Ice cream in this weather??!!

This time last week we were baking, in the sun, yesterday we had hailstones and today heavy showers & gusty wind!! We have had it all lately I wonder what else we have to come!!

Anyway last night I was having a play around with my 'Pennant Parade' (Wood mounted- 122740 £20.95/ Clear mounted-122742 £16.95) and the matching 'Petite Pennants Builder' punch (122361 £15.50) From 'Stampin' Up!', I had seen it used, to make Ice cream cones by my SU mum Julie, so thought I would have a go as I had some pictures that I wanted to scrap with an Ice cream theme!!

With a bit of simple stamping and punching, I had soon whipped up 5 tremendous, 'Soft Subtles', 3 Scoop cones!!!! And came up with this clean and simple layout, that as my Heather said' OOooo it's white!!'

The other stunning decorative feature on this page is a lovely delicate, Doiley style border- made with the new 'Stampin' Up!' 'Lace Ribbon Border' punch (122362 £18.25)The letters were cut with my trusty SU 'Big Shot' using the 'Timeless Type' dies, out of textured white card stock, and colour was sponged around the edges to make the letters 'pop'!Here you can see that the letters were stuck flat to the page and that the No.3 was raised up, to do this I just chopped a dimensional to fit!The scoops of ice cream were cut from the 'Subtles- Designer series paper pack' using the scallop circle punch, I then cut at them with the 1"circle punch, to get a scalloped edge.
I have include this photo of the layout, which is taken from above......I always find it tricky to take decent photos of scrapbook layouts, taking a photo of a photo and getting the colours right.....do you have any tips?? I would be glad to hear them x

Don't forget tonight is.....

NEW 'Ideas Book & Catalogue' launch!!!
Friday- 7th October
7pm onwards

At Delicachixs
14 Woodplumpton Rd.
Lanes Ends, Ashton, Preston.

Its free to attend, Everybody is welcome!
It includes a FREE 'Make & Take' and light refreshments....

and there is a fantastic raffle!!

Also I am offering free P&P (in the UK) to anyone who purchases both the stamp set & matching punch, from myself,

until Midnight on Saturday 8th October!

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

for more information!

I look forward to seeing you tonight

or maybe hearing from you,

if you are further away!!

Sally-Jo xXx

The 2nd day of summer....

And yes it has rained here in Lancashire!! But the roses are in full bloom, well in my craft room, that is!! I have been having another little dabble, with the 'OOO so lovely' Stampin' Up! Exclusive 'Manhattan Roses' embossing folder.

I thought that if I made some little set of four note cards with the gorgeous 'Top-Note Die' and then embossed the fronts with the lovely folder, I would then have 'uber lovely' gorgeous note cards.......

But it doesn't end there.......I decided to rub the lovely embossing folder, with some of the terrific SU ink, my choice was- 'Blushing Bride & Certainly Celery', and yes this was before winding them through my big shot!! Now you may think, 'shock horror!' what is this women doing!! But hey don't you like the finished effect?? Swiping the ink pad directly over the folder, gives them a sort of distressed finish, but if you prefer a smoother look, you could apply the ink with a brayer.And it gets better.....I then needed to add a sentiment and there are 3 delightful little ones perfect for note cards in the 'Just Believe' SU stamp set, so I stamped one, using the 'Early Espresso' ink, towards the top corner of each card, but I thought 'UOOOGHHH' the y look sort of lost, and floating just there, so what can i do to ground them, so I put one of the delicate small pearls either side, an improvement, but still not just right.....so then I took a leap of stamping faith.....I stamped the the small ornate flourish from 'Tiny Tags' over the top........using the same ink......but first blotting it on some scrap paper.....so i got a lighter 'second impression'.....and 'TaaaDarrrr' I had that 'OOOoo' moment were I was happy with the finished cards and being the honest girl I am, that doesn't happen every day!!

Now if you decide to make something similar here is a MAJOR TIP- don't do as I did and try and use the 'Stamp-a -ma-jig' after applying the pearls, it will be very bumpy and awkward, so do the over stamping before adding pearls!!!
Thank you to all who attend 'Creative Cafe' last night, we had loads of fun and thank you to Deborah for bringing the chocolate to share.....you can't beat crafting with friends and chocolate!!!

The 'Creative Cafe' is a regular event, every 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month, so the next one runs on the 5th of July. Just bring your project along, friendship and help- if wanted, along with refreshments included!!

Tomorrow I am at a workshop, Hosted by the lovely Linda, at the St. Augustines Centre, Preston.She runs a group that regularly meets to share there love of papercrafting. If you would like to look closer at the lovely 'Stampin' Up!' products, you are welcome to attend, email me for more info: sally-johoughton@hotmail.co.uk