Prizes Galore! – Nailed It, Gorgeous Grunge retiring

This post has been pinned to the top.  Please scroll down for newer posts. Whoop, Whoop!  Can’t quite believe l’il ole me has hit 1,000 subscribers milestone on YouTube!  To help me celebrate, leave me a comment in this post so I can put your name in a prize draw.  10 prizes up for grabs […]

Last call, Sitting Here and a Sneak Peek.

Last call to enter Prize Draw – entries close at 8:00 pm GMT Friday, 5th May 2017.  To celebrate reaching 1K subscribers on YouTube, I have 10 prizes up for grabs.  All you need to do is leave a comment underneath my YouTube Video No. 295, or on Stamp With Elaine’s FB page, my blog […]

May Promotion – Eastern Palace Premier Bundle

So excited about this new promotion!  Wouldn’t you be if you could get your hands on three of the new In Colours? I didn’t give this set much thought at first, but when I looked at it more closely, I could see endless possibilities and my enthusiasm grew. Wow!  How wrong can a girl be?  Eastern […]

Sneak Peek!

Yay!  Another long weekend!  Not that it makes much difference if you’re “retired”, or at least if your other half is.  Everyday seems like a long weekend!  You’d think that without the daily grind of a day at the office, life at home should pan out more leisurely – nothing could be further from the […]

Biggest Birthday Ever & Suite Sentiments

When you know something isn’t going to be around anymore, it galvanises you into action.  I’ve been busy creating lots of cards using this set so I hope it will give you plenty of ideas.  Someone said to me if dies are no longer available, then what?  All is not lost, you can still use […]

Tulips Galore at the Keukenhof!!!

Grab a cuppa and come on the tour with me at Keukenhof, Amsterdam.  Be warned – lots of photos – I took hundreds, but have selected just a few to highlight and give you a flavour of the Keukenhof. I lost the special USB lead on my camera somewhere in  Keukenhof, so had to replace […]

Special Reason Retiring

I have a few cards to show you that I made with the Special Reason Bundle.  It’s retiring and I’m sad because the coordinating dies could cut both a positive and negative image and it hasn’t been around for that long. I thought erroneously that this set has sold out, but I’ve just checked again […]

Lovely Swaps

I’m sharing my swaps from OnStage Live which took place in Amsterdam the weekend before last. These were the swaps I made, using the Swirly Bird stamp set which is carrying over to next year’s annual catalogue – Hurrah! To cut down on the number of times I had to run all the little elements […]