Hello Cupcake ~ Sale-a-bration

January 30, 2019January 29, 2019Leave a comment

Cupcakes are the perfect way to celebrate a birthday, they are becoming more popular than the traditional birthday cake. I am sharing the card I made for our eldest grand-daughter’s birthday so I have chosen shades of pink but it would work perfectly well with blues, purples, yellows or reds…………. whatever color theme works for you.

I made this card using one of the free Sale-a-bration stamp sets, Hello Cupcake I think we all love to get something for FREE and from January 3rd thru March 31st Stampin’ UP! are offering some really beautiful products that you can get for FREE with each $50 you spend on Stampin’ UP! product….. read on for more information 🙂

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Happiness Blooms Birthday

January 24, 2019January 24, 2019Leave a comment

Somewhere it is someone’s birthday today ~ maybe yours? ~ if so this one is for you 🙂

The Happiness Blooms Suite from the 2019 Occasions catalog has a great variety of products which are perfect for creating pretty birthday cards.

I have chosen to feature a couple of the Memories and More items that coordinate with the Bloom by Bloom Stamp set ~ the card pack and the Cards and Envelopes Pack.

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Amazing Life Cute Notecards

January 20, 2019January 17, 2019Leave a comment

Oh how very cute are these note cards? They measure 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 and you get 20 cards and envelopes in a pack, ready to create quick and beautiful note cards.

I am sharing one of the new stamp sets from the 2019 Occasions Catalog, Amazing Life which has a cake for all the things worth celebrating with versatile sentiments perfect for many occasions. It even has lots of decorative curlicue pieces for prettying up the inside of your card and the envelope.

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Embossing Lovely as A Tree ~ Video Tutorial

January 18, 2019January 17, 2019Leave a comment

I am not really sure what to call this technique and I have seen it used in various places, but is produces such a pretty effect and is really quite easy to do, as I show in the video.

I chose to use the Lovely as a Tree Stamp Set along with the Woodland Embossing folder. As this stamp set does not have any greetings I used one from the Eastern Beauty Stamp Set and created a thank you card, but it would work as a really great card for the fellas in our lives or maybe a Christmas card simply by changing the greeting.

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So Hoppy Together ~ Juggling Frog

January 10, 2019January 9, 2019Leave a comment

So how cute is this little guy – a frog on a unicycle juggling with little bugs?

I was able to make this card using one of the free Sale-a-bration stamp sets, So Hoppy Together. I think we all love to get something for FREE and from January 3rd thru March 31st Stampin’ UP! are offering some really beautiful products that you can get for FREE with each $50 you spend on Stampin’ UP! product….. read on for more information 🙂

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3D Greeting Technique with Video Tutorial

January 7, 2019January 7, 20192 Comments

As I explain in my video – I received a card using this technique and just had to give it a try. It works wonderfully with dies with words so I am sure it would work equally as well with ones for flowers and the like.

I have created a birthday card using the Happy Birthday Framelit Die using the technique as my focal point, so the stamping is very simple using the Timeless Textures Stamp Set to create a background on which to present the Happy Birthday.

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2018 Color Challenge ~ Ink . Stamp . Share Blog Hop

December 22, 2018December 16, 201814 Comments

Once again I am thrilled to be taking part in the Ink . Stamp . Share blog hop, we are a group of Stampin’ Up!®️Demonstrators from around the globe here to bring you inspiration through creativity!

You will have either arrived from Deb Naylor’s post or starting here ~ either way WELCOME . This month’s theme is a Color Challenge!

Each of the projects you will see on this hop with be using the following colors, Berry Burst, So Saffron, Garden Green, Pacific Point and Night of Navy – I have to admit I freaked out when I saw the range and number of colors, but I took a deep breath and dived in!

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Pop of Petals Side Step Fold – Video Tutorial

November 30, 2018November 30, 2018Leave a comment

I just love this card – it has flowers, it has pink, it has lace and it has sparkle – all my favorites in one tidy package.

The sidestep fold is very impressive looking but is easy to do if you have a good paper trimmer with a scoring blade as well as cutting blade – which is exactly what the Stampin Trimmer is! The fold also gives you lots of surfaces to decorate which is how I have managed to get all my favorites in 🙂 Continue reading →

Animal Outing Birthday

November 18, 2018Leave a comment

Earlier this month was Grand-daughter # 3’s birthday – the Animal Outing Stamp set with the coordinating Animal Expedtion Designer Series Paper is just perfect for ‘littlies’ in our lives, change out the colors and it works for either boys or girls!

Because this card needed to be sent to the UK I kept the layering and decorations to a minimum, relying on the Petal Pink Metallic Ribbon to provide my signature bling!

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Rooted in Nature Waterfall Card & Video Tutorial

November 12, 2018November 6, 2018Leave a comment

At the end of October I shared a Halloween card we made in my monthly card class using the Waterfall Fold and promised to share a video – today I make good on that promise.

Plus I am doubling up and making it a guy card as well! I figure the fellas in my life would get a kick out of the mechanism that makes the waterfall work!

Once again I have fallen back on the Rooted in Nature Stamp Set – it is just so perfect for the fellas but I need to think of a way to make a more feminine card with it ~ well that has set me a challenge hasn’t it?

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