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 »
Monday is my day for Facebook Lives – I’m not a natural at going live, but I do love the interaction of those watching. This week was a bit of a cheat as I recreated almost exactly the “A Good Man at the Beach’ project I made the night before t my team Creative Challenge. I was going to have a practice at a new card idea I had in… Read More »
I hadn’t used my Rainbow Glimmer paper in ages, and I had a lightbulb moment while prepping my regular FB Live. I wanted to pair the gorgeous Rainbow Glimmer paper with the Artistic Dies to see how dramatic the finished result would look – and boy was I right! It was such a simple card to make. Literally add the die-cut to some Basic Black cardstock and choose a… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
We are just back from a fabulous weekend at Stampin’ Up’s Onstage 2019 in Telford. As it was my daughters’ birthday on the Sunday, I only stayed one night so it was a very fun-filled 24 hours! The lovely, Jennifer Holland, a visiting demo from the US organised a fancy card swap. I chose to create a Tropical Chic birthday card as I knew this set was carrying over to… Read More »
I thought I would share my latest Cards and a Cuppa projects with you. I hold this drop-in session at The Bull Hotel in Fairford every two weeks. My latest session was last Friday and we created some lovely cards using the Block Spritzing Technique to create sunrise and sunset backgrounds. It’s been a while since I made cards like these, but you can see some other examples here. … Read More »
This month, the Let’s Get Hopping team have decided to set a challenge of CASE’ing ourselves. CASE’ing is a term we use a lot within Stampin’ Up and means Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit. This means we can take a design that we see from another demonstrator, and with permission, we copy or take inspiration from the design and make our own version. It is correct… Read More »
Hello and welcome to this month’s Enjoy the Little Things in Life Video Blog Hop. We are a group of demonstrators around the world who come together once a month to give you inspiration and help you with your creativity by showing you a few hints and tips through our videos. This month we are showcasing anything we fancy! I’ve chosen to show you a set that we received at… 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 »
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 »
We had a great family celebration at the weekend where my son made his First Communion. He was among a group of 8 children and to mark the occasion, I made each of them a little First Communion gift, a Hold on to Hope bookmark. As you can probably gather there were 5 boys and 3 girls in the group. I used the retiring shades of Soft Sky and Pink… Read More »
If you’ve seen my last few posts, then it’s no secret that I love the Hold on to Hope bundle – but how about a Hold on to Hope Congratulations card? I just had to use my current favourite for my Onstage 2018 swaps. I had used a sponged background recently for team swaps and also for an Easter card that I posted a few weeks back. This effect is… Read More »
I have a treat for you today! A treat box tutorial to be precise! It was my daughter’s 10th Birthday party this weekend and we had a small group of friends round for a ‘pamper party’ . As her actual party was over 3 weeks ago, she didn’t want a cake – we had to make ‘crazy milkshakes’ instead! But as there was no cake going home in party bags,… Read More »
Welcome back to the December round of Let’s Get Hopping where are theme is working with small stamps. These can be tricky to work with but I’m sure once you’ve hopped round us all, these will be the first stamps you reach for in your collection. You may have arrived from Verity Biddlecombe at Pretty Little Button or this may well be your first stop, but either way you are… Read More »
We have lots of resources to use as Stampin’ Up demonstrators when it comes to finding project inspiration. I found this idea using a different set on one of our Facebook groups from Kathryn Simpson. Later another fellow demonstrator from my home country, Emma Fawcett made a similar project using the Bethlehem edgelits, I loved her version and wanted to use it in a class but needed to simplify it… Read More »