Late Blossom-er!

Well I can't say that I was a late blossom-er, in many aspects of my life, but sometimes things have passed me by and I have thought 'Hey! Why didn't that happen for me?' or maybe 'Hhhmmm! I wish I had taken advantage of that offer!'. So as we go in to the last few days of the fantastic 'Stampin' Up!' Promotion of 'Sale-A-Bration' please take my advice and dont forget to take part, you can.......

For every £45 you spend you can earn one of 17 different items for FREE

And this year you can select 6 different existing catalogue items - how fantastic is that!

You can view them HERE!

But more importantly the best offer during SAB is to....

 If you join my team during Sale-A-Bration

(22nd January - 22nd March)

You will get an extra 25% worth of product FREE,

in your Starter Kit!

This means £162.50 worth of product

for only £99!

AND you also get a free business pack

worth £45!

Its the best deal on the Starter Kit out there!

Over £200 worth of SU craft Stash of your choice for £99!!

To sign up all you have to do is click HERE and you can join my team online!

BUT ARE YOU A 'LATE BLOSSMER'????

Have you been waiting, contemplating, maybe holding back because you are a little nervous?

It is not too late!

And to make it even more worthwhile,

if you sign with me,

I will give you 3,

of the exclusive Sale-A-Bration Gifts

And an SU shopping bag to put them in!

If you would like any further info, about this then please send me an email:

sally-johoughton@hotmail.co.uk

And we can arrange a convenient time,

for me to call you.

Anyway..... in honour of the 'Late Blossm-er!' post title, I will leave you with the Scrapbook layout I created for my Daughter- Heathers Birthday the other weekend, I can't take credit for the lovely candid shot of  Heather and her Pony- Maggie, having a kiss in the show ring, it was taken by the lovely Beth Eastham- of Just Be Photography.

I have fallen in love with many things out of the SU Spring Seasonal, 

but the 'Feel Goods' sentiments work really well withmy annual cattie stash too!

A 'decorative label punch'and a 'Stamp & write marker' to add the time and date detail.

 A sentiment that 'Feels Good'!

  The gorgeous vintage chintz look with 'Stippled Blossoms' from the annual cattie and

some stitching from my old hand powered singer.

 A little background detail with the text & splatters from 'French Foliage'.

 Had to get a few hat pins in there!!

And here it is in my rummaged frame.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my ramblings,

thanks once again to Beth, for this charming picture,

and please dont leave it too late, get in touch and make it happen!

Love

Sally-Jo

xXXx

SALE-A-BRATION 2013

Sale-A-Bration-

Stampin’ Up!’s premiere promotional event,

Is an annual party......

With loads of free products!

This year’s party is better than ever—

We’re celebrating our 25th anniversary!

So put on your party hat and...

BYOC (bring your own confetti)!

Sale-A-Bration +  Stampin’ Up!’s 25th anniversary = the best time to host a Stampin’ Up! party!

• Get one FREE Silver Glimmer Paper when you host a 200 €/£150 workshop!*  
• Get a FREE hostess bundle when you host a 425 €/£300 workshop!* 

Hostess Bundle Details:

The Hostess Bundle includes

• Madison Avenue stamp set (wood- or clear-mount)
• Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper
• Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Pack

*Offers are not incremental (i.e., a hostess does not receive two packages of Glimmer Paper for a 400 €/£300 workshop or two bundles for a 850 €/£600 workshop).

Love to shop?

How about shopping & getting rewarded?

Welcome to Sale-A-Bration!

All my customers may choose any one product from the Sale-A-Bration brochure,

for every 60 €/£45 they spend*

This year’s offering includes exclusive stamp sets and accessories, as well as a selection of catalogue stamp sets, ribbon, buttons, and even an embossing folder!

Now, more than ever-

there’s something for everyone!

View the Sale-A-Bration brochure 

HERE

*Excluding shipping & handling

Sale-A-Bration +

Stampin’ Up!’s 25th anniversary = 

25% more Starter Kit products..... For FREE!

You can join, just to get an instant discount off your SU purchases or you may wish to  build a fantastic business based around your creativity, family and free time.

 You choose EXACTLY what you want out of the current catalogues-

right down to the last penny!

