Today’s Overlapping Off Centre Gate Fold Card features the Dashing Deer stamp set. It is a great style of card that is something a little different from your standard card. This card was inspired by a similar one that was taught to us at our team training a month or so ago. The card was originally… Read More: Dashing Deer Overlapping Off Centre Gate Fold Card »
The Silicone Craft Sheet is an essential item in any stamper’s craft kit! It has so many uses. You can check out five great uses for it here! Once you have used it, it can get very sticky, so you may be wondering what is the best way to clean it? I used to put… Read More: Thursday’s Tip: Best Way To Clean Your Silicone Craft Sheet! »
In less than one week, I will start the “12 Weeks of Christmas”. For those of you who don’t know what this is, once a week for the 12 weeks leading up to Christmas, I will send for free, a wonderful Christmas tutorial of something you can make. The tutorials will include things like cards, gifts, bags, tags etc.… Read More: 12 Weeks of Christmas Coming Soon! Don’t Miss Out! »
Inking your embossing before putting it through your Big Shot is a great way to create an inked texture embossed background. Here is the Christmas card I taught at this month’s class featuring this technique. You can see in the background piece that the some of the background is darker than the embossed parts. … Read More: Inked Texture Embossed Background With Christmas Baubles »
Today I am sharing with you the Frosted Floral Double Easel card which is one of the cards taught at my class last weekend. I am also teaching a this at tomorrow’s class. The card also features a lovely glittery die cut dragonfly. For my birthday I received the following beautiful card made my one of my… Read More: Frosted Floral Double Easel & Dragonfly Card »
The day is finally here! The Holiday Catalogue is now live! There are lots of exciting new products. There are many wonderful Christmas stamp sets, die sets, punches, Designer Series Papers (patterned paper), embossing folders, embellishments as well as many other versatile, non-Christmas stamp sets! View the products online and order now! Download a copy of the catalogue here.… Read More: New 2018 Holiday Catalogue Is Now Here! »
This spritzed clear block background is a technique I used on some thank you note cards for my customers in June. Here is the card I made. This card features a solid watercolour background which is created with an inked up clear block which is then spritzed with water. I have just used normal Whisper… Read More: Spritzed Clear Block Background – June Thank You Cards »
I have had a big tidy up of my Stampin’ Up! supplies and I am selling some of my retired stamp sets, dies, embossing folders as well as other products. Check out all the product available below, and if you would like to purchase anything, please email me. They are in a good used condition unless… Read More: Retired Stamps, Dies, Embossing Folder & More For Sale! »
Today’s tip is on how to make sure you ink pads never run dry! It is very frustrating if you are making a card or project and you go to stamp something, but then you find it doesn’t stamp so well because the ink pad is starting to run out of ink. Or perhaps you… Read More: Thursday’s Tip: Making Sure Your Ink Pads Never Run Dry! »
Here are the final two cards from the July Extravaganza. They are both unique fold cards. The first is a fun fold card featuring the Share What You Love Suite and it has space for a voucher. Designer Series Paper and the Pearlized Doilie are from the Share What We Love Suite. This card also… Read More: July Auckland Extravaganza – Unique Fold Cards »
Today I will share with you two more projects from the Auckland Extravaganza that we held earlier this month. This was a fun afternoon where the guests made five different projects over the course of the afternoon. If you missed out on seeing the impossible card my team and I taught, you can check it… Read More: July Auckland Extravaganza – Joseph’s Coat & Diorama Cards »
At the recent Auckland Extravaganza my team, Kathryn, Nicolette, Helen and I taught the Impossible Card featuring the Tropical Escape Suite. Last time we taught the Impossible Box, so it was fitting to carry on this theme with the Impossible Card. Here is the card: Here is the card looking down from the top… Read More: Auckland Extravaganza Tropical Escape Suite Impossible Card »
Today’s Happy Birthday card was created with a Stamparatus hinge technique. It was one of the cards the ladies who came to my Open Home Event last weekend were able to make. The Stamparatus is a great new innovative, placement stamping tool, that makes lining up your stamping so much easier. It features in the… Read More: Stamping Straight With The Stamparatus Hinge Step Technique »
Here is a butterfly and dragonfly interactive opening card. The butterfly or dragonfly is adhered inside the card and it fits through the slit on the front of card so it shows on the outside of the card when the card is closed. As the card opens the wings fold up and fit through the… Read More: Butterfly & Dragonfly Interactive Opening Card »
Do you like the Designer Series Paper, but you aren’t sure which pack to get? Why not get a range of Designer Series Paper without having to buy full packs. Each 6″x 6″ piece is big enough to make a background for a standard sized card and there is still extra to use in other ways.… Read More: Annual Catalogue Shares! An Affordable Way To Get A Range… »