Learn how a #simplestamping card can be stepped up

Hello and welcome to my blog This is one of the cards I designed for my February card classes featuring the fabulous Flowering Rain Boots bundle from the Jan – Jun 2022 mini catalogue. As soon as I opened the mini catalogue I knew I had to buy this as my best friend grows flowers […]

How to make a simple Z fold card

Happy Sunday!  I am excited to share that I am part of the amazingly talented Stamping Cove Design Team. To say I’m chuffed is an understatement!! Every month we have a theme, colour or sketch challenge and projects created by the design team are shared on The Stamping Cove Facebook group, which is run by […]

Beautiful Wings & Amazing Thanks for #GDP329 Color Challenge

Today I’m playing along with this week’s Global Design Project – Color Challenge #GDP329.  This weeks color combination is Misty Moonlight, Magenta Madness and Mango Melody. This is such a bright and fun combination and a little outside my comfort zone if I’m honest.  Here’s the badge for this weeks challenge and as usual there is […]

Grassy Grove Bundle thank you cards

Happy Sunday! Today I’m sharing the thank you cards I made for my customers in January. I have been wanting an excuse to create cards with the wonderful Grassy Grove bundle from the Stampin’ Up! Jan-Jun 2022 mini catalogue.  The largest die is absolutely wonderful and creates a lovely silhouette. Below is the first card […]

Nature’s Harvest

Today I’m playing along with the Global Design Project again. This week it’s a Case The Designer Challenge #GDP328 and we are CASEing the talented GDP Design Team member Janneke De Jong from the Netherlands. This is my entry and I knew I wanted to create a card using Nature’s Harvest and the co-ordinating Harvest dies […]

Floating Pop Up Birthday Card Tutorial

Happy Sunday!  Today I’m sharing another fun fold card using the gorgeous Friendly Hello stamp set and designer series paper. You can get this bundle FREE with a qualifying order during Sale-a-bration. This cute gatefold card was easy to make and you can see how you can recreate it in the video later in this […]

Be My Valentine

Today I’m sharing a card I made for this week’s Global Design Project Theme Challenge : Love – Valentine #GDP327. I love purple – any and every shade – so it was a no brainer to use Gorgeous Grape for my Valentine card.  It has been a while since I took part in a Global […]

Bay Window Fun Fold thank you card

Happy Sunday!  Today, I’m sharing a new (to me) fun fold card. If you know me, I will have already told you how much I enjoy learning how to make different types of card and this looked like a fairly easy one that I have been meaning to try for a while.  The first time I […]

Cute Valentine’s card

Happy Sunday! I hope you had a good week. I had three wonderful in-person card classes – it is so lovely to be able to gather together once a month and for a few hours share lots of laughter and fun with friends while creating with Stamps, Ink and Paper. Today I’m share a cute […]