I had a private card class last night for my lovely hostess, Nora. She had requested we make a medley of cards that she could recreate with her children as she likes to make Thank you’s and Birthday cards with them. So I was happy to oblige! The first one I shared on my Facebook page last night, it uses Little Buddy Birthday – which is my favourite set to… Read More »
A quick make to show you today. Sometimes, when the new catalogues come out, we are so bedazzled with all the new stuff, we forget some of our ‘classic’ sets – ok two aren’t even a year old, but you know what I mean!! I saw a version of this card by US demo Jodi McKinney. I loved it’s simplicity but still felt it had a wow factor, so made… Read More »
All ready to go for tonight’s Project Life Introductory session! I;’m quite excited to introduce this group of ladies to all things Project Life. I;m sure they will love it. Do you know about Project Life, if not, don’t worry if you missed out tonight’s session due to distance or other commitments, I am holding a virtual session over on my Facebook page, Stamp in Colour with Eimear tomorrow evening… Read More »
Yes, it doesn’t matter where you are but you are welcome to join me for an Introduction evening to Project Life. My event is being held over on Facebook. Here are all the details. My Facebook page is Stamp in Colour with Eimear, but you can find me using the little Facebook icon just under my Stamp in Colour banner above this post, or down the right hand side of… Read More »
2015 has arrived! Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? I must admit, I don’t make any ‘formal’ resolutions as I rarely even remember what they were come March! I am going to try and look after myself a little bit more, drink a bit more water, exercise a little but no ridiculous resolutions that I know I wont keep up with. I’m also going to try and keep up with… Read More »
It’s been a week since I wrote a post – sorry about that! I don’t know about you, but though I love Christmas and have been making Christmas cards since August, it still sneaks up on me and I suddenly realise I still haven’t bought all my Christmas presents and I’m running out of time and ideas, aaaaagggghhhh!! Is anyone else like me or are you all super-organised? Today, I had… Read More »
I hold regular monthly classes in my craft room, but I also hold private classes here too for a minimum of four people. Here is my room just before a recent private class began. This was my last class with this group of ladies before Christmas, so I had a couple of little gifts for them that you can see on the table. One of the cards we… Read More »
I love looking at other people’s designs for ideas and inspiration and I saw this lovely card on Debbie Henderson’s blog (an SU demo from the US) a little while ago, which I thought would showcase a lovely technique for my Technique Tuesday class. You can see Debbie’s card here – she even has instructions on how to create the card. I decided to change it up a little bit,… Read More »
I’ve had a great reaction to my tealight lantern that I posted recently. Many of you have requested the instructions so here goes… I was first inspired by a tealight lantern I saw by a Dutch SU demo Aida. You can see her version on her facebook page . I knew I wanted to use the Holiday home bundle and unfortunately Aida’s measurements didn’t suit my design so I had to… Read More »
So Saturday was the day of my Christmas Crafternoon! I don’t do these events very often, but I really enjoy them. Having four hours together gives me the opportunity to showcase projects we wouldn’t normally have time for in a normal weekday class. So what did we get up to this time, well you may remember my sneak peak photos from a couple of weeks ago, but if not here… Read More »
As promised, I am back with a look at the cards we made in my recent Technique class. This month, one of the cards we made was a Stair Step card. I saw an example of this style of card on a Youtube video by Amy Celona and wanted to make my own version. It is not as complicated as it looks and is perfect for the Holiday Home stamp set. The… Read More »
Firstly, a big Hello to all my new visitors. I had quite an influx of new visitors yesterday, so I do hope you come back again and do leave a comment and let me know where you are from. If you are commutable to Swindon, do look at my class calendar and get in touch if you would like to come to one of my scheduled classes or book your… Read More »
I’m kicking off a week of Cardmaking classes with my Mum and Me class this morning at 9.30am – and I couldn’t think of a better way to kick it off with a group of Mums and their little ones! We will spend the morning making 4 cards – similar to my Fast and Fabulous class but just with a little extra time to allow for a few cuddles, feeds… Read More »
Every month, I hold two regular classes – my Fast and Fabulous class where we make four cards that are not too labour intensive and my Technique class where we make two or three cards that focus on a particular technique or that may just take a bit more time. This month, in our Technique class, we focussed on the Emboss Resist technique. This is where you add colour over an embossed… Read More »
I’m sharing another card today from my recent Fast and Fabulous class. I was inspired by a card by Megan Daves who used Sassy Salutations in a similar way. I used the little arrow stamp from What’s Up in between the words – it kind of reminded me of pine needles – though must admit, I’d never looked at it like that before! So all in all it’s a quick… Read More »
I am going to share another card from my Fast and Fabulous class this week. As I mention a lot, White Christmas has to be my favourite stamp set from this year’s Seasonal Catalogue but Bright and Beautiful is fast catching up. I’ve also become more and more fond of Night and Navy. I must admit, I’ve only used it as an accent colour before, rather than basing my whole card around… Read More »
Once a month, I run a Fast and Fabulous class here at my craft room. As the title suggests, the cards are both quick to make yet hopefully, both the creator and recipient will agree, fabulous at the same time. This was my personal favourite from last night’s class and is so quick and easy to make, it would be perfect to mass produce for your own batch of Christmas… Read More »
Thank you for all the kind comments and your visits since Saturday’s Blog Hop. I feel confident enough in my endeavours to take part in another one 🙂 Today, I have a video direct from Stampin’ Up UK to share with you. It highlights the Little Letters thinlit dies. These are a great size for a card embellishment, or to add to a scrapbook page or a Project Life Spread.… Read More »
I hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s Stampin’ Stars Blog Hop, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, a blog hop is where a group of us design a couple of projects, post them on our blogs and then link all our blogs to each other so you can hop from one project to another without fiddling about with blog addressees. You can go directly to the blog hop by… Read More »
You may have gathered that I just LOVE this set from Stampin’ Up’s Christmas catalogue. (You can view the catalogue by just clicking on the image to the right of this post). Honestly, I do have other sets, and I will share some samples using those in the next few days, but first another one from my FAVOURITE set. This is another card from my Technique class this week, where… Read More »