If you love the look of alcohol markers but maybe find other makes too expensive, or perhaps you’re worn out searching for the co-ordinating Stampin’ Up! colours in your current alcohol pens, then help is here! These pens are artist quality alcohol markers in 12 exclusive Stampin’ Up! colours!  Here’s a catalogue sharing some more information for you? Just click on this pic to find out more… Each of the 12 colours has a light and a dark shade of marker, available either...

Christmas Stamp-a-stack Class Saturday 18th November or  Sunday 19th November 10.00am - 3.00pm £35 Come and join us create 14 beautiful christmas cards, There will be 7 designs and you will make 2 cards of each. We will be using brand new products from the Autumn-Winter Catalogue Products totalling over £28 are included in the class fee of £35 Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available  If you wish to come along to one of the classes please message me to reserve your...

I held my first Christmas workshop last Saturday where we all made 5 beautiful Christmas cards and a decorated acetate box to store them in using the lush Year of Cheer designer series paper and Snowflake Sentiments bundle Tables all set up ready to start crafting, All the papers and materials to be used along with instruction leaflet If you look closely at the Acetate Card Box above, you'll notice that the outside has been embossed with the Winter Wonder Embossing Folder. Keep the card box...

I am sharing this beautiful christmas village scene today using two new products from the Autumn/Winter catalogue: Winter wonderland embossing folder and Hometown greetings edgelit dies It is a stunning card and is fairly quick to create. The Village scene is die cut separately to the embossed snowflake piece and layered on top of Smoky slate and Soft sky card stock The sentiment is stamped in silver metallic encore ink to the top right side and a few rhinestones added to give a little...

The Stampin' Up Night in Bethlehem stamp set is a lovely religious stamp set which  I am sure will be very popular this Christmas. The stamp set includes beautiful silhouette images of a bethlehem scene. There are also co-ordinating edgelit dies available but i have just used the stamp set for this card. A mask was created for the centre section of the card and sponged through with bermuda bay ink before stamping the buildings in Basic Gray archival ink over the top of the mask  The...

As it is the beginning of October I can now safely mention the 'C' word! Today I am sharing with you the 1st Christmas Card of the season that we have made in the classes We used the Carols of Christmas Bundle to create the card in a colour combination of tranquil tide and whisper white  This stamp set and coordinating Card Front Thinlets Dies are really fun to use.There is so much that can be done with this bundle, from a complex card to something quite simple. I think this set...

Since Autumn has arrived I thought it was time to follow an autumn theme, using the lovely words thinlit dies from the autumn/winter catalogue. I loved these when they were first released way back in June, so I just had to buy.... There are three dies in the set: Hugs, Friend and Lovely. As they have been sitting on my shelf since then I decided it was time to open the packet and make the following cards. The colour combination is unusual for me to use: Lemon Lime twist and Powder Pink;...

Here is the Eclipse card I promised to show you in my previous blog post, which I created for my daughter's birthday a couple of days ago. I used a colour combination of Bermuda Bay and Pool Party inks for the flowers,  Early Espresso for the centres and Wild Wasabi and Pear Pizzazz for the leaves. A large 8"x8" card base was used so that I could fit all 6 letters in comfortably.   To add a third dimension to the card, I stamped and fussy cut...

There are a lot of cards around at the moment using the 'Eclipse' Technique, so I decided to create one myself to teach in the class. It is a super and fun card to create, it is so easy to do and you will love the finished product We used the popular Painted Harvest stamp set to create the background. The flowers were stamped in Berry Burst and Rich Razzleberry, the leaves were stamped in Pear Pizzazz and Wild Wasabi and the centre of the flowers in Soft Suede We then chose our letters which...

I had a request from one of my ladies to use Vellum in one of our next classes and cards. I immediately thought of using the Climbing Orchid bundle to create the following card... The orchid petals were stamped with versamark and then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Powder Pink and Calypso Coral Stamp write markers were used to colour in the flowers on the reverse of the vellum. They looked so realistic.. The stem was created using the branch from the colourful seasons set. The...