Happiness Surrounds meets Country Home

How lovely it is to have something new!  By that I mean finishing my Halloween series and moving on to an Autumnal theme and a different colour palette! Happiness Surrounds Photopolymer Stamp Set [149744] Country Home Photopolymer Stamp Set [147678] Snowfall Thinlits Dies [149692] Very Vanilla A4 Thick Cardstock [144238] Pumpkin Pie A4 Card Stock […]

part 2 love you to pieces double top lid box

Love You To Pieces – Part 2

Love You To Pieces – Part 2. Following from last Friday’s Love You to Pieces – Part 1 where I made four mini puzzles in four separate boxes with their own colour coordinated “mat” as party favours, I thought it would be cool to create a box which housed all four puzzles as a set […]

wreath with Rooted in Nature

Stamparatus Wreath Stamping Tutorial

Where else can you get such fabulous precision stamping on a wreath than with Stampin’ Up!’s fabulous new stamp positioning tool!  Having two stamping plates which you can use on both sides gives you 4 work surfaces, eliminating the need to keep swapping your stamps around – perfect!  We may have come late to the […]

card in a box Magical Day

Gorgeous Card in a Box – Magical Day

This type of “Card in a Box” was all the rage in 2014. It folds flat to fit in an envelop which can be mailed easily. It looks complicated, but it really isn’t! The lovely Monica Gale, a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator in the UK, shared it on her blog so I thought I would create […]

a mother's flair

Setting up Stamparatus – A Mother’s Flair

Much excitement as those who ordered their Stamparatus last November will be receiving theirs imminently ahead of next year’s Annual Catalogue in June 2018!  If you ordered yours in December, you should be receiving yours later in March/April in the order that your order has been received by Stampin’ Up!   Remember to complete transaction by […]

new type of stamp dis-INK-tive heartfelt blooms

New type of stamp Dist-INK-tive Heartfelt Blooms

Heartfelt Blooms – an exciting new type of stamp called a Dist-INK-tive stamp. The science of manufacturing rubber stamps is amazing. These days you can just take a photo and transform it into a red rubber stamp which looks like a photo! Stampin’ Up! calls stamps like these which have different opacities Dist-INK-tive stamps – […]

eclectic expressions

Eclectic Expressions – Stamparatus Repeat Patterns

I was really intrigued by the repeat patterns in the sample card on the new 2nd Release Sale-A-Bration  flyer and gave it a try with the stamp mounted on a clear block.  The results weren’t satisfactory so I tried it with the Stamparatus.  This is how I used it to stamp repeat patterns and was […]