As time marches on and we’re still in lockdown, I hope you’re all OK and adjusting to this new “norm”. I keep telling myself, it’s temporary and it’s for our own safety, but I know that some of you may be struggling from being socially isolated. I’m amazed at how resourceful people have been to […]
Category Archives: Technique
Wildly Happy and Free style painting!
Wildly Happy and free style painting in today’s Sunday blogpost. I made this card for my hubby’s birthday last month and was really stumped because there weren’t any bamboo images in any of Stampin’ Up!’s current catalogues. Then I had a light bulb moment and thought I could paint my own with the aqua-painters. These […]
Beautiful Friendship – Triple Stamping technique
Happy Sunday! With Countdowns to Christmas and Halloween coming, I thought I’d devote my Sunday posts to something that is non-seasonal and to mix using products from the Annual Catalogue as well as the seasonal one! Who knew that Stampin’ Up!’s patented Dist-INK-tive stamps could also be made in photopolymer? Well, they have! I’m revisiting […]
Seaside Notions – Smooshing Technique
Seaside Notions and a Smooshing technique. Are you enjoying the long summer break? It evokes visions of trips to the seaside or travelling to sunnier climes. This stamp set called Seaside Notions certainly brings back happy memories of sun, sand and sea and the new Fluid 100 watercolour paper is lovely to work with. I […]
Card with a Floating Technique
Happy Sunday, peeps – today I’m sharing a card with a Floating Technique. The “floating” technique has been the new big thing recently. As it was trending, I incorporated it into my Team Training Day Display projects in June. It involves images grouped together and raised on foam pads so that they appear to be floating […]
Happy Tails Mirror image!
Are you a feline fan or a canine one? Growing up, my Mum used to have such a menagerie of creatures in suburbia. We moved home so many times and each home had its own quirkiness or need. In one of our homes in the Far East, it was quite boggy at one end […]
Butterfly Gala – One Sheet Wonder
Are you a frugal crafter? Today’s project illustrates how you can make a little go a long way! From just a 6″x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm) sheet of paper, I had the potential to make 9 card layouts. For this video I made a half dozen as it was a nice round number. I’ve […]
Stamparatus Wreath Stamping Tutorial
Where else can you get such fabulous precision stamping on a wreath than with Stampin’ Up!’s fabulous new stamp positioning tool! Having two stamping plates which you can use on both sides gives you 4 work surfaces, eliminating the need to keep swapping your stamps around – perfect! We may have come late to the […]