I haven’t been able to blog recently. Life just got in the way. What cheered me up was my fellow Inspiring Inkin team mates and our lovely Stampin’ Up! Mummy came to visit last Saturday. We were going to have a barbecue, but the weather wasn’t all that brilliant so we congregated indoors instead! We […]
Inspiring Inkin Challenge #5
The challenge “Threesome” was to use a trio of materials, whether it be stamps, card stock, DSP, brads, ribbon, ink pads and so on. So I elected to do an accordion fold card which perfectly displayed the tall vase image in the Scene in a Garden stamp set from the Mini Catalogue. I used 3 […]
Shadow Box – Sam’s Gorjus Girls
Also enclosed with the template, Sam sent some stamped images of her Gorjus girl stamps. Since signing up as a demo for Stampin’ Up! I’ve had little need for adding to my collection of stamps from other manufacturers (call it tunnel vision!). Stampin’ up! really has covered all the bases in its arsenal of stamps […]
Cheers To You
My wonderful and generous Inspiring Inkin team mate, Sam, sent me a template for this quirky folded card. I’m not even going to attempt explaining how you fold it – it’s easier than it looks but it’s more a visual thing than trying to explain it in words. It would’ve been rude not to play […]
Rub Ons – Cherished Memories & Pretties Kit
Some time ago, I used rub-ons on my soap dispenser to make it more visible as both the dispenser and my worktop was black, I couldn’t see it! Well, you can use it to embellish a card too! My card “topper” was Real Red, cut a tad smaller than the base card in Whisper White. […]
Ovals All and Top Note Template
Fellow Team Mate, Vannessa, made a similar card for the Inspiring Inkin Challenge #2 and I liked it so much I wanted to have a bash at it myself. My favourite colour is blue, so I thought I ought to try a different colour combo this time. I’ve used Always Artichoke for the card base, […]
Just Beachy – Gel card
This is what the ladies made at the June meeting of Technique Club. One of the techniques we did at June’s Technique Club meeting was basic masking. The ladies made this card, stamped some fish, then stamped same fish images on the sticky part of post-it labels which were cut out and adhered to the […]
Picnic Basket, Playful Petals.
Today, I thought I might make something just for the fun of it but more than anything I made it to satisfy my own craving for making something that was for me and not for someone else, or because I had to. It’s amazing what you can do with paper – I’d bought this template […]