Sugar Nellie Ribonita and Friends Blog hop - Day 2

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to my blog for Day 2 of the Ribonita and Friends Blog Hop. If you are following the hop you should have arrived her from the lovely Astrid's blog. If you are lost you can always go back to the Sugar Nellie Blog to find your way again. I have used one of the beautiful new Ribonita images by our new artist on my card today. This gorgeous doll is called Belle and she is available to buy at Funky Kits. She is absolutely adorable and was lovely to colour with my Promarkers!
I used some Stampin' Up papers on my card which were a gift from Karen in my Sugar Nellie DT pack. I love the colour combination and the patterns are simply beautiful!

I create a layout using 4 different patterns which were all matted onto blue card and then stitched around the edges with green thread. I added a gorgeous open weave ribbon from The Ribbon Girl and a handful of flowers from various sources.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts and I die cut it using a Spellbinders label die. I added some little stick on gems as a finishing touch . I hope you are enjoying the hop so far and thank you so much for dropping by! Your next stop on the hop is the fabuous Mina with another gorgeous stamp from the new release.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and remember to leave comments along the way for the chance of winning some candy! Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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Stampin' up Party

I went to my first ever Stampin' up Party tonight. I had a really nice time. The Party was hosted by Caroline who works at the Ashridge Farm Craft shop and also runs Carann Crafters. I ordered the tab punch (I have been after one of those for a while) and a set of tree stamps. I also picked up some good tips for future projects.

There was a 'Make and take' and we made a lolly card. We tried out some of the punches and stamps.

It was a lovely opportunity to have a chat with other crafters and to finally see Stampin' up products in the flesh. I had been looking forward to going for ages! I was expecting to feel more enthusiastic about the products but only saw a couple of sets I really wanted to order. During the demos the stamping did not seem to come out very even which put me off a bit, the treat bag above was stamped with a roller stamp and I think it looks quite patchy...could be the ink maybe...I will see how my stamps perform when they arrive!

Am off to bed now! Am hoping will have some time for a crafting session tomorrow, I felt really under the weather yesterday and had to go to bed early :-(

Jane
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