Category Archives: Design Challenges

Autumn Wreaths with Sparkle of the Season

This month I decided to join the Crafty Collaborations Autumn Themed Blog Hop and have cracked open Sparkle of the Season bundle to celebrate! I do love a multi-functional set and if you skip down to the product list at the bottom, you can see that this set makes wreaths that you can decorate for Autumn, Halloween and Winter – perfect for the next three months!  Here’s my Autumn wreath…… Read More »

Stamp Around UK Masculine Video Blog Hop

Welcome to May’s Video Blog Hop with the Stamp Around UK team where our team this month is Masculine.  I have made a really simple card but with a little twist that issue easy to recreate.  I’ve also used DSP that I don’t think you would associate with a Male. card – it may indeed surprise you! So here is my project for this months Blog hop using….wait for it….… Read More »

Stampin’ Creative Masculine Blog Hop with Mountain Air

Welcome to this month’s Stampin Creative Blog Hop where this time the team and I have chosen a Masculine theme. I combined this with my own team challenge that we had on a recent Zoom meeting.  Between both challenges, I came up with the following card using the fabulous Mountain Air stamp set. My sister has been getting up at sunrise every morning for the past few weeks and taking… Read More »

Let Get Hopping 25 with a Wonderfully Wicked One Layer Card

This month we have the challenge of creating a One Layer Card.  If you know me, you will know that I would find this challenge one of the most difficult. I don’t think my cards are overly fussy but to not use layers or dimensionals is so out of my comfort zone, but I hope nonetheless that you will warm to my Wonderfully Wicked One Layer halloween card!   Without… Read More »

Lets Get Hopping 24 – Case the Catty with Wonderfully Wicked

Welcome to this month’s Lets Get Hopping Blog Hop where we are case’ing the catalogue.   Case’ing is a term which means Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit – basically you take an idea and copy it exactly, or copy the idea with your own supplies or even just take inspiration from what you see and come up with your very own version.  If ever you are… Read More »

Lets Get Hopping 21 – A tale of two sketches in our sketch challenge!

This month at Let’s Get Hopping we are having a sketch challenge.  We each picked a sketch and we created two cards with this one sketch.  I must admit, it’s been a really fun challenge for me and I can’t wait to see what everyone came up with.  My original plan was to flip the sketch and twist it, but in the end I kept pretty much to the sketch… Read More »

March Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop – Mixed Media

This month our theme with the Scrapbooking Global team is to create a Mixed Media Scrapbook page. You may have arrived from the lovely Liz Yuille, or this may well be your first stop on today’s Scrapbook Hop but either way, you are very welcome with me, Eimear Carvill, a Stampin’ Up demonstrator in the UK.  I have to admit, I hadn’t really a clue what Mixed Media  involved and… Read More »

Broadway Bound Birthday for GDP#180

We are asked to case the fantastic Stesha Bloodhart in this week’s Global Design Project Challenge.  You can see Stesha’s original card below.  Her row of three pretty vases was my inspiration.. I was immediately inspired to create a Birthday card with three candles in a row. The Broadway Bound bundle was crying out to be inked up for my idea of three candles in a row. Here is the… Read More »

Scrapbooking Global February 2019 Blog Hop – Love & Marriage

Welcome to the February Blog Hop for the Scrapbooking Global team where I have the honour of being the Guest Designer.  I got to choose the theme and with Valentines Day being in February, I opted to make a Love and Marriage Scrapbook page.   For those of you who know me you will know that this page is very special to me as I lost both my parents within… Read More »

Handstamped Valentine’s Card for CASE-ing Tuesday #186

This week over at CASE-ing Tuesday, we are asked to be inspired by the following design.  As I’m a Last-minute Lucy, I thought I would take this opportunity to surprise my kids with some Valentines cards.  When they home from school after their swimming lessons, they will find a handstamped Valentine’s card waiting for them at their places for dinner. So I took the main look of the card and… Read More »

