24 hour flash sale

24 HOUR FLASH SALE ON 23 OCTOBER!!

Advance warning!!!   To celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 30th Anniversary there’s going to be a flash sale on selected sets  for 24 hours only on Tuesday 23 October!  Click on image in my side bar to see the selection of stamps on offer. All selected sets are offered at a 15% discount.  Discount applies to select stamp […]

Lilypad Lake

Hi Everyone!   This is a birthday card I made for one of the twins – one loves Flamingos (you know who you are) and the other loves unicorns.     I’m not sure if this is a flamingo, or a heron.  If it’s a heron, call it artistic licence – I’ll pretend it’s a flamingo – […]

Christmas Countdown Series #5 of 12 – Beautiful Blizzard

Continuing in the vein of simple quick one layer cards to give you a variety as well as a mixture of both traditional stamping  and using the Stamparatus too.  The Stamparatus is fab for consistency in stamping your sentiments especially if you’re using different ink colours. I especially like the Blizzard thinlits die, because it […]

All The Good Things – Bonsai

Hello Everyone! Remember the Koi from All The Good Things stamp set I touched on Sunday before last?  I thought I’d follow up with one of the Bonsai today.   I am simply loving my Stamparatus, Stampin’ Up!’s own brand of stamp positioning tool.   To stamp multi-colours on an image, it was standard practice to use […]

Christmas Countdown #4 of 12 – Alpine Adventure

I fell in love with the Alpine Adventure set, mainly because of the dies!  I’m loving the concept of incorporating pairs of leaves on a single die which greatly reduces the amount of times you need to run it through the Big Shot  to get 2 pairs of leaves! Another bonus is the new gold […]

Halloween Countdown #4 of 6 – Still Night

Hi there!  This owl in the Still Night bundle was too pretty really to pass for a “Fright Night” owl, but I was determined I should give it a go and here is the result! I mixed old with new  – using a staple “Itty Bitty Greetings” and “Artisan Textures” to set the scene.  I […]

masculine birthday card

A Masculine Card

Happy Sunday peeps! Who ever would’ve thought the Still Night set could masquerade as a masculine birthday card!  This was made lovingly for hubby’s birthday in September.   Do you remember the check black and white, old olive papers we had in last year’s Autumn/Winter catalogue?  I was sorry to see them go, but am SO […]