May was a busy one for birthdays in my world and now that all the cards have been received I can share some of them with you lovely lot. The first three are for my gorgeous neices and nephew (yes they are triplets). I cannot believe they are 14 already – makes me feel old! […]
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Dragonfly Dreams meets Fabulous Flamingo
Hi there The new Stampin’ Up! 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue is finally here! As a demonstrator I’m lucky as I got to see it a while so have been looking at all the new and returning colours (Mint Macaron and Blackberry Bliss), stamp sets, papers, embellishments and tools – oh dear, my wishlist is sooo long!! […]
3-for-1 cards using Stampin’ Up! embossing paste with glitter and reinkers
Hello, I hope you’ve had a good week? I’ve been busy with GDPR, the biggest change to data protection law in the UK in decades. If your inbox is anything like mine you will have been inundated with emails from companies – it’s all a bit overwhelming. I should have contacted my customers to ask […]
Love What You Do and Statement of My Heart
Hello there Happy Sunday, hope you’ve all had a great week. I’ve been busy prepping for my monthly card classes. Every month I think to myself that I’ll get ahead of the game and design the projects sooner but again this month I failed. I was to busy with the day job to get them […]
Simple sponging and masking techniques
Hey my lovely friends I hope you have all had a wonderful week? We have been away on an amazing canal boat holiday with my parents and father-in-law. My hubby said it would be a relaxing holiday but we ended up doing much more than planned – over 7 days, we did 47 miles, went […]
How to make a Simple Z Fold card using Stampin’ Up! products
Hello my crafty friends I hope you’ve had a good week? I had planned to blog more than once a week but my day job keeps getting in the way! Today I’m bringing you another card from my April classes – a simple z fold. I really enjoy making cards that are a little unusual […]
How to create Faux Laser Cut cards
Hello there Today I’m sharing some fun faux laser cut cards. We have some amazing laser cut designer series paper coming in the new Stampin’ Up! annual catalogue and it gave me a notion to create some faux laser cut cards using some detailed dies from my stash. You’ll see that I’ve used a different […]
How to Step It Up – Simple Changes. Any Project. Any Stamper
Hello again! Yay, it’s the weekend!! This week has been wonderful full of lovely sunshine – after a long wet winter it finally feels like spring has arrived. On Wednesday Mum and I went for afteroon tea at the country house at Stanmer Park near Brighton – it was delicious – we had oodles of […]
Butterflies and flowers with Beautiful Day
Hello again! I hope you’ve had as good a week and weekend. As well as working and doing chores, I’ve spent a bit of time with family, catching up with friends and generally enjoying life – is that cheesy? My monthly card classes took place on Thursday night and Saturday morning. I’m so blessed to […]
Silver and Purple are a lovely combination – don’t you think?
Hello there I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend? I was a little sad to have missed out on attending the Stampin’ Up! #OnStage2018 local event in Telford on Saturday which celebrated Stampin’ Up!’s 30-year anniversary. I’ve been to the November OnStage events twice and absolutely loved them but never the one in April and […]