I have another card using the beautiful you stamp set to share with you. One of the great things about this set is that you can play around with the images to create lots of different styles of dresses.  For the following cards, the bottom half of the stamp was masked off with a post-it note and the top half was then stamped with black stazon to create the top of the dress and with a black journal pen the lines from the waist were extended down to create a long dress. The aquapainter was...

Good morning and welcome to my blog today. The card I am sharing today features the dragonfly thinlits and a cutting technique A piece of whisper white card which measured 9.5cm x 13.8 cms was sponged with three different colours: emerald envy, bermuda bay and wisteria wonder and blended together to create a background. A die cut dragonfly thinlit in whisper white was glued to the sponged background in the centre. A pencil line was placed at 2.5cms  down each side of the piece of card...

A lot of my friends and class members know my favourite colour is Pool Party so I couldn't resist using it along with very vanilla to create the following card. The main card was in whisper white with pool party layered on top. This was randomly stamped with several of the smaller flowers and leaves from the so in love stamp set in pool party ink. One of the lacy panels from the so detailed thinlits was die cut twice and stuck together on one of the edges to form a circle. A piece of ribbon...

Before Sale-a-bration came to a close I ran a class using the Avant Garden stamp set and the one sheet wonder technique to create these two cards.    I chose Peek-a-boo Peach, So Saffron and Pool Party colour combination and randomly stamped several of the stamps from the Avant Garden set onto a sheet of Thick Whisper White card. This card was then cut into several pieces and used to decorate the two cards There were a few pieces of stamped card left over and I challenged the...

The card I am sharing with you today uses the Balloon Adventures Stamp and Die bundle from Stampin' Up! If you buy these two products together you save 10%. The stamp and die set also co-ordinates with the Balloon Bouquet Punch. It looks like a normal birthday card from the front but when opened has a pop up bundle of balloons to surprise and delight everyone. Pop up cards always create a wow! Balloons are very popular and this set is so versatile and is suitable for both the young and old...

Occasionally I run an extra workshop on a Saturday which takes between 3-4 hours to complete creating a more complex project and one that we wouldn't have time to finish in a regular weekly class.  A couple of weeks ago I ran a workshop to create four stamped ceramic tile coasters, with four co-ordinating notelet cards and envelopes in a handmade box I gave the ladies a choice of  either the Beautiful You or High Tide Stamp sets to use on their coasters.  The demand for...

We used the High Tide set for the first time from the Spring/Summer catalogue to create our card for the class a couple of weeks ago. The card looks pretty simple to make but as the lighthouse is a two-step stamp we had to bring out the stamp-a-majig!  This caused a few gasps amongst the ladies but everyone managed to stamp the 2 step lighthouse correctly and were all pleased with the results. A mask was placed over the lighthouse to get even levels of the sea and the birds behind it Just...

Happy Mother's Day or Mothering Sunday to all of you especially to my own lovely Mum. Thank you for all your love and support over the years and hope you have a lovely day Here is the card I gave to my Mum, it was inspired by Amanda at The Craft Spa, thank you once again Another pop n' twist card using a mixture of dragonflies and butterflies and large letters to decorate

As we enter the final few days of Sale-a-bration (ends 31st March) there are a few items that are running out or have alread gone so Stampin' Up! have add a few new selections to choose from.   You can see the new Sale-a-bration goodies HERE.     You must use the special code as detailed in the flyer as opposed to the usual item code to get one of these items FREE with a £45 spend.   The other sale-a-bration items available can be seen HERE and HERE (Please note at the time...