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: Ideas on how to create your own original cards »
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: Painted Petals Card with Self-Designed Designer Series Paper »
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: Painted Petals One Layer Cards and more »
Last weekend I had a weekend away at Stamp Camp in Rotorua. This was organised by Jacque, team leader of the Creative Inkers Team. It was an amazing weekend. There were about fifty of us attending the camp. Over the weekend, we had five product suite presentations, each followed by a project that we were… Read More: Stamp Camp – One of the benefits of being a… »
Stampin’ Up! have announced that for the final month of Sale-A-Bration there will be four exciting new products that you can earn free during Sale-A-Bration. These are available from Sunday 1st March until Tuesday 31st March. Check them out here: Make sure you make the most of Sale-A-Bration! For every $110 NZ you spend, you… Read More: Bonus Sale-A-Bration Products »
Here are this week’s Weekly Deals. You can view them online here. These are available till Tuesday 3rd March. Check out the ribbon, twine, squins, banner kit and MDS download file available this week. Remember, these also count towards Sale-A-Bration. Sale-A-Bration is your opportunity to receive some products for free. You can place an order… Read More: Weekly Deals – Ribbon, Twine and Embellishments until 3rd March »
Today, I have made a wedding card using this week’s very versatile featured stamp set and bundle, Celebrate Today. I have used the colours, Blushing Bride and Smoky Slate. I have cased this card from Amy Kunkle. Supplies: Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog I hope you have enjoyed the three days of different… Read More: Wedding Card Using Celebrate Today »
Today I have used this week’s featured stamp set, Celebrate Today, to make a baby card. Here is a baby boy’s card in Pool Party and Soft Sky, with a touch of Pink Pirouette. Here is one in Pink Pirouette and Blushing Bride, with a touch of Soft Sky, for a baby girl’s card.… Read More: Baby Balloon Card »
This week’s featured stamp set is Celebrate Today which is a photopolymer stamp set. The photopolymer makes knowing where you are stamping on your card very easy as you can see through the stamps and see exactly where you are placing them. This stamp set also coordinates with the Balloon Framelit Dies. I have used… Read More: Celebrate Today With Balloons »
Amanda, my youngest, turned four on Monday. She has a special, favourite toy, her “Bubba”. This year she wanted me to make a “Bubba” birthday cake and so I made a birthday card to coordinate with it too. Here is the card I made for her: To make the body I cut around a picture… Read More: A Special Card For My Four Year Old »
Here are this week’s Weekly Deals. You can view them online here. These are available till Tuesday 24th February. Check out the Punches, Folder Arrows Embossing Folder, Gift Card Envelope Thinlits Die, Celebration Basics Kit, Typeset Speciality Designer Series Paper, and MDS download file available this week. Remember, these also count towards Sale-A-Bration. Sale-A-Bration is… Read More: Weekly Deals until 24th February – Punches, Embossing Folder, Thinlits… »
Today’s card is the third card in my new weekly blog feature using the Butterfly Basics stamp set and Butterfly Thinlit Dies. It features a vellum butterfly coloured with Blendabilities. Today’s post also includes a video! I saw a card made by Marilyn Meadows with a vellum butterfly and this inspired me to make my… Read More: Vellem Butterfly Card and Video »
Welcome to the second day of my new weekly blog feature. Each Monday I will feature a Stampin’ Up! stamp set, bundle or product. On the following Tuesday and Wednesday I will feature the same product and show other ways to use it. This week’s featured product is the Butterfly Basics bundle which includes the… Read More: Two Butterflies – the same but different »
Welcome to my new weekly blog feature. Each Monday I will feature a Stampin’ Up! stamp set, bundle or product. On following Tuesday and Wednesday I will feature the same product and show other ways to use it. This week’s featured product is a bundle. The Basic Butterflies stamp set and Butterfly Thinlit Dies. Here… Read More: New Weekly Blog Feature »
Auckland’s Extravaganza is coming up on Saturday 28th March, so mark this in your diaries today. This is our first one for 2015. This is an event put on by Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators like myself from the Creative Inkers Team. What is an Extravaganza? It is an afternoon where you get to spend it with like-minded… Read More: Auckland Extravaganza Time »