Wishing you all a happy monday and hope you all had a great weekend.   I had a wonderful crafting weekend, it was the 2nd of my stamp-a-stack sessions which I run on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon. They were both great days and were spent with 11 lovely ladies in total.   They each made 10 christmas cards, 2 of each 5 designs and were all finished in the time of 4 hours. Here is one of the cards we made: The card uses joyous celebrations stamp set and the colour combo...

Hi everyone, these are the cards we created in my classes last week. The first one uses the new holiday ornament framelit dies.  We used the fancy bauble to die cut a shape from very vanilla card. 8 strips each 1 cm wide were cut from the festival of prints designer series paper and layered over the back of the hole and then glued onto crumb cake. This is a great way to use up those scrap pieces of card The  new core'dination card stock in cherry cobbler was embossed with the lacy...

Today I am sharing the page we created last Thursday in our monthly scrapbook class.  We started with a 12x12 sheet of Soft suede card and layered a piece of more mustard on top and stamped  the background with leaves in the same colour ink We used the beautiful 'Lovely as a Tree' stamp set in soft suede at the bottom in Very Vanilla as a border and the new Autumn Accents Bigz Die for the leaves in so saffron, more mustard and soft suede. These were each embossed with woodgrain,...

Hello,this is just a quick post this morning to share one of the cards we made in last week's classes It is CASE'd from the Autumn/WInter Catalogue using the holiday frame embossing folder and Joyous celebration stamp set. It is a simple but very effective design and one you could make several cards in a batch very quickly.

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Hello to you all on this Friday morning.  I have seen many versions of the beautiful ornament keepsake decoration which is featured on the front of the Autumnn/Winter catalogue and thought I would give it a try. Here is my version.  I have used Crumb Cake and Soft Suede colours stamped onto Very Vanilla Cardstock and cut out with the co-ordinating framelit dies.  It was completed with some Crumb Cake Tulle and  Snowflakes cut from the Snow Flurry Bigz Die and  dazzling...

It was my eldest daughter's birthday last Saturday, I can't believe she is now 22 years old all grown up and independent, how time flies by so quickly. This is the card I made for her.  It is created from three envelopes stuck together by the flaps to form a concertina card I used retired designer series paper attic boutique,  pool party, so saffron and soft suede colours. The sentiments are from the Delightful Dozen stamp set. I also used the labels collection framelits, lace border...

Hello to you all on this beautiful sunny Monday morning.  I have great news today that Stampin' Up's new annual catalogue is being launched today! What's even more exciting is that the new book is 70 pages bigger and has ALMOST ALL the same goodies as the US catalogue! It's so gorgeous, my wish list is already as long as my arm and I'm sure once you've seen it, yours will be too. Please contact me If you'd like a copy at a special price of £4.50 (rrp £5.95) or any orders placed this week...

Hello,  its Friday again, I can't believe how quickly these weeks are flying by. I have had yet another busy week, in total I have taught 5 classes and done a workshop party at a friend's house. One of the classes was at Running with Scissors. This is a lovely craft shop in Grimsby which is owned by my friend Tracey. This was the first time I had demonstrated at the shop and was overwhelmed by the number of people who attended. Although it was very busy we all had a very enjoyable...

Hi, I'm a little late in blogging but wanted to share the final two cards of our stamp-a-stack card class last Saturday.  For the first card I have used the lovely Dasher, stamped in soft suede, onto a sponged background of bashful blue, and lovely as a tree. The main card is Not Quite Navy.  Dasher is a beautiful stamp and I am so sad that it has been retired. Unfortunately it has now sold out, congratulations to all those who have purchased it.  Dasher, Lovely as a Tree,...