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

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