fancy fold valentine card with forever & always

Fancy fold Valentine card – Forever & Always Bundle

Happy Valentine’s Day! For today’s post, I’m using the other stamp set in the “Love You Always Suite Collection” – Forever & Always Bundle. There’s a little back story to this card. I nearly came a cropper last Sunday as I’d forgotten there was no content in the post. My intention had been to wait […]

Valentine card one sheet wonder with Heartfelt bundle

Create 4 Valentine cards with One Sheet Wonder

What’s a One Sheet Wonder? It’s a phrase coined to describe the cutting up of a sheet of patterned paper into smaller pieces which can then be used to decorate the front of a card. Today’s One Sheet Wonder is a quirky one with peculiar angles to create 4 Valentine cards with a more abstract […]

Valentine card with Always in My Heart

Happy Sunday! No, your eyes don’t deceive you, but the card front on this Valentine card I created with Stampin’ Up!’s new Always in My Heart stamps has been glued at an angle! The dies are gorgeous and includes this elaborate heart die. I adore that banner! It was a stroke of genius for Stampin’ […]

Blended card with Enjoy the Moment

Blended Card with Enjoy the Moment

I have been using blending brushes on the QT before Stampin’ Up! introduced them into their product line, so I am thrilled to be able to use them in future tutorials. There are so many ways to blend and so many different tools you can use for blending. We had those hard rubber brayers so […]

unusual card closure dragonfly garden

Unusual card closure – Dragonfly Garden

Eek! It’s the last day of January. Despite the trials and tribulations of another lock down, bad weather, not being able to go out, somehow we have survived it! I don’t know about you, but my passion for paper crafting has kept me sane. Keeping the blog updated, filming and publishing my weekly videos has […]

Masculine Valentine card with gilding

Masculine Valentine card

At time of writing, I still hadn’t received the new Valentine stuff from the January-June 2021 Mini. Good news though, having been held up in Germany because of Brexit and Covid issues, it will be shipping soon. How on earth did we get to the end of January? Here we are with Valentine’s Day round […]

tag topper concertina card dandy garden

Tag Topper Concertina card

I posted an article “Birthday in a Box” last Sunday which featured a concertina card and promised I would show you how I made it. My inspiration came from Julie Kettlewell who kindly shared it on the UK Demonstrators FB page. Her original was a birthday card using the Sweet Ice Cream bundle. The Dandy […]

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Birthday in a box

Happy Sunday! It is such a worry when one’s other half has been diagnosed with a serious illness. Worst still, if the surgery takes place on your birthday! I wanted to surprise my friend with something special to help alleviate such a traumatic day. Julie Kettlewell was a guest on the UK demonstrator FB group […]