halloween frame technique with Festive & Bright

Frame Stamping Technique – Festive & Bright

Frame stamping technique with Festive & Bright. Hello and welcome to Week #2 of my 6 week Countdown to Halloween series. The Festive & Bright stamp set can be found on page 64 of the July-December 2021 Mini. It has three open line-art images suitable for Christmas, Halloween, Spring or Autumn. These photopolymer stamps are […]

DIY patterned paper with Sweet Symmetry

DIY Patterned Paper with Sweet Symmetry

There’s nothing more satisfying than creating your own DIY Patterned Paper with a stamp set of your choice like with Sweet Symmetry. You can choose your own colour palette and where you want to place your images on the paper too. It was such fun making this random pattern and once I’d stamped, I embossed […]

five more soft pastel applications - Part 2

How to apply Soft Pastels – Part 2

I am so excited to be sharing how to apply Soft Pastels – Part 2 with even more ways to apply Stampin’ Up!’s Soft Pastel Assortment. In today’s video, I cover five more ways you can apply pastels so altogether there are ten! Extra non-Stampin’ Up! tools involve a grater, and a different kind of […]

grid of circles with "you're the best" sentiment and puffin

Create grid of circles – Party Puffins

Today I’m going to show you how to create a grid of circles with patterned paper. If you have trouble trying to line up shapes or images in a straight line, then creating a template will save you time. You can use it time and time again for future projects requiring the same technique. I […]

gilded leafing with Art Gallery bundle

How to apply Gilded Leaf

There’s an exciting new product in the new January-June 2021 Mini. This is the new Gold Leaf embellishment from the Fine Art Floral Suite on pages 32 – 34. Remember the Heat & Stick powders from years ago? I am such a hoarder and have kept my tub of Heat & Stick powder for several […]

Hinge stamping Today's tiles

Hinge Stamping Today’s Tiles

I am so thrilled with my Stamparatus, Stampin’ Up!’s own brand of stamp positioning tool. It launched a couple of years ago. Stampin’ Up! also designed stamps which can be used for the “hinge stamping technique” with their Stamparatus. “Today’s Tiles” completely passed me by, until our CEO, Sara Douglas demonstrated it and I was […]

Peekaboo Gnome & Fringing

New Christmas Countdown Series!

I’ve been holding off doing anything remotely Christmas until today! It’s so thrilling to be able to unleash the Christmas Gnomes! Starting from today is my 12-week Countdown to Christmas every Friday for 12 consecutive weeks. What have I got in store for you today? Remember the Stitched Triangle Dies? As I said before, it […]

Gather Together embossing paste card

Gather Together – Returning Fave

The “Gather Together” stamp set and dies first made its appearance in last year’s Autumn catalogue. Long story short, I gave myself a heart attack and thought I’d gotten rid of it! Imagine my relief when I found it again! Shimmer Paints Do you remember the shimmer paints? The dies from “Gathered Leaves” die set […]