Christmas market from Craft Consortium

Sorry, I've been MIA lately but Ive been jet-setting off to my daughter in Australia, catching up with friends near Perth and popping into Singapore on the way. We left before the summer here in the UK had even started. We experienced hot and humid weather in Singapore, coooold wintry weather in Melbourne (down to minus two or three), and then pleasant sunny cardigan temperatures in Western Australia. Along the way, we missed a mini heat wave in the UK too. Still, it was all worth it!

Back to my craft table where the new Collection from Craft Consortium was waiting for me. This is another collaboration with Helz Cuppleditch and her whimsical designs never fail to delight us all. 

Here are three card designs that I rushed to complete for the launch last week.

                            

As soon as I saw the multi-image page in the 6 x6 pad, I knew what project was top of my list - this block card. I matted the images with some of the new pink Mirri card too! It really is gorgeous!  There are several colours now and I think this pink and possibly the deep blue are my present favorites,

I really love the font of the Merry Christmas stamp here. There are 2 photopolymer stamp sets in the collection and lovely big images that you can colour easily. I chose to fussy-cut around those crazy letters; because there are no straight lines with this font, fussy-cutting is easy! I never thought I would be saying that! 

     

A new addition to the 12 x 12 paper pads are larger multi-image pages. Traditionally, we have had  

4" x 4" cut-apart images, 9 to a page, but now there are also 6" x 6" ones that are perfect to trim to size for 6" cards. You could simply add one to the front of a card and "Job's a good 'un!".  Obviously, I wanted to do a little more that for a Design Team project! 

My second card is a corner fold card; I used one of the 6x6 panels inside and chose one with a focal point in the bottom left corner. I the used a 2 x 2 panel in the 6 x 6 paper pad for the corner fold on the top and cut panel strips from a page in the large paper pad.  It would be very quick and easy to make lots of these for Christmas, too. 

                                            

My third project is a split-stepper card. This is another very straightforward card to make. I cut around the houses and made each side of the street mirror the other and fit my card panels. The main card is decorated with chunky images from the ephemera pack and also words trimmed from a "wordy sheet" that I raised with dimensional foam pads to be a similar height as the ephemera, I was going to add a large "Happy Christmas" die cut suspended from the corner joint but decided it would mask too many little additions. 

All of these have plenty of room to write on the reverse too. 

Hope you like them. See you soon,

If you would like more inspiration with this collection, pop over to the Craft Consortium Official Network Facebook page where all the DT members are sharing their projects.

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Lesley

Christmas Market Collection is available Online from Craft Consortium Ltd  shop

Lift off Book mark card with SU Bee Mine - published rather late!! OOPs!!

 This project is a delightful card and small gift in one that I made in February but never published! How did that happen?!!  It makes a thoughtful present for an avid reader and would be lovely to pop inside a book given as a present. I have grandchildren who would love these, so I know how to use the fun Bee Mine suite from the Mini Catalogue. We don’t make as many Valentine’s cards here in the UK as I understand are sent in the US, but the designs and stamps are such fun.

This is also a great way to use your punches or any of the nesting dies to vary the design and you can either fussy cut an image from the DSP or stamp.  You could also make these with young people. What a fun activity for the weekend or school holidays!

What you need:

	Imperial	US	Metric
Base card	5 1/2 x 4 1/8	5 ½ x 4 1/4	10,5 x 14
DSP for base	5 ¼ x 3 7/8	5 ¼ x 4	10 x 13,5
Mat for top card	4 ½ x 3 3/8	4 ½ x 3 3/8	8,3 x10,8
Opening top card	6 1/2 x 4 ½ Scored 3 1/4	6 ½ x 4 ½ Scored 3 1/4	17 x 11,3 Scored 8,5
Base coloured circle approx	2 ¾ or 2 5/8 - Big enough to leave a border around the white circle	2 ¾ or 2 5/8	6,8 diameter
White Circle	2 ¼ or to fit stamp/image	2 1/4	5,8
DSP for Bookmark	5 x 5	5 x 5	12,5 x 12,5
Matching ribbon scrap	2 ½”	2 1/2	7
DSP to decorate the front	scrap	scrap	scrap

 

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Follow the video for the construction.

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As always, I hope you give this fold a try and please message me on my Facebook page or tag me on IG posts so I can see your makes. 

You can contact me via messenger or email: lkilby3591@gmail.com

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by - I appreciate you all so much. 

