Greetings! It’s the first Monday of the month and time for another IDEAS blog hop where this month our theme is “color me happy”. When crafting, all colours make me happy, especially when Stampin’ Up! produces coordinating card, ink etc in all of their 50 colours. So for my Tutorial Bundle projects I decided to use pairs of colours from the Regals and Subtles families and the Go To Greetings Stamp Set. Meanwhile for my blog followers I used the same stamp set to create a “Thinking of you” ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop: He’s The Man
It’s the first Monday of the month and that means it’s time for another IDEAS blog hop. This month our theme is “fast & fabulous cards”. I decided to create all my cards using the He’s The Man suite on pages 78 and 79 of the 2022/2023 Annual Catalogue that launches tomorrow. So I designed four cards for the IDEAS Tutorial Bundle PDF, and a fifth for today’s final sneak peek. The products in this suite really make it easy to create masculine / gender neutral projects like today's ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop: Honeybee Home
It’s the first Monday of the month and that means it’s time for another IDEAS blog hop. This month our theme is “cards that move” and fifteen of us have taken part. I decided to create my project using the Honeybee Home Stamp Set and coordinating Honeybee Blooms Dies. In the IDEAS Tutorial Bundle PDF my card has a double pop-up mechanism inside. Here on my blog there's a coordinating standard card. For both projects I opted to use Stampin’ Blends in Fresh Freesia, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop: Free As A Bird
It’s the first Monday of the month and that means it’s time for another IDEAS blog hop. This month our theme is celebrating friends and we have lots of different projects for you. I decided to create my project using the Free As A Bird Stamp Set. In the IDEAS Tutorial Bundle PDF there’s an elegant scrapbook page. While here on my blog there's a coordinating card for you. For both projects I opted to use a delicate and pretty colour palette of Very Vanilla, Crumb ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop – New Horizons Suite
Here we are on the first Monday of February and that means it's time for another IDEAS team blog hop. One of the great things about Stampin' Up! is the product coordination. As a crafter I love that Stampin' Up! makes it easy to design projects without worrying whether the colours will match. But you may not know they've also made it easy to order complete suites of products. So we've decided to focus on these today and I couldn't resist breaking out the New Horizons suite for my ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop – Loving Sale-A-Bration
It's the first Monday of the month and that means it's time for another IDEAS blog hop. Like other Stampin' Up! Demonstrators around the world we're looking forward to a new catalogue, and the best promotion on the Stampin' Up! calendar; Sale-A-Bration. When you can get exclusive free products just for placing a qualifying order, what's not to love? So the IDEAS team decided that this month we'd showcase Sale-A-Bration products. For my projects I couldn't resist pairing the free Driving By ... VIEW POST