It's a Merry Little Christmas in September!

Hello!! 

I've been so busy preparing and holding the first Christmas Card Create Class that took place on Sunday, that I've realised I've been neglecting my good old blog!! Sorry guys - let's kick off with the important things first:

First piece of important news to share is that it is now September and this means our new Autumn/Winter catalogue is now live - if you would like your very own hard copy to have a look through and see all the fantastic new products then get in touch with me through Facebook @Jenfielou.stampinup or via my website at Jenfielou.Stampinup.net now, or you can have a look at all the wonderful products on my online shop available 24/7! 

This leads me onto the second piece of important news - there is a new hostess code for September 2017 - for every order you place in September through my online shop please use the hostess code FYGDGEJM so that I can send you a litte extra thank you for your order!  As always, if your order is over £150, please do not use this code as you will receive your own rewards to choose and spend on free gifts yourself! 

Moving on to update you on the first Christmas Card Create Class.  This was a lovely little class with a couple of friends.  We each made two cards, there was a third intended but unfortunately we ran out of time for it, so I'll do a tutorial showing how to put it together very soon so that you can all have a go if you wish! 

As you can see above, I'd been busy playing with the Carols of Christmas stamp set and Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper which was the set used for the first card at the class -  this was CASE'd from the seasonal catalogue.  CASE is an abbreviation for the phrase Copy And Selectivley Edit, or Copy And Share Everything! 

Here is the image of the card in the catalogue:

followed by my CASE'd card:

On the inside I added a square of Whisper White Card and stamped the baubles in Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad, so that the were dangling from the top.  I finished off with the holly stamp in the bottom left corner, which I inked up using the Old Olive & Real Red Stampin' Write Markers to get the two colour image.  The markers are not normally available individually so to get these two extremely popular and useful colours for the Christmas season together is a fab deal!  Here's an example of the inside of the card (this photo is from a different card but is the same design, don't worry the card hasn't miraculously changed colour - your eyes are not playing tricks on you!)

The next card we made in the class was a variation of my present card shown below.  

For this card, I wrapped a piece of Silver 3/8" Metallic-Edge Ribbon around a piece of Merry Little Christmas Designer Series Paper and tied a bow, with a second piece of ribbon, which I attached with Mini Glue Dots.  

For my card, I added the Peace on Earth sentiment from the Carols of Christmas stamp set which I stamped first on to Basic Black Card using the Versamark Pad, covered with Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder and tapped off the excess, then using my Heat Tool I gently heated the powder until it melted to create the foiled embossed effect.  I mounted this onto a piece of Whisper White Card cut out using the largest square from the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.  On the inside of the card, I stamped the "stars" down the side of the card in Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad. 

HOWEVER, I had wondered if we turned the card portrait, and used the Merry Little Labels Clear-Mount Bundle (or in wood mount - Bundle consists of Merry Little Labels Clear-Mount Stamp Set also available in wood mount, and Everyday Label Punch) it would look like a present with the gift tag which could hang from the bow!  

The ladies came up with some wonderful creative designs.  Here are the cards the ladies made, with their own selective edits! 

Of course we also decorated the insides:

Finally here is the third card I had hoped we would make, my little bauble card!  I will share details with you on how I made this card in a future blog so come back soon.  

The next card class is scheduled for Sunday 8th October 2017 and will feature the Quilted Christmas Suite from the new catalogue.  I will share some creations with this suite very soon, however if you want to book your place on the class now you can by going to the events page on my Facebook @Jenfielou.stampinup.

I'm looking forward to Stampin' with you soon :) 

Jenfie
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