I am stamping honest........

But I can't share !  Sorry.

I've been working on some commissions for magazine articles so they have to stay under wraps, I've been putting the final touches to my classes for the autumn and my hostess event at the end of September, none of which I can share with you, yet !

I can however share this little bit of a card...............it's for a very special lady but it's not her birthday until the 31st so I won't spoil the surprise but pop back and you will see it on Sunday.

I promise to have some more cards for you very soon.

Amanda's Inspiring Inkin' class list

This autumn I am running a series of papercraft workshops, in a local hall in Fareham, Hampshire.  If you would like to book a class, or to be included on my mailing list please email me your details               

 ajpapercraft@btinternet.com

I look forward to seeing you

Amanda x 

Mum and Me

Come on out with your kids for a morning of paper crafting and stamping fun! This is a creative event where you will have a lot of fun and make some beautiful projects to take home. Everyone will make a card handbag or a box with 4 cards and envelopes to fit inside, also a bookmark and a door hanger. All the materials needed will be provided and a drink and a snack (except glue, please bring a glue stick or roller).

10 – 1pm Saturday 13/09/08 (Booking closes 5/09/08)

Class cost £17.50 for mum and me, an additional ‘me’ (a maximum of 2 children per adult) are £7.50

This class is not suitable for children under 5.


Christmas cards made easy

Get a head start on your Christmas cards this year with this fantastic card making class. We will be making 14 cards, 3 each of 4 designs and 2 special cards to wow and amaze those special people in your life. The class fee includes a stamp set (value £20.95) and all the materials you need ( except glue). The class is all day, hot and cold drinks will be provided, please bring a packed lunch.

10 – 4pm £35 Saturday 11/10/08 (Booking closes 30/09/08)

9.15 – 3pm £35 Friday 17/10/08 (Booking closes 05/10/08)

Emergency Card Class

Make 12 cards and 2 boxes, perfect for a variety of occasions, to keep on standby or great for a gift! We will use stamps, stickers and diecut shapes to make beautiful cards. . All the materials needed will be provided (except glue).

10am – 1pm £15 Monday 3/11/08 (Booking closes 24/10/08)

Minibook

Have you wanted to start to scrapbook your photographs but not sure where to start? This is an ideal class for you. We will make a 6”x6” minibook and learn about choosing photographs, layouts, products and ways you can preserve your memories. All the materials needed will be provided (except glue).

10am – 12.30pm £15 Tuesday 18/11/08 (Booking closes 7/11/08)

5% discount on all Stampin’ Up! orders placed at any class.

Flutterby

It has been a while since I posted a tutorial so here you are, we made this card in my workshop at Newbury.

This uses the Stampin' Pastels and Versamark ink. Now the Stampin' Pastels are artist grade chalks and they come in a palette of our 48 colours along with neutrals as well. You can do lots of wonderful things with them but for this card we will use the Poppin' Pastels Technique.

Now you will see I have said you need to pounce your Pastels onto the versamark ink, think of a cat pouncing on a mouse!........ Do not rub or scrub with them until the colour is pounced into the ink you will just smear the ink and pastels everywhere and it will look messy!

This card fold is an 'M' fold with a smaller section at the front, one of my favourites of the moment.

Have fun!




Bold Butterfly

Taken with Teal card stock 29cm x 15.5cm scored at 9.5cm (mountain), 19cm(valley) and 24cm (Mountain) this give you an M shape.
Basic Black mats of 15cm x 9cm and 15cm x 4.5cm
Whisper White mats of 14.5cm x 8.5cm and 14.5cm x 4cm
Scraps of Taken with Teal, Basic Black and Whisper White for punched flower
Black gingham ribbon
Taken with Teal ink
Scallop punch
1” punch
1 ¼” Punch

