Welcome to the Sweethearts Blog Hop where our theme is Anything Goes!! I’ve chosen to show a card we made at my recent Stamp-a-Stack class. I held my Stamp-a-Stack on Saturday and what a great afternoon we had getting a head start on our Christmas cards where we made 20 cards! Of course, in order to make 20 cards in 3 hours, they can’t be too difficult or labour intensive.… Read More »
It’s the last Thursday of the month, so that can only mean one thing…. it’ time for the Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where our theme this month is Summer Sunshine. You may have come straight from Tamara’s blog, or this may well be your first stop, either way your’e very welcome. Back to my card, there is one set in my collection that screams Summer Sunshine and that’s Sunny Splash,… Read More »
It’s time for the Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where this month our theme is Simple Stamping. You may have arrived from Tamara, or this may be your first stop, but either way you’re very welcome to Stamp in Colour. I’ve got a super simple card to show you – Simple Stamping with Wisteria Wishes. My card today is super simple; no die-cutting, no punching, no fancy effects, just stamps,… Read More »
We have a truly inspirational hop for you this morning, because it’s a theme that a lot of people struggle with for some reason, Masculine Makes! Luckily for us all, there is an up and coming suite in the new catalogue that will solve all that in an instant, He’s The Man! I couldn’t wait any longer to share it with you and I’ve a feeling a couple of my… Read More »
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 »
It’s great to be back hopping with the Stampin’ Creative Crew and I have a gorgeous card to show you using Nature’s Harvest which truly conveys Nature’s Beauty. If you know me, you know I love ink blending, here’s one of my recent projects. which coincidentally also uses the gorgeous Nature’s Harvest bundle. As you can probably spot, I also used the fab Cork Speciality paper – it makes a… Read More »
This month I decided to join the Crafty Collaborations Autumn Themed Blog Hop and have cracked open Sparkle of the Season bundle to celebrate! I do love a multi-functional set and if you skip down to the product list at the bottom, you can see that this set makes wreaths that you can decorate for Autumn, Halloween and Winter – perfect for the next three months! Here’s my Autumn wreath…… 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 »
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 »
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 »
This month with the Stampin’ Creative team, we are exploring Masculine Makes. Traditionally these are some of the cards, we cardmakers, who seem to be predominantly female, somehow feel are hardest to make. Not with this fab Designer Series Paper and Stamp Set! Never will you say a Masculine Make is difficult again! Just look at these fun monochrome designs! This paper (you can click on the icon down below… 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 »