Over the past few months I have been featuring a product of the week. However the Occasions catalogue is nearly on its final week, so I thought I would do something a little different this week and share some creations over the next few days, each made with some of my favourite stamp sets from… Read More »
Happy Easter weekend. I hope you are enjoying your weekend and also take some time to remember the reason for Easter too. The other weekend I was one of the teaching demonstrators at the Auckland Extravaganza weekend. This is the card my team, Kylie and Kathryn and I designed and taught. At the event… Read More »
Today’s card features this week’s stamp set, Painted Petals and some self-designed Designer Series Paper. This card, like yesterday’s cards, was also inspired by samples I saw in the Occasions catalogue, but since I didn’t have the Designer Series Paper in Daffodil Delight to use with it, I decided to create my own. I used the… Read More »
Today’s two main cards are one layer Note Cards featuring this week’s stamp set, Painted Petals. This stamp set is available in wood, clear mount and photopolymer so you can choose your preferred form of stamp and one that fits your budget. For those new to my blog, each Monday introduce a current stamp set… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I had an evening card class where we made a stand up box card and a card featuring the raised thinlit die technique. I never got around to blogging their wonderful creations, so here they are today. Here are two cards featuring the raised die technique. Here are two… Read More »
Today’s card is a Thank You card that I made featuring the Butterfly Basics Stamp Set and Butterfly Thinlits Dies. It is hard to tell from the photo, but this is a larger card than normal as I was asked to make a card which many people could sign. It is a piece of A4… Read More »
The Balloon Bash Stamp Set is another stamp set I have really enjoyed using from the Occasions Catalogue. It is a great one of kid’s cards, but can be used for anyone. Here is the other card we made at my weekend class. It is a stand up box card inspired by Dawn Olchefske. Supplies:… Read More »
Today is Monday so this means a new featured product for this week and this week’s product is the Spring Flowers Embossing Folder. If you are new to my blog, each Monday I feature a product for the week and over the next few days show other cards or projects using that same product. The… Read More »
Here are some Thank You Note Cards I made for my customer to thank them for their orders last month. I used the Butterfly Thinlit Dies to cut out the butterfly. I sponged some Irresistibly Yours Speciality Paper with some bright coloured inks to create the colourful background. The sentiment is from the Painted Petals… Read More »
Today’s featured stamp set is the Butterfly Basics stamp set and Butterfly Thinlit Dies. This was the stamp set that I featured over a month ago when I first started this new feature. I love the coordinating stamp set and dies and have used them so much, so I am going to feature it again… Read More »
Here are two other creations from our Auckland Extravaganza event on 28th March. Both of these use the Butterfly Basic stamp sets and framelit dies. This first card features the emboss resist technique. This second card used a water colouring background technique with the use of Aqua Painters. Have you ever used aqua painters… Read More »
This week’s featured product is the Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper, which is available through Sale-A-Bration. It is white paper with a glossy white pattern. It perfect for coloring using a variety of techniques. The colouring reveals the pattern. It is like the emboss resist technique, but the paper is ready to go. For… Read More »
Sometimes you want to make a card, but you don’t know where to start. That is how today’s card started. I knew that I wanted to make a card using the Painted Petals stamp set, but then I wasn’t sure what to do next. My next step was deciding on what style of card to… Read More »
Today’s post features a Flower Card with Gilded Leafing and I have a video showing you how I made it! The background of the card is Pool Party cardstock has been texture embossed with the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder. Gold ribbon was wrapped around it and then it was adhered to a Blackberry Bliss… Read More »
The Pretty Perennials Bendi Card (bendy card) was a card designed and taught at the Auckland March Extravaganza by Nicolette and Karen. The bright, stamped and die-cut flowers look very striking again the black and white background. This Bendi Card uses the Pretty Perennials stamp set and Perennial Petals dies. The curvy dotted shape at… Read More »