Spring Summer Catalogue is LIVE!!!

Morning everyone - are you as excited as me for the new catalogue???!!!

Not only do we have a new catalogue but also Sale-A-Bration (SAB for short) I explained how this works in an earlier blog post.

Basically until 31st March 2018 for every £45 you spend )not including P&P) in both catalogues and clearance rack, you get to choose an item from the SAB catalogue absolutely free. (there are a few items that require a £90 spend) Now thats AMAZING!

To download a pdf copy of the new catalogue and the SAB one follow this link.

Catalogues!

I have been busy over the Christmas holidays making new projects with these products. I am really excited to share these with you starting tomorrow :-)

Look out for my Tutorials every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday and I may even do some bonus ones as well.  I will also keep you up to date with any other news from Stampin Up as I get it. So why not subscribe to my blog to ensure you do not miss anything. If you would like a copy of the catalogues then please contact me either by leaving a comment or use the box marked contact me on the side bar. I would be very happy t send you a copy.

Right I am off to place an order and choose some free SAB items! See you tomorrow for a tutorial,

Gez xxx

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Stampin Up Bundle of Love Gift Box

New Year greetings today, hope you all had a lovely New Years day, we certainly did.

My project today is a bigger version of the 2x2x2 cube box I did on Thursday.

This box is made in the same way its just a bit bigger, this one is 2 inches high but 4 inches wide and long. So a much bigger box which would hole a very nice sized gift.

To make the box I used Extra Thick Very Vanilla Card Stock and the Bundle of Love Speciality DSP and some Gold Foil Card Stock for the second box. For the sentiment I used some Gold embossing powder to heat emboss the sentiment and the stamp set Labels of Love.

The measurements are:

Very Vanilla Box
Extra Thick Very Vanilla cardstock
8x8 for the top scored @ 2" on all 4 sides
7 15/16 x 7 15/16 or the base @ 2" on all 4 sides

To decorate:
Bundle of Love DSP
Top mat is 3 3/4 x 3 3/4
5 x Side mats 3 3/4 x 1 3/4

Sentiment:
Everyday Label Punch
Labels of Love stamp set
Versamark ink
Gold embossing powder

Ribbon
Gold Satin Ribbon (this is on clearance at the moment)

Once this box was made I decided to show you a stepped up version. For this I made the box in exactly the same way but I matted the Bundle of Love DSP with Gold Foil cardstock. I think you will agree this makes the DSP really pop.

The measurements for the mats are:

Gold Foil
Top mat is 3 3/4 vx3 3/4
5 x Side mats 3 3/4 x 1 3/4

Bundle of Love DSP
Top mat is 3 1/2 x 3 1/2
5 x Side mats 3 1/2 x 1 1/2

These mats were glues together and adhered to the box in the same way as before. Everything else was made in the same way as the original box.

See you again tomorrow for the launch of the new catalogue! Don't forget that today is the last chance for the Retiring Favourites.

See you soon

Gez xxx

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Host Code Explained

Happy New Year everyone 🎉

Thank you for joining me on the first post of 2018!

I just thought I would pop on today and explain the Host Code to you.

You may have noticed this in the top right hand corner of the my blog.

This is the Host Code that you will be asked for when placing an order.  If your order is £150 or more then you will get your own hostess code and you can pick what ever you want with your own Hostess rewards. For a £150 order that will be £15, you can use this to buy the exclusive hostess sets found at the end of the catalogue or choose what ever you want, you can go over this value and just pay the extra.

If your order is below £150 then please use the Host Code found on the top right hand corner of the blog. For January 2018 this is GFBQHTQU. 

What this allows me to do is order Host Rewards that I can then send out to all my customers as a thank you for shopping with me. Even if your order is over £150 and you qualify for your own rewards I will still send you a thank you product for shopping with me. All products will be Stamping Up and all with be brand new that I have chosen from the current catalogues. 

When placing your order you will see the box to enter the code marked Host Code, please put the code in the BLUE box. 

I hope that all makes sense to you! Remember also that Sale-A-Bration starts on January 3rd, so when you spend £45 you will also be able to choose a free item from the special catalogue. You still need to use the Host Code so I can send you extra free goodies as a Thank You 😊

See you again tomorrow with another tutorial,

Gez xxx

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Stampin Up Masking Thank you Card

Thank you for joining me today, I am bringing you a masking project. This is one of my entries for the team challenge over at Simply Stylish Stampers (Crafty Caroline's team, which I am a member of).

I have used the masks before with the embossing paste but here I am inking through the mask to give a subtle background to the card.

