Christmas Wishes

Well Christmas Eve is finally here.

Are you ready for the big day????

We are just about.

We are off up to the Salvation Army hall to prep 

all the veggies and set tables ready to feed approx 45

people their Christmas dinner.

It will be a busy but amazing day sharing with those who need

most.

I hope your Christmas is filled with love and fun 

and that the time you spend together as a family will 

be filled with blessings.

Happy Christmas to you all.

Sarah x

Chocolate Box

Hello.

Well that's it, school has finished for Christmas

so I can officially relax and enjoy the 

holidays with the boys.

One job we still have to do is deliver some pressies

to our local friends.

These are what I have made this year.

Santa boxes full of chocs!!! Yummm!

They are made using my fav SU colour Cherry Cobbler

and loads of the fab SU punches with some Dazzling Diamonds glitter 

for a bit glitz!

Right time to watch the CBeebies panto with the boys.

Sarah x

Teachers Cards

Hello!

Hope you had a good weekend.

Today I though I would show you the cards I made for the boys

to take to school for their teachers.

I love this snowman!!

He is joined by some retired Stampin'Up papers, some

lovely ribbon from the new catalogue

and the sentiment is from the lovely Contempo Christmas 

stamp set.

Here is a closer look at our frosty friend.

Perfect for this weather!!!!!

Stay warm and safe.

Sarah x

Wrapped and Ready!

Hello!

Hope you are having a  good weekend.

We have had yet more snow and with us all being rather tired

and abit under the weather we decided we would stay 

at home today.

We have done some jobs and I've managed to make my first batch of mince pies.

Looks like they won't last long though!!!

Anyway here is a picture of the teachers gifts all wrapped up in organza bags 

with the hand made tags ready or the boys to take 

to school.

I made the holly and berries using my Stampin'Up punches.

Right I'm off for an early night in the hope I feel a little 

more myself ready for a busy Sunday with the boys

Nativity at Church.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Sarah x

Teacher Gifts

Hello!

Sorry for not blogging, the last week or so has run away with me.

What with 2 school Nativities, 3 Christmas parties,

final preparation for Christmas and illness I've had little time.

I finally managed to make the gifts for the boys teachers.

 I've had this kit in my craft desk for a while but I've never used it!!!

So I decided it was perfect for these gifts.

I think these little calenders are cute and will look great hung up by the

teachers desk.

Sorry for such a short post but I've another busy day

with school things, appointments and the all important church Nativity 

rehearsal.

Have a good day.

Sarah x

Little Gift

Good Morning!!!

I've turned my attention to making little gifts and lots of them 

for family, friends and teachers!

These cute little note pads were a bargain and didn't really 

look much.

I've transformed them by covering them with Newsprint Designer Series Paper.

The paper is edged with Pink Pirouette ink

and has a piece of Pretty in Pink card decorated with 

the lovely corner punch.

The felt flowers are sadly retired but I have a few that 

needed using up and they are perfect for these little gifts.

I've also added some rhinestones to give a bit of bling!!!

Right I'm off to school this afternoon to go back to the classroom

to learn phonics with Ben.

Enjoy your day.

Sarah x

More Snow!

Yes we have had more snow and 2 days off school!!

So we made the most of our time and made a snowman......

....meet Mr Flakes!!

Hope you manage to stay warm this weekend.

I'll have some Christmas crafty things to show you soon.

Sarah x

Class Cancelled

Sadly due to the very bad weather

I am cancelling tomorrows card class.

I don't want anyone to put themselves at risk by venturing out.

It's been so bad that school closed early (after opening at 9:45!) and I 

had to walk a 4 mile round trip to pick up the boys!!

This was the scene on the way to school.

And buy the time we got back to our village this was the amount of snow on top

of my car!! Which we had used this morning to get to school!!!

We have had about 10inches now and it is still snowing!!!

It isn't meant to stop until some time tomorrow!

So stay inside and wrap up warm.

Sarah x

December's Simply Scrappin' Club Kit

So here it is December's kit!

