Happy Easter! Here’s a batch of easter cards I made for friends and family this year. How often does Easter Day fall on April 1st? I hope the Easter Bunny won’t play tricks on you and forget the chocolate! Wouldn’t that be a disaster! Originally this stamp set wasn’t on my radar. I’d made Easter […]
Category Archives: Card Types
Gorgeous Card in a Box – Magical Day
This type of “Card in a Box” was all the rage in 2014. It folds flat to fit in an envelop which can be mailed easily. It looks complicated, but it really isn’t! The lovely Monica Gale, a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator in the UK, shared it on her blog so I thought I would create […]
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 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 – […]
Eclectic Expressions – Stamparatus Repeat Patterns
I was really intrigued by the repeat patterns in the sample card on the new 2nd Release Sale-A-Bration flyer and gave it a try with the stamp mounted on a clear block. The results weren’t satisfactory so I tried it with the Stamparatus. This is how I used it to stamp repeat patterns and was […]
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 […]
The Stamparatus – 4 step stamping with Amazing Congratulations
Hello! Those of us who were in the Leader 2 Leader group during the design and development of the Stamparatus were sworn to secrecy – and over the last couple of years I’ve had to feign ignorance while discussions about when Stampin’ Up! would produce one were flying about. Don’t you think it was worth […]
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 […]