1. Stamp the shadow stamp of the small butterfly randomly over the larger piece of Whisper White card with versamark ink and using sponge daubers and Taken with Teal pastels pounce the colour into the card, blow away excess pastels. Over stamp the matching butterfly outline image with Taken with Teal ink.
2. On the smaller piece of Whisper White card repeat using the shadow flower stamp and the flower outline stamp.
3. Mat the Whisper White stamped cards onto the corresponding Basic Black card and attach to the Taken with Teal card.
4. Wrap a piece of black gingham ribbon around the butterfly stamped mat and tie into a knot or bow. Stamp a sentiment onto a piece of Whisper White card and punch out with a 1" punch, Punch a 1 1/4" Basic Black circle and a scallop from Taken with Teal and mat to make a flower, stick this over the top of the ribbon to secure it in place.
5. Stamp the outline of the butterfly onto a scrap piece of Taken with Teal in White Stazon or Taken with Teal ink and glitter using 2 way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds, cut around the outline and using dimensionals mount onto the front of the card.

Happy Anniversary

A quick card for you, sometimes simple is the best!

Pixie Pink card and ink,Whisper White mat and ribbon and Happy Hearts stamp set.

3 offers for August

The are 3 special offers for August, a Stampin' Up! offer on Designer papers and  my special offers on orders made before 21st August and new demonstrators who sign up with my team by the end of August.

Check out the posts below or email me for more details         ajpapercraft@btinternet.com

How many candles?

Another simple card, the glitter on the candles take a few minutes but it is definately worth it!

I have stamped using Green Galore, Pink Passion, Summer Sun and Tempting Turquoise, the stamp set is Big Bold Birthday.

Z Fold Happy Birthday

One of my very favourite folds and a card using only the Big Bold Birthday set, you can see I have put images on all 3 visible sides.

Remember I have some special offers this month see earlier posts for details.

Sunny Birthday

In honour of the beautiful weather we've been having this a simple birthday card using Summer Sun card and ink and the Big Bold Birthday set, there are 3 more cards to follow in the coming days so please do pop back.

The flowers are made by stamping repeatedly from one inking and that gives you a total effect.  The smarties on the top of the cupcake and made using versamark ink and some clear embossing powder.

My Sizzling Summer offer

As a special offer for the summer, any orders placed with me by post or email between 1st – 20th August will have 10% discount and if your order is over £45 it will be postage free, orders less than £45 will be charged £2 for postage. I will place the orders on the 21st August, so your order will be with you by the end of the month.

Please email me ajpapercraft@btinternet.com for ways to pay.

Pick a pack of Pretty papers

The Stampin' Up! August offer is......................, if you buy three packs of Designer Series Paper, you'll get a fourth one FREE! Each pack retails at £8.50 and includes 12 double-sided sheets (two each of six designs).  You will find the papers on pages 72 & 73 of the catalogue.

It is sold as a bundle item No 114425 and there is no limit to the number of bundles you have!

13.........Lucky for me !........and for you !

Wow my team is now 13, well done to Marilynn who has signed up Lorna so now Inspiring Inkin' reaches the very tip of the UK, Penzance to be exact!

This is such a wonderful job and if you are looking for work that can fit around your family, employment or other commitments that allows you to be creative every day and share what you love doing this is definately the job for you! The starter kit is an amazing £265 worth of product that you get for £155 please email me ajpapercraft@btinternet.com    for more details.

So to celebrate my lucky 13 I'm offering a £30 product bonus to anyone joining my team during August, now that can be direct to me or as a downline to any of my current team.  You can choose your goodies from any part of the catalogue......so don't wait!

Watch out for more special offers in August!

Back from Newbury

Newbury was a fantastic show, I met lots of lovely crafters and I had a full workshop of 10 lovely ladies, it was really hot that day so thank you so much for coping in the heat!  Pictures of the workshop will follow in the next few days.

My fellow demonstrators and I all made stamped items for our goodie bags and the pictures below are some of the items I made, a card, a bookmark (giant paper clip), a chocolate favour and a notebook. All simple designs but lovely.

You will also see the made with love stamp on the back.  Stampin' Up! is an 'Angel' company which means it is happy for you to sell your creations using Stampin' Up! images but you need to have a copyright Stampin' Up! sign on the product, they can only be hand stamped images but there is no limit to the number of products you can make.  We sell a lovely stamp set with them in, but I always have my set of these stamps available to my customers if they wish to borrow them.

