This morning on my weekly Facebook Live, I decided to make a Valentine’s card. Problem was, I didn’t have any of this year’s fabulous Valentines products. This challenged me to look at my existing products with new eyes. Did I have something that would work in a Valentine’s setting…. so I decided that the Cactus in the Flowering Cactus medley worked well as a heart shape – so here is… Read More »
Welcome to the first Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop of 2020! Already we are thinking ahead to Valentines Day on February 14th – or are we? Our theme of Hearts of Friendship is pretty vague and can mean all sorts of things. If you’ve arrived from Tamara’s Blog, you will, no doubt, have loved how she interpreted the theme and fingers crossed, you love my Label me Bold Valentines too! Whilst… Read More »
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 »
The Let’s Get Hopping team are taking up Stampin’ Ups #simplestamping challenge with our hop this month. When you hop around us all, you will see some #simplestamping ideas for Thank you cards, Birthdays and even Valentines. We don’t do Valentines here in the UK like in other countries. You can give a card to your husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend or when you were school age, your secret crush, but we don’t… Read More »
Welcome to the first Stampin’ Creative Hop of 2018 where our theme this month is Love and Appreciation. We are delighted to welcome the first of this year’s guest hoppers, the lovely Laura Mackie from the UK, and Linda van Wely from the Netherlands. You may have arrived from the very lovely Mikaela at the Crafty Oink Pen, where I’ll bet you were wowed with her beautiful ideas. I hope… Read More »
We have had a great offer direct from Stampin’ Up this month but it ends in just a few days on the last day of June so don’t miss out! If you join my team before the end of the month, not only will you get to choose £129 worth of Stampin’ Up product for just £99 and not pay any delivery charge (normally £4.95), but you will also be… Read More »
This week in the PPA challenge 239 we are invited to create a card using the colours Real Red, Soft Suede and Crumb Cake. With it being half term here and still having my computer issues,I wasn’t sure I would have time to create a card or even upload it to my blog, but blogging on my phone seemed to work yesterday so trying again today!! It does take a… Read More »
This week in the PPA Challenge, we are asked to design a card using the above three colours. I decided to ink up Little Buddy Birthday and make a cute little Valentine, suitable for the young and young at heart. I used the Mirror Technique to create two dinosaurs holding some love heart ballooons. It’s quite an easy technique and can be used for a whole variety of stamps. I stamped… Read More »
Hello and Welcome to our very first Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop. We are planning to create a Blog Hop at the end of every month, so watch out for it! You may have arrived from Louise or you may just be starting your tour with my post, but be sure to hop on as we are sharing some fabulous projects this morning all themed for Love and Valentines. Here is… Read More »
I had originally designed this card for a challenge, but then realised I had missed an element so not sure it would qualify after all 🙁 My fab downline Caroline Thomas gave me this fab set, so had to ink it up immediately. With a bit of jiggery-pokery and by using the stamp-a-ma-jig, I managed to have the two sentiments link into each other in the recess created by double punching with the… Read More »