AND FOR 2 MONTHS ONLY YOU CAN CHOOSE

£162.50 WORTH OF PRODUCTS

FOR ONLY £99

DURING OUR SALE-A-BRATION PROMOTION!

And that doesn't even include the ample amount of business supplies, including catties, which are included for free!

I would love to talk, to you, about becoming an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Email me: sally-johoughton@hotmail.co.uk

If you are in Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands or the UK,

we can arrange for me to call you,

at a time that's convenient to you.

Not only has it revolutionised my crafting,

it has opened the door to endless possibilities and I would love to share this experience with you. 

Whatever you desire out of 'Stampin' Up!'-

I will do my best,

to help you succeed and to.....

I look forward to hearing from you Sally-Jo

xXx

Sale-A-Bration Order Deadlines:
By Phone or Email Direct to me- Sally-Jo Houghton:
Friday, 22 March 2013; 12:50 (CET) in the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Germany / 12:50 (GMT) in the UK.

Dipping my toe in the water..............

OK! it's a Sunday morning, I have been up  since before ten and I am dipping my toe in the pool of blog land and doing a post! One of the main reasons for this was being asked to take part in my lovely SU mummy- Julie Kettlewells' team newsletter, and produce a make or two.

Now I haven't stopped crafting  if anything I have crafted just as much, and my love for Stampin' Up! has grown even deeper, I just didn't feel in the mood to sit and tippy tap at the keyboard and tickle blogger into playing along, so apologies to those that have missed me, I am hoping to get on here once a week and feel the love for blogging once again, feel free to check out my Facebook page too and click on the like button too, when I get to 200 likes I will tell my convention story, which involves Shelli being less then 10 metres from my knickers!

Anyway now for the stuff you most likely,

came to take a look at....

I have created a small A6 card and a 12x12" layout,
using two new stamp sets from the:

2013 Spring/ Summer Seasonal Stampin' Up! catalogue. 

I so like a bit of plaid, and not just for Christmas, and I  created some 'Circle Patchwork' embellishments using the new 'Beyond Plaid' Stamp Set, and one of our circle punches.

The 'Beyond Plaid' Stamp Set,Contains 4 stamps

Wood mounted 129201 28,95 € | £21.95

Cling Mounted 129204 22,95 € | £17.95

The sentiment that adorns both the layout

and the card comes from,

the Gorgeous 'Feel Goods', also from the Seasonal cattie:

 It contains 5 stamps

 Wood mounted 129681 30,95 € | £22.95

Cling Mounted 129684 24,95 € | £17.95

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Now in the cattie these all read with a feminine slant, but with the crafty use of a 'Stampin' Write Marker' it's easy to not ink the 's' and make it masculine.

I also went out of my safe colour zone and choose to use the not quite green, although not quite yellow colour of 'Summer Starfruit' teamed with the blue inky colour of 'Midnight Muse', as usual the inside of the card got a bit of TLC, with a chevron strip and a sentiment.

It is a photo that I have scrapped before but I so love it, I did another layout, this I am going to pop in a frame and have out, so I can look at it everyday, a mothers love for her Chillibeans xx

On both the lay out and the card I used our lovely 'Line Thread', but on the page the 'Tiny Trinket' embellishments looked very lost, so I tied on one of the 'Naturals Designer Buttons.

 For a tiny touch of journalling I snook in a third stamp set......

Can You tell I have a rubber addiction?

It a fabulous set of ticket stamps called 'That’s the Ticket'' There are 8 in each set:

Wood mounted 128072 27,95 € | £20.95 129567

Cling Mounted 128075 21,95 € | £16.95.

They co-ordinate with the 'Ticket Duo Builder Punch' that can be found on Pg. 182 of the annual cattie.

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Also this picture shows how I got rough around the edges with the new 'Distressing Tool',this is one of my must have products, and the 2013 Spring/ Summer Seasonal Stampin' Up! catalogue. is so crammed with products, its hard to over look-

Here are the details.....

"Stampin’ Distress Tool

Faster than a speeding bullet. Able to 

distress card stock edges in a flash. It’s a 

tool. It’s a blade. It’s . . . it’s . . . amazing! 

8 access points on blade. Soft grip and

large, easy-to-hold surface area."

