Sneak Peek......

Woohoo!
Have finally finished my swaps for next weekends SU Convention at Addington Palace! I made 170 in the end as I was getting carried away with cutting & sticking and couldn't stop till had run out of various bits n pieces!
Here's a sneak peek at what I have made...
You will have to wait till after next weekend to see what I made & hopefully the swaps I am looking forward to receiving to get more ideas for classes.


Off to do my homework for work tomorrow as have a Training Day at work & have my SLA & SAR to write!

Enjoy your Halloween evening tonight..

Happy Haunting......

Teresa xx

Serene Snowflakes Class..

Here's the piccies from the class I held on Friday.

We made a couple of cards & a sweet treat holder, using the Serene Snowflakes stamp set & the a couple of the new SU colour inks pads.

Items Used:

Serene snowflakes; Snow Flurries & Occasional Sentiments stamp sets
Pacific Point; Bashful Blue; Marina Mist & Platinum Inks
Whisper White; Pacific Point; Bashful Blue & Marina Mist cardstock.
Stick & stamp, Dazzling Diamonds; Oval circle & Scallop punches;ribbon etc.


The treat bag was from one made by the talented Makeesha Byl, who is a very talented SU demo in Australia.
I am afraid you will have to imagine what the square card looked like, as I cannot find my sample, so I think one of the ladies must have an extra card! However you get the idea from the worksheet I gave them to take. With this card we stamped the snowflake 3 times & cut out to build up the design, rather like a medallion stamp.
I am so loving this stamp set and these new colours...

Am off now to finish my swaps for the SU Convention next weekend & to try to get Bella in, as we have been trying all night to get her in for the past couple of hours, as there have been fireworks going off here. We manged to get next doors 2 cats, but no sign of Bella yet.

Happy crafting....

Teresa xx

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Me again- 2 posts in succession! What's going on?
Please excuse the photo quality- I was messing around with the lighting in the room,trying to get a Halloweeny feel to the picture(thats my excuse & I'm sticking to it!!)

I made a card for last weeks challenge over at Penny Black, which was Spooky Nights, but didn't get to post it & enter the challenge- so I thought I would use it for this weeks challenge- week 125, which is "Zig zags or Triangles". I think this might qualify,as there is a triangle with his hat & some in the border. The card is on the right of the picture next to Bella Blue, who thought it would be great to get in on the picture and play with the sweets I had put around for added effect! However when I wanted to take some pictures of her, she was having none of it & got off the work top.
The other card is one with images cut from one of my Cricut cartridges- think it was "Paper doll Dress Up"

Items Used;

Doodlebug paper; Penny Black stamped & water coloured image; Halloween downloaded sentiment, which was glazed with Glossy Accents; Nestabilities frame; Cuttlebug Pumpkin embossing folder; Martha Stewart border punch; glitter glue.


The other cards were some other cards that I made last year, using assorted Penny Black & Magnolia stamped images,with Quickutz sentiments; assorted papers, ribbons, buttons, rub ons etc from my stash.
I love this Penny Black stamp & the itsy bitsy spider.
I have brought a couple of new Halloween stamps, but haven't got around to using them yet- oh well, have to wait to next year!

Happy crafting, see again soon.....

Teresa xx

SU Open day

Good evening everyone- hope you are enjoying this pre Halloween evening! Am waiting for some knocks on the door- but none so far- perhaps we will be visited tomorrow night! The candy pot & decorations are all ready!

Thought I would post a couple of pictures from the new SU Catalogue Open Day that I held the other weekend.
I had 8 ladies crammed round my table- not a lot of space I can tell you! They took away 2 completed Make & Takes with them. What was nice was that they were all new to crafting(apart from faithful Mum, who always comes up to help & support me), and said they enjoyed themselves and were up for some classes! Plenty of work ahead then thinking what to do for novice card makers!

The table shows the a few of the new colour ink pads & cards stock, with a couple of the new unmounted stamp sets. Loving these new stamp sets!
It also shows a sample board I made up with the swaps I got at the SU training evening last month. There are also projects that have been made in classes, from the SWU on line classes and classes I have held.

I will post some pictures of the class I had here yesterday afternoon, where we used the new Serene Snowflakes & new colour card /ink pads.

New SU Catalogue Launch Open Day.....

Not long to go now..........!

The new catalogue is launched this Friday 1st Oct. Yea! I hear some say! I have had a sneak preview of the new catalogue and can tell you there are some scrummy new products in there- so many, I want them all! LOL!

On Saturday 9th Oct,(previously posted as Sat 2nd Oct) I will be holding an Open day at my house, so you too can get a look at the new catalogue!

I will be having Make & Takes, Raffle prizes, refreshments, samples from the new catalogue, and you have the opportunity to get your hands on a catalogue too! The cost will £6.00, to include a new catalogue. If you put a £45.00 order in from the new catalogue, I will refund the £6.00.

I will need to know how many are definitely coming along, so I know I have enough Make & Take packs made up, and enough catalogues to hand- so please contact me if you would definitely like to come along. Contact me at: teresa.cain@btinternet.com

Details:
Date: Sat 9th Oct
Time: 11.00am to 3.00pm
Venue: my house- contact me for directions
Confirm place & approx time coming along by: Mon 4th Oct

If you want to come along, but not take part in the Make & takes, then you are more than welcome- please still let me know if you would like to come.

Looking forward to seeing you there.......

Teresa x

Did You Miss Me?????........

I suppose not! Sorry I have been a very bad blogger of late- so many things going on at the moment & not had the creative flow going.

I just wanted to remind everyone that I am holding the Christmas Stationary set class this Friday- 24th Sept, if anyone would like to come along. The pictures are on the posting below. It is not as difficult as you think it looks- if I can make it, then you can!
I am also holding a raffle for the Macmillan Coffee Day, so if you come along, you will be supporting this worthwhile cause too.

I am also holding an Open Day on Saturday 2nd Oct for the launch of the new SU catalogue- i have a preview copy of the catalogue & there is absolutely tons of scrummylicious new stuff jam packed into it! I want it all!!! I will post more details late- please come along as I will be having create & takes, raffle prizes, refreshments and the chance to see some of this new scrummyness!

I will also show you some of the fantastic swaps I had when I went to my first Regional SU Training event last night- there are some seriously talented SU Demos out there!

Catch you later, happy crafting....

Teresa x

Last Change to buy.......SU Retired List

Sorry I have been AWOL for a while- had a holiday, back to work, extension being built- usual things to keep you distracted from crafting!
The list is out for those products that are retiring from the existing catalogue, ready for all the new & exciting goodies in the new catalogue out on October 1st. Once these items are out of stock, that's it, they're gone, so get them while you can- if there was something you were looking at before & were waiting to buy- have a look at the list -it might be retiring, or already gone! SU Retired List

If you would like anything, then contact me, with your order.

I have changed the date for the Stationary holder from the 8th Sept to 24th Sept- I will also be doing something for the Macmillan Coffee day that evening- so please come along- have some fun crafting & support a good cause.

Happy crafting,

Teresa xx