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Hi all

This weekend I took part in a challenge to make a card using our favourite retiring Stampin' Up! stamps. This isn't easy as I have many favourites!

I'm not even sure if my Four Feathers Stamp set or Just Sayin' set will make it onto the  BOGOF pile at my catalogue Kick Off Party on Saturday!

The good news is, if you love them too and don't already have them you have until tomorrow to purchase them. Just Sayin' is also reduced in price, yay! After the 2nd June they'll be gone for good...sniff.  

2nd June is pretty special because you can:

• Order from the current catalogue
• Order from the retired list
• Order from the Spring/Summer catalogue
• Order from the NEW catalogue

I will post the link to the NEW catalogue tomorrow so be sure to check back for that! 

Esther xx

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Coffee to go

Not only is the Stampin' Up! catalogue full of gorgeous products to drool over it's also a great resource when your 'creative' juices aren't flowing. Stampin' Up! even provide a list of products that are used to create the projects in the catalogue. You can find it right here

So today's project is my take on the Coffee Bag project on page 36 of the catalogue. I didn't copy it exactly but sometimes an idea is just a spring board to your own creation. I didn't have any coffee beans to hand so that meant a change of design right away!

For this project I used the following Stampin' Up! Supplies.

Stamps

Gorgeous Grunge

Perfect Blend

Inks

Early Espresso

Card Stock & Paper

Whisper White

Real Red

Early Espresso 

Brown Sugar

Coastal Cabana

In Colour Designer Series Paper Stack

Other Items

Chalk Talk dies

Big Shot 

Itty Shapes Bitty Punch Pack

Corner rounder punch

Essential Hardware clips

Dimensionals

Snail adhesive

White bakers twine

I used my digital die-cutting machine to make the bag.

Single Stamps - Get them before they're gone!

The Single Stamps collection is only available until 31 August!

I love the size of the images which lend themselves to quick and stylish projects.

Here's one I made using the Hello Hello stamp.

Stampin' Up! Supplies.

Stamps

Hello Hello single stamp

Gorgeous Grunge

Inks and card

Crumb cake & Coastal Cabana ink

Strawberry Slush, Whisper White and Crumb Cake A4 Card

Punches and other Supplies

Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack

Stampin' Trimmer

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

Anywhere Glue Stick

Have a great day!

Esther xx

Perfect Blend

I celebrated my birthday this month and I was extremely lucky to get lots of Stampin' Up! goodies that I've had so much fun playing with!

One of the stamp sets I got is Perfect Blend and I love it so much! The little coffee cup is so, so cute.

Here's what I did with mine.

Stampin' Up! Supplies used

Perfect Blend Stamp Set

Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set

Whisper White, Crumb Cake & Early Espresso Card Stock

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

Linen Thread

Birthday Basics Designer Series Paper

Stampin' Sponges

Curly Label Punch

Have a great Monday!

Esther xx