You only have 2 more days to take advantage of the extra special sign up offer from Stampin' Up! of a free stamp set of your choice from the catalogue, email me for more details and see the post below.

So much news.......

My Stampin' Up! team just keep growing!

In the past few weeks we have welcomed Katie, Sian, Hazel, Marilynn, Hayley and Sharon to the team so we are now 11 strong, we are located over all of the UK from Scotland to Cornwall.  We have a team name

Inspiring Inkin'

each one of us loves stamping and sharing creativity. Our work as Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrators is quite simply the best job in the world.  You still have a few weeks to take advantage of the free stamp set sign up offer see my post here for more details.

Newbury Art Stamps Show - I have teamed up with 4 other demonstrators to hold workshops and have a stand at the show this weekend 26th and 27th July we will have a prize draw, constant demo's throughout both days and workshops, look out for our goodie bags they are fantastic value and have a money off voucher inside too!  We can take orders on the day and your crafting goodies will be delivered to your door.

I'll be posting pictures of my goodie bag contents over the next couple of days.

I'll be there on the Sunday 27th, so hope to see you.

Watch out for Stampin' Up! in Prima magazine, I know many of you love Prima magazine for all it's wonderful articles, Stampin' Up! will be featured over the coming months so do pick up a copy.

If you are on my mailing list you will have received through the post a copy of my latest news letter and my class list for the Autumn.  If you would like a copy  please email me your full address and I'll pop one in the post to you.    ajpapercraft@btinternet.com

3 cards 1 design

These are very simple yet fab cards. It's funny how designs come in and out of fashion even in the paper crafting world..........I've been teaching this design for several years ( usually at Christmas) but it has cropped up on lots of blogs just recently.

So for those of you that haven't discovered this yet here are the instructions

1 piece of Whisper white card stock 4" x 11 1/2" ( this way you get 2 out of an A4 sheet)

Score this at 1 3/4", 3 3/4", 5 3/4", 7 3/4" and 9 3/4"

You then score on a diagonal line, have the card stock horizontally in front of you and score from the top left score line to the bottom of the middle score line. Then from the top of the middle score line to the bottom of the far left score line. You will end up with a cross that meets in the middle of the second score line in. Repeat on the other side.

It may sound complicated but it really isn't, if you need pictures leave me a post and I'll photograph some for you over the weekend.

Now stamp randomly over the card stock, fold and crease along all the score lines. You then fold in the sides to make a diamond shape in the centre and the triangle sections tuck underneath, the 2 end straight sections fold forwards to hold the card upright.

Now decorate the front as desired.

For the Taken with Teal card I have used Seeing spots stamp set and Circle of Friendship.

The Green Galore Card is using the Unfrogettable stamp set, the frogs eyes are half pearls from the pretties kit with a black spot for a permanent marker pen.

The Summer Sun card is using Bold Butterfly Stamp set and the fantastic heat and stick powder, if you are going to The Newbury Show at the end of the month come visit me at the Stampin' Up! stand with some other fantastic demonstrators and I'll demonstrate it for you!

Join in JULY !

Would you like to join a fantastic home-based business that allows you to set your own hours around your family or work, make fantastic new friends and share your passion for stamping and scrapbooking?

Stampin’ Up! allows you to meet your individual goals, whether you want to build a full or part time career, earn money to buy your crafting supplies or just buy products at a discount.

Stampin’ Up! provide their Demonstrators with amazing business and creative support, with regular training sessions, monthly workshop ideas and a magazine, and a great demonstrator web site. Together with my support, a team website, project ideas and training, achieving your dreams are just an email away!

I have a fantastic time running home workshops and classes, sharing my passion for stamping and I get such a sense of achievement when I know that someone discovers the enjoyment and creativity that stamping offers. I would love to share this fantastic opportunity with you!

My commitment to you, is to support you to achieve your goals and dreams with Stampin’ Up! Join my team and receive unlimited support, ideas and have loads of laughter and fun! 

I have 8 demonstrators in my team and we are spread all over the UK so email me for more info!!          ajpapercraft@btinternet.com

Join Stampin' Up! now and you'll recieve an additional free stamp set of your choice, but hurry this offer is only to the end of this month.