Welcome to this month’s Stampin Creative Blog Hop where we have challenged ourselves to follow a sketch. I’ve been playing with the upcoming Hand-Penned suite for a swap I’m involved in and couldn’t resist having another play for this challenge. I love this suite so much and if I’m honest, it was a last minute addition to my pre-order – thank goodness I added it!! Here is the sketch that… Read More »
Welcome to this month’s Let’s Get Hopping Blog Hop where we are inspired by colours or patterns in our Home Decor/Clothing/Life. Now if you know me, you would know I love a Stripe! Whilst my Team is affectionately known as the Aces and Diamonds, we go by the White Stripes when on tour. You only have to take a look at these photos to see why! Spoiler alert – I… Read More »
It was my son’s birthday recently – I can’t believe the little boy that came to Onstage with me at 6 weeks old, is now 6 years old!!! How time flies! He’s my baby so I think it’s harder for the last one to grow up – harder for the parents I mean, he can’t wait to be older of course. He is currently into all things army so his… 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 »
Only a few weeks to go until Easter – are you ready? Do you have all your eggs in one basket, or do you have a basket at all?! In today’s post, I have these perfect, super-cute, super-easy Easter Bunny Baskets for you using the All Dressed Up Dies and the Double Oval Punch which makes the perfect Bunny ears. Don’t you just love him? My kids have already… Read More »
Welcome to the Crafty Collaborations Blog Hop where we are sharing our Easter projects. Of course, I love sending cards, I’m a Stampin’ Up demonstrator, but especially this year when we still aren’t able to travel freely and see friends and family. Here I’ve chosen to make a fun Happy Easter card with the gorgeous Circle Celebrations in fresh, Spring colours. It’s such a fun set, you may have seen… 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 »
Welcome to my blog which is an accompanying post to this month’s Stamp Around UK Video Hop. Our challenge this month was to create projects featuring our favourite DSP – and what a challenge that was!! Not the projects of course, but to choose which was my favourite DSP of course!! I have so many favourites, like good old Bruce Forsyth, but the one I’m working with the most, at… Read More »
It’s the final Thursday of the month, so it must mean it’s time for the Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop! This month our theme is Glitter and Glamour and I must admit I was first stumped. But then, out of the corner of my eye, I spied one of our Sale-a-bration sets, Approaching Perfection, that was out on my desk and decided to make a couple of very glamorous Birthday… 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 »
Today I am joining my first ever Crafty Collaborations Blog Hop where we are featuring the fabulous Flowering Cactus Product Medley. I held an event a little while ago featuring this medley and I thought I would share one of the cards we created during the event. You can see another card I made here, but for now here is my Flowering Cactus Birthday Card. The papers (48 sheets… Read More »
For my Facebook Live this week, I wanted to revisit the You Are Amazing card kit. The first time I showed everyone how to make the cards exactly as the instructions suggested. But what if you don’t like those designs or you don’t like following instructions?! You can make anything you like with the elements provided. Today, I wanted to show you just a few You Are Amazing alternative card… Read More »
This morning on my weekly Facebook Live, I decided to make a Valentine’s card. Problem was, I didn’t have any of this year’s fabulous Valentines products. This challenged me to look at my existing products with new eyes. Did I have something that would work in a Valentine’s setting…. so I decided that the Cactus in the Flowering Cactus medley worked well as a heart shape – so here is… Read More »
If you follow me on Youtube, you will have seen I’ve just been part of the January 2021 Stamp Around UK Video Hop where our theme was Winter Birthdays. I decided to showcase two of our upcoming Sale-a-bration products which go live on January 5th; Oh So Ombre DSP and the Corner Bouquet stamp set. My link to Winter Birthdays was I thought this stamp was the perfect set… Read More »
It’s time for the very last Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop of 2020 – I could blether on about the state of 2020 but I think we should probably just let it slip away quietly without a fuss! We chose our theme of Celebrations way back at the beginning of the year when Celebrations seemed a fitting theme for a December 31st Blog Hop. Yet as of this morning, my area… Read More »
I shared this Flowering Cactus card today on my weekly Facebook Live and I can’t wait to work more with this product medley. It will be available on January 5th when our brand new mimi catalogue launches. The colours work so well together, with hues of Highland Heather, Mossy Meadow, Mint Macaron and Calypso Coral. And with cactus plants, you just have to have a vibrant sky like I’ve created… Read More »
I’m taking part in a video hop with the Stamp Around UK team where our theme is Shimmer Sparkle and Shine. I pretty much took the ‘sparkliest’ products I own and put them together in a Blingtastic card! Firstly the Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper – I cant believe this is the first project I have used this on. It is amazing! Such a gorgeous shade and the sparkle and shine … Read More »
If you follow my FB page, you will have seen my FB Live where I showed this cute little Gift Card Holder tutorial. (Did you catch last week’s? )If not, don’t worry, I have a replay of the video to follow. This is so easy to make and you can make 2 out of and A4 sheet of cardstock with only limited extras needed to decorate. Aren’t they cute? If… Read More »