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 […]
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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 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 an easy fun fold birthday card
Hello Today, I want to show you an easy fun fold card called a Diamond Z fold pop up. (Rolls off the tongue doesn’t it!) Both of the cards in this post were made for my nieces, who recently turned 20. (I added a few extra details to personalise them before posting them.) This fun […]
Use stamps with layering masks to make a birthday card
Hello Today, I will be showing you how quick and easy it is to use stamps with layering masks to make a stunning birthday card. I used the gorgeous Layers of Beauty Stamp Set (163514) and co-ordinating Layers of Beauty Decorative Masks (163517) from the new Stampin’ Up! annual catalogue. The sentiment is from the […]
How to make simple pop up birthday cards
Hello there Today I want to show you how easy it is to make some simple pop up birthday cards. In the examples I’m sharing, there is very little stamping because I fussy cut some of the cute critters in the Zany Crew 12″ x 12″ designer series paper. That pretty patterned paper is part […]
Learn how to stamp the perfect mirror image
Happy Sunday! Today I want to show you an easy way to stamp the perfect mirror image using the Stamparatus by Stampin’ Up! Using this amazing tool with a silicone mat (or piece of acetate) is the easiest way I’ve found of This was one of the cards we made in my card classes this […]
Pop Up Box in a birthday card
Happy New Year! Today I want to show you a cute fancy fold project with a pop up box in a birthday card that can hold either a gift card or money. I made four of these cards for my nieces and nephew for Christmas but completely forgot to take any photo’s so decided to […]
How to make quick and simple birthday cards
Happy Sunday! Today I want to show you how to make some quick and simple birthday cards using the Cup of Tea Bundle from the annual catalogue. These cards were one of the projects we made at my August monthly card classes this week and my ladies all loved them. We used one of the […]