5,95 € £4.50 127562

Looking at this pic of my 'Eight' embellishment really does emphasise my rubber addiction......

Because its another set.... think its called 'Memorable Moments'.....but it's in the Annual cattie....

so we wont really count that!.... ;-)

So just to see if you have really been looking, I am springing a pop quiz on you!

Can you spot the sneaky use of another new item from the

2013 Spring/ Summer Seasonal Stampin' Up! catalogue,

that I haven't mentioned in my post?

If you have send me an email- sally-johoughton@hotmail.co.uk

and give me a comment saying spotted, as we don't want to give the game away!

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my makes, again apologies for leaving it so long, over the next week I will don my flowered swimming hat and dive, again into the pool of blog land.

Love

Sally-Jo

xXx

Autumn/ Winter Seasonal Catalogue!

All your Christmas Wishes and More!!!

**CLICK HERE FOR AN ONLINE COPY OF THE NEW AUTUMN WINTER SEASONAL CATALOGUE**



Create Stunning 3D Snowflakes...

With New Stamp Releases & Matching Dies-

That Take All The Hassle Out Of Cutting!

New Fabrics, that make your preserves look perfect!

Lovely Papers!

Stylish Spookiness!

Something that will give your hand written greetings, the Sparkle factor!

And the Cookie Press too!

The New Autumn/ Winter Seasonal Catalogue has something for everyone, and I would love to show you many of these new & exciting craft & creative goodies.

Plus I would love to give you the chance to get some of this lovelyness for free!!

Contact me: Sally-Jo Houghton.

Tel:07891605129

Email: sally-johoughton@hotmail.co.uk

And I will bring the craft shop to your home, were you can get creative with family and friends!

A Christmas Gift For You! xx

Dates: 1-30 November 2012

Promotion Details:

It’s only November, but Stampin’ Claus is coming to town!

Get a FREE Festive Paper-Piercing Pack when you purchase the Ornament Keepsakes Stamp Set and Candlelight Christmas Speciality 

Designer Series Paper Bundle.

Choose from the following options:

Item	Description	Retail Value	Special Price
132260	Christmas Gift Pack (wood-mount) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Stamp Set (wood-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	66,70 €/ £49.70	57,20 €/ £42.45
132261	Christmas Gift Pack (clear-mount) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Stamp Set (clear-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	58,70 €/ £43.70	49,20 €/ £36.45
132262	Christmas Gift Pack (wood-mount bundle) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Bundle (wood-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, and Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	83,70 €/ £62.70	74,20 €/ £55.45
132263	Christmas Gift Pack (clear-mount bundle) Includes Ornament Keepsakes Bundle (clear-mount), Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, and Festive Paper-Piercing Pack	77,25 €/ £57.70	67,75 €/ £50.45

The Fine Print

• See those special item numbers above? You’ve got to use those in order to get your FREE Festive Paper-Piercing Pack.
• You  my customers can get your FREE paper-piercing pack by purchasing the Ornament Keepsakes Stamp Set and Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper or the Ornament Keepsakes Bundle and Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper. Remember: the Ornament Keepsakes Bundle gets you an additional 15 percent off the set and the Holiday Ornaments Framelits Dies. So many options!
• Any order type qualifies for this promotion—customer or workshop- have you ever considered hosting your own craft party? Contact me Sally-Jo for details Tel: 07891605129. 
• This promotion has no limits—for every bundle you buy, you’ll get a free Festive Paper-Piercing Pack. They make great Christmas gifts!
• If you want your free gift, you need to make sure you place your order, with me, before the following deadlines:
• Phone: Friday, 30 November 2012; 15:50 (CET) in the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Germany / 15:50 (GMT) in the UK
• OEX: Friday, 30 November 2012; 23:50 (CET) in the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Germany / 22:50 (GMT) in the UK

Retirement Lists!

Going, going…gone!

September is your last chance to say goodbye to hundreds of stamp sets and accessories retiring from the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalogue. These products are only available while supplies last, so be sure to get your favourites before they’re gone.

 

Contact me-

your demonstrator today!

Everyone who spends £50 or more with me, excluding P&P, during this month,

will recieve a copy of the upcoming 2012-2013 Idea Book & Catalogue from myself for free!