The kit includes

2 12x12 sheets of Crumb Cake Card

2 A4 sheets of Baja Breeze Card

2 A4 sheets Cherry Cobbler Card

1 12x12 sheet Baja Breeze double sided patterned paper

1 pack of flat backed basic pearls (150)

1 meter Whisper White Organza Ribbon

Plus a Basic Black Stampin' Write Journaler (not shown)

and a Scrappin' Club ideas sheet to help get you started (not shown)

Payment for the kit can be made by Paypal using the Buy Now button on my blog, cheque or cash on collection.

Kits will be sent out the first week of December.

Santa baby!

Hello!!

Sorry I've not posted for so long!!

We have been mega busy and we have all be under the weather too.

Any way here is the scrapbook layout I did with the December kit.

All the bits are from the kit except for the holly, which was cut on my Cricut.

It's not so easy to see but the background is stamped using my Serene Snowflake stamp set.

Which is quite appropriate as we have had a far dumping of snow and 

there is more to come later tonight!

The journey to school wasn't the best but thankfully school had a 

late start.

I've been in the garden and taken a few wintry pictures.

  

Enjoy the snow and keep warm

Sarah x

Sorry....

......for not posting!!

We have had a bad week were internet is concerned.

Yesterday and today we had a series of lengthy power cuts which knocked out the 

internet for 2 days!!!

How annoying!!!

Pop back tomorrow and I'll show you my 12x12 scrapbook layout

using the December kit.

Sarah x

New Simply Scrappin' Club

New for December!



Enjoy scrapbooking???

Wnat an affordable monthly kit???

Then join my new Simply Scrappin' Club.

For just £10 a month (if you collect) or £12 (delivered)

you will get a scrappin' kit with all you need to make a wonderful 12x12

layout and more, plus an ideas sheet to help get you started.

Each month the kit will be a different theme, or featured a

different embellishment.
Buying the kit also lets you attend the monthly club class
where we will use the kit to create a wonderful layout step by step.

This is such an affordable way of trying out Stampin Up

products.

To sign up just email me

sarah.pitts@blueyonder.co.uk

COMING SOON

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF THE FIRST KIT!!!

Just Believe

Good morning!!

It's very gloomy and wet here. Hope it cheers up!

Anyway here is a crafty post

to cheer up the day.

This card is one of the make and takes from 

Convention using the lovely stamp set 

Just Believe

(which I got FREE in my bag at Convention!!).

We had chance to play with the new watercolour paper and

the new colour spritzer tool, which I love!!!

After stamping the image on the watercolour paper

we sprayed it lightly with water to create this lovely effect.

UPDATE!

Pictures of the first Simply Scrappin' Club kit 

will be posted on Friday.

Sarah x

More Convention Pics!

Good Morning!!

Hope you are well and having a good.

I am full of cold, probably from the kids, but the busy

weekend and lack of sleep hasn't help!!

Anyway, I thought you all might like to see some more of 

the pictures from Convention.

I came home with allsorts of goodies from Momento Mall!

This fab shopping bag!

This wonderful craft tote!

And a cute bin and ruler.

These will have pride of place on my desk!

And this bag is was our free convention bag which contained 

some free stamp sets, pins and badges

a catalogue and convention programme and pen!

Here is my name badge!

We had chance to meet the lovely Shelli.

Then it was onto an afternoon of classes and presentations in the 

Royal Marquee.

Including a fab presentation by my lovely upline Julie!

Then it was back to the hotel to get all dolled up ready for the 

awards dinner.

It was such a great night to see all these wonderful people who 

have worked soooo hard, achieve great things.

It was very inspiring.

I'll tell you all about the last day tomorrow.

Sorry for the long post but I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures.

Sarah x

Convention Eve!

WOW!!!

What a wonderful weekend I had at Convention!

Over the next few days I'll show you pictures of what we got up to.

Today I'm going to show you some lovely gifts.

The first is the gift I gave to my room mate and downline,

Anthea.

 I used Baja Breeze card to make a cute little triangle box

which I put some miniture smellies in.

The box was distressed with Crumb Cake ink and decorated

using the heart from the Level 1 hostess set, Punch Popourri,

and the flowers from the Vintage Vouge set.

 I added one of the lovely new flat backed pearls to

finish it off.

 When I arrived at the hotel and got to my room I found these

lovely gifts on my pillow from Anthea.

They are lovely! Thank you again Anthea!

