I love crafting with my children and Punch Art is such a fun technique to do with both adults and children. For this cutest Punch Art Snowman card, I’ve used Circle Dies but you could use punches if you have those – you just need two dies or punches of different sizes. You also need a label punch and an oval punch for my Snowman’s top hat. You could cut… Read More »
When I saw this Christmas Gift Bag project by Ludovine Bertois, I just had to make it. It is such a roomy gift bag and really easy to make. I had one sheet of Painted Christmas DSP left over from my November Cards and a Cuppa – so I decided to use it for this project and I’m really pleased how the whole project came together. Of course, the bag… Read More »
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 »
I’ve had a lot of fun recently creating some Halloween projects – you may have seen last week’s FB Live project here. This week, I decided to recreate one of my decorations as a card using a non Halloween set, Nature’s Harvest. Don’t the dies make the best spooky trees?! And how about the ‘splodge’ stamp for some spooky Halloween mist? There are lots of colours in today’s card,… 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 »
Sunday night, as aways, was Team Challenge night and being such a hot day, I decided our theme would be Cool. That could have been interpreted any way, from Ice-creams, to Chilled Drinks, to the Seaside, to Cool Colours but I opted for Snow and the very cool Penguin Playmates!! Here is what I came up with. I just love these little guys. This DSP is FREE with a qualifying… 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 »
I saw the most gorgeous card online by US demo Cindy Westerink. It’s not a new fold, but her Double Gate Fold jogged my memory as to how fun this fold could be and I thought we could recreate it for my Sunday challenge with my team of Aces and Diamonds. I had such fun playing with the design, I wanted to share it on my Monday FB Live. It… Read More »
I’m so glad to report that England is finally enjoying some Summer Sunshine!! let me tell you, it has been a long time coming but now that it’s here, I’m finally feeling summery. Last night on my team creative challenge, our theme was ‘Summer’ so I created this card with the Sailing Home stamp set. I loved this set and used it many times when it first launched. This week… 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 »
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 »
I have a fabulous card to show you today that I made on my Facebook Live. I say fabulous, because it uses the most gorgeous foiled papers from the Simply Elegant suite. These papers have to be seen to be appreciated so do watch the video. They are absolutely gorgeous and have copper, silver and gold foils, some all on the one design! Here is the front of the card.… 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 a totally different card planned for my Facebook Live on Monday, but during an evening stroll in the garden, I spotted a few feathers and had a flash of inspiration for an Easter Egg card with the Balloon Bouquet punch… I also remembered a card I had seen from one of our Artisans, TammyWilson, and knew what I wanted to try. You may think my finished card bears… Read More »
In this my Team challenge this week, we challenged ourselves to make some Monochrome cards. My own card coupled with one of my Downline’s card proved to be the inspiration behind my projects for my weekly Facebook Live, Monochrome Madness. I started off by using the more monochrome patterns in the Dandy Garden DSP in the same way as my Sunday card. I particularly love Misty Moonlight and have to… Read More »
For my usual Facebook Live this week, I chose the very fun Circle Celebration. I had used it the night before on my Team Colour Challenge where I made an Easter card in the subtle colours of Spring, So Saffron, Highland Heather and Pear Pizzazz. I will save that for a future post 😉 On Monday, I decided to use a similar format to create a St. Patrick’s Day card.… 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 »
On my weekly Facebook Live, I chose to use the Sweet Strawberry bundle which is my featured set for my March Cards and a Cuppa class series. Here is the first card I’ve made with it, keeping it sweet and simple with Sweet Strawberry. Instead of using the infill stamps for the strawberry, I wanted to use the Stampin’ Blends. However, I opted for the normal infill stamps for the… Read More »