Back at the beginning of September I was part of the IDEAS blog hop when our theme was inspirations. For that I used a colour combination inspired by a card I’d seen on Facebook. Today’s project also draws on a colour combination I’d come across, but this time it’s the October 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit called Noel Greetings. That kit coordinates with the Neutral Noel Suite on pages 16 and 17 of the current catalogue. So, using the Neutral Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP), I created this ... VIEW POST
Neutral Without the Noel
Textures For Collage
Even though I mainly make cards that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in other crafts. In fact over the years I’ve found that seeing others’ creative processes and projects actually inspires me. Last month I took advantage of a free two week online course from collage artist Catherine Rains. The Collage Breakthrough Course was quite basic but really helped me understand how and why different combinations of colours, shapes and patterns work together. Then when I started on today’s project using ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop: Gears & Textures
The first theme of 2026 for the IDEAS Blog Hop is a new one for us. In the 12 years I’ve been an Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I regularly hear comments about ‘too many flower stamp sets’. I get it, not everyone wants florals, especially when they’re trying to make something masculine, or at least gender-neutral. So that’s when I suggested “Anything but flowers”. For my projects I decided to pull out the new Gears & Textures Stamp Set and coordinating dies, along with the Reason to ... VIEW POST
