A must have tool for all stampers, the Stamparatus helps you perfectly line up your stamp images, stamp multiple images of the same project quickly and precisely and get complete ink coverage! It was created by stampers for stampers ~ and I am delighted to say I was one of the stampers that were part of the design team !!!! Continue reading
Graceful Glass ~ Vellum and Stampin’ Blends
Today’s card shows a number of products from the new Graceful Glass Suite. The is a perfect suite if you love to color because it has a boatload of images in the Graceful Glass Designer Vellum pack and coupled with some of the Stampin’ Blends you can color to your hearts content.
The focal part of my card is made from one half of one of the sheets in the pack – so you can get 2 cards out of this design. A couple of the new In-Color cards and some of the black 1/8 cord complete the card. The greeting is from the Painted Glass Stamp Set – which has a selection of greetings for most occasions, Thank You, Birthday, Sympathy and Celebrate.
Nature’s Poem Suite – Stampin’ UP!
Nature’s Poem Suite ~ what a lovely name for this suite of products which have lots of natural images of trees, leaves and soft mellow colors which include Soft Suede and Cajun Craze, perfect for the autumn (although to be honest I really don’t want to think about that just yet!)
Today’s card features the Rooted in Nature stamp set and the coordinating Nature’s Root Framelit dies – I am thinking this would make a really good guy card.
Sweet and Simple Serene Garden with Spotlight Technique
Earlier this week I had my 2018 – 2019 Annual Catalog launch, each person got their own personal copy of the new catalog, we had a scavenger hunt, a drool over some of the new products I was able to pre-order, snacks and some ‘make and takes’
One of the make and takes was this card using a new stamp set, Serene Garden and one of the new card colors, Merry Merlot, plus some Stampin Blends pens – which will be available in the coming weeks.
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Multi-layered Cards ~ Petal Garden DSP
These are the last of the multilayered cards I made last month as thank you cards for my lovely customers – and wouldn’t you know this paper retired just last week! but I want to share them anyway as the technique will work for any of the new DSP packs in the 2018 – 2019 annual catalog.
The design is inspired by an idea from the UK demonstrator Pootles and it appealed to me very much – but instead of cutting up my DSP I used the scraps that were left over from previous projects. As a result I made about 2 dozen cards in total and although they followed the same formula every single one is different.
I set myself a couple of rules, the layering pieces of card must be the same color as the card base and each card needed to have 3 pieces of DSP.
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2018 ~ 2020 In color ink and paper share
WOW – the new In- colors are now available and once again I am offering the chance to get the full collection of these colors without breaking the bank!!! Continue reading
Sweet & Simple ~ Beautiful You
Today’s card is another in my Sweet and Simple series where I have set myself a little challenge using a small amount of equipment and supplies – kind of like one of those cookery shows where you are given 3 or 4 ingredients and you have to turn it into a spectacular 4 course meal!
Last week our daughter-in-law celebrated a birthday, she lives in the UK with her family so we don’t get to see her too often. Since last week was spring break for the schools in the UK, she, our son and their daughters went on holiday to one of the islands off the coast of Spain – making a really lovely birthday treat!
The stamp set is Beautiful You – I have had this in my stash for some time but this is the first time I have used it, it has three images of women and a number of greetings and is perfect for this occasion. Continue reading
The New Catalog is live !
Today the new 2018 -2019 Annual Catalog goes live with lots of new stamps, papers, ribbons, embellishments, project kits and the New In-color and color revamp. Continue reading
Flirty Flamingo and Beautiful Bouquet
In the next couple of days the 2017 – 2018 catalog will retire and so will some of the products within it. Flirty Flamingo has been one of the In-colors for the last 2 years and it is due to retire too………….. BUT it is coming back in the new 2018 – 2019 catalog as one of the new core colors…. so Goodbye and Hello Flirty Flamingo!
I also reached out for one of my favorite stamp sets – partly because it has flowers and partly because it has some lovely greetings – if you are looking for a versatile stamp set….. look no further than Beautiful Bouquet. Continue reading
Refilling Stampin’ Marker Pens ~ Video Tutorial
Stampin Up have a range of 50 different colors in the color families – each one has ink and card and a matching marker pen. There are ink refills for the ink pads but did you know that you could refill the markers using the same ink as for reinking your stamp pads? Continue reading
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