Last week, I held my Sale-a-bration Final Fling party. This was a free party for anyone who had joined my team during SAB, or who had spent £150 with me during SAB or hosted an event for during the three months of SAB. I made all my attendees a little gift using the gorgeous Something Borrowed suite of DSP, lace trim and embellishments. It was a scissor charm in one… Read More »
I recently held our monthly team get-together. We usually get together once a month to craft, chat, and swap ideas and inspiration. I wanted to show you the swaps that my talented team made to share. It’s a little picture heavy so I’ve reduced the size of the photos just so this post is not too hard to read. Although my details are on the photos, these cards are entirely… Read More »
Apologies for my lack of recent posts, last week was a little manic!! I should have (slightly!) more time this week so hope to remedy the lack of posts, firstly with this one. I was nominated by Tracy Elsom in Canada to be part of the Creative Blog Hop. I came across Tracy’s work through Pinterest, I think, and I cased a card that I fell in love with last… Read More »
Hello and Welcome to our Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop for February! You may have arrived here from my good friend, Lesley Lendon’s blog (no pressure following her fab creative project then!!) or you may just be starting your tour with mine. Either way, enjoy! This time we are creating projects based around a sketch and here it is… I decided to flip the sketch for both my projects and have… Read More »
We have 4 new FREE products being added to our Sale-a-Bration collection! Have a look at these… These are only available from March 1st until March 31st and together with the existing products in our Sale-a-Bration brochure are FREE with every £45 spent during this time period. If you purchase a starter kit before March 31st you can also add any two Sale-a-Bration items to your starter kit for FREE.… 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 »
Apologies for the radio silence, I have been having lap-top issues thanks to my little people!!Technology is great til it goes wrong!! So I’m trying to blog from my phone today – will see how it goes! I wanted to share our weekly deals with you as we have a fantastic bargain on the Magnetic Platform. If you have a Big Shot and do not yet have this item, NOW is… 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 »
Proud Mummy alert! You may already have seen this on my Facebook page but I am so proud of my 7ear old that I had to share here too. It was her Birthday last week, so the time had come for the thank you cards. She didn’t want my quick solution of ‘ pick your favourite card in my studio and let’s make it’. She insisted on designing her own. … Read More »
I promised to show you some of the swaps from our team night last week. First of all, here’s mine. I love this Sale-a-bration set – FREE with any purchase of £45! I was still undecided as to the orientation of the card, right up until the last minute – which version do you prefer? I’ve stamped the light bulb and greeting in Memento Ink and coloured in with my Daffodil… Read More »
It was my eldest daughter’s birthday yesterday and she had requested a Cat Birthday card! (we’re currently going through a cat obsession!!). I don’t have any cat stamps so I decided to pull out my punches and create a little punch art. I had to have a quick glance at Pinterest for a little inspiration for my perfect cat, and then had a look round my stash for the perfect… 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 »
Last night we had our monthly team night. We like to catch up, swap cards for ideas and inspiration and do a couple of make and takes. Last night it was my downline Ali’s turn to introduce her Make and Take and we did some fab punch art. I just love him, he’s so cute! Punch Art is such a great way to make use of your scraps and adults… 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 »
This week was my week of classes here at my craft room. Here are a couple of cards that we did on Technique Tuesday. I have seen lots of these style of cards across the internet recently and was really keen to give it a try. I’ve drawn inspiration from a whole range of ideas and colour combinations I’ve seen to come with something of my own. It really is… Read More »
I had a private card class last night for my lovely hostess, Nora. She had requested we make a medley of cards that she could recreate with her children as she likes to make Thank you’s and Birthday cards with them. So I was happy to oblige! The first one I shared on my Facebook page last night, it uses Little Buddy Birthday – which is my favourite set to… Read More »
It’s a big day in our house today as my little boy turns 5! He quite likes Superheroes and Spiderman is probably his favourite, so I thought I would dust off my punches and make a Punch Art Spiderman. I had a quick look at Pinterest and Google for some inspiration, but I had to improvise as some of the punches used in other people’s cards were either retired or… Read More »
I have a project to share with you today using the Crazy about You stamp set combined with some FREE Sale-a-bration paper. I’ve CASE’d this project from US demo Ronda Wade (CASE – stands for Copy and Share Everything – something we’re very proud of in Stampin’ Up circles). However, Ronda used a DSP on her card that I didn’t have. Yet, I really liked the Mossy Meadow scalloped… Read More »
22/01/15 So pleased to add that I was one of three winner of this challenge 🙂 I enjoyed the Pals Paper Art Challenge so much last week, I decided to take part again this week. This time it was a sketch challenge so we have to come up with a card following the elements in the sketch. I hope it’s ok but I flipped the sketch and did… Read More »
A quick make to show you today. Sometimes, when the new catalogues come out, we are so bedazzled with all the new stuff, we forget some of our ‘classic’ sets – ok two aren’t even a year old, but you know what I mean!! I saw a version of this card by US demo Jodi McKinney. I loved it’s simplicity but still felt it had a wow factor, so made… Read More »