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
IDEAS Blog Hop – New Year’s Resolutions
This month our theme is "New Year's Resolutions" which left quite a lot of room for interpretation. Every year I`m determined to improve my organisation and so I decided to create a perpetual calendar as my contribution to the IDEAS tutorial bundle PDF. With a perpetual calendar you write down birthdays, anniversaries and other events that occur on the same date each year. But unlike a traditional annual calendar you can keep using it year after year. My version includes twelve individual ... VIEW POST
IDEAS Blog Hop – Punch It Up
Today is an exciting day for me as I join the IDEAS Design Team in time for their November blog hop and Tutorial PDF release. This month the theme is "Punch It Up" and our brief was to create projects using our favourite punch. I could have chosen something that coordinates with a stamp set, but opted for something completely different instead. I decided to focus on the punch I use more than any other, the Detailed Trio Punch. SNOWMAN SEASON OK I know I've used the Snowman Season Stamp ... VIEW POST
Fields of Perennial Flowers
Summer seems to have finally arrived and in my part of Nova Scotia everything is blooming. I love the riot of colour that this season brings and everywhere I look there's flowers. And when I mean everywhere that includes my craft studio. I've got a whole pile of Daisy Lane Project Packs ready to send out. These packs contain full instructions and all the materials needed to create 6 projects using the Daisy Lane Stamp Set. I'm sending these as a thank you to everyone who's orders the ... VIEW POST
Daisy Lane With No Daisies
When you hear that a stamp set is called Daisy Lane you might think that your projects will end up full of daisies. Well while that may be true, there are other images in the set that are just as pretty. So for today's Simple Sunday project I'm concentrating on the detailed fern image instead. A SPRUCED UP BACKGROUND I began by stamping the large fern image over a layer of Very Vanilla Card using Shaded Spruce ink. Then I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue (Tombow) to attach it to a card ... VIEW POST
Scary Moments In The Garden
My regular blog followers will now that I love living in rural Nova Scotia. There's something very magical about looking up and seeing nature right outside the window. Occasionally we see black bear, and on summer evenings we might hear a coyote. Most of the time though it's the birds that catch my eye, and the eye of our cat Houdini. Yesterday that's what immediately came to mind when he dashed off the deck and I got up to see what it was that had excited him. That's when we had a really ... VIEW POST
