Quick easy birthday card. I’ve used the new background stamp called Leaf Collection as a backdrop for a quick, easy birthday card and also used some online exclusives which have been around for a while. These are Rhino Ready and Radiating Stitches. Both Rhino Ready and Radiating Stitches have been was the perfect choice to […]
Category Archives: Seasonal Catalogues
How to create backgrounds
How to create backgrounds with the new Leaf Collection background stamp. As always, the catalogue is a great source of inspiration. Background stamps are enormous! They fit on Stampin’ Up!’s “F” block. If you still have the retired Stampin’ Up! Stamparatus, you can use that too. Background stamps are exactly that, it covers a large […]
New Annual Catalogue Launch
New Annual Catalogue launch day! The 2024-25 Annual Catalogue has finally arrived! If you have placed an order with me in the last 6 months, a personal copy of the new Annual Catalogue should be winging its way to you. This is a long-ish post, so bear with me, grab a cuppa because I do […]
Happy Easter – Excellent Eggs
Happy Easter with Excellent Eggs bundle. Easter is early this year. The first quarter of 2024 seems to have flown by. Today the clocks go forward by an hour for British Summer time. Fun and games re-setting the two oven clocks, the pendulum clocks, our watches because they’re not electronic and don’t do it automatically! […]
Fun Easter card – Hooray for Surprises
Fun easter card with Hooray for Surprises. I also used the Easter Bunny photopolymer stamp set. It gives me such a buzz when I can combine stamps and dies in the most unexpected ways. Whoever would’ve thought that Hooray for Surprises could be used in an Easter context! Cutting guide Inside card Here’s the inside […]
Happy Mothering Sunday
Happy Mothering Sunday to all the Mums out there and remembering Mums who are angels in heaven too. I’m sharing a clean and simple card today, using up some of the papers which were free during Sale-a-bration. If you took advantage of getting some freebies during Sale-a-bration, then you would have seen the gorgeous Softly […]
Best Family Ever – Mother’s Day
The “Best Family Ever” photopolymer stamp set is such a brilliant stamp set to have in your craft room. This stamp set is an answer to my prayers! It covers grand-parents, brothers, sisters, in-laws, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews too! Mother’s Day is two days away. Another item I don’t use often enough is […]
Sale-a-bration Just Kiddin’ DSP
Today’s focus is on Sale-a-bration’s Just Kiddin’ DSP which is free with a £45 order, but how do you use it it you don’t have the stamp set, or dies or embellishments from the suite? So here are a few ideas as to what you can use. Fussy cut images from DSP I simply cut […]