What an exciting day!

Today is a very exciting day for Stampin' Up! lovers across the UK and Europe!, as today is the day the new catalogue is launched! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

It is even more exciting as I am a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and can share the lurve by tempting you to purchase a few bits here and there or if you are anything like me you will have a wish list as long your arm!

These are my fave new things, "Sunny Days"Simply Scrappin kit........................

Isn't ot yummy!!! I will use it for scrapbooking and for cards as you can get loads and i mean LOADS of cards out of one of these beauties..........

Here are my other must haves .......

Scrummy Playground buttons

Lush bright striped ribbonBeautiful new "Eyelet Border" punch

Fine Cosmo glitter

As you can I really could go on all day! I have already placed my order so can't wait to get my hands on it all and to get creating!

Stamp With Us Sketch Challenge

I'm ALIVE!!!!!! This is my card for this weeks sketch challenge: My internet has died so am using Mum and Dads so can't natter, as soon as mine is fixed I have some bits to share with you! Have a good weekend! Z xxx

Mrs Wonka update..................

I am so sorry (how many times am I going to apologise for not blogging??????) that I haven't been around over the last few weeks I have been really busy with crafting projects I can't share.........(How annoying!) as well as being at the hospital for check ups, bloods, pain management, new medication, a dislocated jaw (NO not too many toffees!) and numerous other ailments!Yes you are right I am falling apart! LOL So as you can imagine crafting has taken a back seat for a while! Right onto happier things I have just shared 3 days away with Mr Wonka at Tilford Woods in Farnham, they have log cabins that have your own private, sauna, jacuzzi bath, four poster bed and private patios off of the bedrooms complete with your own private hot tub.......it was a slice of heaven that we both needed! Here is our cabin: and our hot tub: We had such a lovely time, there were no laptops or mobile phone reception it was bliss! I am looking forward to today as it is my BIRTHDAY and I am having the family over and Mr Wonka is cooking one of his signature BBQ's! YUM YUM! I will be back in the week with some pics of my beautiful hand made cards from my crafting buddies and with a pic of my little nephew who started school this week, he said to his dad after the second day "Dad you will have to find me another school, as this one is a waste of my time as it lasts too long and doesn't give me time to play with my toys at home!" bless him! Right I am off to wallow in the bath and get ready for my day of spoiling!

Stamp WIth Us Sketch Challenge

Hi all, I am so sorry that I have been such a bad blogger, I have a lot going on in the world of Wonka and blogging had to take a back seat last week! This is my card for this weeks Stamp With Us sketch challenge, there are some brilliant cards from the DT this week so pop over and have a look. I will hopefully be back soon, I hope you all enjoy the bank holiday weekend!

Now that's what I call a rock monster cake!

You may have seen my post a few weeks ago with some rock monster cakes, although Kyle thought they looked okay.......he didn't think they looked like rocks!!!! So here are rock monster cakes take two....I feel like a bad auntie not thinking to make actual rock cakes first time round! He was much happier with this attempt. Hopefully the Lego miners can catch the rock monsters this time and I won't have to recreate the battle scene again out of cake! The things we do eh........

Stamp With Us Recipe Challenge

Hi Bloggers! Here is my Stamp With Us design team offering for this week:

Sorry it is a little late, we have had friends staying all weekend and this is the first chance I have had to get online.

I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine......

See you soon !

Thank you!

I thought you would like to see the little thank you cards and chocolate wraps that I made for my challenge winners on the online classes. This is the little notelet card: and this is the chocolate wrap, inside is some milk Belgium chocolate! YUM YUM PIGS BUM! I have used Old Olive card stock, "Best Yet" and "Simply spots" stamp sets and Dashing designer papers which are only just available! I hope you likey! Be back tomorrow with my Stamp With Us challenge card!

Live anywhere near West Sussex?

Do you live anywhere near Crawley, West Sussex? That is where Natalie O'Shea is running this class that I have designed on 2nd September 7.30pm - 9.30pm. The class is £10 or for £20 you can walk away with a "Cheers to You" stamp set as well!!!! For more class details check Natalie's website here . Hopefully I will see you there.......

Happy Birthday Gramps!

It was my Gramps 95th birthday last week, he still lives on his own and only gave up driving in January! My Mum held a little tea party for him which he LOVED so I thought I would share with you a pick of the cupcake tower I made for him! The cup cakes were vanilla sponge with chocolate frosting (lots of it) topped with flakes or crunchies and finished off with sparklers!......ohhhhhh they were delish......although I do say so myself! Most importantly Gramps loved them and had never seen anything like it before! So mission accomplished. I hope your mouths are watering..............

Cheers to you!

Morning everyone, onto the last project that I made for the online classes. This was aimed at the men in our lives! Well for the man in my life, Mr Wonka or Beer Monster as he turns into on occasions! LOL This is using the "Cheers To You" Stamp set and "Junior Varsity" papers. In the class we made a bottle bag and 3 different cards. All of the projects came with step by step photo instructions and were easily achievable to re-create. I hope that you have enjoyed your little peeks, Natalie & Monica came up with some wonderful projects including a bird house, shoe gift box, handbag, sampler and a pop up, flip out and stand up mini book! Although the interactive parts of the online classes have now finished the site is available for another 2 weeks so it isn't too late to join in and down load the 10 sets of pdf picture instructions and watch the technique videos and view the AMAZING online gallery from all of Stamp With Us Summers members. Thank you everyone who joined in this time around! I hope to see you all again at Stamp With Us Winter!!! I will be back tomorrow with some cupcakes I made for a very special birthday boy!

