NEW! Sandhurst Scrapbook Club

 Starts this Thursday 3rd September !

New Autumn/Winter Catalogue

Hello there!

If you'd like to get your hands on one of these just ask!

It is packed FULL of gorgeous products and

AMAZING INSPIRATION !

Lesley

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watercolour wings

watercolour wings 

by

Elaine Kerr

love this, and my stamp set is STILL unopened!

bookmark art

Pretty bookmark, by Helen Winstone

lovely sentiment and stamping,

love butterflies and love that ribbon!

golden wonder

Very elegant Gill Moore!

Gold, vanilla and black, stunning

and the gold thread is soooo fine.....

something else I haven't got...yet.....yeah, honest!

scrummy stack

Cathryn Perkins has designed one almost good enough to eat!

I only just realised it's on watermelon wonder cotton paper,

which feels absolutely fab!

with colours mint macaron, choc chip .....

yummy!

black beauty

Sarah Lower made this with black card,

contrasted with the bright colours

blinged up with clear heat embossing and sequins

really zings!

August Rudolph Day

Hello I'm back again!

Life is rush rush rush, need to slow down.....soon!

One thing I refuse to miss is Rudolph Day,

where we make a xmas card each month,

so that we don't have to rush nearer xmas

(yeah right!)

here's my very rushed entry

I fancied a go at triple stamping,

bit with a shape as opposed to a square or rectangle.

Didn't work out awfully well, should have used plain dark card

instead of busy paper,

but I'll have another go sometime...

Couldn't figure where to put a sentiment, so

did a greetings border all round the star.

Rushing off to enter.....

WHOOSH!!!!

Lesley

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Weekly Deals

Wednesday's Weekly Deals!

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I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday

it's a bit WET here!

Enjoy the rest of the week,

hopefully it will stop raining at some point?!

Lesley

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wood grain watercolour wings

Another beauty, Pat Stubbs created this one....

Dry embossed, stamped onto our gorgeous new DSP,

and fussy cut the butterflies

envelope surprise

Love this one by Linda Kasparian

It's a square envelope card, with a cute belly band

beautifully adorned.

Slip the band off and.....greeting inside

If you fold the flaps back, you can put it on display

and slip the band on the top flap.

Ahhhhhh Tissue! box

Love this box by twinksstamping.blogspot.com

Such a lovely gift for a get well etc.,

and the box opens at one end so you can replace the tissues!

elegant easel

Love this easel card,

slightly different from the norm

Just the centre panel lifts and sits behind the happy birthday.

By Elaine Higham

a happy hello

Love this bakers box from Karen Franks

found a choccie inside, always a bonus!

work of art

This one's a fabulous work of art!

By Lelly

This is so cool!

crayon shavings create the multi colour background!

hello you

Hello, You!

This lovely tea light bag / box

contains a gorgeously scented large tea light candle

this one is by Teresa Cain

friendship bag

The next posts are swaps from a team day

By Kim

treat in a treat bag

Treat bag treasure

stamped embossed and glittered

so Jan's style

Then this was inside.....

I think the pictures speak for themselves....

Gorgeous Jan, such a lot of work and effort, thank you (smiley face)

Lesley

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thinking of you in three inch

Gorgeous card from Jan

heat embossed in gold, love how she created a 'seal'

for the envelope....ooops sorrry I ripped it!

she was thinking of us too....as she couldn't join us (sad face)

Lesley

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fancy fold flourish

Such a lot of work in this fancy fold flourish of flutterbys

stamped and embossed......dry and heat...die cut flowers and butterfly

in tip top taupe and calypso coral

Stunning Sarn!

butterfly bagfull

Super cute bag from Sarn,

using that really pretty big DSP,

topped with a simple white die cut butterfly

We really enjoyed making these!

Lesley

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Bee friends

Love this swap from Liz

lots of stencilled inkyness, those hexagons that I haven't had out for ages,

topped off with those oh so cute diecut bees

bzzzzzz

Lesley

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play days happy days

I'm going to share swaps and make n takes from recent play days.

The narrative may be short n sweet,

but times short, and it's the inspiration you want mostly,

so here goes.....

The tree was made with the punch, altho it should have been a pompom!

More on that another day, or maybe Playtime Postings will reveal all.....

Lesley

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Congrats

Sent this to one of my team for promoting,

lots of bling and blue. 

I embossed the wooden word with Iridescent Ice.

She has worked so very hard, and deserves this in spades!

(or at least sequins!)

Lesley

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Weekly Deals

Hello !

Is it really Wednesday again?!

Sure is, so here's this weeks bargains:

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My tip this week is Summer Silhouettes if you haven't got it already?!

Or there's those cute flowers, epoxy stickers, the punch....

or treat yourself to it all!

(See the Clearance Rack too!)

Click the 'Shop Now' button top right,

or go to my shop HERE

Happy Crafting!

Lesley

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Heartfelt Sympathy

It's always sad to have to make these....

The one in the background I made much more faded,

with second generation ink,

I feel the sentiment is the main part.

Lesley

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Hello Honey

Happy Sunday to you

Just sharing a different colourway for the Baker's Box

Thanks a bunch for looking :)

Lesley

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Sending Happy Thoughts

Here's my make n take at a recent play day,

unashamedly cased from ilinacrouse.blogspot.com

I had the Calypso Coral Celebration add on kit,

and was at a complete loss what to do with the half circles.

I used the waste part from a sticker to frame the sentiment!

Just to show it doesn't matter how much room you have....still stuff everywhere!

Here's the matching set using Watermelon Wonder and Basic Grey

Sending happy thoughts your way for the weekend

Lesley

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Baker's Box

I had a lovely play day recently and made these swaps

using the Baker's Box Thinlits

I'm sharing a few construction pics, so hope you don't get bored!

Tissue paper, a strip of double sided tape, cut into strips up to tape

with glue facing up, roll so the glue is adhering as it goes

take a strip of DSP, add sticky tape, and roll to cover,

then dipped in ink and scrunched

Stamped the box before assembly

added a square of card to strengthen the base

added tags peg and streamer

YOU are so amazing for visiting thank you!

Lesley

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Happy Post

Made this from one of the awesome kits from Stampin' Up!

Sorry the pic's crooked (again!)

Although simple, I love all the elements.

Pretty foiled card blank, thin wooden square,

foil layer topped with printed layer.

I just added the wooden word, and silver ribbon.

You might notice the foiled envelope that comes with!

Lesley

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Weekly Deals

Here's this weeks deals,

let me know if there's anything you'd like!

I can't believe the price of those boards!!!!

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Lesley

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Garden Guy

For an Uncle who has a lovely garden,

started as part of a berry basket, with some of those garden labels 

and a photocopy of a pack of seeds,

(I know, should have at least bought him a real pack,

but just didn't have time!)

This was the state of my desk.....

lots of discarded ideas, bet you know that feeling?!

I used From the Garden, Gift from the Garden, Guy Greetings.

Lesley

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