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 […]
Category Archives: Technique
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 […]
Where’s my Mojo gone?
I had a lovely break albeit a short one, but downing tools meant I lost my Mojo and I’m finding it hard to get back into the swing of things. Take for example this creation – believe you me I’ve had several attempts, and the whole card has been a catalogue of failures but I’m […]
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 […]
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 […]