I have taken forever to blog this card and it’s one of my favourites! It uses the gorgeous stamp set Stars are Shining, which for one reason and another, I have only just opened. There is also a co-ordinating punch but I haven’t used it here. This bundle will retire with the end of the catalogue and will be available withy a whopping 50% off when the retirement list comes… Read More »
This is not my first play with Blackberry Beauty but I haven’ t found the time to blog my previous creations – Back to School has hit me with a BANG!!! But slowly finding my feet (and my rhythm!)and finding the time to blog again so here is my creation from today’s Facebook Live. I was inspired by a card I made on my Team Creative Challenge… Read More »
My Facebook Live this Monday featured the fantastic new In Symmetry tamp set. I had only just opened it the night before for my Aces and Diamonds Sunday Challenge evening. I wanted to recreate the card I made there in a different colour and made this one with the Sweet Symmetry Suite With my Sunday card and the FB Live card, I wanted to see if I could make a… Read More »
On my recent Facebook Live, I showcased the fun Floating Cardstock technique. It’s such a fun technique and I loved mimicking the stripes of the DSP. It’s a great technique to use up scraps of cardstock – we all keep them and now finally we have a good use for them! I do love the effect of the floating cardstock and matching it with this fun and bright Pattern Party… Read More »
For this week’s Facebook Live, I wanted to recreate a card I’d made on our team challenge night. We had cased a fun fold by Tina Zinck of Serene Stamper and I wanted to make my own version that would work with our measurements and fit our envelopes. Here is the Pansy Petals Fun Pocket card I made firstly on our Team night. It uses Fresh Freesia cardstock and the… Read More »
I couldn’t resist another play with the Simply Elegant suite this morning during my Facebook Live. It is such a gorgeous suite and I’m absolutely in love with the papers. This morning I wanted to introduce another colour and plumped for my favourite In-colour, Soft Succulent to marry together with the gorgeous Golds. I was case’ing my own card that I made during my Team Challenge night which takes place… Read More »
For my weekly Facebook Live on Monday, I decided to go vintage with Hydrangea Haven. I had been playing with the bundle all weekend to design cards for my Easter Bingo Night. The cards I have designed for Bingo are using the brighter colours in the suite, but for this one I used the Mossy Meadow gingham DSP piece as my inspiration. By using Very Vanilla cardstock together with a… Read More »
I had to share with you the card I created this morning for my Facebook live session. I cased my own design from my event on Friday night. This time I used the fabulous Whale of a Time suite to create a fun shaker card. I’ve had this suite since the summer, yet this is the first time I created a Whale of a Time shaker card. Having a full… Read More »
If you follow me on Youtube, you will have seen I’ve just been part of the January 2021 Stamp Around UK Video Hop where our theme was Winter Birthdays. I decided to showcase two of our upcoming Sale-a-bration products which go live on January 5th; Oh So Ombre DSP and the Corner Bouquet stamp set. My link to Winter Birthdays was I thought this stamp was the perfect set… Read More »
I’m taking part in a video hop with the Stamp Around UK team where our theme is Shimmer Sparkle and Shine. I pretty much took the ‘sparkliest’ products I own and put them together in a Blingtastic card! Firstly the Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper – I cant believe this is the first project I have used this on. It is amazing! Such a gorgeous shade and the sparkle and shine … Read More »
If you follow my FB page, you will have seen my FB Live where I showed this cute little Gift Card Holder tutorial. (Did you catch last week’s? )If not, don’t worry, I have a replay of the video to follow. This is so easy to make and you can make 2 out of and A4 sheet of cardstock with only limited extras needed to decorate. Aren’t they cute? If… Read More »
I had a great class on Saturday where we got together online to make up the Joy to the World Paper Pumpkin kit. It is such a great kit – the suggested layouts are superb – I wasn’t even tempted to go ‘off piste’ when making the cards themselves. However, I’ve had a lot of fun with the stamp set since I’ve completed the kit and used it on my… Read More »
It’s no secret that Gnome for the Holidays is one of my favourite sets from the Christmas catalogue. I do love a gnome and picked up some adorable little guys on my trip to Krakow last year – remember when we could travel anywhere we wanted?! – Anyway as soon as I saw Gnome for the Holidays, I knew I wanted to do a class with them. One of my… Read More »
I have exciting news for you of an up and coming Virtual Card Class using the Looking Up card kit. This is a picture from our catalogue of all the supplies you will receive in the kit. You can make 15 cards – 3 each of 5 different designs. However, for those of you who purchase the kit using my Rainbow Rewards Shopping code, I will be sending out some… Read More »
I’m back with a quick and easy video tutorial for this Night Before Christmas Gift card holder. It is super easy to make and uses the fabulous Night Before Christmas suite which includes the Holly Jolly Christmas bundle. Don’t you just love that Santa Claus? He looks so jolly! In fact, where you’re from is he Santa Claus or Father Christmas – he’s always been Santa Claus to me! I… Read More »
Welcome to this month’s Enjoy the Little Things in Life Video Blog Hop. We are showcasing some of our favourite techniques or techniques that we’ve always wanted to try. My project this month uses a tool I rarely pick up and a technique I should use more because the effects are beautiful. So, this month, I am showcasing a Sponge Brayer Blending Technique video tutorial and I hope you find… Read More »
Apologies that this post is a little late today – but I’m back with a Simple Stamping project using Star of Light. Did you know that we have lots of Christmas stamps in our Annual catalogue too? This set also has a set of matching thinlit dies but for my Simple Stamping project today, I am just going to use the Star of Light set. This card is perfect for… Read More »
This is the second of my Simple Stamping series where I am going to show you a quick easy card with either very little or very easy stamping. This All is Bright simple card is perfect for beginners but equally perfect for everyone at this time of the year. There are many of us, myself included, who have left their cards to the very last minute. This design is perfect… Read More »
Following on from my sneak peek post yesterday I decided to use this layout for a second card. Tis time, I’m back to our current products and also back on a Christmas theme. I adore the Joyous Noel suite and just had to use the beautiful copper DSP. It is so stunning in real life – the pictures in the catalogue do not convey just how gorgeous it is. I hope… Read More »
This weekend marked the end of Stampin’ Up’s 30th Birthday year-long celebrations. We partied all over the world from Orlando in the States, to Brisbane in Oz and Birmingham here in the UK amongst other locations! It is traditional at Stampin’ Up! events to swap card fronts and project ideas (totally optional but fun!) and I thought I’d show you the swap I’d made. After falling in love with embossing… Read More »