Sometimes the simplest of ideas take time to bring together. Take this morning for instance. I woke up knowing that I was going to use the new Sentimental Swirls Stamp Set to create a background for a card. But then I thought I'd add embellishments by stamping flower and leaf images from the set and punching them out with the coordinating punches. But when I chose my sentiment from the free Special Moments (Sale-A-Bration Host) Stamp Set all that went out the window. The end result was ... VIEW POST
Bragworthy Meets Tasteful Textile Embossing
With the new Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue launch and the start of the Sale-A-Bration promotion, yesterday was a very busy day. As promised I’ve updated my blog posts with links to all the products used to make each sneak peek project. I've also added links to yesterday's sneak peek review. So when I sat down yesterday evening to make a card it needed to be quick. In my head I thought I'd simply use a large sentiment and patterned paper. But when I picked up the Bragworthy sentiment suddenly my ... VIEW POST
Oceanfront For A Quick And Easy Card
One of the things I love about stamping is how easy it is to create beautiful projects without having to be an artist. Over the past few years Stampin' Up! has produced a number of stamp sets that are known as 'builder' sets. That is you can use the various stamps to build a scene. The new January to June Mini Catalogue has another one of these sets, it's called Oceanfront and it's amazing. It's an image only set so you can add a favourite sentiment without feeling guilty. Today I paired it ... VIEW POST
Simple Cardmaking With Eden’s Garden
Well that's Christmas over for another year. I hope you had a good day as far as possible in these bizarre times we live in. Ours was very quiet with just the two of us though that didn't stop us doing the full Christmas dinner. Oh no, we had to do that, and now we have lots of lovely leftovers so I may not have to cook again for a while. Later we were treated to the sight of six deer taking a stroll around our garden. I suppose they were making the most of the lack of snow. It's funny how ... VIEW POST
Peekaboo Farm Animals at Christmas?
A few weeks ago I was challenged to create a project using layout sketch as my inspiration. This was based on the card in the bottom right-hand corner on page 88 of the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. The original card uses products from the very Christmassy Tidings of Christmas suite so I was determined to make a non-Christmas card. With that in mind I selected the Peekaboo Farm Stamp Set and set to work. It's only now, weeks later, that I'm struck by a certain irony. What could be more ... VIEW POST
A Simple Card With A Good Man
Continuing my rediscovery of stamp sets and other products I've not used in a while has been fun. Often what happens is I've exhausted my pool of ideas for a product and it gets put away. Then as time goes on I even forget it's there. Returning to them with the benefit of products I've got more recently I've found that my inspiration reignites. That's what happened when I picked up the A Good Man Stamp Set. It inspired me to make this simple masculine / gender neutral card even though I ... VIEW POST
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