Wowsers! What a day I had yesterday - after weeks of preparations and then two evenings spent setting up the lounge and conservatory, the launch party finally arrived!
I had a fabulous day with lots of lovely ladies popping in the check out the new catalogue and take part in two projects :o) I hope a fun time was had by all, it was certainly fun for me.
Over the coming days and weeks I will be sharing with you projects from the launch party, plus other crafty creations I made for the event!
But today - it's New Catty Blog Hop time............... If you arrived here from Maggie's blog, then I hope you loved all she had to share with you. There are 37 hops on this blog in total. Hopefully all of the links will be working so you can get round in one big circle, but if you get stuck along the way there is a full list of all participants blogs at the bottom of this entry :o)
This first card was made for a new catty online swap. I went with the Posy Punch stamp set which is a new hostess set, and simply gorgeous. I teamed it up with one of the new In Colors called Lucky Limeade, which is just luscious............ and we also have a staring role for the new Lace Ribbon Border Punch. This punch is brilliant, with so many elements to it. I went with weaving 1/8" Daffodil Delight Taffeta Ribbon through the centre, the cutouts in the flowers are the perfect size for this ribbon.
I made 10 of these to send out for the swap, and I got some brilliant cards back which look great on my sample boards.
The second new catalogue item to show you isn't a card. I made these for the Regional Training I attended recently. They are Mini Post-It Keyrings - perfect for making notes and reminders!
I went with a Christmas theme and used a new stamp set called Tags til Christmas. All of the stamps in this set work perfectly with a whole range of the Stampin' Up! punches. They will make your Christmas wrapping so much easier!
This is a picture of the 45 key rings I made - and it didn't take that long, about 4 hours (and I was watching tv and being distracted at the same time!)
Here's a close up! I just loved this sentiment................
I went with Real Red card stock and ink, and then Old Olive for the Scallop Square punched piece. Finished off with a book ring and tied with 1/8" Real Red Taffeta Ribbon
My last item to share with you today uses the wonderful and fabulous NEW Designer Fabric that Stampin' Up! have added to this years catalogue. There are five different packs and each comes with three designs of fabric. I have used Timeless Portrait which has the colours Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla.
Having been to a recent team training event I have seen that there are so many things you can do with the fabric which don't even involve picking up a needle and thread, so please, if you are not a sewer, don't be scared of the fabric!
I have used it in my Big Shot with the Fun Flowers Die to cut layers of flowers in the three different designs. I have then layered them up and stitched them together (though you could hot glue them!), added a Designer Button and a fastening to make a gorgeous brooch.
I made 18 of these for yet another training event (it's a busy time of year!), and they went down really well. I found it made a nice change to move away from making a card and doing something a bit different. It inspired me and got me thinking about all sorts of other things I could do with Stampin' Up! products..............
Thanks so much for stopping by. I really hope you have enjoyed seeing the things I have been creating with some of the NEW products for 2011-2012......... If you like what you see then sign up to follow me and you will be notified whenever I post something new.
From here you can head on over to Elizabeth's lovely blog. She is simply fabulous so will have some wonderful things to wow you :o)
Enjoy the Blog Hop and your sunny Sunday
Julie xxx
