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 »
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 »
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 »
This month the Let’s get Hopping team are focusing on returning favourites. These are stamp sets or bundles that have carried over to the new catalogue and I thought I would highlight the Sweet Strawberry bundle which is STILL available with 10% off! I wanted to show you a different look to this bundle by creating a Vintage Sweet Strawberry patch. So here is my card, I think you’ll agree… 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 »
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 »
I have exciting news for you of an up and coming Virtual Card Class using the Looking Up card kit. This is a picture from our catalogue of all the supplies you will receive in the kit. You can make 15 cards – 3 each of 5 different designs. However, for those of you who purchase the kit using my Rainbow Rewards Shopping code, I will be sending out some… Read More »
Today is a very exciting day!! If you don’t already know let me tell you, the Annual Catalogue for 2019-2010 is now LIVE!!! This is the moment that most of the Stampin’ Up Work has been waiting for and I felt it was appropriate to create a Magnolia Lane Thank you card! I have not yet purchased the full bundle but I couldn’t resist the DSP in my pre-order. It’s… Read More »
I took part in a quick Facebook challenge today called Case-ing Tuesday. The challenge co-ordinator puts up a card to case every week and we make our own version inspired by the card. The original card uses Happiness Blooms so I was inspired to mix it up a little and make a Happiness Blooms Thank you card. Here was the original card from the Stampin’ Up! catalogue and the… Read More »
My daughter turned 6 a couple of weeks ago and had a Princess themed birthday party. As I’d just used the venue’s invitations, I decided to make some pretty special thank you cards for her guests. I created a Princess shadow box card that opens up to reveal a red rose and her Thank you wishes. It was quite a simple card to create and I have to thank Danielle… Read More »
It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK on Sunday so, of course, I had to make my own amazing mother a special card. I wanted to use the Celebrate You Thinlits which are FREE with a £90 purchase until the end of this month. This set is so versatile with three really useful words; You, Celebrate and Amazing in three different fonts. Here, I’ve used the Celebrate You Thinlits to… Read More »
I’ve been having a clear-out of my retired items on Ebay. I wanted to send a thank you card to send with the items and needed something quick and easy without compromising on style. As I’ve been making a conscious effort to pull out some old favourites that haven’t seen some love in a while, I decided to make a Quick and Easy Swirly Bird card. I liked this card… Read More »
You may have seen my recent post where I showed you a gorgeous Thank you card using Sprinkles of Life and the co-ordinating Tree Builder Punch. Today, I wanted to show you my ‘Crafting with Children’ endeavours where, together with my children, we made a batch of Thank you. These were to thank friends and family for all the Christmas gifts showered upon my children this season. Each child wanted… Read More »
We had a family tradition whereby every Boxing Day morning, the Basildon Bond notepaper would be presented on the dining table and it was time to write our Thank you cards. I have continued this tradition with my own family. We do wait, however, until our return to our own house so we can get stuck in with my craft supplies and make the whole Thank you experience a bit… Read More »
Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where our theme is Feeling Thankful. You may have arrived from Kim or this may well be your first stop this morning, but either way you are very welcome here with Eimear at Stamp in Colour. I am a demonstrator based just outside Swindon in Wiltshire and am delighted to be showcasing our theme of Feeling Thankful. I personally have a lot to be… Read More »
I have a quick and easy Sponged Sunrise card for you this week where I want to show you how you can achieve a sunrise using just a couple of Stampin’ Up inks and some sponges – super quick and easy, yet an amazing card! Believe it or not, the stamps used on this card are from Daisy Delight. It’s not one of the stamps often used, we’re much more… Read More »
I decided to throw myself into this week’s Global Design Challenge by using the Pieces and Patterns stamp set and co-ordinating Designer Series Paper to make a fun Teacher Thank you card. This week’s challenge was a sketch challenge. I first tried to think what else could I use in place of the stripes in the sketch. My initial thought was the pens from Crafting Forever as I was thinking… Read More »
The brand new 2017-2018 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue is fantastic; full to the brim of fabulous products but also fantastic inspiration for crafting projects. I want to show you how you can use our catalogue for ideas for your own projects even if you don’t have the specific sets used. We call this Case-ing; it stands for either Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit. We basically take… Read More »