Hi there Birthdays, birthdays and more birthdays. Today is a very popular day for birthdays in our family. It’s my Mum’s birthday and Phil’s twin uncles birthdays. Not only do they share the same day but also the same year – so that actually makes them triplets 🙂 Happy birthday to three very special people.… Read More »
Hi there Most of us find it hard creating masculine cards but the True Gentleman Suite in the current Occasions Catalogue makes this task easy. This suite includes a stamp set, DSP, a punch, embellishments and ribbon. My first card using this suite incorporates the stamp set, DSP and punch and is based on a swap… Read More »
Hi there Here we are at the last card project from my presentation at Stamp Camp last month. This project was the one that my fellow demos got to make. I made four samples to show them the different ways to lay out the card front. I love doing jigsaws and this design is like… Read More »
Hi there Here’s my final fancy fold card for this suite. This card style is called a Pop Out Swing Card This card looks harder to make than it is. From the card base I cut out a square using the largest square framelit. I then embossed just the front of the card with the… Read More »
Hi there Today’s card is a CASE from a Christmas card I was given by one of my team members. I’ve done a slight modification so that I could get it out of a 6″ x 6″ piece of paper. I’m not sure what the name of this fold is but she called it a… Read More »
Hi there I’m a bit late posting tonight as we’ve been out to Piha. One of the guys from our US office is over at the moment so we went for a drive to show him the beautiful West Coast and the black sandy beach. Piha is one of my favourite spots in Auckland. As… Read More »
Hi there These next cards use the ‘donut’ paper with a fun sentiment stamp set – Birthday Wit – from the Occasions Catalogue. This photographic design is perfect with the words of the stamp. I got a bit carried away and ended up making four cards! I stamped the sentiment four times – Bermuda Bay,… Read More »
Hi there I’ve had heaps of fun creating cards using the photographic image papers in the Picture Perfect DSP pack. Today’s cards use the ‘candles’ paper. With one sheet of the DSP I was able to create two cards. The first card uses a piece of DSP 9.5cm x 13.8cm. I adhered a piece of… Read More »
Hi there As mentioned in yesterday’s post here are some cards using the really cool photographic side of the DSP pack. This DSP pack makes it quick and easy to create a card – the DSP does all the work for you 🙂 This first card uses the fun balloon paper. The DSP started out… Read More »
Hi there The Picture Perfect DSP is rather cool – one side of the paper is a photograph image and the other side is a design image. The cards I’m going to share with you all use the design side of the paper. I’ve created three cards in the same design but each one has… Read More »
Hi there One of my favourite suites in the current Occasions Catalogue is the Picture Perfect Party Suite. This suite consists of the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set, Picture Perfect Party DSP, Simple Stripes Textured Embossing Folder, Birthday Mini Binder Clips, Picture Perfect Party Classic Stampin Spots and Picture Perfect Party Cardstock Pack. The colours… Read More »
Hi there A couple of weeks ago a family friend of ours celebrated his 60th birthday. ‘0’ birthdays are special ones and therefore require a special card. I’d seen a card created by Jackie Aitken (an Australian Demo) and I just had to CASE it. It uses the new Apron of Love Builder Framelits from… Read More »
Hi there I had a very productive weekend in the ‘Craft Department’ – it’s great when the creative juices flow! Our neighbours youngest turned 5 over the weekend and started school today – a good day was had :). He’s really into his Lego Ninjago but I couldn’t find any punch art examples to create… Read More »
Hi there For those of you in New Zealand I hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable long weekend. I started my Saturday by tidying my craft cupboard and desk – I’m not sure what happened but when I put everything back in the cupboard I ended up with a spare clean shelf! Looks like… Read More »
Hi there It’s been awhile since I made a card using products from the Eastern Palace Suite so over the weekend I had some time to create and here’s what I made. The Eastern Palace Suite (page 18-19 AC) consists of not only stamps and dies but Designer Series Paper (DSP), Gold Vinyl Stickers and… Read More »