Welcome to this month’s Lets Get Hopping Blog Hop where we are sharing our favourite colouring techniques. I love using sponges – whether it be sponge brayers or sponge daubers and on this project I have used both. The Large Letter Dies are retiring very soon so I couldn’t resist giving them one last outing on this project. I had two sources of inspiration for this project. Firstly, I had… Read More »
I was asked to make a couple of wedding anniversary cards for a friend to celebrate some milestone wedding anniversaries. I turned to some retiring (and maybe a couple of retired) products. Goodbyes are never easy, but I know I will have some new favourites very soon once the new catalogue comes out. Wedding Anniversary Card no 1 My first anniversary card uses some retired DSP from Sale-a-bration last year.… Read More »
Boy, do we have a treat for you with our Stampin’ Creative April Blog Hop as we are showcasing the brand new Daisy Lane bundle from Stampin’ Up! You may have arrived from the gorgeous Mikaela Titheridge how I just knew would have a fabulous project for you, or this may be your very first stop but either way you are very welcome with me, Eimear Carvill at Stamp in… Read More »
This month, we are using Spring Flowers as our theme for the April Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop. You may have arrived from Courtenay Heuston, (wasn’t her page great?) or this may well be your first stop, but either way, you are very welcome with me, Eimear Carvill at Stamp in Colour in the UK. For my page today, I have chosen two different Spring Flower products; the Colourful Seasons stamp… Read More »
We are just back from a fabulous weekend at Stampin’ Up’s Onstage 2019 in Telford. As it was my daughters’ birthday on the Sunday, I only stayed one night so it was a very fun-filled 24 hours! The lovely, Jennifer Holland, a visiting demo from the US organised a fancy card swap. I chose to create a Tropical Chic birthday card as I knew this set was carrying over to… Read More »
I’ve been playing with stripes – my favourite pattern out of the How Sweet it is Designer Series Paper (DSP) – to make up some Birthday cards. I didn’t buy any of the rest of the fabulous co-ordinating suite but I just loved the bright colours in the DSP and finally managed to chop it up instead of just stroking it!! I tried two different designs and would love to… Read More »
I do love a bit of punch art. In fact, my children birthday cards usually involve some sort of punch art and this year my little one’s card was no exception. I had a quick look at Pinterest for some inspiration and found this fabulous card for a Punch Art Pirate . I decided to create my own version and here is the result. Tips and Tricks for my Punch Art… Read More »
I thought I would share my latest Cards and a Cuppa projects with you. I hold this drop-in session at The Bull Hotel in Fairford every two weeks. My latest session was last Friday and we created some lovely cards using the Block Spritzing Technique to create sunrise and sunset backgrounds. It’s been a while since I made cards like these, but you can see some other examples here. … Read More »
This month for our final blog hop of Sale-abration 2019 we have chosen the theme Fabulous Florals. As gardens all over the northern hemisphere are shaking off Winter and awakening to Spring time colours, I’ve chosen to showcase the Share What You Love DSP in my Fabulous Floral project today. This DSP is available in our 2018-2019 Annual catalogue and is full of gorgeous floral designs. This one in particular… Read More »
This month our theme with the Scrapbooking Global team is to create a Mixed Media Scrapbook page. You may have arrived from the lovely Liz Yuille, or this may well be your first stop on today’s Scrapbook Hop but either way, you are very welcome with me, Eimear Carvill, a Stampin’ Up demonstrator in the UK. I have to admit, I hadn’t really a clue what Mixed Media involved and… Read More »
I recently started a mew class at my WLCR retreat venue. It takes place every two weeks at The Bull in Fairford. I’ve called it Cards and a Cuppa as we make a simple card and enjoy a Tea or Coffee courtesy of The Bull – all for just £5. Today, my attendees had a choice of making these cards – either portrait or landscape, in yellow hues or pink… Read More »
This month, the Let’s Get Hopping team have decided to set a challenge of CASE’ing ourselves. CASE’ing is a term we use a lot within Stampin’ Up and means Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit. This means we can take a design that we see from another demonstrator, and with permission, we copy or take inspiration from the design and make our own version. It is correct… Read More »
It’s the last Thursday of the month so time for hopping with the Stampin’ Creative Crew. Our theme this month is Springtime which is so timely considering our recent warm UK weather. I decided to create some Wonderful Romance Springtime Blooms in the colours of the suite – I do hope you like them. You may well have arrived from Gina at Emerald Creations or this may well be your… Read More »
Welcome to this month’s Enjoy the Little Things in Life Video Blog Hop. We are showcasing some of our favourite techniques or techniques that we’ve always wanted to try. My project this month uses a tool I rarely pick up and a technique I should use more because the effects are beautiful. So, this month, I am showcasing a Sponge Brayer Blending Technique video tutorial and I hope you find… Read More »
Welcome to the February Blog Hop for the Scrapbooking Global team where I have the honour of being the Guest Designer. I got to choose the theme and with Valentines Day being in February, I opted to make a Love and Marriage Scrapbook page. For those of you who know me you will know that this page is very special to me as I lost both my parents within… Read More »
This week over at CASE-ing Tuesday, we are asked to be inspired by the following design. As I’m a Last-minute Lucy, I thought I would take this opportunity to surprise my kids with some Valentines cards. When they home from school after their swimming lessons, they will find a handstamped Valentine’s card waiting for them at their places for dinner. So I took the main look of the card and… Read More »
This week at The Global Design Project we are casing the fabulous Steffi Helmschrott – I just love her style. She has an amazing rainbow card to case which made me want to make some Pop of Petals Butterflies. Here is Steffi’s card… and here was what her creation inspired me to make. I used several rainbow colours and embossed the Butterfly from Pop of Petals in white. It’s… Read More »
This week’s challenge at the Global Design Project has a theme of Down the Garden Path. I thought I would share the Fabulous Floral Romance suite that I used to make a card for the Sunday class at our recent WLCR Crafty Escape to the Country. There was a choice of making a piece of Home Decor, a set of cards, or even both! Most people opted for both so… Read More »
The Let’s Get Hopping team are taking up Stampin’ Ups #simplestamping challenge with our hop this month. When you hop around us all, you will see some #simplestamping ideas for Thank you cards, Birthdays and even Valentines. We don’t do Valentines here in the UK like in other countries. You can give a card to your husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend or when you were school age, your secret crush, but we don’t… 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 »