gilded leafing with Art Gallery bundle

How to apply Gilded Leaf

There’s an exciting new product in the new January-June 2021 Mini. This is the new Gold Leaf embellishment from the Fine Art Floral Suite on pages 32 – 34. Remember the Heat & Stick powders from years ago? I am such a hoarder and have kept my tub of Heat & Stick powder for several […]

gilded leafing embellishment technique

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 […]

Hinge stamping Today's tiles

Hinge Stamping Today’s Tiles

I am so thrilled with my Stamparatus, Stampin’ Up!’s own brand of stamp positioning tool. It launched a couple of years ago. Stampin’ Up! also designed stamps which can be used for the “hinge stamping technique” with their Stamparatus. “Today’s Tiles” completely passed me by, until our CEO, Sara Douglas demonstrated it and I was […]

Alternative cards to Paper Pumpkin kit

Alternative cards Paper Pumpkin

Hello there! How are you coping with the second “lockdown”? One way to keep those blues at bay was to get cracking with making my Christmas cards for 2020. Enter the global “Joy to the World” Paper Pumpkin kit – this is a monthly subscription kit only available in USA. It includes a stamp set, […]

Peaceful boughs/dove wiper card

Peaceful Boughs/Dove wiper card

Hi! Welcome to Week 3 of 12 in my Christmas Countdown series for 2020. Today’s card has two tiers plus a wiper mechanism to reveal the Dove of Hope. Last year I acquired the Peaceful Boughs bundle, but it never saw any ink! I was thrilled when it carried over to this year and I […]

Peekaboo Gnome & Fringing

New Christmas Countdown Series!

I’ve been holding off doing anything remotely Christmas until today! It’s so thrilling to be able to unleash the Christmas Gnomes! Starting from today is my 12-week Countdown to Christmas every Friday for 12 consecutive weeks. What have I got in store for you today? Remember the Stitched Triangle Dies? As I said before, it […]

Right Triangle Fox Card

Right Triangle Fox Card

Oooh – what a conundrum this title makes, but it describes what it is exactly. Perhaps I should decipher it so that it’s a little clearer. I made this card with a tiny equilateral stitched triangle die. The inspiration to create a fox image came from a quilt pattern, hence the “Fox card” part. These […]

Fancy Tag Topper card

Fancy Phrases & Fancy Tag Punch

Let me introduce you to the Fancy Phrases stamp set and Fancy Tag Topper Punch. The combination of script and uppercase fonts are fabulous as is the large floral stamp. I love having the ability to create my own Designer Series Paper (DSP) in whatever colour palette I choose. What do you think of this […]