Get ready for “Hugs From Shelli” – Paper Pumpkin Kit!!!

Heads up for “Hugs from Shelli” !  SOoooo many things happening in May!  Starting tomorrow, May 15th, Shelli Gardner our Co-Founder and Board Chair collaborated with Paper Pumpkin to bring you this exclusive “Hugs from Shelli” paper pumpkin kit – a monthly subscription kit only available in the United States and parts of Canada. Shelli’s […]

Birthday Cheer Spectacular Celebration!

Happy Sunday!  In my previous post, I featured the Birthday Cheer Bundle and made a gift bag so I thought I’d make a card this time using the Cupcake edgelit instead.   I adhered a multi-purpose adhesive sheet on a strip of Berry Burst card stock so that it would make adhering the die cut a […]

Birthday Cheer Gift bag

Oh my word!  What fun it is to re-discover tools you’ve had for absolutely yonks but had forgotten about!  As is often the case, when it’s new, blogs and social media are absolutely flooded with projects using this invaluable tool, and then it seems to die a “death” (in my household, anyway).  Now there’s even […]

Beach Happy, Paper Piecing and the Stamparatus!

This time of year, we’re all thinking about a beach somewhere for rest and respite – this card says it all!   What is it with palm trees?  It evokes a hankering for sunnier climes especially if you live inland in a country with temperate weather far away from any coastline! I’m loving my Stamparatus – […]

Dalmation’s Tail wagging!

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday! For a good deal of our early married life, we were stationed abroad.  One of the places we lived and worked in was  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where we had a lively Dalmation called Mindy who was a bit of an escapologist!  She loved to dig, and the chain link fences didn’t […]

Vibrant Vases Beautiful Laser cuts

Have you ever wondered how on earth you can use the borders on one of the Beautifully Detailed Laser-cut Specialty paper sheets?   I got my inspiration from the sample shown in Stampin’ Up!’s Spring/Summer 2019 catalogue. When I was making my prototype in Petal Pink, there were black smudges, so I made it up as […]

Go, go, go!!! Everything is Rosy live!

Last Saturday I gave you a heads up on May’s promotion “Everything is Rosy” –  a new type of kit called a Product Medley – the first of its kind which contains the stamp set, dies, papers, pre-die cuts, foiled papers and foil and even shimmer paint,  2 reels of ribbon and little mirror embellishments […]