Pop of Petals Butterflies for GDP#176

This week at The Global Design Project we are casing the fabulous Steffi Helmschrott – I just love her style. She has an amazing rainbow card to case which made me want to make some Pop of Petals Butterflies. Here is Steffi’s card…   and here was what her creation inspired me to make. I used several rainbow colours and embossed the Butterfly from Pop of Petals in white.  It’s… Read More »

Floral Romance for GDP#175

This week’s challenge at the Global Design Project has a theme of Down the Garden Path.  I thought I would share the Fabulous Floral Romance suite that I used to make a card for the Sunday class at our recent WLCR Crafty Escape to the Country.  There was a choice of making a piece of Home Decor, a set of cards, or even both!  Most people opted for both so… Read More »

Happiness Blooms Thank You Card for Case-ing Tuesday #185

I took part in a quick Facebook challenge today called Case-ing Tuesday.  The challenge co-ordinator puts up a card to case every week and we make our own version inspired by the card. The original card uses Happiness Blooms so I was inspired to mix it up a little and make a Happiness Blooms Thank you card. Here was the original card from the Stampin’ Up! catalogue   and the… Read More »

Broadway Bound for Kids – Inspire Create Challenge #021

I made a cade recently for my daughter’s friends birthday that I thought would be perfect for the current challenge over at Inspire Create. Their  theme this week is ‘Kids’ I used the fabulous Broadway Bound suite.. There is a great stamp set with co-coordinating dies and here is what I came up with.  I think this suite is perfect for young and the young at heart in equal measure. You may… Read More »

Tropical Chic for GDP#145 Colour Challenge

This week’s challenge at the Global Design Project is a colour challenge.  Fresh Fig, Grapefruit Grove and Mint Macaron.  I’m  typing this up on my phone as my computer has died so not sure how to copy across the GDP graphic, hence the list of challenge colours.  When I saw these colours I immediately thought of Tropical Chic. Here was what I came up with Tips and Tricks for my… Read More »

Detailed in Love for Inspire Create #019

I decided to enter a few more challenges and have been looking out for other challenges to enter. Emma Goddard, from our Stampin’ Creative crew, is on the design team for Inspire.Create. So it made perfect sense to check out their challenge.  This week is a colour challenge and we are asked to use some of the new in-colors so I decided to break out Detailed in Love. I received… Read More »

Artisan Textures for Global Design Project #141

This week at The Global Design Project, it’s a fabulous colour challenge.  I admit it took me a while to think what I was going to do with these colours.  Then suddenly it came to me and I decided to use the brand new Artisan Textures stamp set together with Love What You Do. Here is what I created.   My starting point was the Beautiful Share What you Love Speciality DSP.… Read More »

Stampin’ Up! Lilypad Lake Diorama for GDP #140

This week at the Global Design Project we are CASEing ‘the King’  – the very lovely and talented US demo, Brian King.  I have always been a big fan of Brian’s style and am sure his cards have influenced many of my creations.  This week I have cased his gorgeous card by creating a Lilypad Lake Diorama Card. Here is Brian’s original card. So what does CASE mean exactly ?… Read More »

Share What You Love Challenge Card GDP#139

This week’s challenge at the Global Design Project is ‘Just a note to say…’ which covers a multitude.  The two most common cards I make are either Birthday cards or Thank you cards. I decided to use the Thank You theme for this Share What You Love Challenge Card.   This is a layout I use often, in fact, I used it at my Monday class with a totally different… Read More »

GDP #138 – Animal Outing gets it’s First Outing

This week’s challenge at the Global Design project is a Sketch Challenge.  I cracked open Animal Outing for the first time, it’s a great set and I can’t wait to get the coordinating DSP.  I love the font and wanted to use the ‘Welcome’ for a brand new team member who just joined my third level – welcome Catherine!     Here is my take on this week’s sketch…  … Read More »