 My lovely Stampin'Up "Grandma" Monica had organised a lovely

pre convention party for the Thursday night.

But sadly due to the horrible journey down, in all the

wind and rain, I didn't arrive in time the rest of the team.

But Monica gave me a lovely goody bag with these bits inside!

And this is the cute bag they were in!!

I'll pop back tomorrow to show you all the pics I took

from the first day of convention.

But I'll leave you with one lovely piece of news.

Next year's convention will be in France, well to be more precise

a very magical part of France!

Any ideas as to where??????

DISNEY LAND PARIS!!!!!!!

And you can be there too to share the fun and magic.

How, I hear you cry????

Join my lovely team, Sarah's sweet stampers and you could be

on your way to see Mickey and his friends while also sharing some stampin' fun.

Email me for more information

sarah.pitts@blueyonder.co.uk

Have a wonderful day

Sarah x



Convention here I come!!

Just a quick post to say that

I'll be missing over the next few days as I'm

off to the European Stampin'Up Convention in Croyden

at the Addlington Palace (very posh!!).

I'm just about packed, including my posh frock and my swaps.

My camera is ready to snap away so that I can tell you all

about it when I return.

Enjoy your weekend

Sarah x

Autumn Days

Morning!

I've managed to find 5 minutes to make a quick post.

Taking a well deserved tea break from making my last lot of swaps

and gifts ready for Stampin'Up Convention.

Only 1 sleep to go!!!!

So here is another autumn inspired card.

Another pumpkin made using my punches and the lovely

bird, made using the bird punch.

Plenty of distressing on this card too,

using the sponge dauber and Crumb Cake ink pad.

Sorry it's such a short post, but I have loads to do

including housework and packing!

Enjoy your day!

Sarah x

Phew!!!

As the days go by they seem to

be getting more and more hectic!!!

But I have finally finished the 100

bookmarks ready for the

Salvation Army Teratorial Congress.

There are 2 designs, 50 of each, for the prayer area.

The theme is light, so there will be tealights and flame lamps

galore. So to keep with the theme we picked a read and yellow

colour theme.

For the bookmarks I have used Rose Red and So Saffron with some

Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip ribbon.



I'm amazed that I have managed to get these done

with having had a such a busy weekend.

We managed to find time to take the boys to see

Dispicable Me. It was soooo funny and well worth seeing.

The all day Sunday was spent at church.

Jonathan and I led our first meeting with me preaching!!!!!

It seemed to go well, which is a relief!!



Right I need to put the finishing touches to the 100

prayer cards.

I might just then be able to get done all the things on my list

for convention on Thursday.

Sarah x

Buried Under A Pile....

.....of bookmarks!!!

Sorry for not posting yesterday.

I've managed to find time to craft, but the crafting is not for me.

A few days ago I mentioned I had made some samples

of prayer gifts for the Salvation Army Teritorial Congress

in a weeks time.

Well they liked my samples

and now I am buried somewhere under a pile of

strips of card that are slowly being turned into bookmarks,

100 to be exact!!!

And thats before I start on the prayer cards!!!

I'm hoping to get loads more done today so I'll post pics of the bookmark

mountain when I an somewhere near finished.

If you don't hear anything from me you may need to send a search party!

Sarah x

Vintage Harvest 2

Morning!

Hope you had a lovely weekend.

We had a fab weekend with friends in Wales

and dispite the late nights sat talking and sharing,

we have come back refreshed and full of a new

confidence in our candidating for officership.

Time to show you another harvest card.

This one had a turnip, made from the ornament punch and a marrow,

made from the oval punch.

The colour combo for the base of the card is the same as the previous one.



Hope you like!!

Well it's half term and it's raining so I need to find a way of entertaining

2 little boys!!

Hopefully I'll have chance for some crafting too!

Sarah x

Vintage Harvest

Hello!

I've been playing with my punches again

and made this.....

... a harvest of fruits and veggies!

This card would make a lovely thank you card

and perfect for the season.

The colours used are Old Olive, Soft Suede,

Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Cobbler.

Very autumnal colours.

Here's the arty shot so you can see some of the detail.

The background is stamped using the versatile En Francais

stamp, the Soft Suede Layer is torn to add texture.

