A Little Treat – Decorated Ghirardelli Square Video Tutorial

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019Leave a comment

I am so grateful for my lovely customers who shop with me for their Stampin’ Up Supplies. I try to give a little gift each month and for April I chose to decorate some Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares.

These are so quick and easy to make, you can get 6 out of a single sheet of card and 36 pieces of DSP from a 12 x 12 sheet. The colors I chose to use are directly from the Happiness Blooms DSP and the greeting from the A Good Day Stamp Set (which is about to retire so get your order in as soon as you can so as not to miss out (there is a link below)

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Poppy Parade, Crackle Paint ~ Just a Note…..

May 4, 2019April 30, 2019Leave a comment

Sometimes you just need a card so you can send a message, nothing specific but just a note. It could say thinking of you inside or thank you, speedy recovery ~ I guess just about anything that will make someone’s day when they open the envelope.

The Crafting Forever stamp set has a stamp with just 3 pens and I love it, I have paired it with the Crackle Paint Background Stamp then rooted around in my stash to find the “Just a Note…. greeting which is from one of the Saleabration sets (now no longer available 😦 )

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Tropical Escape Gift Card Holder ~ Video Tutorial

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019Leave a comment

The season of graduations and weddings are upon us, it can be so hard to choose a gift these days and if you live away from the person you are sending it to the postage on packages can be so daunting………… So gift cards (or cash) can be the perfect solution.

To personalize my gift cards I like to put them in a handmade holder which also doubles as a greeting card and today I share one with you featuring the Tropical Escape 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper Pack.

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Triple Layer Stamping ~ Video Tutorial

April 4, 2019April 3, 2019Leave a comment

I do love a good technique! I know Triple Layer Stampin’ has been around for a while but it is always good to revisit and bring it up to date with our current stamp sets and colors.

I have chosen the Tuscan Vineyard stamp set for this card – it has lots of different images that work very well with this technique, and paired it with Itty Bitty Birthday Wishes Stamp Set for my greeting. I am also thinking that it would make a great card for the fellas in our lives, birthday, graduation or even Father’s Day!

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Meant to Be ~ Z Fold Bridge Valentine Card

February 14, 2019February 13, 2019Leave a comment

Happy Valentine’s Day

Today’s card is one we made during our January card class and it is a variation of the Z fold card, with a cute little 3D embellishment. My inspiration came from a the Christmas card my dear friend, Elly, of ElleMentry Papercrafting in the UK, sent me.

I chose to use the Meant to Be Bundle today, it has such pretty, decorative hearts allowing me to randomly decorate my card, as well as the Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies giving me lots of choice for using decorative die cuts.

I know that not everyone wants or needs to make a valentine card so I created a birthday version using the same supplies but using the Petal Pallete Stamp set and the coordinating Petals and More Thinlet Dies.

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Itty Bitty Happy Birthday ~ Video

February 6, 2019February 4, 2019Leave a comment

The Itty Bitty Birthday Stamp Set has just about as many different ways to wish ‘Happy Birthday’ as there can be. Rather than choose one of the stamps I used about 4 – 5 of them on today’s card.

Although I have chosen to use different shade of blue this would work in pinks, yellows, greens et al, and still make a great card for both adults and children.

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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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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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Candy Gift Card Holder ~ video tutorial

December 21, 2018December 21, 20182 Comments

Today is the Winter Soltice, the shortest day of the year – as I write this I am listening to BBC Radio 2 (you can take the girl out of the UK but not the UK out of the girl!) playing The Christmas Song by Stevie Wonder and feeling really festive and to be honest, a little nostalgic as well.

I am sharing a gift card holder today with a little surprise, this was designed for me by my friend, Elly, when she was visiting in October – we had such a wonderful 3 weeks together.

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Introducing ~ NEW Cling Stamps

December 15, 2018December 15, 20182 Comments

This is an exciting change for Stampin’ Up! and you are going to love the new functionality of the stamps.

Cling stamps have the same quality rubber stamps you’ve always loved and they now come with highly adhesive image labels. The benefit is that they will cling like crazy to clear blocks so you don’t have to worry about your stamp image shifting or falling off of the block. Cling stamps make stamping easy.

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