Retiring Products Lists

Retiring Rubber Stamps

Retiring Accessories

Catching up!

Hello and thank you to everyone who left a comment on my last blog post, you were all correct and the Stamp set that I used to Stamp the snowlake, was the ornate flower, from the 'Mixed Bunch' Stamp set!

I used an Early Espresso Stampin' Write Marker, to put pick out only the detail, that I felt made the stamp look snowflakie..... I then stamped the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation of the stamp to get the light to dark effect!!

I look forward to hearing from Emily, who has been drawn at random to recieve a kit and instructions to make this xx

Also apologies who not blooging as soon as promised, but home and family life got busy, I write this from a desk at the Hilton in Reading, I am staying over in order to attend SU leadership, so I am making the most of having no interuptions, and catching up on my SU housework...... well truth be told I feel a little alone in my hotel room, my convention buddie Yvonne double booked this with her family holiday near Alicantie and I dont think her hubby would have been happy for her to fly home nearly a week early!!

Thanks for stopping by, As we wave goodbye to the Summer Mini, I will be back shortly with exciting updates of plenty of new things to come!xxx

A 'Reason to SMILE'- Augusts fantastic offer!

Get the Reason to Smile Set FREE....

when you spend £60 on any Stampin’ Up! products Or purchase it at the regular retail price.

Promotion dates: 1-31 August 2012

During August, you have the opportunity to purchase—or earn for FREE—an exclusive stamp set, available only through this special offer!

Description	Retail Item	Retail Price	Free Item	Price
Reason to Smile Wood-Mount Set	130826	£18.95	131050	£0.00
Reason to Smile Clear-Mount Set	130828	£14.95	131051	£0.00

Some details to remember!!:

• Dates: 1-31 August 2012
• Spend £60 (excluding shipping and handling) on any current Stampin’ Up! products to get the exclusive Reason to Smile Set for FREE.
• There is a limit of one (1) free set per customer per order.
• Customers may purchase the Reason to Smile Set at regular retail price during August. There is no minimum purchase necessary.
• The Reason to Smile Set is exclusive to this promotion and will not be available after 31 August 2012

Just In Case........

OOOoooo my gosh, having realised that my blog posts are getting even more sporadic, I thought I had better share with you- what I was up too at the weekend, and if in case my cosmic star chart is dragging me away from the computer still and you don't get another blog post off me till the New Year, I had better send you my.......

What with all the holiday hullabaloo and my boy Matthew breaking his wrist, I was glad of the excuse, to shoot over the hill and join many of the Julies Jems- for a Shoe Box swap on Saturday! 

I have been tinkering around with this 'Top Note' wall hanging idea in my head for the last couple of weeks and was considering about it as my offering at the 'Shoe box Swap', but after making this late Friday afternoon/ evening I thought that we would be hard pushed, to get the whole thing Big Shotted, punched, stamped, cut and glued in the 30mins we had for each project!

But I risked it for a biscuit!!! And stayed up, till the very early hours, doing die cutting and punching, then my fellow Swap attendees could concentrate on the important bit- the stamping, well we are 'Stampin' Up!' Demonstrators after all!!!! 

I think the trickest bit, I left for the girls was that I was down to my last few peices of 'Very Vanillia Card after die cutting the top notes, so they only had a small peice on to which the had to stamp the letters from the 'Letter It' SU stamp set...... 

 This is going to be my favourite alphabet stamp set, although if Shelli checks this out- It would be awesome if we had a punch, to punch them out and it would double up for the 'Number It' SU Stamp set too!!

 In the little kits I put together for the 'Shoe Box Swap', I even drew on lines so the girls could get on with putting the stamped letters into place, i love how the words winter & warm over hang from the top note!

 In little envelopes I had put the different elements to decorate the wall hanging, in one were the punched leaves and flowers.....

 In another were the branch and the robins........

 And I had even put an envelope together for the embellies, yep! I had snipped the gem stones and the linen thread ready for use!!

As there were so many of us swapping we split into two groups, so her are links to the blogs, of the girls in our group, hopefully they aren't as behind as me and will have blogged about what they created to swap!!

