Paper Scraps – Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop

Paper Scraps is the theme for this month’s Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop. Inadvertently when you’re cutting up patterned paper for card fronts, you get lots of scraps which you hang on to “just in case”! Familiar scenario? Here’s an idea on how you can use them up! I chose to use my scraps to […]

autumn card with fun on wheels

Autumn delights – Fun on Wheels

Autumn delights using the Fun on Wheels bundle from the Annual Catalogue as well as the new All About Autumn 6″x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Specialty Designer Series papers and the Autumn Leaves Bundle in the September-December 2023 mini. I know that if you’re a sports person, exercise and cycling isn’t just seasonal, and […]

Beary Christmas Memories & More cards

Beary Christmas Memories and More Card Ideas

Beary Christmas Memories and More card ideas. The Beary Christmas Memories and More cards are from the Beary Chrisstmas Suite Collection on pages 22-24 of the new 2023 September-December Mini Catalogue. In this post, I show you how you can use the Beary Christmas Memories & More cards to make quick easy Christmas cards with […]

Quick easy Classic Christmas card

New 2023 Sep-Dec Mini launch day!

Whoop! Whoop! New 2023 September-December Mini launches today! Are you excited? It was hard to choose just which Suite to use for launch day so I thought I’d take my cue from the catalogue cover. The projects on the front cover is from the Joy of Christmas Suite collection which you’ll find on pages 28-31. […]

Collage three monotone cards Next Destination

Three cool Monotone cards with Next Destination

I am so excited to share three cool Monotone cards with the Next Destination stamp set. By creating a template, you can churn out multiple cards by just changing the colours and images. It was also an exercise in showing how fantastic Stampin’ Up!’s attention to detail and coordination is. The inks, paper, patterned paper, […]

Balmy blue card with Playing in the Rain

An easy card – Playing in the Rain

Here’s an easy card with Playing in the Rain. We have had so much rain recently, it made me think of the Playing in the Rain Stamp set and its coordinating dies. The stamps and dies first appeared in the 5 January to 1 May 2023 mini catalogue and have carried over into our current […]

T4SBH vellum Merriest Frames hybrid embossing folder

Vellum – Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop

The theme for August’s Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop is all about Vellum. There are lots of different ways to use Vellum. The heavier duty Vellum can be used for Pergamano. Pergamano is the art of embellishing and decorating parchment paper (or vellum) by using techniques like embossing, perforating, colouring or cutting to make intricate […]

clean simple card with Inked & Tiled punches

CIean and simple card with Inked & Tiled punches

Hello – and happy Sunday – today I’ve used both Inked & Tiled punches on the one card. Again, a clean and simple card which is pretty speedy to make. This one is a standard card base. I made this card with remnants of the Inked Botanical 6″x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) DSP on […]