Hi there Today I’m going to share with you the first of five cards I’ve made using the Festival of Trees stamp set and punch. I hope you enjoy these and are inspired to recreate them yourself. First up – a touch of gold embossing. This card had a few ‘iterations’ before I was finally… Read More: Festival of Trees – part two »
Hi there First of all ‘Happy Fathers’ Day’ to all the men out there – I hope you’ve all had a great day. We had a lovely afternoon tea at my parents to celebrate the men in our family. A special ‘Happy Father’s Day’ to my Dad – he’s the best and is such a… Read More: Gift Bag and Altered Notepad »
Hi there This afternoon I had a workshop with a lovely group of ladies and this is the card I taught them. It uses the Festival of Trees Stamp Set and coordinating Tree Punch. You can purchase these as a bundle and save 15% I love how we can now make our Basic Pearls any… Read More: Festival of Trees – part one »
Hi there As promised here is the second card the ladies made at last weeks class. This card is a great one to make when you need to use up scraps of Designer Series Paper (DSP). This design takes eight squares that measure 1 1/4″. The card stock background squares measure 2 5/8″ and you… Read More: Moonlight Faux Pinwheel »
Hi there It’s meant to be Spring today but I think somebody forgot to tell the weather that winter is over – it’s been cold and wet here today in Auckland. Hopefully my card will cheer you up:) Last week I had a card class and we made two cards. The first one uses the… Read More: Pictogram Punches »
Hi there I hope you’ve had a good weekend despite the cold wet weather. I’ve had two good afternoon’s crafting but can’t show you what I’ve made just yet – sorry about that :). Here’s a card I made the other week which I CASED from Julia Carmichael. It uses the lovely set – Wetlands. And… Read More: Wetlands »
Hi there The new Holiday Catalogue is now live. To view the catalogue just click on the picture on the top right of my page. There are so many great stamp sets, accessories and more in this catalogue I’m sure you’ll have a long wishlist. Well if that’s the case why not host a party… Read More: Holiday Catalogue is here plus earn a FREE stamp set… »
Hi there and welcome to the first Creative Inkers Blog Hop 🙂 With the new Holiday Catalogue going live tomorrow we thought we’d give you a sneak peak at some of the wonderful new products that will be available. If you’ve been following the blog hop you will have come from Narelle Hoggard’s blog or you… Read More: Creative Inkers Holiday Blog Hop »
Hi there It’s my bosses birthday today and he’s just bought himself a new road bike which he brought into the office the other day. I had an idea I’d like to make his card with a bike on it but I don’t own any ‘bike’ stamps. My wonderful friend and fellow demo Julia has an… Read More: No stamping card »
Hi there Yesterday we celebrated my SIL’s birthday (her actual birthday was last Tuesday) and this is the card and gift I created for her. The card uses the lovely Hostess set ‘Bloom with Hope’ and I’ve coloured it in with my Blendabilities. I wanted to make a fancy fold card so have gone with… Read More: Bloom with Hope and Gift Box Punch Board »
Hi there Last Saturday we had our team training and this is the card we made using one of the new stamp sets – Wondrous Wreath – from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue. This stamp set has a coordinating Framelit set which makes it easy to ‘cut’ out. I changed my ‘door’ from being plain white… Read More: Wondrous Wreath – Sneak Peak »
Hi there Well it’s not long now till our Holiday Catalogue goes live (28 August) so I thought I’d share a project I made using the new Gift Box Punch Board. I’ve made this card and box for my wonderful courier driver who delivers my lovely Big Brown Boxes (BBB) full of Stampin’ Up! goodies.… Read More: Sneak Peak – Gift Box Punch Board »
Hi there Just a quick post before I head off babysitting (and prepping for my team swap). Here are the two cards we made last week at my card class. This months theme was Father’s Day (which is Sunday 7th September here in NZ) and a card for a teenager. I saw a card using… Read More: Father’s Day Card – August Card Class »
Hi there Following on from our Extravaganza project I decided to create more 3″ x 3″ cards for my customer thank you notes. I’ve stayed with using Work of Art and the Moonlight DSP Paper Stack. These were heaps of fun to create – I hope you enjoy them and have a go at creating… Read More: More Work of Art 3″ x 3″ cards »
Hi there I had fun the other weekend trying out the new Decorative Masks along with three other new products. This is my first attempt using the Stars mask. You get two masks in a pack – Hearts & Stars or Dots and Stripes for just $5.95 a pack. For this card I used a… Read More: Seeing Stars – Decorative Mask »