This weeks Weekly Deals are really great! One of the offers includes the Big Shot Magnetic Platform with a fantastic £9 off. It is now £26.96 but only until Tuesday 17th February.  I know many of you have been looking at the magnetic platform in the catalogue. I would not be without mine and find it invaluable when it comes to using the thin metal dies. Please remember that all orders over £45 receives an exclusive Sale-a-bration item for FREE  too!! I will be placing an order on...

I hope you are all keeping well wrapped up and warm in the freezing cold weather. Although it seems cold and miserable here, Paul watches BBC World News whilst he is in Saudi and some parts of the world are much worse off, 2-3 metres of snow in a matter of days, 400 mm of rain in a day etc.. I suppose we should actually feel blessed. To take you mind of it today I am sharing the cards we made in our classes this week. I am now running three classes on a weekly basis, Monday morning and Monday...

 As promised I am sharing the card birthday card I made for Paul last week.  I used the same colour combination of Night of Navy and Smoky Slate as one of the previous mens card along with the Little Letters Thinlits dies and Adventure Bound Designer Series Stack      Although he was wished a Happy Birthday, It was far from it!! He was travelling to Saudi Arabia overnight on Sunday, arriving at the first flight connection stop on Monday, his birthday. Due to the...

I had a request last week from a couple of my class members to make some mens cards. Whether you are thinking about a card for a man's birthday, a simple thank you card or thinking ahead for Father's Day in a few months' time, people always find it quite difficult to create cards for men. I wanted to avoid the usual cars and boat themes, so it was time to go back to the craftroom and create something that was simple, yet effective, and came up with the following two cards.   I looked...

I am sharing some cards today using the Lotus Blossom stamp set. This is the most popular choice with my customers as their Sale-a-bration Freebie. They create very simple, yet effective, thankyou cards and would also be excellent in the run-up to easter. I have used  Pool Party, Coastal Cabana and Gumball Green colour combination on the first two thank you cards.  Calypso Coral , Rose Red, Whisper White, Gumball Green  and a little linen thread tied around some lace trim was...

I have another "Butterfly Basics" card to share with you today, I think this has to be my favourite stamp set so far from the Spring/Summer 2015 catalogue. I have made this card in several of my classes including a workshop for a local recovery group in Grimsby, which went down very well.  The set is available to buy in three different styles:  Wood, Clear and Photopolymer and if you purchase the matching butterfly framelits as a bundle, you can save 15%. For this card I have teamed...

 Since the start of the year I have been having a great time creating new designs with the lovely new Stampin' Up! products from the Spring/Summer Catalogue. We started the classes at the beginning of the New Year making a card using  a gorgeous stamp set called "butterfly Basics". What is great about this stamp set is that there is a set of framelit dies that you can buy. If you buy them together you can save yourself a total of 15% All the images used on the card are from the same...

Hi everyone, I  hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year period and I would like to wish you all a healthy, creative and prosperous New Year.Now the festive period is behind us, why not relax with a spot of crafting to fulfil your creative needs. There are lots of events coming up to prepare for: Birthdays, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Easter, Father’s Day and with the new Stampin’ Up! Spring/Summer Mini catalogue and Sale-a-bration just launched, there are lots of new...

For the last class of 2014, I decided to move away from the usual cards, and make some christmas decorations for the home. For my shorter classes, we split the items into 2 sessions, but then I held two 3hr classes where we made all 3:- 1/ Decorated Bauble 2/ 4 crackers in a box 3/ Decorative tealight. The decorated bauble uses clear plastic photo baubles which you can buy from most shops at christmas. The bauble is split in half and allows two photos or pictures to be made and inserted, with...