Lesley x

 

 

SU Products used in this project:

Bee mine DSP #162546

Bee my Valentine stamp and die bundle #162554

sweet sorbet ribbon #162558

sweet sorbet A4 cardstock #159266

Daffodil Delight cardstock #121680

Basic white  cardstock #159228

Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad #132708

Multi-purpose liquid glue #154974

Trimmer #152392

Paper snips scissors #103579

circle punches or dies 

New Stampin'Up! Facebook Group

Good afternoon everyone,

To keep all my Stampin'Up! projects together, I have started a new Facebook group specifically for them. I have started inviting some crafty friends and I hope some other like-minded crafters will find their way to join us too. 

It's called Stampin'Up with Elegant Edges and you can find it Here   In case you can't see it, here is the URL:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1132354127812027

I hope that it will be a small crafty community where we can come together to share our love of crafting. I will be solely using Stampin'Up! projects to create my projects and fun/fancy fold cards that I love. I don't know how many of my crafty friends have actually tried SU so this is where I hope to introduce the wonderful products that I love to them and encourage them to share their own interpretations of my projects. 

With this in mind, I will post instructions in the Files on that Facebook page and where there is a YouTube tutorial I will pop a link on here. Not every project will be on YT, but there will still be instructions in the Facebook group's files.

I will continue to post pics of my Craft Consortium projects on here and on my Elegant Edges FB group so I can separate the work I do for the two companies. 

Thanks as ever for supporting me.

Lesley x

New SU Catalogue launching May 1st

        

 

As a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, one of the best perks is being able to preorder a selection of new products in the brand-new annual catalogue! I know - it's fantastic!          Well, my preorder arrived but I have been so swamped getting ready to see my new grandson that I haven't had any time to play. I can't say "work" as it's such fun opening all the packets, reordering products in my craft room and going through all the DSP (that's shorthand for designer series paper, just in case you wondered).          The first products I opened were the new 2024-2026 In-Colour cardstock, inkpads and 6 x 6 DSP - Just sooo pretty!!! If you haven't ever used SU, you might not know that everything matches and coordinates - if you buy the ink pads then it's just the right shade to go with the cardstock and papers, the Blends =  alcohol markers, water-based Stampinwrite markers, embellishments and, well, everything! (Mind blown???? )         Today, I am showcasing one of the easiest cards I have ever made to show off these new In-colours and I chose  "Shy Shamrock". The 5 new colours are called                          Peach Pie,              Petunia Pop,              Pretty in Pink,              Shy Shamrock,             Summer Splash.                             All the DSP is double-sided so in my packet of 40 papers, there are 2 designs in each of the 5 colours, repeated x 4 to make 40 sheets, which means it goes a very long way. I added a small strip of Glimmer paper, and 3 Resin Dots and stamped off the circle with part of the Thoughtful Wishes stamp set. Cards like these will go out to my customers who buy through my SU store in May. They may be a little late (as I have a few new baby cuddles to catch up on first) but I am sure my customers will understand!                Here are the products in the new catalogue together with the order numbers:         Mixed pack of 20 A4 sheets of new in-colour cardstock (4 per colour)                                         #163804          £10.75         6 x 6 DSP  40 sheets #163777    £11.75        12 x 12  5 sheets in colour Glimmer paper #163771 £10.25         Ink pads are available individually or as a colour family bundle                                     #165058        £38.25         Thoughtful wishes stamp set #163305 £31.00 or available as a bundle with         the  dies and 10% saving #163314 £68.25   BUT!     STOP  PRESS!   I have some amazing news! Stampin' Up! has announced a wonderful joining offer for May, that you won't want to miss. You get all the NEW In-Colour ink pads, the markers, the patterned paper and card stock for FREE. Plus £130 of products for £99. Basically, the value of the free products is an extra £31 (which you get as standard) plus £78.25 (In-Colour products) so for £99 you receive £208.25 of products, that is amazing! 2024–2026 In Color Classic Stampin’ Pad Bundle 2024–2026 In Color A4 Cardstock 2024–2026 In Color 6" x 6" (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Designer Series Paper 2024–2026 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers You will also receive free business supplies and free shipping. Not to mention all the fun that comes with being a part of our wonderful crafting community. All the In-Colour products will be automatically added to their Starter Kit. You may well have questions......... I would be so happy to chat to you about it. Send me an email or a text 07591 973133 and we can set up a time to chat. Or email me a list of questions. I know it sounds too good to be true, but it is absolutely true and awesome and yes I would love you to join my team. If this is something you think you have decided to do the link to join is below, BUT WAIT TILL THE 1st May 2024! ​Joining is done online, you just need the list of products you would like in your kit and your card to pay and I would love to welcome you to my team.

Easter egg shakers – Home décor project with Craft Consortium “Let Spring Begin”

Good morning everyone. I hope you remembered to reset your clocks last night as summer time began today in the UK.

