Yesterday was my sister’s birthday – she, like the rest of our family live in the UK and I know she will have had a beautiful day surrounded by her Mum, Children and Grand-children (yep – its hard to think of your baby sister as a grandma!)
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Special Reason and Stylish Stems
Today’s post uses one of the bundles from the Occasions Catalog which will be retiring on May 31st – so there is still time to get it!
It was a really overcast and dull day and I had it was one of my rare days off from the tax office. I needed some brightness and sparkle in my day so headed straight for the glimmer paper – you might need some sunglasses for these ones as they have a lot of sparkliness! (its a word…. honest!)
New Babies –
Last October we got some new neighbors, a delightful young couple who told us they had just found out they were expecting TWINS! …….. and she seemed so calm and collected about it! They arrived in mid-April ~ a little girl and a little boy. My grandmother used to refer to this as a ‘pigeon pair’ I had no idea why – so I just looked it up……………… Twins of opposite sex, boy and girl: so called because pigeons lay two eggs which normally hatch a pair of birds, a male and a female……. absolutely fascinating that nature will take care that there are not more ‘hims’ than ‘hers’
I needed a card of course, but I am ashamed to say I don’t have much in the way of baby themed stamps – so had to improvise a little – here is what I came up with….. Continue reading
Love and Affection ~ sending a smile your way
May 31st marks then end of the current Stampin’ Up! Catalog year. Some old favorites will be retiring so I thought I would pull them out one more time and share a few more projects.
Love and Affection stamp set has lots of small images which allow you to build up a design as well a 3 lovely greetings in a beautiful cursive font – which I love! Continue reading
Sneak Peek of New 2017 Designer Series Papers.
OH – I am so excited to bring you this ~ a sneak peek from some of the new goodies in the 2017 – 2018 catalog.
I just love DSP…… I use it such a lot in all my projects, but I am a bit of a hoarder especially when the paper has ‘sparkly’ bits in it, I keep thinking that if I use it now I won’t have it when that really special project comes up! In truth, though, every project is a bit special so I take a deep breath and ‘get ‘er done! as they say in this part of the world!
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More Bunch of Blossoms ~ Stampin’ Up! products
Earlier this week I shared a couple of cards with the two-step stampin’ technique using the ‘Bunch of Blossoms’ stamp set. I have a couple of cards today that uses the same stamp set using ‘filler’ stamps to give a more subtle ‘watercolor’ effect, As the stamp set is a photopolymer it is very easy to line up each of the layers – in fact you could even do three layers! The set also has 5 beautiful sentiments in such a pretty font. Continue reading
Eastern Palace Suite ~ new early release products from Stampin’ Up!
Stampin’ Up! knows that we all love a little something early, and while the full Annual Catalogue is still a month away, the stunning and versatile new Eastern Palace suite has been released early!
Starting today, you are able to buy either the Starter Bundle or the Premier Bundle of goodies. Continue reading
Bunch of Blossoms ~ Stampin’ Up! products
Two-step stampin’ is a really great technique and there are a number of stamp sets in the SU catalog that have been designed especially for this. ‘Bunch of Blossoms’ is one of them. You can use the outline stamp then a ‘filler’ one to give a crisp image or use both ‘filler’ stamps to give a more subtle ‘watercolor’ effect, As the stamp set is a photopolymer it is very easy to line up each of the layers – in fact you could even do three layers! The set also has 5 beautiful sentiments in such a pretty font. I have two examples to share today. Continue reading
Grateful Bunch Birthday Card – Stampin’ Up!
Its hard to believe that the 2016 ~ 2018 In-colors are nearly a year old! We get 5 new colors each year, some of them I love on sight, others grow on me. The one that really captured my imagination straightaway was the Flighty Flamingo, the one that needed a little more time was Peekaboo Peach, both colors suit this birthday card perfectly. Continue reading
Happy Anniversary – Freezer Paper Technique
Dear, sweet friends celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary earlier this month – 30 years is a wonderful achievement and needed something special ~ pink is one of her favorite colors so Pink Pirouette is the main color for the card, highlighted with Rose Red. I used the freezer paper technique to create this one.
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