Fancy concertina fold – Country Flowers. Today I’m featuring the other bundle in the Country Woods Suite Collection from the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue. You’ll find it on pages 48-51. The fancy concertina fold is made up of two sections. You can use a 12″x 12″ piece of card stock, but I didn’t have any in […]
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Dry embossed background card – Country Flowers
Dry embossed background card – Country Flowers. Today’s project is another card using the Country Flowers bundle. I’ve used the Eyelet 3D embossing folder to create a dry embossed background for the card in lieu of using pretty patterned paper. I love it when you use tone on tone card stock. The Spotlight on Nature […]
Quick easy card with Country Flowers
Quick easy card with Country Flowers. I’ve also used the Spotlight on Nature Dies which coordinates with a stamp set called Spotlight on Nature. You can purchase both as a bundle and save 10 % or separately. Something we often overlook are the foam adhesive sheets. I wanted to pop-up the tea pot, but it […]
How to create a monotone card
How to create a monotone card. Stampin’ Up! is known for its colour co-ordination. There are 10 colours in each colour family – Subtles, Regals, Brights and Neutrals. In addition there are 10 In Colours, 5 of which constantly get refreshed every two years. Every colour in each family co-ordinates within the family which makes […]
Spotlight technique with Spotlight on Nature
Spotlight technique with Spotlight on Nature. I’ve been using the Spotlight on Nature dies in previous posts so I thought it was time to feature the stamp set as well. In today’s post, I’m sharing a card made with the spotlight technique. I used the Stylish Shapes dies and a punch which unfortunately has retired. […]
2024-26 In Colour Challenge
2024-26 In Colour Challenge. The brief for July’s Tech 4 Stampers Blog hop was to choose any 3 of the 2024-26 In Colours to make a card. This narrowed down the choice to just five colours. Stampin’ Up! had already worked out which 5 colours would compliment each other, so it wasn’t difficult to do […]
Mini slim slider card – Attention Shoppers
Mini slim slider card – Attention Shoppers. Initially I’d dismissed the Attention Shoppers bundle but I couldn’t resist the cute shopping trolley or the little images which practically covers all occasions. You can find it on page 69 of the new 2024-25 Annual Catalogue. I copied and shrunk the product images and printed these out […]
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 […]