Hello Today, I’m coming on quickly to show you how to make a stamped image look bigger. Now this is a trick I often use when making a larger card where you simply cut your stamped and coloured image in half and tuck each piece under another piece of card. These 5″ x 7″ cards […]
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How to make a twisted easel card
Hello Today, I will show you how to make a twisted easel card. This easy fun fold is actually really simple to make – it’s just an easel card with a twist! To create my cards I used For the Books and Beach Day stamp sets by Stampin’ Up!, plus sentiments pulled from a couple […]
How to take a simple card up a notch and then go all out
Hello, Today, I want to show you how easy it is to take a simple card up a notch and then go all out by adding a few extra elements to make a really special card. To create these cards I chose the Cake Celebrations bundle by Stampin’ Up!, which is an online exclusive. Keeping […]
How to make a fun birthday card
Hello, I’ve been away for a while! Today, I’m share a fun birthday card featuring the Friendly Seagulls, which is by far my favourite Sale-a-bration FREEBIE. If you want to know more about that get in touch. Now seagulls aren’t my favourite birds but these stamps are too cute and I knew I had to […]
Make elegant birthday cards by repeat stamping and watercolor pencils
Hello Do you like using watercolor pencils? Well today I will simply show you how easy it is to make elegant birthday cards by repeat stamping a large image and adding colour with watercolor pencils to those images to give a soft subtle look. My photography skills are poor, so you can’t see the beautiful […]
How to use partial die-cutting in your cardmaking
Hello Today I’m sharing some examples of how you can easily use partial die-cutting in your card making. Firstly, have you tried this technique? It is certainly easier that you think. As an illustration, this first card was one of the projects from my August classes, and my ladies were convinced they would be unable […]
How to make a cute hexagonal treat box
Hello Today I’m coming on to share some cute hexagonal treat boxes that I made for a team swap. These treat boxes were CASED (copy and share everything) from a talented Stampin’ Up! demonstrator from USA called Julie, the Paper Pixie. A Ferrero Rocher chocolate fit perfectly in each treat box and are quite easy […]
How to make a floating pop-up gatefold birthday card
Hello Today I’m showing you how to make a gatefold birthday card with a couple of floating pop-ups on the inside. This was one of my card class projects, but the die cut flowers were a bit fiddly so some of my lovely crafting friends simplified it, which I loved and have re-created in the […]
How to make a split panel birthday card
Hello Today I’m going to show you how easy it is to make a split panel birthday card. Like a lot of fun fold cards it is easier than you think and was actially one of the card from my July classes. For this birthday card, I pulled out the Country Flowers bundle, some of […]
How to make a simple Bay Window Fun Fold card
Hello Today I’m sharing a couple of simple Bay Window Fun Fold card ideas with you. The first one was a project we made in class a few months ago and features the Garden Meadow stamp set and co-ordinating dies. At the time of writing this post these items come as a bundle (saving you […]