I'm actually quite proud of these little treat bags, they are my first original design!! Its more than likely someone, somewhere in the world would have also made this shape bag but I certainly haven't seen them before.

The collage below shows the shape of the bag a little better. It's super simple to make and if anyone is interested, please make sure you leave a comment asking me to publish the instructions. If I get a good response, it might just tempt me to do my first YouTube video.

The paper is just so cute I had to use it again. I never feel pressure to over embellish a card and this is one of those simple cards that I like to make.

My last project used the same Designer Series Paper and also featured the colour grey - if you missed it, take a look at it by clicking here. Its interesting to see how different colours paired with grey look so different. Grey is very versatile and I have been meaning for ages to try it with yellow. I love this version which uses two greys - Basic Gray, Smokey Slate and Pool Party.


That's it from me today. I hope to be back in the next week or two. Unfortunately I have WiFi issues at home so I am blogging from work on my lunch break today.

My project today is a thank you gift that I made for my downline Aimee who is now a qualified Stampin' Up! recruit. I decided to make her a handmade gift and present it to her at the recent Onstage Local event in Telford, directly after I had to stand up for being in the cateogry of having 1-4 qualified recruits.

The weekend before last was the Stampin' Up! Onstage Local event in Telford. Its a mini convention where Stampin' Up! demos get together and find out about new products, receive business training, recognise each other success, receive free products and SWAP!

Happy Halloween everyone! I am really looking forward to today! My team and I have organised a few Halloween themed activities in the office.

I work as a Finance Manger and there are 23 of us in the Finance department, 10 of which are in my direct team and I have a further 8 indirect team members. Its such a lovely team and we all get on really well. We're currently planning Christmas activities such as Secret Santa, Christmas Jumper Fridays and a Christmas buffet lunch. We already have two nights out in December, I need to get shopping for some festive outfits!

Anyway, enough about Christmas and back to Halloween.  On Friday evening after everyone had left, I left a little bag of Halloween treats on every desk. I hope it brings a smile to everyone's faces when they come into work on Monday morning. Naturally I had to make myself one - here it is on my desk. And yes, there are two 27" monitors on my desk!


I've made some prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place using the Baker's Box Thinlit Dies but I forgot to photograph them. They were filled with chocolate treats and some popping candy. I used the Spider Web DSP from the Halloween Night Specialty DSP - the web pattern is silver embossed on black and this particular cardstock is thicker than the rest so it was perfect for this box.


Here are the treat bags I made - each has a tag which is hand stamped using the Spooky Fun stamp set and Ghoulish Grunge stamp set. I've stamped in Basic Black and Smoky Slate.


The Halloween Night Specialty DSP is so spooky this year. I love the combination of Basic Black, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White and the patterns are really great with lots of variety.



Bayley tends to sleep on a bean bag the whole time I'm crafting. Charlie comes and goes and surprises me several times a day by jumping on my craft table. I have to quickly grab my pookey tools and scissors and make sure they are safely put away. Charlie likes to demand attention and I think he sometimes is annoyed when I am engrossed in my work and not him. Bayley is just happy to be snoozing and enjoys a cuddle every few hours.

I hope you have enjoyed my projects and photos today! Keep an eye on my blog over the next week for news and pictures from Onstage Local in Telford. I'm busy making swaps at the moment and getting excited about seeing sneek peeks and being able to pre order from the Spring Summer catalogue. Who knows, we might even get to see some Sale-a-Bration goodies too!

I've made today's card for this month's Pinkies Team Design challenge which is being hosted by Michelle Last. The challenge we've been set is to showcase colouring techniques using current products from the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or Stampin' Up! Autumn Winter Catalogue.

Welcome to our International Project Highlights using current Stampin' Up!® Products. We have all created a gallery of projects for you to be inspired by! We would love it if you could visit every one of our blogs and see more photos of our projects. If you scroll down to the end of this blog post, you can see the gallery of all of our projects. This will be shown on every blog that you click on.

Welcome to our World Card Making Day Blog Hop! All of the projects we have made for you today are made using current Stampin' Up!® Products! How exciting!!

It's so great to join together with so many demonstrators from all over the world to celebrate this crafty event, we have lots of amazing inspiration for you today and I hope you enjoy looking at our projects!

I just could not resist another Halloween card, these are just too fun to make. This card is dead easy and took minutes to make - and I even did a bit of colouring! I think its super cute and it would be great idea to get the children involved to make these, they would have so much fun stamping with these creepy crawlies and ghosts!

There are so many stamps in the Spooky Fun stamp set that I still haven't used, so expect to see a few more Halloween cards from me between now and 31st October.

These are the matching dies. As you can see, you can stamp some of the images from the Spooky Fun stamp set and then using the coordinating die you can die cut it perfectly. Matching dies makes crafting so easy plus if you are a striving for perfectionism like me, I would never be happy with any fussy cutting. I just can't do it and I'm certainly not patient enough.

I love this stamp set, its just gorgeous. Its called Blooms and Wishes and its very versatile. Using different colours you can achieve so many looks. Check out these lovely cards made using this stamp set that I've pinned on my Flowers & Nature Pinterest boards by clicking here.

The new Stampin' Up! Autumn Winter Catalogue is here and there are lots of fabulous new seasonal products!

Here are a selection of project ideas from the catalogue - to see all of the new stamps, coordinating punches, framelits and thinlits, Designer Series Paper, ribbons, accessories, kits and discounted bundles, just click on the catalogue to download your FREE copy of the catalogue.

If you live in the UK and you don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, please get in touch with me using the social media buttons to request a copy of the Autumn Winter catalogue posted to you. I only have a few left so don't delay!

I only have Stampin' Up Ink Refills for the colours I use the most so I picked all the colours I thought would go well together. I then took a few sheets of babywipes and placed them down on a craft mat and then dropped a little bit of each colour all over the babywipe in random patterns. I used Island Indigo, Pool Party, Soft Sky, Blushing Bride, Perfect Plum and Smoky Slate - what a great colour combination!


I used the stamp set Watercolour Wings and used the babywipe covered in spots of ink as my ink pad. I used the small dots stamp for the background - because the set is photopolymer I could see through the stamp to be able to line them up perfectly to make a grid. I then used the small butterfly stamps and stamped onto a scrap piece of whisper white. I die cut this using the Butterflies Thinlit Dies and used a Stampin' Dimensional to pop it up over the dotty background. I then stamped the sentiment Just for you to finish it off.


I love this effect as you will never get the same look twice!

I've not had a lot of time to craft in the last few weeks. I've just had a look at this weeks Global Design Project - its fab, so I am going to try and get some time in my craft room this week so I can join in with this week's sketch challenge. Until then.....

I had lots of fun making these cards and have decided to enter my project today into two challenges.

The first challenge is a sketch challenge. My card layout has been based on the sketch below over at the Global Design Project #GDP50.

I'll be back soon with another Pinkies Blog Hop showcasing new products from the forthcoming Autumn Winter catalogue. How exciting!