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 […]
Category Archives: Clean and simple
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 […]
Patterned paper and cards
As you know, Sale-a-bration is in full swing. Every purchase of £45 excluding shipping/handling, you can choose a FREE product from their Sale-a-bration brochure. This will be valid from 5 January – 28 February, a shorter period than before without a 2nd release during this time. Instead there will be a second Sale-a-bration event to […]
Gilded Leafing Embellishment Technique
How are you all? It hasn’t been the most auspicious start to 2021. A new variant of COVID has been spreading not in a gradual arc but almost in a straight line so on 4th January our PM announced that UK is under another national lock down until February. At least Oxford’s Astra zenica vaccine […]
Sale-a-bration’s Berry Blessings
What do you think of this year’s crop of freebies you can earn? After the festive season, I’m already looking forward to the summer and being COVID free! We can but hope can’t we? One thing good is getting my hands on these Level 2 Sale-a-bration goodies! I earned these free – the Berry Blessings […]
Easy card Friends are like Seashells
Hello! I have an easy card using the “Friends are like Seashells” stamp set and dies. They come from the Sand and Sea Suite on pages 40-42. Without a doubt, it is one of my favourite Suites. The patterned paper is gorgeous and the specialty Pearlescent papers in the suite make the shells take on […]
Sneak Peek Dragonfly Garden
I hope you all had a good New Year, despite the trials and tribulations of living through this pandemic. At the moment there are parts of England in the highest Tier 4 restrictions, tantamount to a full lockdown. The virus has mutated several times and the latest is its rapid spread hence these draconian measures. […]
Happy New Year – more Sneak peeks!
I am so glad to see the back of 2020 and am hoping that 2021 will be a better year for everyone! Stampin’ Up!’s Sale-a-bration event starts on 5th January. One of the stamp sets which you can earn for free was perfect for making this New Year card. The stamp set called “Darling Donkeys” […]