Cup of flowers

Hello bloggists, and welcome.

There aren’t many weeks left before the new Annual catalogue comes into play at the beginning of June - how time flies!

 One of the great privileges of being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator is that you get to see what’s coming ahead of time – and to get your hands on it early as well.  If you follow other SU demos, you’ve probably noticed projects made with some very yummy items indeed.

It also means that we’ll be saying goodbye to some old favourites, and items on the retiring list are being snapped up fast – I mean REALLY fast.  Retiring items are available only while stocks last, so if you see something you want, get it now – it might not be there if you come back later.

Today’s project uses a retiring DSP and stamp(boo!), and stamps and punches that are being carried over to the new catalogue (hooray!) Shaped cards are always fun to make and to receive, don't you think?

Here’s the tutorial –

If you like the shaped card, you can download a copy of the template here. 

Simply Sketched 19

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! 


We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. 

Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping.Here's this week's sketch, set by Heidi- 

This is what I've come up with -

I just wanted to play with the Brights DSP before it retires at the end of May, so I kept it fairly simple.  

Fancy seeing what Lynn's made of the sketch?  Just click below to go to the

Or if you're going through the hop backwards (it's a free country!) then you might want to visit Jillian at the 

Thanks for visiting, and do come back again soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

The best things in life are...sweet!

Hello Bloggists, and welcome!  Blogging has been a bit irregular lately - because I was part of the Pootlers  Birthday Blog this month, instead of blogging on Saturday I posted on Sunday.  The project I shared on Saturday I then posted to YouTube on Tuesday ...however, normal service has now been resumed!

I seem to have been making a lot of cards lately - so I thought it was time for a change.  Today I'm sharing this fold-flat box which I made to fit a bar of peppermint cream chocolate.  Emerald Envy was just the right colour and I got to use up some of my retiring supplies - bargain!

I wanted to show you how I measure and plan the box construction so there's quite a bit of measuring and so on involved in the tutorial.  (If you just want to jump to the actual making of the box, then skip to 11.52 in the tutorial)

I did make a bit of a boo-boo when I was filming this one and got the tuck-in flaps on the wrong edge.  It works OK but would be better if the glued edge was toward the back of the box.  The measurements and cutting plan for the box- with the flaps in the right place -  can be found here.

Thanks for visiting - please come again!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren