thanksgiving card with Autumn Goodness

Happy Thanksgiving Day

Just a quickie post today to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving Day. We don’t mark it ourselves, but for those who do, have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. The card base is in Cajun Craze. I used the gorgeous Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Papers which has gold foiling. To make the layer “pop” I […]

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, […]

Advent Calendar Coming Home

Advent Calendar – Coming Home

I always make an Advent Calendar for my Countdown to Christmas Series each year. This year, I made it with the Home Together Dies. These dies can be purchased together with the Coming Home stamp set as a bundle at a 10% discount. I also used the Playful Alphabet dies with which to die cut […]

Autumn card with Arrange a Wreath

Autumn card – Arrange a Wreath

It gives me so much pleasure when a stamp set and the coordinating dies can be used throughout the year. The first time I used it was to decorate a round tin and I knew immediately this was a keeper! I also loved the double bow which I’ve die cut in gold foil. It’s actually […]

Gift Packaging with Wishes & Wonder

Gift Packaging – Wishes & Wonder

Do you like receiving yummy gifts? The joy of giving isn’t so much the size or monetary value of the gift. Your special home baked cookie, or one from your favourite store can be wrapped in a fabulous mini pizza box tailor made for the occasion! I’d bought some “Cheeky Little Rascals” which are a […]

Fancy Fold with Autumn Goodness

Fancy Fold Card with Autumn Goodness

The day is getting shorter and there’s definitely a nip in the air and that means Autumn is nigh! I cannot believe how long this awful Covid-19 has halted life as we know it in her tracks! Here we are in November and having put Halloween to bed, it’s time to say “hello” to Autumn […]

Fancy fold card with Boho Indigo

Cards for Pen Pals

Hello! There’s alot of doom and gloom about lately. Covid cases are on the rise. Let’s try and stay positive! In a bid to connect with people to share some joy, Stampin’ Up! set up a group for Demonstrators around the world to send cards to each other and become pen pals. In 2020 sharing […]