you will receive:

  • 1 Base Plate (Plate 1)
  • 1 Die Plate (Plate 2)
  • 2 Cutting Plates (Plate 3) and
  • 1 Specialty Plate (Plate 4)

So as you can see, some amazing things ongoing in September – which you can be a part of! Please don’t hesitate to ask me how.

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Matchbox Library Part 2

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In our last blog post, we made the matchboxes to hold our embellishments – but in their current form, once weighted with goodies, they may fall over and become troublesome. To overcome this and make sure they acted as a desk tidy, I created a container big enough to hold all seven of my boxes neatly and keep them upright.

I didn’t go overboard with decoration on the container as where it is located on my desk means 3 sides aren’t visible, so I went with a simple rainbow of matching colours on the front. The off cuts are the same size as the card behind the letters.

The container has a reinforced front and rear to give extra protection and provide a little extra stability once placed on a desk waiting to be used. I love mine and couldn’t wait to share it with you. Of course, if you wish to add more or less matchboxes, the measurements can be altered to suit!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Measurements:

  • A full EU A4 sheet of card stock

Scoring:

  • Long Side: 2 inches on both sides.
  • Short Side: 1, 2, 51/8, 71/8 inches.

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Penguin Birthday

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My son turned 11 last month – he’s absolutely penguin mad, so his card every year is always penguin related in some way. The launch of the new Autumn / Winter was perfect timing for me to make his card this year, especially with the inclusion of the Freezin’ Friends Bundle. The gorgeous penguin from this set made this year’s birthday card very easy.

After making 6 penguins (one for each letter of my son’s name), I paired the penguins up with paper from the ‘Magic in this Night’ Designer Series Paper (DSP) and his favourite colour, Real Red.

My sentiment is die cut from the ‘Well Written’ dies and stuck on using the adhesive sheets to turn the die cut into a sticker – much easier for those smaller, fiddly dies and stops you getting glue everywhere.

My son absolutely loved the card and is now pride of place on his desk.

Do you have a favourite animal? Is there a stamp set for that animal?

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Monochrome Love

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Do you often find that making a masculine card is more difficult than making one for a female recipient? I know I do. I try to set myself a challenge that 1 in every 10 cards must be purposely masculine – this way I’ve always got a masculine card for when I need it. I will confess, it’s no easy challenge.

I start by looking through the Designer Series Paper (DSP) available to me in my collection and pick out any masculine patterns. This particular one is from the Peony Garden DSP and the pattern meant I could let that be the focus of the garden with a simple sentiment to finish it off.

The sentiment is from a great stamp set called ‘Banner Year’, it includes many different images and sentiments to suit all occasions – including the little heart, which is so cute! I then finished it off with my favourite embellishment in this year’s Autumn Winter Catalogue – the iridescent pearls!

What do you think? Do you make many masculine cards?

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Snowflakes One Sheet Wonder

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Gotta love a One Sheet Wonder, you get to make gorgeous cards with beautiful paper and only use a single sheet of it, meaning you have loads left for other projects! The paper in this One Sheet Wonder is from the Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper (DSP), it has gorgeous set of colours – nothing too traditional and looks almost inspired by the film, Frozen. Absolutely gorgeous.

To make this One Sheet Wonder, I cut my DSP into three 4 inch strips. Then I cut at every 31/2 inches down each strip resulting in 3 pieces of DSP ready for your card fronts. I backed mine onto a layer of Misty Moonlight and then onto a card base of Thick Whisper White cardstock.

Finally, I added a gorgeous sentiment using Balmy Blue Glimmer paper and finished them off with the Blue Adhesive-Backed Gems. I’m really pleased with the results and have found a very quick way to make customer thank you card for any future shoppers.

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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