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Sweet Threads

Today's post is showcasing one of the two cards that can be made using the Sweet Threads Simply Sent Kit that can be found on page 22 of the Spring/Summer Catalogue.  This kit includes 8 printed cards (4 of 2 colours), 8 white envelopes, 8 die cut patterned pieces (needle holes prepiereced, embroidery floss, needles and some Stampin Dimensionals. For this card I used a sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Sentiment set but if you don't have any small sentiments this does come with a...

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Friend to Friend

On Saturday I talked about the friendships that are made between demonstrators  these are not only made within in teams but through various events that we attend. Today I am going share with you a card that was waiting for me when I got home last week I had been talking with Charlie (aka Mrs C) the other week about the new  Oh Whale!  stamp set and matching die and mentioned that I hadn't got it and it was towards  the bottom of  my wish list .......and yes there...

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Scrapbookin’ On Sunday

Scrapbookin' On Sunday is having to  take a break this week as I'm playing catch up with myself.......... This is due to the fact that I planned to spend Saturday afternoon Scrappin' but found myself having to tidy up  the front room after the man from Virgin had been  to look at the little black box ........and guess what No fault could be found so we're still trying to work out whats going on with our TV!! But I can share some pictures that were taken Friday Evening when we...

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Sharing what you Love

Today I am going to share with you a picture of some decorated notebooks that I made for my new team members last month, as part of their welcome gift from me. The DSP is from the Patio Party Series.....I  so need to use this some more Sale-a-Bration is a wonderful time to join my team - you get an additional 25% in your kit!  This means you can choose the products you want to the value of £162.50 for just £99. You also get business supplies worth £45 and free post and packing on...

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Happy 18th Birthday………….

Heidi I can't believe that my baby is 18 today......... This was taken last year at her School prom which is one of  a series of photographs that I am just about to put onto a scrapbook pages........ I can't find any really embarrassing baby photo's of her (they're packed in boxes)  but I would like to share these with you as well. Well must get on and make myself look presentable as we're out for a slap up meal to celebrate.

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Patterned Occasions Card

After having a rather busy day at work yesterday, being moaned at by Frank for leaving the table messy I then quickly tided it up before rushing out to my card class. I managed to create a quick card to share with you  using one of the Sale a Bration stamp sets. I can't show you any of the cards we made as I have another class next week and I don't want to spoil their surprise. I used the same colours that I did last time I used this image, as my uncle is recovering from an operation and...

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Delightful Dozen Collection

Today I am sharing with you the cards that we made at my last Saturday special class using the Delightful Dozen Stamp and Natural Composition DSP As the Natural Composition  has a variety of different   embossed patterns, we used different techniques to colour them with inks.  For this card we used sponges and blended the colours together. Here we applied colours using blender pens to the flowers and for the brown on the fleur-de -lis we used...

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Fancy a little of everything………

in the new catalogue?? then I may just have the answer for you  SPRING/SUMMER CATALOGUE SHARES You can have as many shares of each group as you would like – If you order all three shares, then postage will be a flat £2.50 Paper Share 24 sheets designer paper (6 – 6x6 sheets of 4 different designs) 12 sheets Print Poetry paper stack(4 1/2 x 61/2) £6.25 collected OR £7.25 posted Accessory Share 1 strip - Approx 25 roses – Roses Ribbon Trim 6 paper doilies 3 of 2 designs Crepe Filter Paper...

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Scapbookin’ On Sunday

Yay  I managed to get on to my laptop found out what the problem was so hopefully things will be OK now (she says finger's crossed) For this week's Scrapbookin' On Sunday I'm going to share with you a Hidden Gem in the Annual Catalogue and that is the 12x12 Divided Page Protectors and can be found on page 169. You get 10 assorted pages which hold a variety of photo sizes and they really do make scrapbooking effortless and quick as well as allowing you to create...

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Opps!!!

Typical I wanted to up load some photo's of some cards that I made using the stamp sets from the new Spring/Summer Catalogue,but they're on my laptop and its playing up. So instead I'm going to share with you a couple of my favourite things from the catalogue which are the Honeycomb Embossing folder and the New Colour Co-Ordinations cardstock - Real red, Primrose Petal and Pool Party. Here's a photograph taken from the catalogue showing these items being used with the Heart a Flutter stamp set...

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New Spring/Summer Catalogue

Ladies and Gentlemen today I can share with you this years Stampin' Up Spring/Summer Catalogue  Its fully of lovely goodies if you click on the image in the side bar this will take you to the on line version, if you would prefer a copy then please email sue@frankiesuestampin with your name, address and telephone number and I'll pop one in the post to you. Here is a card that I have cased using just a few of the new items in the Spring/Summer Catalogue - Ciao Baby and Collage Curious stamp...

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