When I think of Home décor for Easter, I see the painted eggs, hanging on branches of Forsythia that are frequently displayed in German homes. I knew egg-exactly (sorry, had to be done!) what I wanted to do and that was to make egg-shaped shakers using the great collection from Craft Consortium -Let Spring Begin- designed by Helz Cuppleditch.

I went through all my egg-stensive collection of dies but the oval ones were not quite the right shape. I found a Sizzix set in my local Hobbycraft and also a set of matching acrylic domes. Result!

Sadly, the Forsythia has been ruined by all the heavy rain we have had lately, but there are plenty of flowering bushes in the hedgerows (complete with lethal thorns too!!)

       

                     

                                 SKU: CCPPAD041B                                               SKU: CCPPAD041C

 

They were very easy to make but I encountered a big problem and if you take a look at the YouTube tutorial, there is a little missing section – my phone camera kept changing speed and stopped recording. I managed to edit the speed and tried to re-record but the technology just failed me! I am keeping my fingers crossed that the phone problem isn't terminal. 

Here are the step-by-step instructions - please read these and fill in the gaps when you watch the YouTube.

1. use the sheet of 4 toppers approx. 3 x 3 and cut out the egg die from your chosen design, positioning it as close to the bottom of the square as possible.

2. fussy cut off the sky above clouds. Draw in pencil around the largest egg shape in the frame onto the plain blue paper and cut it out with scissors.

3. stick the first egg die-cut topper onto the centre of the blue egg to create a scene with more sky showing.

*****Here is the missing part!  ***

4. place a few sequins onto the egg shape. Dust inside one of the acrylic domes with an anti-static bag and remove the backing from the double-sided tape that is pre-affixed and ready to use on the dome. I added a bead of wet glue over the tape to give me a little wiggle time and then pressed down firmly over the centre of both egg shapes, sealing in the sequins. Firm down with the edge of the bone folder to ensure good adhesion and no leaks.

5. using the frame die, cut a coloured frame from one of the coordinating premium papers and adhere it over the edge of the dome. Make sure the edges are neat. Trim if needed.

6. add ribbon to hang the shaker – I cut approximately 4” (10 cm) and used red liner tape to secure it to the back of the shaker.

7. on the PC, I made a sheet of “Happy Easter” greetings. You could stamp a greeting onto white card or just leave it blank. I cut these out with the smaller egg shape and adhered to the back of the shaker with wet glue to neaten and give more stability.

 

Obviously, if you don’t have egg-shaped dies you could easily recreate this product using the same topper sheet – either in the 6x6 pad or the 12 x 12 pad and use nested circle dies and acetate to make the shakers with foam tape. I love how easy they are to make (just not to record) and look so cheerful. Let your visitors pick their own one from the tree for a lovely keepsake.

 

Let Spring Begin is available from many good craft shops and from the company’s website at https://www.craftconsortium.com/shop?Collection=Let%2520Spring%2520Begin

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Lesley xx

Triple Layer stand up card with Craft Consortium Let Spring Begin

I hope you are all having a lovely Easter and enjoying the sunshine as we are in the South of England. It is long overdue after so much rain recently.

As a Craft Consortium Design Team member, I recently posted a panel card on the Craft Consortium Network page using the "Let Spring Begin" Collection" as it is just right for Easter. So many people messaged me privately asking for a tutorial that I have now obliged. It took me a while as my poor over-loaded iPhone struggled with the weight of all my photos and videos of projects. But I have my fingers and toes crossed that I have now solved the problem. 

  

                             

      

Materials:

Card base:  white 250 -300gsm

Mat: Let Spring Begin A4 Premium Quality Papers

Top: Let Spring Begin 12 x 12 Papers / Decoupage sheet or topper

Back: white thick paper/thin card  

	Imperial		Metric
Front pop-up	3 ½ x 3 ½	decoupage base	9 x9
	3 11/16 x 3 11/16	Mat	9.4 x 9.4
	3 7/8 x 7 7/8	Base card	9.8 x19.7
Middle pop-up	4 ½ x 4 ½	Papers	11.3 x 11.3
	4 11/16 x 4 11/16	Mat	11.7 x 11.7
	4 7/8 x 8 7/8	Base Card	12 x21.9
Back	5 ½ x 5 ½	Paper	13.7 x 13.7
	5 11/16 x 5 11/16	Mats x 2	14.1 x 14.1
	5 7/8 x 9 7/8	Card	14.5 x 24.4
	5 ½ x 5 ½	To write on	13.7 x 13.7

 

Other materials:

Foam pads

Embellishments

 

Please follow the YouTube tutorial for the instructions  

Let Spring Begin is available from many good craft shops and from the company’s website at https://www.craftconsortium.com/shop?Collection=Let%2520Spring%2520Begin

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