It's no secret that I love colouring, whether that's with pencils, ink or markers I don't mind, and I'm always attracted to stamp sets that are designed with that as an option. The new Accented Blooms is one such stamp set and I was inspired to create a border of flowers using the main focal image from the set. I started with a layer of Very Vanilla Card and used StazOn Jet Black Ink to stamp sections of the main image from the Accented Blooms Stamp Set around the edges, taking care to ... VIEW POST
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Emboss away
One thing I love to do to transform plain cardstock is embossing. There are two main ways that I emboss, one is using my Big Shot with an embossing folder and the other is with embossing powder that melts when heat is applied to it. As part of the What Will You Stamp? Challenge Design Team I thought it would be fun to use both methods to create a gift tag using this week's featured stamp set WWYS169 - Bubble Over. The tag base is a 2" x 4" piece of Pool Party Card embossed with the ... VIEW POST
Doubly useful
Yuk, yuk, yuk. This morning as the sun rose (well I presume it did, because I couldn't see it), it was grey and very wet, and someone had stolen the view. Normally I can look out over the Cobequid Bay to the shore on the other side, work out whether the tide is on its way in or out depending on the colour of the water, and watch the clouds roll by. Today, nothing. I could see as far as the trees at the end of the property and after that it was all a solid mass of dreary grey. It looks like ... VIEW POST
If an octopus had thumbs
I can't believe that we're this far into my sneak peeks from the Stampin' Up! 2018/2019 Annual Catalogue and I've only just got around to sharing the new Sea of Textures Stamp Set and coordinating Under The Sea Framelits Dies! Although I wasn't sure how much use I'd have for an octopus image, I could see a lots of possibilities in the rest of the bundle, and I have to say since getting the them I've not been disappointed. So my first project is a card and although there is a gorgeous pack of ... VIEW POST
I can’t leaf it alone
Sorry for the awful pun but I am simply in love with the new Rooted in Nature Stamp Set from the Stampin' Up! 2018/2019 Annual Catalogue. I must say right now that I didn't want to like this set, I thought that it was a little too like others that I have, most notably Lovely As A Tree, and what's with that huge slice of tree trunk? Well, while I didn't want to like the set, it was one of the ones we were given to play with at a Stampin' Up! event I attended in Connecticut last month, and I ... VIEW POST
Spots and dots
While I love spending hours designing and creating cards and other items using Stampin Up! products I'm aware that not everyone has the time to spare, or the variety of tools and materials that I've been able to amass since joining Stampin' Up! So today I have a quick and easy card that has no punching, no die-cutting, no embossing and not even any stamping. In fact, leave off the Grapefruit Grove mat underneath the centre piece and you don't even need a trimmer to make this card! So using ... VIEW POST
