Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where our theme is Summer Dreams. When I think of Summer, I think of bold and bright colours and I believe our brightest and most beautiful Designer Series paper is found in the Expression in Ink suite. We have some gorgeous greens, some beautiful oranges and the brightest pink in this Magenta Madness piece! My July class series featured this gorgeous paper… 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 »
Since the pandemic put a stop to my in-person classes, I’ve been having. lot of virtual fun with my ladies on a weekly basis st Cards and a Cuppa. I thought I would show you a sneak peek of one of my October cards using Autumn Greetings. There is still time to sign up for this month. You won’t have the first week’s kit on time for the live class,… Read More »
Welome to this month’s Lets Get Hopping Blog Hop where our theme is Scrap it! You may have arrived from Alicia, who I know had a smashing project for you or this may well be our first stop. Either way you are very welcome, with me, Eimear Carvill, as I show you a little Punch Art and some fabulous dies that will use up your scraps. I don’t know about… Read More »
I had my Catalogue launch party on Saturday. It was great to be able to finally share some of the great new products with my friends. I created some displays and had a BOGOF sale. Then we got to create three simple cards; my Catalogue Launch make and takes. I had everything prepped for the ladies, all they had to do was stamp (occasionally die-cut) and stick! My first… Read More »
Time for another Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop where this month our theme is Masculine. I only recently opened my Best Route Memories and More cards for a scrapbook page . I’d yet to use to coordinating Best Route washi tape – I thought the two combined would be perfect for this months Masculine challenge. My son goes to an outdoor pre-school. This means he is literally outside all day long… Read More »
This week at The Global Design Project we have a sketch to follow. If I’m honest, I’d say I use variations of this particular layout for about half the cards I make. This time I tried to make something a little different to what I would normally make. I think I’ve achieved that by breaking into my brand new FREE Sale-a bration set, All Adorned. I’ve kept a… Read More »
Welcome to our very first Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop and welcome to my blog. I am Eimear Carvill, a UK based demonstrator. I’m a fairly new convert to Scrapbooking but loving it so far and jumped at the chance to show you my take on this months’ sketch. I chose my photo first and based my choice of supplies around this photo. It was taken after we hung a swing… 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 »
Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where we are introducing you the new Stampin’ Up! colours for 2018-2020. I’ve chosen to showcase the brand new set Pick a Pennant together with the new 2018-2020 In-Colors. I hope you fall in love with these bright zingy colours as much as I do. Here are the two cards I made using these gorgeous new colours My first card uses Call… Read More »
I can’t believe that this year is going by so quickly It’s already time to save your spot for the next Wiltshire Luxury Craft Retreat – Summer Escape to the Country. We are back at Lydiard Park on Saturday June 30th AND Sunday July 1st. You can book either day OR both days at a reduced rate – there will be different content and different goody bags on each day.… Read More »
We had a fabulous gathering recently for the start of Stampin’ Up’s 30th Birthday celebrations. I travelled with six members of my team, the Aces and Diamonds. We had such a fabulous time and really look forward to our road trips every 6 months thanks to Stampin’ Up! I love making downline gifts and I think (and hope) they really liked their gift this time. It was a really practical… Read More »
Time is ticking and it’s almost time to close bookings on our #WLCR Crafty Escape. This time we are hosting it from the gorgeous Highworth Hotel in Highworth, Wiltshire. A feast of seasonal crafting delights awaits you and preparation is well under way for our usual pillow gifts and raffle prizes. You will not be disappointed. The venue itself is gorgeous and the food is fabulous! It’s somewhere we go… Read More »
No, your eyes are not failing you, you have indeed read correctly! If you purchase a starter kit for £99 between 01-31 July which you can fill with Stampin’ Up’s! amazing crafting products of your choice worth £130, the following joining gift worth £65 will be added to your order 2 x clear D blocks Paper Snips Grid Paper Snail Adhesive Bone Folder Carols for Christmas stamp set So not… Read More »
I hope you enjoyed my card in my last post using the Seasonal Decorative Masks. Today, I wanted to show you another card using the same masks. This time I opted for the striped mask. Without any further ado, here is the second card. So this time, instead of sponging a trio of colours onto a taped mask, I have used versamark. Here are the instructions in three easy steps… I taped… Read More »
I have a great new offer to tell you about that starts today, November 1st. Not only do we have a brand new set of dies launching today, but we also have 25% off a selected number of stamp sets during the full month of November Here are the dies in action… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhpovAbU6qE&feature=youtu.be As I mentioned earlier, we also have several stamp sets that will fit these shapes perfectly on… Read More »
Hello and a very warm welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop. You may have arrived from our Guest Hopper Heidi (thank you so much for joining us this month, Heidi) or this may well be your first stop, ether way you are very welcome. Our theme this months is Trees and Leaves and I did wonder for a while, would I go Autumnal, Winter or A-seasonal?! In the… Read More »
Well what a weekend we just had! It was exhausting but exhilarating to organise a successful Crafty Escape Day for a group of wonderful crafty ladies here in Wiltshire. I thought I would share a little medley of photos from the day. We had a technique class in the morning – luckily noone had too late a night or too early a start as we had a full morning’s sessions… Read More »
I’ve been MIA again for a little while so thought it was time to enter a challenge and was drawn to the sketch challenge at the Global Design Project. Here it is It’s not a million miles away from a little treat bag I am creating for my one day retreat next week, so I changed it up a little bit and made it an Autumnal treat. I just love the… Read More »
This is my final card as guest designer for CC&S this month and Caroline has a great sketch for us. Admittedly, this sketch did stretch the old grey matter but I hope you like what I came up with as I tried a male theme this week. Here is Caro’s sketch and here is my male-themed card I’ve just noticed on writing this post that I might have my circles going in the… Read More »