                           Kate Martin 

Lynda Bradley

Allie Jolliffe

Evelyn Calder

Jill Jones

Victoria

Apoplogies to Karen Fagelman & Julie Wade- sorry that I can't link to  your blogs but I have googled you and cant find links, please get in touch, then I can correct xxx

It was a fantastic day, and it was great that we all brought such different ideas to the swapping table, I cant wait for the next one in the new year!!

But now for a little pop quiz!!

What I love the most about what I have designed and created, is the use of the most unusual stamp, to create the Snowflake background on the top notes......

In fact I have renamed it my...

'Hidden Snowflake'!!!!

Can you guess which  Current 'Stampin' Up!' Stamp set, it has come from????

Get your answers in my comment box, and I will put the correct answers in a box, and draw out a winner and will post the winner a kit and instructions to make this little wall hanging, I will do the draw on Saturday evening (25/08/2012) UK time.  

Thanks for stopping by

Sally-Jo

xXx

50 shades of SU colour.......

Long before we had heard or even read the 'Fifty Shades' saga, 'Stampin' Up!' were leading the way with  their fifty shades of SU colour! My crafty friends tell me that I have a thing for 'Soft Suede' from the 'Neutrals' group, so following in the footsteps of 'Anastasia Steele'- and her trying something new!!! I turned to my SU version of 'Christian Grey'.......my trusty 'Colour Coach' for guidance into a new colour combo!! 

I had a desire to use the lovely 'In Colour'- 'Wisteria Wonder' and the colour coach suggested that a good tonal match would be 'Elegant Eggplant'- a combo that I have never tried before......... but what about a 'Neutral'....well SU may have a whole rainbow of Fifty colours in their range but they don't have fifty shades of grey, they only have one colour that is referred too as grey, and that is 'Basic Grey'- well there was nothing basic about Mr Greys, grey eyes, so I choose 'Sahara Sand' the colour that can sometimes looks icy grey or sometimes look warm grey!!! 

As it was my first time, I stayed safe, and made a few pillow box die, thank you's for my 'Stampers 5' group. The grey of the tea cup, from the 'Summer Mini' SU Stamp Set- 'Tea Shoppe' looks very warm on these, and you can just make out the over stamping, on the 'Cup of thanks' label, with the flourish, from the 'Creative elements' SU Stamp set.

 Each of the boxes got a little hand cut butterfly, that was stamped from the 'Creative elements' SU Stamp set, in the 'Elegant Eggplant' SU ink. 

 To finished each of the boxes, I gave each of the tea cups a little 'Itty Bitty' punched flower in 'Wisteria Wonder' SU card stock, with a little SU rhinestone gem for the centre, they also all got a squirt of the 'Champagne- Shimmer Paint' that has been watered down and put in a misting bottle!

So now I had dipped my stamping into a new colour combo, there was no stopping me.......

Getting braver, I made some little card blanks from some 'Sahara Sand' SU card stock, and decorated them with Stamping- using the same Stamp sets as the pillow boxes.

 For this card, I used the large tea cup from the 'Tea Shoppe' Stamp set and stamped the label from the same set too, it works with the large oval and scalloped punches beautifully.

 The other two cards were made using waste 'Wisteria Wonder' card stock, from when I die cut the boxes, to make a decorative panel with the addition of the flourish stamp from the 'Creative elements' SU Stamp set and as with the Pillow Boxes I used 'Elegant Eggplant' SU ink. 

 To add a little variation to the other, I just tuned the band horizontally!

The paper lunch bag was decorated in the same way too, using the larger label text stamp from the SU 'Tea Shoppe' Stamp set, it coordinated beautifully with the 'Extra Large oval Punch' too!

 To the bag, I added the large tea cup, which was stamped in  'Sahara Sand' SU Ink and hand cut. To finish  a butterfly, stamped in 'Elegant Eggplant' SU ink,  and was stuck to the top edge of the tea cup. 

I have enjoyed my foray into using different SU colours. and as the old adage goes......

'Don't knock it, till you try it!!'...

I am off to twiddled my colour coach,

a little more!!

If you would like to purchase a 'Colour Coach' or any other SU stash,

then please get in touch:

Telephone/ Text: 07891695129

Email: sally-johoughton@hotmail.co.uk

xXXx