With less than 2 weeks until the Stampin' Up! January to June Mini Catalogue goes live it's time to get going on my sneak peeks. Today after a well deserved lie-in I created this birthday card for my Simple Sunday project. It showcases the new Parisian Blossoms 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP) pack. PRETTY FOILED PAPER I began with one of the sheets from the Parisian Blossoms Specialty DSP with champagne foil accents. First I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue (Tombow) to ... VIEW POST
For The Gardener or Bird Lover
Today's blog project is a quick showcase of a notebook that would be a great gift for the gardener or bird lover. For this I went back to some products in the Annual Catalogue, the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set and Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper (DSP). FOR THE GARDENER? I simply can't get enough of the Bird Ballad DSP and I know I'm not the only one. I'm not even sure what the flowers / shrub on this particular design are, but I just know this make me smile. Perhaps if there's a ... VIEW POST
My Favourite Holly Image This Season
I may have mentioned this before, but of all the holly images available from Stampin' Up! right now, the one in the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set is my favourite. I love the size, the fact that there's four berries, and how the leaves are arranged. It's perfect for stamping directly onto a project, and not to difficult to fussy cut if desired. So I couldn't resist using it again on a card in both these ways. STRIKING BACKGROUND I began by making the striking background panel from a ... VIEW POST
Out Of The Box Coordination
It's no secret that I love my Paper Pumpkin subscription. Every month I get a box full of prepared pieces and instructions to enable me to make gorgeous projects. If I loved my Paper Pumpkin before, I'm besotted now. Just recently Stampin' Up! have raised the bar again by coordinating the kit projects with products from the catalogue. In May, we were sent the Hugs from Shelli Kit which coordinated with the Bird Ballad Suite and as usual I'm still playing with pieces from the kit weeks later. ... VIEW POST
Adapted Black Magic Technique
My regular blog readers will probably know that I love playing with my Stampin' Blends alcohol markers. I'm not an artist by any means, but I've found them easy to use and achieve nice results. Over the past year I've been collecting Stampin' Blends and finally have all the colours currently available. So to celebrate I decided to use an adaptation of the black magic technique to create a card just for you. BLACK MAGIC TECHNIQUE The usual way I've seen the black magic technique used ... VIEW POST
Beautiful Promenade for #WWYS202
After taking a week off, the What Will You Stamp? Challenge is back with a new challenge today. This week we've gone back to the Annual Catalogue for WWYS202 - Beautiful Promenade. I've had this set for quite a while and to be honest haven't used it nearly enough. So while I check out the other ideas over on the What Will You Stamp? blog, here's my contribution to the Design Team gallery. SHADES OF GREEN I began my project with a search for some pretty but calming paper for the ... VIEW POST
