My sweet Mum was a professional dressmaker – she was an apprentice in Bond Street, London – which was a very posh place for clothes back in the late 1940’s and early 50’s, making couture outfits ~ she has always been quick to point out that she made garments from start to finish – not just a ‘sleeve setter’ or ‘button sewer oner’. She made wedding dresses and other posh frocks for ‘society’, she did not make her own wedding dress as it was considered unlucky, but she did make her best friends’ and Jean then made my Mum’s.
Category: Stampin Up
Beautiful Bouquet Telescope Card
I have seen some of these telescope cards on the internet which had all been made using some of the BIGZ dies that have long since retired from the Stampin’ UP! catalogs. Now we have the Layering Circle Framelits which have both scalloped and plain circles and makes it so very easy to create this special fold of card. Continue reading
Fall into Savings with Paper Pumpkin
Starting today, and ending on September 10, first-time Paper Pumpkin subscribers will get 50% off their first kit, which is the beautiful Autumn September kit. I know you’ll love it!
Beautiful Bouquet Thank you card
Today I am sharing a card inspired by the Creating Pretty Cards sketch from Craft Project Central. I am always looking for ideas for my card projects and have found Craft Project Central to be a very good source of inspiration.
So the story behind today’s card is very simple – I needed a birthday card for a dear friend and a thank you card for another. One friend just loves black and white, so there was a good starting point, I had also just received the new leaf punch from Stampin’ UP!’s Holiday Catalog and was looking for ANY excuse to use it ! Continue reading
Background Bits Card ~ Technique and Tips
I have wonderful customers who shop for their Stampin’ UP! goodies with me – I am deeply grateful for their support and honored they choose me as their demonstrator.
I like to send each of them a thank you to show my appreciation – sometimes I choose to share them on my blog.
This card is based on a design by Jenny Peterson – I just added my own little creative twist 🙂 and as I was making it I realised it had a number of different techniques or features that would benefit from explaining a little, so I switched on my camera.
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Memory Keeping or Scrapbooking ~ Stampin’ UP!
Traditional scrap-booking is something I have loved to do over the last 8 – 9 years, more or less since we became grandparents really. Building up the 12 x 12 pages, adding photos and other memory pieces, but it can take a bit of time to build a page or two.
Memory keeping allows you to build up your album a lot quicker – I have been working thru doing ‘something’ with our wedding photos for several years, with Memories and More I was able to build up about 6 double page 12 x 12 spreads in about 3 hours!
Is it scrapbooking or memory keeping? ~ does it really matter? – lets get those pictures off our phones and into something more permanent and fun to look at! Continue reading
Beautiful Bouquet ~ Thanks a Bunch
The inspiration for this card came from Pinterest – and shame on me I did not make a note of the creative soul who made it…………… nor could I find it again!
I am very cautious with Pinterest – yes – it is full of such beautiful ideas and a huge source of inspiration but you can get lost in it and before you know what happened several hours have passed and not a lot to show for it! (just don’t ask me how I know!) So I ration myself and on one of the occasions I did dip in I found this idea – and I just love it. Continue reading
Beautiful Bouquet meets Petal Garden Card ~ Stampin’ UP!
Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack is my particular favorite at the moment. It has colors mixed together, that on the face of it, you would not normally put together ~ Rich Razzleberry, Calypso Coral, Sweet Sugarplum, Pool Party and Old Olive – all of them beautiful colors on their own but when combined in this paper, it is just stunning.
I am currently hosting a DSP share and one of my ladies looked at the papers in this stack and asked what she could do with the ones that just had pattern in the corner, so I did a little research and came up with an idea for her. Continue reading
Wax Resist Technique – Video
I have a monthly class where we explore different techniques using card and ink with some added stamp sets, ribbons and other embellishments. We then use the technique to create a card and a couple of months ago we did one using ordinary wax paper. To be honest, the only reason I have wax paper at all is to use for my card crafting – I think this is the second technique we have done with it and I have a couple more up my sleeve! Continue reading
Mystery Stamping with Lovely Friends
Last Sunday evening my Stampin’ UP! grandma organised another mystery stamping event on our teams Facebook page. It is the latest in a series she had done over the last few years and they are a lot of fun.
She starts by giving us a list of supplies, this time it was a card base plus a layer, a Whisper White oval, some ribbon and linen thread, then to choose a stamp set with flowers and greetings and two ink pads. Continue reading
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