Bold & Bright Class!

Morning all and welcome to day 2 of my show and tell from Stamp With Us online. This was my second class called Bold & Bright! I wonder why it was called that..............lol I just love the bright colourway from Stampin' Up! but don't use it as much as I would like to.

In this class we made 3 cards, covered a notebook and made an ink pad gift box, which would be fab as a hostess gift for demonstrators or an excellent gift for a crafty friend!

I hope this hasn't given you a headache.........lol

See you in the morning with the final peek!

Chocolate yummyness!

As promised over the next 3 days I will be showing you my projects from the latest round of Stamp With Us online. This is my chocolate class using the "A rose is a rose" stamp set and Chocolate Chip designer papers. The class included 3 different styles of card a chocolate wrap and a chocolate cup cake, and I really mean a chocolate cup made in a cup! It only takes 3 minutes in the microwave and it is gorgeous! See you tomorrow with a peek at my Bold & Bright class.

Stamp With Us Colour Challenge

Good morning campers......... That time of the week is here again! This week we have a colour challenge over on the Stamp With Us challenge blog. Please pop over and check out the DT cards, as usual they are out of this world!!!!!! This is my project for this week, it is a little box with a Monica bloom on the top.

I have used Real Red, Rose Red and Pumpkin pie card and Sweet Always papers.

As you may or not know I have been very busy with the online classes over the last few weeks. I thought that you might like to see what I have been up to? So over the next 3 days I will be showing you little peeks of my projects from this round of online classes......... See you tomorrow!

Confessions of a bad blogger!

My name is Mrs Wonka and I am a bad blogger! There I said it out loud......that should make me feel so much better! I am so sorry that I have been so rubbish, I have been up to my eyes in other projects and my mojo has run out by the time it comes to crafting for me! I thought I would quickly pop on and show you my DT card for the Stamp With Us challenge this week. I have used the "I Wish" scrappin kit, I can;t believe how far those blighters go! I promise that I won't leave it so long next time!

Stamp With Us recipe Challenge

Happy Sunday everyone, this is my card for this weeks Stamp With Us recipe challenge.

I have used "Wintergreen" papers which are a retired paper set but are sooooooooo yummy! I have been using these loads recently and have fallen in love with them! The snowflake and the greeting are from the "Season Of Joy" stamp set and the book plate is from the SU Hodge Podge set. I have finished off with a bit of doodle doodle dandying around the edge.

I have got Mama & Papa Wonka for lunch along with a certain little Lego cake maker so I had better go and sort the veg out! Have a lovely day whatever you are doing! x

A little snippit of the SWU retreat

As promised I'm back today with a few basic cards that I taught at the Stamp With Us retreat. These cards were 3 little extras that were made at the end of a scrapbook class, these cards and the layout were all made using half of Stampin' Up! "I Wish" scrapbook kit. These kits seem to go on forever and are such brilliant value for money! I hope you like them and I will be back tomorrow with this weeks Stamp With Us challenge card.

Lego cakes

I had my nephew for a couple of hours yesterday and we decided that we were going to make Lego miner cakes, complete with miners and rock monsters!!!! The sponge was green and the icing grey and here are the results........

This is a Lego miner complete with diamonds

This is a rock monster who steals the diamonds from the mines.......

This is a fight between the miners and the rock monsters

I hope you appreciate that I had to kneel in an ants nest next to the only rock in the garden to take these pictures as the little man insisted that Lego miner cakes can only have there pictures taken on rocks! So I really really hope that you like them........ See you soon with a couple of cards that I made for the Stamp With Us retreat.

Everything rosie.......

I just found this pic of a card I made ages ago for a friends birthday and I don't think I done a blog show and tell with it........ I have used SU set "A rose is a rose" this is a 2 step stamp set and doesn't look all that in the catalogue but it really comes to life when you use it and has now come to be one of my favorite sets. I am really looking forward to making some Christmas cards with it using reds and some dazzling diamonds glitter........I think that will look yummy! I am busy making projects for the online classes that are starting on 1st August. Pop over to Stamp With Us to see what it is all about. All of the projects are made using Stampin' Up! products but you can adapt them with any of your fave products or stamps, £15 for over 10 pdf classes, live chats and video tutorials in the comfort of your own home is a BARGAIN so what you waiting for come and join in! I will be back tomorrow with some FABULOUS lego cakes.........yes my little nephew may have been involved!

Stamp With Us

Firstly let me reassure you that I haven't fallen off the face of the earth! I am so sorry for my extended absence I have been sooooooooooo busy and I'm afraid blogging had to take a back seat for a while. So sorry about that! I was away all last weekend at the first EVER Stamp With Us retreat! We had such a ball! Such lovely lovely company I can't wait to do it all again! Here is my entry for the Stamp With Us challenge this week, pop over and check out the rest of the DT cards they are all fab! I won't leave it so long next time!

Need help with your 5 a day?

Look what Mr Wonka & I made for dessert today! Yum yum pigs bum!!!!!!!! I wanted to share it with you as this is a great way of getting your five a day, each portion counts as a 1 of your 5 so if you were to have one of these a day that would be your 5 a day sorted! I like to spread the word on healthy eating and hoped this has proved helpful. LOL This is my Dad enjoying his.......

He is saving the bit in his moustache for later............

Sorry I didn't join in with the Stamp With Us challenge this week, I am up to my eyes in it at the moment and just didn't get time to make my card. Please pop over and check out the other cards though they have all done a FAB job this week!