I had a fabulous day at Stampin' Stars training on Saturday.
One of the great things about training apart from listening to Zoe Pearson and Natalie O'Sheas recent trip to the home of Stampin' Up! is to swap.  These girls all have wonderful ideas and it is a pleasure to share with them.

First up is my swap. I have used the Hearts Collection framelits which I recently acquired as I am not a heart sort of person! I have teamed it with the new Pretty Print Embossing Folder which will be available in the new catalogue from 29 August. So if you want one of these Seasonal Catalogues drop me an email.

Nicky

Stephanie-Emma, Sue H, Ginny, Sara

Pip, Sarah L, Katie

Rebecca, Gill, Cayleigh, Sarah M

Di, Pat

TeeJ, Teresa

Lisa, Paula, Cathryn

Christine

Lesley

Karen - a beautiful cover for a little notepad

Teresa

A big Thank You to all the ladies who came to our Catalogue Launch yesterday.

We had some lovely Make and Takes from Lesley, Cathryn, Pat and myself. The ladies each took home a little Thank You gift and had a pick at some retiring products.

One of the display stands

Showcasing the new In-Colours

M & T - Pat

M & T - Cathryn

M & T - Lesley

M & T - Nicky

Some of ladies doing their Make & Takes

And the little Take Home Gift, using the Milk Carton die and current DSP 

I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weather. I had a lovely day sitting by the River Thames watching the Kingston Regatta yesterday. Both my daughters row, so a compulsory bit of time out is obligatory. Yesterday was exceptional, I don't like it when the weather is not behaving!
I had a chance to play with the new stamp set 'Perfect Blend' at the weekend. I love this set, it is perfect to give to a friend for a pick me up.

 Using Modern Medley DSP as my background, I stamped some splotches with Gorgeous Grunge, in the new In Colour Baked Brown Sugar. I stamped the coffee cup on watercolour paper in Timber Brown Stazon. I then used my aqua painter to add colour, taking the ink direct from the ink pad. Then I added the sentiment lining it up using my stamp a ma jig on the RHS. The LHS sentiment I stamped and coloured and then cut out to add dimension. Both cups are attached with Dimensionals.  I had an empty coffee cup that I had been using  so I turned it upside down and dipped the rim on the ink pad to get the cup marks. Then some Linen Thread and a Natural Designer Button to finish.

 I added a bit of colour to this one. I love the depth of Bermuda Bay which is an old returning colour and it has joined Stampin' Up!'s Brights collection of colours.  Seam binding ribbon in Crumb Cake and 3 of the new Candy Dots in turquoise finish off this project.

I had some fun with this one. I cut out 2 masks using Post-It notes of the coffee cups. The base is Naturals Ivory card stock with some splotches from Gorgeous Grunge and on the LHS I added a strip from Soho Subway , a new DSP. I took just the word 'coffee' and repeatedly stamped it on the DSP.

I hope you like these projects. If you would like to order this set please email me at nickyjohncock@yahoo.co.uk