My dear friend has a milestone birthday this year 🙂 so a special card is needed. Mauve and Pink are her favorite colors and as she is also a fellow Brit so ‘tea’ is a perfect theme. Continue reading
August Stamp Set of the Month
This month’s set is ‘ Timeless Talk’. Four more cards using this lovely set. Each one very different………….. Continue reading
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Stampin’ Marker Club
This week is the final ‘share’ for the current Many Marvellous Marker club. It has been fun to help my ladies build up the full set of 38 exclusive Stampin’ Up! colors over the last 4 months. So here is the final share ready to go to their new homes…….. Continue reading
Paper Pumpkin ~ 50% off first 2 months
If you haven’t tried Paper Pumpkin, now is a great time to sign-up – get 50% off your first two months. These kits are fantastic for card makers of all experience levels: Continue reading
Gifts and Make & Takes
One of the nice things about Stampin’ Up’s convention is the making of ‘things’ from gifts for room-mates and upline to the making of projects during the make and take sessions. Here are a few pictures…… Continue reading
Stampin’ Up Convention…….
I cannot believe it is all over….. Inspire, Create, Share, was a wonderful experience, I learnt and saw a lot of great ideas and techniques. I spent the time on the flight home working out how I was going to find the time to share everything with my ladies……………………….. Continue reading
Swaps for Convention ~ part 2
Earlier this week I shared the first of my 2 designs for swaps at this weeks’ Stampin’ Up convention in Salt Lake City, UT and promised to share the 2nd design. Although we are still in the middle of July and the 100F Texas heat is beating down, it is not too soon, in the card-making world, to start thinking about Christmas/Holiday cards. So my second design has a very ‘Chrismassy’ feel about it. Continue reading
Swaps for Stampin’ Up Convention
Every year during July, Stampin’ Up holds it annual convention. This is open to demonstators and guests, and is an opportunity for demonstrators from all over the US as well as other countries to get together in Salt Lake City, UT with Corporate leaders to (amongst other things) recognise acheivement, to hear and see new products and ideas.
Convention 2014 is called ‘Inspire, Create, Share’ and one one of the best parts is to swap card ideas with your fellow demonstrators. This year I have made 2 designs (about 25 of each) that I shall be swapping over the next few days. This is the first one and I shall share the second one in a couple of days. Continue reading
Blendabilities Box…… How to video….
Blendabilities are Stampin Up’s newest product, they are available in 12 of the exclusive Stampin Up colors as well as a skin tone assortment. Each of the assortments contains 3 markers in light, medium and dark shades of the color, they are alcohol ink markers made for blending and shading. Each set of markers comes in a neat little wallet, but as my collection grew it became clear I needed a box for them to sit together on my work table …… So here is my solution……. Continue reading


