a mother's flair

Setting up Stamparatus – A Mother’s Flair

Much excitement as those who ordered their Stamparatus last November will be receiving theirs imminently ahead of next year’s Annual Catalogue in June 2018!  If you ordered yours in December, you should be receiving yours later in March/April in the order that your order has been received by Stampin’ Up!   Remember to complete transaction by […]

new type of stamp dis-INK-tive heartfelt blooms

New type of stamp Dist-INK-tive Heartfelt Blooms

Heartfelt Blooms – an exciting new type of stamp called a Dist-INK-tive stamp. The science of manufacturing rubber stamps is amazing. These days you can just take a photo and transform it into a red rubber stamp which looks like a photo! Stampin’ Up! calls stamps like these which have different opacities Dist-INK-tive stamps – […]

team swaps

Team Swaps

Yesterday I drove down to Portsmouth to attend a Team Meeting and meet up with my Stampin’ Sisters.  I can’t believe how quickly time flies by – it seems like only yesterday when we were ringing in the new year and here we are nearly at the end of January! One of the traditions, or […]

mermaid card embossing paste

Magical Mermaid and Embossing Paste

Yesterday I had my Embossing Paste Masterclass and this is one of the cards we made.  If you look carefully you can see that the sand is dyed embossing paste, left to dry thoroughly and then stamped on.  I also used the copper trim and teased it out to make the netting. We water coloured […]

Hexagon Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing folder with Hey Chick Sale-a-bration stamp set

Hexagon Dynamic TIEF and Chooks!

Which is your favourite Sale-a-bration FREEBIE?  The “Hey, Chick”  one popped out at me straight away!  There was a quirky chook with bad hair – a species called “Silky” which I talked about in my sneak peek video last year.  If you haven’t seen it yet, you can find here .   Today, we’re catching up […]

Sale-a-bration Sneak Peek - Hey Chick

Sale-a-bration Sneak Peek – Hey Chick

Now that Christmas is over, I hope you’ve had time to properly relax, so here’s something to whet your appetite! I’m so excited to share a Sale-a-bration Sneak Peek of this new “Hey Chick” stamp set. It has the most zany breed of chicken on it! As yet, I haven’t established what breed it is! […]

wedding card with vellum overlay

Wedding favours!

Remember this wedding card I made? Well look at what the bride sent me!  Hand delivered by my lovely downline Petra,  from Danni who is also her sister in Germany!  Danni made all the wedding favours herself.  I thinks it’s gorgeous – so not labour intensive but packs such a WOW! This is what was […]

easter card with bird punch

Cheep….Cheep says the easter chicks!

This card design originated from my lovely upline, Amanda, at one of our Team meetings and I in turn, passed it on to my team –   but of course as with most CASE-ing (copy and share everything) I’ve put my own stamp on it. I’ve been putting my fringing scissors to good use lately. […]