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Cardmaking and Scrapbooking Classes in Crawley, West Sussex

For the Chocolate Class and from now on, all Card Classes with over 8 participants will be held in the Practical Room at Maidenbower Junior School.

This is a great room with plenty of space, electricity supplies for embossing and sinks galore - we can finally get messy LOL!

The school is by the shops and when you walk through the reception doors, you will have signs leading you to the Room where we will be.

So, here we go....the low down!

JUNE 2009

Wednesday 10th June 7pm - 10pm
Tart & Tangy Boxed Card Set - £20

In this class you will receive your own copy of the Tart & Tangy stamp set to take away with you! You will be making 10 cards and a box using your stamp set and the co-ordinating Summer Picnic Papers.

Monday 15th June 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Scrap Club at Montefiore Hall, Three Bridges

Thursday 25th June 7.30pm - 10pm
Fresh Cut Notes in a Bag - £15

In this class you will make four cards using the new Fresh Cuts Notelets presented in a gorgeous Bag. You can pre-order your own set of the Fresh Cuts stamp set to use at this class for just £16.50 including delivery (that's 20% off!) Orders must be received by Monday 15th June to be ready for the class.

JULY 2009

Thursday 9th July - 7pm - 10pm
Wheel Class - £20

In this class you will receive your own Jumbo Wheel Handle and Jumbo wheel of your choice (choice needs to be notified by Monday 29th June). You will learn 11 techniques of what you can do with your wheels and come away with four cards and a bag.

Monday 13th July - 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Scrap Club at Maidenbower Junior School

Thursday 23rd July 7.30pm - 10pm
Tag, You're It! - £15

In this class you will make five cards and a wrap. You can pre-order your own set of the Tag Punches for just £11.00 each (including P&P) or the Seeing Spots Stamp Set for just £12.20 (that's 20% off!). Orders must be received by Monday 13th July to be ready for the class.

AUGUST 2009

Thursday 6th August - 7.30pm - 10.00pm
Le Jardin Card Box and Card Set - £15

Add a touch of elegance to any occasion when you gift someone with one of these gorgeous cards featuring the Le Jardin papers and the Pretties Kit. In this class, you will create four cards, each featuring different elements from the Pretties Kit and a custom designed box to hold them in.

Monday 10th August - 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Scrapclub at Maidenbower Junior School

For Scrapclub, It's £5 to join us and £7.50 extra to buy a kit (ordered in advance!)

The offer is still available that if you want to buy any of the products used in the classes, you can have 10% off if you order them on the night of the class.

You only need to bring your own basic tool kit (trimmer / scissors and glue) to each class.

All bookings will be confirmed by email once payment is received. Please email me on natalie@oshea26.freeserve.co.uk for more information and to reserve your place.

Have fun!

Natalie x

Want to earn some extra cash or just get a discount on your habit :) ?

There is no denying that times are tough for alot of people at the moment. Bills going up, pay cuts becoming common if that then doesn't lead to redundancies.

Could you do with some more cash in your pocket? Want to earn it doing something that is completely non-pressurised, great fun and hardly feels like hard work at all :)?

I would be more than happy to chat about how you can either just get the discount for yourself or how you can build a business working from home and around your family commitments. My team is growing by the day and they all love what they do and do what they love! Do you want to join us?

FOR MAY ONLY, STAMPIN' UP! HAVE INTRODUCED A NEW STARTER KIT. MAINLY AIMED AT SCRAPBOOKERS, YOU CAN JOIN ME FOR JUST £99 IN MAY! IF YOU HAVE BEEN THINKING OF BECOMING A DEMONSTRATOR, EVEN IF IT IS JUST TO GET THE DISCOUNT FOR YOURSELF, MAY IS THE CHEAPEST MONTH EVER TO JOIN!

Email me natalie@oshea26.freeserve.co.uk or phone me on 01293 888816 and I'd be happy to chat to you about how SU can work for you.

Have fun!

Natalie x

We're having a paper party!

Stampin' Up's May offer is if you buy 3 packs of patterned paper, you get to choose a 4th pack free!

This includes all the papers in the Main Catalogue,in the Mini Catalogue and any retired papers in the back of the main catalogue too!

So what are you waiting for? Now is the perfect time to stock up on those papers.

Can't decide and want a peice of all of the papers? For THIS MONTH ONLY, for just £26.50, I am offering a 6 x 6" sheet of every single current patterned paper in both the Main and Mini Catalogues. This month is THE best month to enter this Paper Share as next month it will go back up to £35 as the offer will have ended.

So contact me as quick as you can as orders need to be placed and paid for before the end of the month! natalie@oshea26.freeserve.co.uk or 01293 888816.

Have fun!

Natalie x

There will definately be an echo on here right now :)

I forever seem to be apologising for never updating my blog and yes, I'm sorry again !

Sometimes, life just gets in the way and that can't be helped!

Soooooooooo, what has been keeping me so busy then?

Well................

1. The Stamp With Us online classes have been going on for the last two weeks and they have been a great hit - a great bunch of ladies joined us and we all had a blast. More news of Stamp With Us Summer coming in the next few days.....

2. Trying to organise the Stamp With Us Retreat in July and Scrappers Paradise in October is keeping me quite busy too :)!

3. Various classes and challenges that I have been teaching and being part of!

4. Looking after my growing Stampin' Up! family of now 11 ladies - woo hoo! keeps me busy too!

5. Running a solicitors office, being a mum and a wife takes a bit of time too!

6. The boys are in football tournaments, academies, after school clubs and training, it seems ALL the time - I can't tell you how many times I have to wash football kits in a week LOL!