The Very Vanilla layer is distressed using a sponge dauber

and Crumb Cake ink.

I'll show you part 2 of the harvest over the weekend.

Have a good day.

Sarah x



Festive Greetings!

Hello again!

It's very cold here this morning.

I had to clear ice of the windscreen this morning!!!!

Hopefully this will warm you up.

This is the card I made with the lovely ladies who came to

Michelle's workshop on Monday evening.

We used Cherry Cobbler (yum!!), Early Espresso and Old Olive

to make this warm festive greeting card.



The ornament is made using the Contempo Christmas stamp set

and the matching punch.

We stamped and punched 3 of them, folded them in half,

stuck them together to create a 3D bauble and

stuck it to the card! Simple but very effective.

It would look fab with some glitter too.

Busy day for me, so I best crack on.

I'm off to take Ben to the hospital for his regular hearing test.

I'll be back tomorrow.

Sarah x

Dashing Through The Snow...

...in a one horse open sleigh!!

Morning!

I'm very busy today making samples of prayer gifts to be used

at the Salvation Army Divisional Congress in November.

I've sat down with a cuppa for a few minutes to show you this.

This is the card I demonstrated last night at Michelle's

workshop.

We turned our thoughts to Christmas and made a card using

the Contempo Christmas set which I'll show tomorrow.

Back to Dasher, he is stamped in Chocolate Chip onto a Bashful Blue background

with a torn strip of Whisper White for the snow.

The background is sponged with a dauber and Bashful Blue ink and

stamped with a mini snowflake in white craft ink.

I've added silver brads and flat backed gems for some glitz

and glitter for the sparkle on the snow.

It's matted on a layer of Chocolate Chip card thats edged

using the scallop border punch.

Right tea break over.

Catch you later!

Sarah x

A Monster Birthday

Morning!

Hope you are looking forward to your week!

We've had a busy weekend, again!!!

Jonathan's Mum came over for lunch yesterday

which gave us chance to give her cards and gifts

for her birthday.

This is the card I made for the boys to give to Grandma.

I've used the fab Make a Monster stamp set

with Regal Rose, So Saffron, Soft Suede and Old Olive.

The sentiment is from the Cheers & Wishes set.

The fancy edges are made using the eyelet border punch and as usual I added

ribbon for a bit of texture and glam!!

Right then I'm off to get ready for Michelle's workshop

this evening.

Have a good day

Sarah x

RIP Alvin!

Sorry for not having posted over the

last few days.

It's turning a traumatic week.

The boys pet hamster Alvin had started to slow down,

old age we thought, but it turns out he was rather poorly.

He started to get noticably unwell on Tuesday.

He had not really been eating or drinking and was stuggling to get out of his cage.

Yesterday he got even worse

so we took him to the vets where we had an emtional farewell.

It turned out he had stomach cancer and there was nothing they

could do.

The boys were very upset, but we were able to take him and bury

him in a very special place.

We then printed pictures of Alvin for the boys to have in their room

by their beds.

I've finally found some time to craft

so pop back later and I'll show you what I've been up to.

Sarah x

Birthday Bunting

Morning!

Hope you are well.

It's an early start for us here as Jonathan and I are

off on a bible study day as part of our

candidating for officership.

My parents are coming up for the weekend and

are looking after the kids for the day.

Here is a quick card.

This is made using loads of new goodies from the

brand new catalogue.

The bunting is made using the very versatile Playful Pieces hostess set

and the mat pack and piercing tool.

The sentiment is from the new Perfect Punches set

and is mounted onto the new Fancy Flower punch.

The colour scheme is Real Red, Bashful Blue, Pacfic Point

and Pear Pizzaz.

Hope you enjoy your weekend.

Sarah x

Birthday Flowers

Hello!

Sorry for not posting yesterday.

My day was taken up looking after a

very poorly little boy.

He is doing much better today so I have

found some to show you this......

I've used the lovely Greenhouse Garden stamp set

with some new colours!!

The card base is Pear Pizzaz and is stamped with the En Francais

background stamp.

The sentiment is from the NEW Perfect Punches stamp set.

The flowers are stamped in Baja Breeze and Early Espresso.

I love this colour combo!

Right off to get ready for tonights class.

Sarah x