Hello friends I hope, like me, you found some time to be creative this week? I get so much pleasure from spending “me” time in the craft room! Today I wanted to share three cards that I made with the lovely Varied Vases stamp set and matching builder punch. You can also purchase these as […]
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Making a start on this year’s Christmas cards …
Happy Wednesday! I thought I’d share two cards from my September classes. I designed the silver version first but as I was prepping for the classes realised I didn’t have enough silver glimmer paper, so made a gold version. On the silver version, the A6 card base is made with Basic Black. I embossed a […]
Stampin’ Up! Share What You Love 12″ x 12″ cute bag
Happy Sunday Today I’m bringing you a bag made from a sheet of teg gorgeous Share What You Love 12″ x 12″ Speciality Designer Series Paper. If you follow my blog and watch my tutorials on YouTube you know that I usually make cards but I’m trying to push myself out of my comfort zone […]
Merry Christmas to All Bundle by Stampin’ Up!
Midweek already! I wanted to share a couple of simple cards made with the Merry Christms to All Bundle from the new 2018 autumn/winter catalogue. You can buy the stamp set and dies separately but if you buy the bundle you save 10%. The Merry Christmas Thinlits Dies are so versatile – I can see […]
Easy Christmas cards with Santa’s Workshop Suite
Hello friends My post is later than usual – to be honest I wasn’t sure I was going to share anything today because on this day last year my lovely mum-in-law Carole was taken from us. I think about her every day but try not to remember how much she suffered or the day she […]
Clean and Simple Floral Wreath card
Happy Sunday friends Today I’m sharing a clean and simple card made with the help of the Stamparatus from Stampin’ Up! and a Wreath Builder template. I love this stamping platform and am enjoying finding different ways of using this amazing tool to make beautiful cards. The template was so easy to make with the […]
Tropical Chic Tri-fold Screen fun fold card
Hello my friends, I’m still on my holiday’s but wanted to come on quickly to share a card that I’m really chuffed with. It’s the first card I’ve created with the Tropical Chic clear mount stamp set and thinlit dies from the Annual Catalogue (you can, at the moment, buy them as a bunde and […]
Stampin’ Up! 6 x 6 Garden Impressions bag
Hello my friends I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. It’s been another busy one for me/ I can’t quite believe it’s September already, this year is simply flying by! We decided to have a few days away in Dora, our carvan, as the forecast for the coming week is great. We’ve come to a […]
Card Sketch inspiration
Happy Wednesday! Today I’m sharing another card made with products from the Garden Impressions Suite. I just can’t help myself!! The inspiration is a card sketch challenge from the very talented Dawn Griffiths’ aka Dawn’s Stamping Thoughts. It is Card Sketch #41. The card base is Night of Navy. A panel of whisper white cut […]
Waterfront stamp set – Thank you card
Hello my friends It’s a wet and windy Sunday here in the UK – come back sunshine, all is forgiven!! The weekend started off great with friends coming over for supper on Friday night. I made everything from scratch including some guacamole, salsa and sour cream and chive dips – I impressed myself as I’m […]