Greetings Eight, Dry Embossing

A star for my Star! It’s brilliant news – my downline has just become a Stampin’ Up! Mummy! I’m thrilled for her and wanted to congratulate her for achieving this with this card. She is an extremely talented crafter and very experienced, often having to come up with original designs as she works freelance as […]

Simply Said, A Little Bit of Happiness, Sanded

I’ve just become a Stampin’ Up! granny thanks to the efforts of my lovely downline, (you know who you are), and I made this card to welcome the latest addition to our little SU family. This is 8″ x 4″ Whisper White card folded in half. I used the Sanded background stamp in Ruby Red, […]

Inspiring Inkin Challenge #6 Christmas in July

I struggled with this one as we were not allowed to use the traditional red or green for a christmas card. In the end I chose a night scene using Lovely as a Tree, Winter Post and Best Yet stamp sets. I used a masking technique for the moon and skaters and left the foreground […]

June & July Promotion

This has been pinned to top of post as it runs until the end of July. Scroll down for blog updates. Stampin’ Up! will give you a FREE background stamp worth £14.95 if you host a £250 workshop during June or July! There are 7 styles to choose from on Page 56 of the Idea […]

Pocket Silhouette

I had to set a challenge for a friend’s Club night last Thursday – a sketch challenge and this is the card I made from the sketch. It’s a really simple z-fold card. I used some retired scraps, stamped flowers from Pocket Silhouettes (one of my favourite sets) first in More Mustard, then in Old […]

Inspiring Inkin Get Together Chez Nous Saturday 11th July

I haven’t been able to blog recently. Life just got in the way. What cheered me up was my fellow Inspiring Inkin team mates and our lovely Stampin’ Up! Mummy came to visit last Saturday. We were going to have a barbecue, but the weather wasn’t all that brilliant so we congregated indoors instead! We […]

Inspiring Inkin Challenge #5

The challenge “Threesome” was to use a trio of materials, whether it be stamps, card stock, DSP, brads, ribbon, ink pads and so on. So I elected to do an accordion fold card which perfectly displayed the tall vase image in the Scene in a Garden stamp set from the Mini Catalogue. I used 3 […]