Happy New Year... and free Stampin' Up! stamp sets!

Happy new year! 2008 seems to have flown past.

Sale-a-bration has reached the UK! Throughout January and February, Stampin' Up! is offering free stamps. There are four stamp sets to choose from; click here to view the brochure.

Customers: receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set with every £45 purchase.

Hostesses: receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set with every £300 or more workshop hosted, in addition to the normal hostess benefits.

New Demonstrators: choose any retail stamp set (up to £38.95 in value) from the current catalogue when signing up during the promotion. Contact me if you're interested!

Baby

Following the theme from the last post... A new baby card made for a friend's wee boy about a month ago.

The cardstock is SU Bashful Blue and I've used the same colour of ink to stamp the little pattern stamp from the Bundle of Joy stamp set on the background. The "sweet heart" stamp in the punched circles is also from the Bundle of Joy stamp set and the stamp on the lower left is from the Best Wishes & More stamp set.

News

Well, this is why I've been "quiet" for a while... The due date is probably around the end of June.

I have a couple of scan photos, but I think this one is quite funny, as the baby has turned to stare at us - you can see the eye sockets! Cheeky. The photos are fairly poor compared with the images we saw on the monitor - we could see the arms and legs waving around very clearly!

Coldplay

We went to see Coldplay at the SECC in Glasgow last night... they were excellent, as you'd expect. Very slick and professional. The second photo above shows the band during a short acoustic set where they left the stage and stood behind us.

Here's a very lame recording of "Yellow"... love those yellow balloon beach balls! If you can be bothered to watch as far as 47 seconds, the sound improves dramatically when I remove my finger from the microphone (d'oh)!

I'm back (again)!

I've been in America (central Boston) for the last two weeks... but I'm home again. I managed to wangle a trip to see The Eagles in concert at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA (about an hour west of Boston) on Wednesday 26th November... it was excellent.

More posts to follow shortly!

The photo above shows some Christmas cards I made for a Stampin' Up! demonstrator card swap before I left. Unfortunately, I've yet to make any Christmas cards of my own... haven't had time!

Stars

As the majority of this week has, once again, been taken up with (unexpected) time in hospital and related trauma, I won't even go there... You couldn't make it up - it has the storyline of a rotten TV drama.

Instead, here's a card I made this evening to cheer myself up whilst listening to The Long Road Out of Eden album by The Eagles (the panacea for all ills!).

I've used the new SU "In the Stars" stamp set and the new Chocolate Chip double-stitched ribbon. I've used Earth Elements markers to colour the stamps to give the stars a "tie dye" effect.

Colour Challenge

Kristina Werner's colour challenge this week was an interesting one: Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Sage Shadow and Whisper White. If you haven't visited Kristina's blog, click here to have a look; it's brilliant!

My card is shown above. I've used the Stampin' Up! Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set, Pumpkin Pie designer series patterned paper, Ruby Red cardstock, Sage Shadow and Whisper White cardstock, Watercolour Wonder Crayons in Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Sage Shadow and Creamy Caramel (plus a few others to add shadow). The cake is covered in Stickles glitter glue.

Missing in Action

I haven't posted in ages... so many things going on. Then, to top it off, I managed to land myself in hospital with a urinary tract infection this week!

Here's a mug shot of Marley wearing his Halloween costume... spiderdog! His dog training class had a Halloween party on Tuesday evening.

Leaves

A birthday card made for my aunt... The leaves are from the SU All Natural stamp set and they were watercoloured with Earth Elements Watercolour Wonder Crayons... they're also covered in Dazzling Diamonds glitter, although you can't see it in the photo.