It's time to get going on my Christmas gift tags. Once upon a time I rarely made tags, but now I design at least one a week. They're a great way to practice techniques or ideas, and to use up scraps. Today I found my scraps in the Poinsettia Place Designer Series Paper (DSP). FOLDED TAG The last few tags I've made have all been flat strips with a sentiment and embellishments. To change things up I decided to make a folded gift tag this time. So I began with a 3" x 6" piece of ... VIEW POST
Fabulous World Cardmaking Day Fun
Today it's bright and sunny out and that always makes me smile. I'm also happy to be moving back into my craft studio now the bulk of the renovations are complete. I must say that I've been fortunate and could leave everything out while I've been working from my dining room table. Still it's not the same as having my tools and materials in their usual places. Things feel a bit messy and disorganised when I can't immediately put my hands on them or put them away properly afterwards. It's ... VIEW POST
Taking My Cue From Mother Nature
Stampin' Up! really does make it easy to create lovely papercraft projects. What's more there's a continuity that straddles the products so mixing and matching from different catalogues is seamless. Mind you that wasn't exactly what I had in mind today. I just thought it would be nice to create a card with an autumn feel using an older stamp set that's still available. So after picking out the Rooted In Nature Stamp Set and coordinating Nature's Roots Dies I set to work. ROOTED IN ... VIEW POST
Exploiting The Power Of Three Layers
When designing cards I often don't have a plan other than "use this sentiment", or "I like this paper". But recently I've come to realise that many of my favourite cards consist of three basic layers. I've always known that odd numbers, and three in particular, are pleasing to the eye, so I shouldn't have been surprised to create another variation on that theme. POINSETTIA PLACE This project began a few days ago when I decided to cut a piece of the white poinsettia and pine pattern ... VIEW POST
A Place To Write My Plans
Yesterday was a very productive day. I mentioned that with only 4 months to go, I really should get going on my Christmas crafting. That meant making plans for what I need to do and when. I did do that, but first I needed a place to write things down. So that's how I ended up with today's project share; a little pine tree notebook. POINSETTIA PLACE The idea for my notebook started with a pattern from the Poinsettia Place Designer Series Paper (DSP). While obviously there are ... VIEW POST
Starting Off A Wonderful Season
At last it's August 4th and the Stampin' Up! August to December Mini Catalogue is live for customers. I've been busy this morning adding a link to the PDF of the catalogue in the column on the right. Click on the image to open it, and from there you can download it to your computer to view offline if you wish. Although it's called a 'mini' catalogue it actually consists of 84 pages with lots of exciting new products. You'll also find some returning items from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue too. ... VIEW POST
