Let's Get Creative - 1 Day Craft Retreat

After the success of the Let’s Get Creative Events in September 2017 and February 2018, we are delighted to announce that we are returning in the Summer!

Here are some customer testimonials -

“A really enjoyable day with lots of friendly people. We completed six projects that were all lovely. I would thoroughly recommend these events to anyone who enjoys crafting and likes learning new techniques.”

“What a fantastic day! I would highly recommend this day - great value for money, amazing projects and cards, lots of little freebies and a brilliant energy in the room. All your craft geek dreams come true!”

“I thoroughly enjoyed the craft event, I would recommend this to anyone who loves to craft and who wants to learn new techniques or improve their crafting knowledge. Excellent day 10/10 to organisers”

 

 

On to the details…

A creative paper craft day with Me, Jenny McCormac and Tara Fowler. You will have the opportunity to craft with different teachers, learn lots and play with a variety of Stampin’ Up!© products. An ordering discount opportunity will be also be available at this event.

Featuring:

3 creative teachers
6 projects to make and take home
Amazing raffle prizes
Prize patrols (freebies)
Goodie bag worth over £30
Tea/coffee/cake
Special ordering offer on the day

When

Saturday 3oth June 2018 10am-4pm
OR
Sunday 1st July, 10am - 4pm

 

Where

Evenley Village Hall, The Green, Evenley, Brackley, Northants NN13 5RY

 

Book Now At:

lets_get_creative@yahoo.com

 

Gift Vouchers Available:

Terms– the gift voucher secures a place at the event. We will require a recipient name upon purchase. Please also indicate which event day you wish your voucher for. If the voucher is not used, the purchaser will receive the goody bag, as per cancellation policy.

 

Cost

£40 per person

 

Final Payment Date: 30th April 2018

The payment must be made by this date to secure your place at the event.
If you need to switch your chosen day and we have space available, you can do so up to this point, but not after. We have limited spaces and a reserve list should spaces become available.
In addition to this email, you will be added to Let’s Get Creative! VIP Facebook group upon booking. You will receive updates and sneak peaks on this page. Do not worry if you are not on Facebook, you will still get the updates!

 

Payment -

 

Cash Payment:

 

Please give to Karen Spreckley, Jenny McCormac, or Tara Fowler before the above dates.

Bank Transfer:

Mrs K Spreckley
Act no. 03857468
Sort code 20-54-89

CANCELLATION POLICY

There will be no refunds given after 30th November unless your place can be filled. If your place cannot be filled you will receive the goody bag. This bag will not include stamped images, instructions or tools. In the event your space can be filled you will receive a full refund. If we need to cancel for any reason, a full refund will be given.
Any Questions or to book, contact us at lets_get_creative@yahoo.com

 

See you again soon,

 

Karen

 

"If you can be anything, be kind"

 

 

March Card Making Tutorial

Hello everyone. How are you all today? All well I hope. I thought I would share a card making tutorial with you today. This is the card I gave to my Daughter for her Birthday at the weekend. You may also recognise it as I shared it a couple of weeks ago because it was my swap card for a recent demo only event. Let me know if you have any questions and I'd love to see your creations too. Feel free to e mail them to me or post them directly on to my Stampin with Karen Spreckley Facebook page.

 

• Create an A6 card base from Sahara Sand cardstock (cut A4 in half then fold in half)
• Using the Ruffled embossing folder, emboss the front of the card in the Bigshot
• Using Perfect Plum ink, stamp the cake from the Cake Soiree stamp set onto very vanilla cardstock
• Cut this out using the coordinating die and the Bigshot
• Apply some snail dry adhesive under where your cake will be placed, and zig zag some pool party ribbon over that. Then add dimensionals to the back of your cake die cut and place over the ribbon
• Take a 2 inch strip of pool party cardstock and apply double sided adhesive sheet to the back of it, leaving the release paper in place.
• Using a sponge, lightly apply Perfect Plum ink to the bottom third of that strip of cardstock. Using a light motion means you can build up the intensity of colour. Try to leave it lighter towards the top of the sponged area to give an ombre effect.
• Using the celebrate die from the free Sale-a-bration Celebrate You Thinlets, place it over your sponged cardstock to give the desired colouring and die cut using the Bigshot.
• Remove the release paper from the back of the die cut word and adhere to your card base.
• Job done

All the products used are available to purchase in my online store or can be ordered directly through me.

 

 

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day,

 

Karen

 

"If you can be anything, be kind"

 



 

 



 

More FREE items available during Sale-A-Bration

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you're all having a good day.

Those lovely folks at Stampin' Up! have just informed us that they have added EVEN MORE items to Sale-A-Bration. That's even more product that you can get for FREE when you place a qualifying. These new additions are from the current catalogues so if you've had your eye on any of them, snap them up for free now whilst you get something else from your wish list.

That's all for now.

Karen xx

"If you can be anything, be kind"

Team Training Day Card Swap

Hello everyone. Hope you are all well today?

 

On 18^th February, I spent a wonderful day with approximately 70 other Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators at an event in Milton Keynes that was hosted by the very lovely and very talented Michelle Last.

 

It’s a team training day and they are held twice a year. They are an opportunity for some of us to get together, share ideas and inspiration, attend business workshops if we wish to, craft together and generally have a thoroughly lovely day out.

When we get together in groups, we often arrange a swap activity. This allows us to make multiples of the same card, and swap them with other Demo’s so we go home with a stash of new ideas. At this event, the swaps were arranged in groups of 6 and they had different titles. The group I chose to swap in was a colour challenge group where we had to incorporate these colours into our design –

 

Sahara Sand

Very Vanilla

Pool Party

Perfect Plum

 

And here is my card (Come back on 23rd March for a tutorial)

 

And here are the cards from the other Demo’s in my swap group. I think you'll agree that they are all stunning cards –

Gilly Hunt (hi@gillyhunt.com) -

Nicky Keylock - 

Tracy Abrahams (http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/tracyabrahams/)- 

Michelle Last (http://www.michellelast.co.uk/) - 

Maureen Dunn -

And here is a photo of them all. I was especially wowed when I saw them all together as a colour collection -

I'm going to get off now, so take care all

Karen xx

"If you can be anything, be kind"



 

Retiring In-Colours – What you Need to Know

Today I’d like to tell you all about Stampin’ Up! in-colours, more specifically, bring to your attention the fact that they retire periodically and you need to act now if you love them or you’ll miss out.

Each June, Stampin’ Up! releases its annual catalogue. With well over 200 pages of crafty heaven, and a part of that book is all about colours. Stampin’ Up! has 4 core colour families – Subtles, Brights, Regals and Neutrals. These are our basic set of 40 colours that all of our products are based around.

But in addition to that, each June, Stampin’ Up! introduce 5 new In colours to the palette to ensure the range is as up to date with current trends as it can be. In colours are only available for 2 years, so at the end of every May, we wave bye-bye to a set of in colours.

So why am I telling you this in March? Well there are actually 2 reasons.

Reason 1 – If you love one or all of the in colours that are due to retire at the end of May 2018, I need to give you the heads up to get them ordered before it’s too late. Stock of these items will run out rapidly once the Stampin’ Up! retiring list is announced at some point in April or May. If you want them, buy them this month. Remember your ink refills for your ink pads. Having those will keep you going for years.

Reason 2 – It is still Sale-a-Bration until the 31^st of March so why not stock up on the items that you love and earn free items for doing just that. Win-Win!

In colour items include card stock, ink pads, ink refills for your pads, Stampin' Write markers, ribbons and embellishments. Head over to my online store to browse.

Have a wonderful day

Karen xx

"If you can be anything, be kind"