Come Stamp With Me: Colourful Cards Workshop in Portishead

It is with a lot of excitement and some trepidation that I'm sharing with you that I have booked my first workshop in the UK:

Sunday June 16th

Avon Way Hall in Portishead, North Somerset. Just south of Bristol.

It's a Papercrafting Workshop where we will be making 2 cards and 1 decorated notebook in a relaxed and fun atmosphere. Open to new and experienced crafters. We will be using a range of stamping and colouring techniques.

All materials for making the projects are included.

Coffee, tea and water will be provided.

We will start at 10.30 and finish at 12.45

Costs £12.50 incl. materials and drinks.

Plenty of parking space available and an access ramp.

Sign up by sending an email to sgortzak@yahoo.co.uk

Amazing Life Masculine Valentines Card

So my hubby appreciates a handmade card but not a pink one with lots of hearts and frills:-) Which is good because I realised last night that I don't really have much in the way of hearts m in my stash. So I went through my stamp sets to look for a suitable alternative: something genuine but not too mushy if you know what I mean:-)

I came across the Amazing Life stamp set that has this hand lettered feel to to it and found the perfect sentiment. I heat embossed it in white on some Wood Textures DSP and adhered all that to a white card base. It looked pretty good but it was missing something....

So back in my stash I dove to look for a die that might provide a little pop of colour. And I found it in the Everyday Jars Thinlits Dies. That set has this a little strip of itsy bitsy HEARTS! And that was exactly what this card needed: a tiny little red heart:-)

Happy Valentine's Day lovely people!

Vintage Leaves and Serene Scenery Paper Stack - Match Made in Heaven?

You may remember that I was determined to use up my Serene Scenery Paper Stack (see this blogpost from August) and I am happy to report I have found another good match! Last week after I had been making my Hardwood Maple Leave card. I had die cut quite a few different leaves and had stamped them as well but didn't use them for that project so they were lying on my craft desk when I said down to make some Project Life cards with the Serene Scenery Paper Stack. Only I never got around to Project Life because I realized I could do something fab if I combined one of the papers from the Serene Scenery Paper Stack with my die cut Vintage Leaves:

Love how this turned out. The multi-coloured leaves were made by sponging different colours of ink onto my Vintage Leaves stamps using sponge daubers. I love how daubers give a light layer of colour and you get a  gradual blend of colours. I made sure to start with the lighter colours first and green last so I wouldn't get any dark Garden Green in my Delightful Dijon:-)

Supplies used:

You can find all supplies and more in my Stampin' Up! webshop: http://tinyurl.com/shopsonjagortzak

My offer to refund you your P&P for orders placed over € 60/£50 with me is valid until Dec. 31st 2016. After you have placed and paid for your order just send me an e-mail: sgortzak@yahoo.co.uk

Alternatively you can also e-mail me your order at sgortzak@yahoo.co.uk

I can sell to any European country where Stampin' Up! is active: United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Austria. If you are in the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia or New Zealand you can contact a local demonstrator and they will be happy to help you.

Stampin' Up! Leaves Framelits Autumnal Window Birthday Card

Hello Autumn!

My favourite season of the year. And I have a simple and chic card for you using one of the Leaves Framelits dies and the Hardwood background stamp:

To re-create this card you start by making the background: Sponge Delightful Dijon, Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red inks onto a Thick Whisper White cardstock base. (I use a wedge of the Stampin Sponges.) You then stamp the Hardwood background stamp over the background in Cherry Cobbler. You then take a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock just a little bit shorter (5 mm) than your card base and die cut the maple leave from the Leaves Framelits die set. Make sure you center your die cut and cut it from the top 3/4 of your card stock. Then stamp your sentiment at the bottom in Cherry Cobbler. Seperate the sentiment from the die cut and adhere to the background using lots of dimensionals:-) Be sure to leave a little gap between top and bottom for the background to peep through.

The sentiment came from the Wetlands stamp set. I really love the font, don't you?

I have entered this card into Take it, Make it Challenge at one of my fave craft Magazines: Craft Stamper. Always so full of good stuff!

Supplies used:

 

You can find all supplies and more in my Stampin' Up! webshop: http://tinyurl.com/shopsonjagortzak

My offer to refund you your P&P for orders placed with me for over € 60/£50 is valid until Dec. 31st 2016. After you have placed and paid for your order just send me an e-mail: sgortzak@yahoo.co.uk

Alternatively you can also e-mail me your order at sgortzak@yahoo.co.uk

I can sell to any European country where Stampin' Up! is active: United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Austria. If you are in the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia or New Zealand you can contact a local demonstrator and they will be happy to help you.