Feeling Sheepish?

I have been this weekend! I have making these delightful little 'Sian The Sheep' (a local Welsh sheep, of course!) card sets. Arn't they cute? Each box contains a set of four cards with envelopes and four matching gift tags.
To make your own, you will need the following Stampin' Up punches:
body: scallop circle extra large,
head: owl and cut off the feet,
hair: boho blossoms - the middle size flower,
legs: modern label and cut vertically into three bits use the centre for front legs and sides for back legs
eyes: Itty Bitty circle for the white part and use the small circles from your owl punch for the inner eyes.
The background is made using the Scallop Edge Border punch along green card and then sticking it onto a square of blue card.
Simple, quick and a great way to use up leftovers!

Bags of Fun!

Over the last week or so, I have been busy making lots of these lovely little bags (thanks Luan for the pattern!).

Each one is made from a sheet of A4 card and there is no cutting involved at all!

I think they are lovely and are such a versatile design that they can be used for so many things and in so many ways:

• Put a handle of ribbon or card on to make it into a bag.



• Leave a handle off, so that it is more like a box.



• Use as a cover for a clear acetate bag of chocolates.



• Use to gift wrap jewellery, mini bottles of toiletries or other gifts.



• Fill with little matching notecards for a complete handmade set of cards.

We will be making one of these bags at the July cardmaking workshops in Caerphilly, so if you fancy having a go, you know where to come!

Scrap Mad with Stampin' Up!

Last weekend, I held one of my popular Scrap Mad Days, so this week I thought I'd share some of the layouts that we did throughout the day. The whole day was based around a fabulous kit of Stampin' Up products including a Designer Series Paper Stack and matching cardstock pack.
The theme of the day was quick and adaptable scrapbook layouts and the ladies who attended were able to adapt my class projects with their packs by swopping their papers to different colours and patterns, in order to suit their photos.

We had some wonderful results and although they were the same layouts, they all looked so different in the different colours and patterns. Everyone agreed it was a great day and I look forward to bringing another Scrap Mad Day to Caerphilly soon.

On The Rocks: was a total die-cutting fest, using all my new Stampin' Up Big Shot dies to great effect. In this layout I used the Scallop Circle, Fun Flowers, Little Leaves and Sweet Buttons embosslits dies and the Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue papers/card from the Subtles Designer Series block. So quick to do and beautiful results!

Once Upon A Time: On this layout I used the pretty Flight of the Butterfly stamp set and the Top Note and Scallop Circle dies, together with the scallop border punch. Colours are So Saffron, Marina Mist and Bashful Blue from Subtles Collection.

More layouts in my Scrapbooking Gallery.