At Home with You

Are you enjoying a relaxing Sunday?  The clocks go back here in the UK and I hope those of you who live here managed to get your extra hour of sleep today! A little tease – aka as a sneak peek!  Coming very soon – Stampin’ Blends “remix”,  but I’ll cover that more extensively in […]

Christmas Countdown #6 of 12 – Merry Mistletoe

This week I’m demonstrating how to make multiple cards with one layout – just by changing the colour of the card stock and using embossing and different inks you can get different looks.  There’s a back story to this – I’ve explained it on the video, so the time spent wasn’t totally wasted! Did you […]

Recollections of a Day Out at Waddeson

Sunday, a couple of weeks ago, we visited Waddeson Manor in Aylesbury – I had vague recollections that we’d visited once before and when we looked through our old photos, it was 6 years ago!   Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild built this Manor in the 1870s to house his art collections and hosted many house parties […]

Halloween Countdown #5 of 6 – Festive Phrases

Just a simple tweak like partial die cutting can add interest to an otherwise standard card.  I promised to revisit this as I first showed it off as a sneak peek.  Here’s a video tutorial on the “How”.  Hope you like it.  It really isn’t as complicated as it looks (winks) Did you know that […]

We’ve gone Glossy in October!

This month, by special request from one of the ladies in my card club, we did a few techniques using Stampin’ Up!’s glossy card stock.  Glossy card stock has a special coating on the paper, and it’s a blast from the past.  We used to carry it, but it got retired and has now made […]

Halloween Countdown #4 of 6 – Spooky Cat Treat Tubes

Adorable Treat Tubes from Stampin’ Up!  So happy it’s “in house” and I don’t have to try sourcing them from somewhere else!  I hope they’re here to stay and if you don’t want them to go, you just need to keep re-stocking them – or Stampin’ Up! will take them off their supply list! This […]