Make 3 cards with Happiest Day. Happiest Day is a stand alone stamp set. If you wish to step it up, you can use whatever dies you have in your stash. The samples created by Stampin’ Up! featured how the stamp set was used for scrapbooking layouts. As with any stamp set, you can use […]
Category Archives: Occasions
Birthday card with Everyday Greetings
Birthday card with Everyday Greetings. One of the online exclusives called Season of Green & Gold Suite collection is HUGE!!! This suite collection includes gorgeous winter greenery, luscious pops of gold, and unique layers of vellum and berry gems. I don’t know about you, but I find it really difficult to get in the Christmas […]
Fancy Stadium Wave fold
Fancy stadium wave fold. This fold isn’t as difficult as it sounds, the stadium wave fold mechanism are simply strips of card stock. You score, fold, and adhere to each other in a staggered formation to form a fan shape. This card is quite bulky, so it may require extra postage, or better still, hand […]
Sympathy card – Country Flowers
Sympathy card – Country Flowers. Sympathy cards are ones that no-one in their right mind would choose to make, but as it’s a fact of our life cycle – where there is beginning of life, there is also an end. We celebrate births, and need to find words of comfort for those who suffer loss […]
Shaker card – Unbounded Beauty Suite
Shaker card – Unbounded Beauty Suite. The Unbounded Beauty Suite has two bundles. One with just floral images and the other contains words only. Flowers of Beauty dies coordinate with the Flowers of Beauty stamp set. There are 2 dies which incorporate die cutting multiple flowers with just one pass through the die cutting machine. […]
Mini slim card – landscape
Mini slim card – landscape orientation with a difference. Recently whilst de-cluttering, I discovered a stash of envelops that Stampin’ Up! used to supply and are just perfect for mini slim cards. Many years ago, I stopped making any tent cards in a landscape orientation because they kept collapsing. Consequently, whenever I make a card […]
Birthday card for a Teenager
Birthday card for a Teenager. My youngest grandson just celebrated his 14th birthday. Teenagers like soda pop, right? So I made him a card with the Simply Sparkling Bundle and took my inspiration from Stampin’ Up!’s sample. I’m delighted that the Bright & Beautiful DSP is carrying over – a first for Stampin’ Up! because […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ve often wondered how Valentine’s Day came to be celebrated. For decades, I thought it had a romantic connotation. Here’s a little factoid. Apparently Valentine’s Day did not come to be celebrated as a day of romance until circa 14th century. There have been several Christian martyrs named Valentine. However, the day […]