Thoughtful Expressions for Mother’s Day using Sale-a-bration’s 2023 New Core Colours Stampin’ Write Markers which is FREE with a £90 order. The Thoughtful Expressions Stamps & Dies are part of the Poetic Expressions Suite Collection. I love the dies which can turn a simple card into something more special – and who is more deserving […]
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Mother’s Day card with Painted Lavender
Mother’s Day card with Painted Lavender. I also used the Perennial Postage bundle. Both these bundles are from the Perennial Lavender suite in the January-April 2024 mini on pages 22-25. The Painted Lavender stamp set only contains images and all the sentiments are in the Perennial Postage stamp set. By getting both you will qualify […]
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 […]
Ways with Vellum – Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
Ways with Vellum – Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop theme for February 2024. For this month’s Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop, I’m going to create paint effects with Stampin’ Up! re-inkers and isopropyl alcohol on vellum card stock. Do you remember the gorgeous papers called Expressions in Ink 12″x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) DSP […]
Simple Valentines with Country Bouquet
Here’s a simple Valentine card with Country Bouquet – a flash back to products which carried over to the current 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue. If you’re budgeting and don’t necessarily want to invest in new specifically designed products for Valentine’s day, look through your stash and you’ll find that last year’s offering will fit the bill. […]
Valentine card with Nature’s Sweetness
I wanted to create a masculine Valentine card with Nature’s Sweetness specialty DSP. It coordinates with the Notes of Nature bundle which is part of the Nature’s Sweetness Suite Collection on pages 40-43 of the January-April 2024 mini. For the embellishments, the Opaque faceted gems from Sale-a-bration is ideal because it coordinates with Nature’s Sweetness […]
3D Bee Mine Altered Pillow Box
Today’s project is a 3D Bee Mine Altered Pillow box . The pillow boxes are white and is a square in shape. They have been pre-cut and scored and they come in a pack of 10. One of Stampin’ Up!’s samples shows a rectangular pillow box. You’ll find it on page 15 of the January-February […]
Hills of Tuscany
On our Silver Anniversary many moons ago, we embarked on an Italian Odyssey tour and one of the lasting memories were the Hills of Tuscany. We loved the ambiance, the food and the scenery and especially the people. They weren’t as snooty here as it was in the heart of Florence and we particularly loved […]