Free designer papers

Sale-a-bration may be over for another year, but those lovely people at Stampin' Up! HQ have given us a another freebie for April. For all orders over £45 you can choose 1 set of designer papers - absolutely free! Here are the available sets

Berry Blossom (from Spring Mini)

Nursery Nest

Pocket Full of Posies (Spring Mini)

Beyond The Garden

If you'd like to get your hands on some of these free papers, just contact me to place your order on niki.ridge.nr@googlemail.com.

Just to let you know - this isn't like Sale-a-bration where you got 2 freebies for £90 etc, so it's just one free set for any order over £45.

Stampin' Up! Scallop Dots Ribbon Share

Jusr found a few minutes to pop on to let you know about a new ribbon share. I've got 9 lovely colours of the scallop dots ribbon, and you can have a metre of each for just £8 including postage! I've got all the colours below except the black one. Please email on niki.ridge.nr@googlemail.com if you'd like some. I'll be throwing in some extra stripy grosgrain too!

My first wedding fair

Well, today I dipped my toe into the world of weddings! I took my invitation designs along to a wedding fair mainly to see what people thought of them - luckily they seemed to like them.! Here's a pic of my table at the fair. Spot the Stampin' Up colour coach at the front - it came in very handy during the day and looked extremely professional!

Stampin' Up! beveled window panes.

I've only just ordered these lovely little embellishments and wish I'd done it ages ago! They can make such a big impact on a card. I've used the gorgeous Sale-A-Bration papers 'Everyday Enchantment' (can be yours free with any order over £45!). I haven't wanted to cut them so far, but I think that this card is special enough to warrant it!

I also used some of the divine crochet trim, I think the whole thing has quite a nice vintage feel to it - what do you think?

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

DYSU - Things with wings
MSE - Spring
Crafters Companion - Spring
Cupcake Craftroom - Spring Bouquet
Sparkles - Things with Wings

Stampin' Up! Sale-a-Bration is here!

My first Sale-a-Bration as a demonstrator is here!

For those of you who don't know, from today until 31st March, for every £45 you spend you can receive one of the following gorgeous stamp sets or paper stacks absolutely free! Also, if you have a workshop that totals £300 or more, you also get a free set! I signed up as a demonstrator during Sale-a-Bration last year because you get to choose any stamp set from the catalogue too (can be up to £45 value!)

Here are the lovely stamp sets and papers that you can get your hands on for free!

This one is my absolute favourite - Sprinkled Expressions. The images look absolutely amazing in glitter!

This set is Elementary Elegance.  A beautiful set which co-ordinates with many other SU! sets, most notably Artistic Etchings.  Note that the inside of the main frame is tailor made for the Curly Label Punch (119851).

 This set is called Outlined Occasions and is perfect for any celebration you can think of.  It looks fab coloured in with blender pens where you can shade the lettering!

This one is called Fresh Vintage! You will notice that the square stamp has an outline - in the new mini catalogue there is a postage stamp punch to match!

There are even designer papers this year - these are called Everyday Enchantment and are just beautiful. The keen eyed amongst you will have noticed that they actually match the Fresh Vintage stamp set, so if you can stretch to £90 in sales they can both be yours!

Just contact me on 07877042498, or niki.ridge.nr@gmail.com if you would like to place an order or book a party.

Sail Away!

I always struggle with male cards, so when I saw that the girls at MSE had a challenge for a male card I thought I'd join in. I was so pleased when I remembered this great a la carte stamp from Stampin' Up- it's called Sail Away and perfect for the tricky male cards (and only costs £8.95!). I've used some retired designer paper on here - and one of my favourite Stampin' Up! products - linen thread!

Last chance for card class next week

I've got a couple of spaces left for my card class on Monday. Let me know if you'd like to book a space! Hop on to the 'Adult Classes' tab if you'd like to see what we'll be making.