easel valentine card with Bouquet of Love Hybrid embossing folder

Easel card for Valentines

An easel card for Valentines with the new Bouquet of Love Hybrid Embossing folder. I’ve loved using this hybrid embossing folder. The stamp set called “Love & Happiness” which coordinates with it. This stamp set has so many sentiments suitable for Weddings, Anniversaries, Engagements as well as Valentines! New products Nearly everything I used is […]

valentine card with Bouquet of love hybrid embossing folder

Valentine card with watercolour wash

It’s almost February, time to think about a Valentine card with watercolour wash as a background. Happy Sunday! Are you doing anything interesting today? Can’t believe we’re a whole month into the New Year which isn’t so new now and we’re galloping into February! Have you tried Stampin’ Up!’s hybrid embossing folders? They allow you […]

windmill card with timeless tulips

Clean & simple birthday card – Tulip Fields

Clean and simple birthday card with Tulip Fields bundle to follow on from last week’s simply stamped Windmill card. This week I’m using the larger windmill die which takes centre stage. This is part of the Flowering Fields Suite on pages 14-17 of the January-June 2022 mini. It was difficult to decide which bundle to […]

field of poppies remembrance day

Remembrance Day

In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved, and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with […]

hidden magnet closure birthday card with Arctic bears

Hidden Magnetic closure card

Welcome to today’s hidden magnetic closure card. I’m continuing where I left off last Sunday. It occurred to me late in the day that I had not used the pack of papers nor the Host stamp set I had earned during Sale-a-bration and that it finishes on Thursday, 30 September! So I made a variety […]

spotlight technique with welcoming woods

Spotlight Technique with Welcoming Woods

This Sunday I’m featuring a Spotlight Technique with Welcoming Woods stamp set. Sometimes you make cards with no specific occasion or person in mind. The Welcoming Woods stamp lent itself to making this long thin card which will fit in a DL envelope. It also lent itself to practicing the hinge-stamp method on the Stamparatus. […]

anniversary card soft pastels with always in my heart bundle

Anniversary Card with pastels

I have an anniversary card with pastels using the Always in my Heart bundle. At the end of my Soft Pastel series which you can see HERE and HERE, I discovered even more ways to apply pastels. This time I used Stampin’ Up!’s new Plenty of Patterns Decorative Masks. Unfortunately the photo doesn’t do the […]

birthday card for teenager with Hats Off

Birthday Card for a Teenager

When I espied the Hats Off Bundle in the new Annual Catalogue on page 47, I knew it would make the perfect birthday card for a teenager! I have real difficulty with making cards for that age bracket. May has been such a busy month for birthdays. I have been churning them out like there’s […]