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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
Little Twinkle – Eclipse card
Our Annual Catalogue is always a great resource for inspiration, and I simply CASEd (Copy and Share Everything) from within its pages for this card. It comes from the Twinkle Twinkle suite on a double page spread on pages 82-83 of the 2018-19 Annual Catalogue. I think their sample was a lot smaller, but I […]