Overall, things are okay and I am hoping it will become a bit quieter for a little while. My hubby's job is up in the air at the moment which puts a big grey cloud over us at the moment - the joys of working in the car industry! He has had a "letter" and several meetings re redundancy but nothing confirmed yet, so it's just a waiting game.....

Can't believe that the kids are back off of school again next week - haven't they just gone back? Surprise, Surprise - mine are in a Chelsea Football school for the four days of next week and another special Inset Football Training day on the following Monday too! I like to wear them out LOL! They love it and kick a ball around practically 18 hours a day! I'll be thankful when they pay off my mortgage for me with their first weeks wages :)

The card above is my weeks entry to the Stamp With Us Challenge - www.stampwithus.blogspot.com - I really loved the inspiration picture we had to work with as I wouldn't normally a) add that many colours together b) add those bright colours together! I made it with one of my downline in mind - Clare has just had her first promotion, so I gave it to her to congratulate her on her success - well done Clare!

Right, well I am going to stop there and post again in a couple of days.... I promise!

Stampin Up have some great offers on this month and we're already nearly two thirds of the way through the month!

Speak soon!

Have fun!

Natalie x

*Tip toes in very quietly*

How is a girl to get any work done when somebody else just wants to just "be with you". My 12 year old baby just keeping his mum company!

Some cards that I did to thank my Stampers 6 group for their orders last month!

Am I forgiven now that I've given you photos LOL?

Life has been suuuuuppppppeeeerrrrr busy!

Scrappers Paradise is this weekend and I am really looking forward to it. We have such a lovely group of ladies who have become regulars and I am really looking forward to catching up with them again. For the first time ever, I am actually organised and ready to go - classes done and all sorted out!

We have had a phenomenal response to Stamp With us! Are you joining us on May 1st? In the next couple of days you'll see an example of what you can expect from the on-line classes. We have had a great response to the weekly challenges too - why don't you join in or have a look? There is some fantastic creations on Mr Linky!

I have done several classes both scrapbooking and card making classes which I've really enjoyed and next week is very very busy for me. I come back from Paradise and then I have Monday night to recover but I have a SU party on Tuesday, another one on Wednesday and then a class on Thursday. Friday - I pass out LOL! I love it though :)

But a very busy week this week has mean't that I am really tired now and together with the fact that I've got Paradise on Friday, I'm going to have an early night tonight - I'm not sure quite how much sleep I am going to get over the weekend.

Have fun and I will be back as soon as I can!

Natalie x

Well what a two weeks it's been! Phew!

So I've had one class, two Stampin' Up parties, a new SU! Mini Catalogue launch. SU! field training and oh, just the little thing of

Stamp With Us launching - wow!

Just slightly busy then LOL! That's not including my "proper" job and being both a wife and mother too thrown into that lot too - it;s been a whirlwind!

So, in a whirlwind rundown.....the class was great - as usual - Crazy for Cupcakes was used and here are some of the cards that we made:

The SU parties / workshops were fun - some hardcore SU fans came and loved what the new catalogue brings us. Who doesn't want those oval punches?

Field training was great - always good to catch up with a bunch of ladies who just get "it!"

We always do a swap of cards / card fronts when we go to these type of events. Now for the first time ever, I didn't want to stress myself out with extra jobs to do with everything else going on, so I didn't sign up. Then I felt guilty! :) So last minute, I thought if I gave everyone chocolate, they might forgive me for not doing a card! So this is what everyone got from me:

The flower is from the new Petal Pizzaz set stamped in Regal Rose and the sentiment is from the Friendship Circles set stamped in Chocolate Chip of course!

Here are the Make and Take's that we made using the Forest Friends set which includes this tree, Bambi, Thumper and the Wise Old Owl :). I love this set and think it is great for all sorts of things!

I was also a very good upline and made a book for my downline to make notes in the meeting all personalised with Sweet always papers, Flower Fusion flowers (best felt flowers ever!), brads from the Hodgepodge Kit and chipboard letters coloured with my *new* marker pens and the White Doodling pen. I can't believe that the chipboard retained the proper ink colour (didn't discolour!) and there were no streaky colouring in marks either - they were great!

So.......Stamp With Us went live on Wednesday and we have launched the Challenges, the on-line class and the retreat in our first three days - what are you waiting for, get over here to find out more information! It's very very exciting!

Right well that has been the last two weeks in a nutshell. Now we are all up to date, I'll see if I can update a little bit more often - I'm hoping things will be calming down a little now :)

Have fun and enjoy the weekend!

Natalie x

Can you believe that I have actually crafted today.....for me!

Well, the above is actually a card for my mum for Mother's Day tomorrow - nothing like leaving it to the last minute!

Anyway on Monday, my mum is flying off to Malaysia for 10 days and so as there wasn't much point in buying her fresh flowers - she wouldn't be here to appreciate them - I did the next best thing and made a bouquet of paper ones!

I have to say that I really wasn't very keen on this collection in the new Mini Catalogue from Stampin' Up!, but it really has grown on me.

The paper flowers in the bouquet were individually cut out from a sheet of one of the patterned papers from the Tea Party papers as is the cone that they sit in. Each flower is held in place with a hat pin and a crystal from the SU Pretties kit!

The image on the card is actually stamped from the co-ordinating Stamp Set called Playful Petals and coloured with my new marker pens. Ooo0o - I think that I love them even more now - they don't dry streaky at all on the Whisper White card - it's a really beautiful finish.

Anyway, I've got thank you cards to make and a class to prepare for over this weekend, so better get on - just thought that I would share these with you and wish you all a

Happy Mothers Day tomorrow - whether you are one or not - go and spoil yourself and enjoy the rest of the beautiful weekend.

Have fun!

Natalie x