For this card I am using the Whisper White Note Cards. I have used the Mask that mimics the Eastern Palace suite, I sponged Sweet Sugar Plum ink onto the notecard building up the colour. I stamped the Thank You from the Eastern Beauty and used the Stitched Circle framelit die to cut this out. Then I used to dies from Eastern Medallions, I used two together where one does not cut all the way through to give an interesting effect. This was left stuck on the card and finished off with a Glitter Dot. 

I love it and I hope my customers like it too :-)

As well as this card those who used my Hostess code also receive some free Stampin' Up products as well as a thank you for shopping with me. I always send out a share of the hostess rewards to my customers to show my appreciation of them choosing me as their demonstrator and shopping with me. If you would like to shop with me then please click on my shop link below and remember to use the hostess code as this is what enables me to get the products for you. However if you are really treating yourself and spending more than £150 then you qualify for your own rewards (10% of the value of your order to spend on anything you like including the exclusive hostess stamp sets)

See you soon

Gez xxx

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Sale-A-Bration explained

Morning everyone and thank you for joining me today. I am currently away for the new year, I am staying in a lovely wooden cabin in the middle of a forest.  There was snow everywhere when we arrived and after a lovely meal and some bubbly I got in the bubbles of the hot tub! There is something very lovely about sitting in hot bubbly water out side when there is snow all around you and a lovely starry sky to gaze at (not that we actually saw many stars last night as it was a bit cloudy, but that means I have to do it all again tonight!

Anyway enough of that lets get down to Sale-A-Bration! If you have shopped with Stamping' Up before you will be aware of this annual event, if you are new than let me explain. From the beginning of January to the end of March every year Stamping' Up hold Sale-A-Bration it launches at the same time as the new Spring Summer Catalogue. During these 3 months Stamping' Up are giving away amazing FREE products for every £45 you spend (not including P&P) the products that are free are in the special little catalogue called Sale-A-Bration. This year they have added some extra special items that require a £90 spend but these are clearly marked in the  catalogue.

I am not yet allowed to show you these items but if you have shopped with me this year then you will have received one already. If you would like one and a copy of the new Spring Summer catalogue then leave a comment or send me a message and I will get one out to you in the post as soon as I am back from the new year break.

The £45 you spend can be made up of purchases from the new Spring Summer catalogue, the Annual catalogue to the clearance rack, once you order reaches £45 you will be prompted to make your selection from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. It's that easy to get you hands on some amazing exclusive products FREE!!!!

Starting in the new year I will be bringing you video tutorials of projects I have been making with these lovely free goodies, so be sure to look out for my blogs and watch my YouTube channel Nigezza Creates. 

Right well that is all from me today, hope you are having a lovely New Year weekend - see you tomorrow for a new tutorial :-)

Cheers

Gez!

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Gift box using Stampin Up Christmas DSP

Hi and thank you for joining me.  Today is not a Christmas project but it is using Christmas paper. This DSP is going to retire on Jan 2nd as the new catalogue is coming out on Jan 3rd, so it is on 'while stocks last'. I love this DSP as there are some great Christmas papers but also some all year round patterns as well. In this project I show how versatile the papers are.

The box measures 2x2x2 and is a cube. To make it you need a piece of card stock that measure 6x6 and a second pice 1/8th inch smaller so 5 7/8 x 5 7/8.

Each piece of card stock is scored @ 2 inches on all 4 sides.

The DSP to mat on the box is 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 - you need 5 of these squares.

I made the box in Cherry Cobbler

I used the black and white DSP and coloured the white with Cherry cobbler ink. I used a brayer to colour it but you could also use the Stamping Blends.

I made a bow with the Bow Builder Punch out of Cherry Cobbler card stock.

I really ike how it turned out, I hope you do too, see you soon with another project :-)

Gez xxx

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Masculine Birthday card using embossing paste

Thank you for joining me today when I am sharing my second play with the embossing paste.

Over at the Simply Stylish Stampers (Crafty Carolines Stamping Up Team) we have a challenge for December, the challenge is using masking techniques. So I decided that this was a good excuse to finally use the embossing paste.

For this second attempt I added glitter to the paste to give it some shimmer. I decided not to spread the paste over the whole Dapper Denim card blank to give it extra interest. I used the Diamond shaped Mask and matted a die cut with a Stitched Farmelit square turned on its side to mimic the diamond shape of the background. I used a die from the Eastern Medallions for the sentiment which was taken from Happy Birthday Gorgeous and finished off with the Glitter Gems. 

I hope you like this card, see you again soon :-)

Gez xxx

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