Hi there The Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper is the perfect design to create a ‘Hawaiian’ shirt – great for a masculine card. This design was really handy as I needed two masculine cards last month for family friends of ours. I did one in a portrait orientation and one in a landscape. The shirt… Read More »
Hi there New recruits who sign up to become Stampin’ Up! demonstrators during Sale-A-Bration receive this cute Mini Paper Cutter and 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper sampler. Two of the designs included in the sampler are from the Tropical Oasis DSP pack on page 39 of the mini catalogue. I was in need of a… Read More »
Hi there This past weekend was spent in Rotorua at our annual Creative Inkers Stamp Camp. We had a great time together – about 50 of us – and were taught some amazing projects. I still need to take photos of these so will share them with you soon. If you would like to be… Read More »
Hi there On Saturday I held a workshop with a lovely group of ladies. We made two cards and a 3D item. Both cards we made using the Whisper White Notecards and Envelopes. First up is the Painted Poppies card – you’ll have to wait a bit to see the other two projects. This design… Read More »
Hi there The Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper is a collection of hand painted blooms and watercolour washes and make a beautiful background or focal point to any card. There are 12 sheets of 12″ x 12″ – 2 each of 6 double sided designs. Isn’t this paper just gorgeous? You can’t leave it sitting… Read More »
Hi there I don’t know about you but I often have bits and pieces (stamped images, dies cuts etc) on my desk that have been left over from previous projects. I found some of those ‘bits’ under some papers so decided to make them into a card. I think I’d been playing around with colour… Read More »
Hi there Within the Peaceful Poppies Suite there are two bundles – Painted Poppies and Peaceful Moments. For my next card I used the Peaceful Moments Bundle. This bundle consists of a stamp set and dies. The stamp set – Peaceful Moments has 10 sentiment stamps and Poppy Moments Dies has 16 dies – great… Read More »
Hi there Yesterday I shared a card using a simple masking technique. Today I have another card where I’ve used the masking technique except this time it’s a bit stepped up as it has multiple layers of masking – get that Post It Note pad handy. This card was CASED from one of my team… Read More »
Hi there Here’s one of my first creations with the Painted Poppies stamp set. I’ve used a simple masking technique to create the flower on the front and on the inside of the card. The card base is Poppy Parade with a Basic Black mat. I’ve used Shimmery White to stamp my images on as… Read More »
Hi there Last month Phil and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary and I’m going to share with you the card he gave me. Now we have a rule in our house – no store bought cards are to be given for birthday, Christmas or wedding anniversary. That’s easy for me being a card maker… Read More »
Hi there On top of making birthday cards for all the staff at work I’ve decided to make ‘welcome’ cards for new staff members. We’ve already had a couple of new starts this year and have another 3 starting tomorrow. When the new catalogue came out last year I spotted the set ‘Welcome to the… Read More »
Hi there Who doesn’t love receiving a FREE gift. From the 3rd of January until the 31st of March it’s Sale-A-Bration time and Stampin’ Up! are giving you a FREE gift with every purchase of NZD$110 and with a new Mini Catalogue just released it’s not hard to spend that amount – trust me :).… Read More »
Hi there Today Phil and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary – how good is that 🙂 – which means a special card is in order. I got my idea for the card after making my first card with this set. The background music on this card is the theme song ‘Nocturne’ from The… Read More »
Hi there As mentioned in my last post we have four stamp sets in the current 2020 Mini Catalogue that have been designed by Million Dollar sales achievers. Music from the Heart was designed by Dawn Olchefske and is the first set that I’ve had a play with. Here’s the second card I made for… Read More »
Hi there When demonstrators sell a million dollars in sales they get to help design a stamp set as part of their celebrations. Well in the current 2020 Mini Catalogue there are four ‘Million Dollar’ stamp sets. You can find these stamp sets by look for the below logo next to stamp sets. I have… Read More »