When you open the Stampin’ Up! Holiday catalogue, the first suite you find is the Toile Tidings Suite. A beautiful cardinal stamp, traditional Christmas red and green, and some pretty ribbon and other embellishments. Everything in this suite shouts Christmas loud and clear.
Read MoreThe Stampin’ Up! Only Challenge is to create a project with our favourite holiday product. Are the kidding? Just one?? There are so many beautiful products in the Holiday Catalogue , so many fun products, easy and creative kits, and so much more, you can’t pick just one favourite. I did pick one of my favourites for my cards today though, and it is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful ones. My cards feature the Feels Like Frost Specialty 6 x 6 Designer Series Paper.
Read MoreThis month’s Paper Pumpkin is called Winter Woods, and it makes 10 lovely cards. A snowy winter scene complete with frosty trees, and cardinals. It is a complete kit, giving you everything you need to make these beautiful cards.
Read MoreI spent time in my craft studio playing with Seaside Spray card stock and making some Christmas cards. I love the new In Colour Seaside Spray, and it is perfect for Christmas. The frosty blue colour mixed with a regal colour like Night of Navy makes a striking card to share with friends or family.
Read MoreOur Girls Get Away Weekend is this weekend. A whole weekend of girlfriends, crafting, fun, great food, not enough sleep!! and so much more. When I host these weekends I always provide some card making tutorials, so I have been creating and preparing for that.
Read MoreA couple of years ago I did a Christmas card class, and we made a card using the This Little Piggy stamp set. You can see the post from 2017 here. Some of the people that attended the class are still talking about how cute the card was, so when we did our Christmas class this year, I decided to treat them to a cute Chrismas Cow.
Read MoreHave you started making your Christmas cards yet? The 2019 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalogue is now live, and filled with all sorts of great ideas and supplies for your Christmas crafing. Here is a #simplestamping card to get you started.
Read MoreA number of years ago I adoped the word BELIEVE as my word. It was a time of new beginnings for me, and it struck me that all I had to do was believe. Believe I could make a new start, believe that I could be successful. Believe that I . . . whatever I needed at any moment, it was there to support me at any given time. I have a number of items around my home to remind me of this. Plaques, mugs, framed art I have made, an engraved polished stone, whatever I have found and collected over the years. The stamp set Itty Bitty Christmas has a stamp that simply says ‘believe’ and I used it on my card today.
Read MoreI know it is early spring, so I can’t even say I’m doing Christmas in July, but I do have a Christmas card for you today. I was playing with my Stamparatus, and wanted to use a stamp in a non-traditional way, and following my nose (or my stamps, ink and paper), I ended up at Christmas!
Read MoreI have been playing with the Floral Romance Suite from the Occasions catalogue, and it is wonderful. I couldn’t stop creating!! I have put together a tutorial of nine cards and I would love to share it with you for FREE.
Read MoreIt’s Christmas Day and I hope you are enjoying time with family or friends. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year.
Read MoreHave you started your Christmas wrapping? Why not upcycle some bags you have around with some of the cute Designer Series Paper we have. There are lots of different ones to choose from, such as the Santa’s Workshop SDSP I used for my bag.
Read MoreDo you need a few more Christmas cards? If so, I have some quick and cute ones for you today. You can make a whole stack in an evening to take care of any last minutes needs you may have.
Read MoreWhen I sat in my craft studio to create the projects for today’s post, I just wanted to make some tags. We are at the point where we are wrapping and tagging gifts to go under the tree, so here are some gift tags to inspire your crafting.
Read MoreHave you made beautiful hand made Christmas cards for your friends and family? It isn’t too late to start, and I have just the card to help you get your cards made - - Pretty and Quick!
Read MoreThe Globla Design Project has a theme challenge this week; ‘Tis The Season. There are so many beautiful Christmas stamps and papers that could be used it was hard to make a choice. In the end, I decided to make my card simple and elegant.
Read MoreThe Global Design Project has a sketch challenge this week. This is such a cute sketch, with the little cut out on the top side. Here is the card I made using the sketch as my inspiration.
Read MoreThe Global Design Project Challenge this week is CASE the Designer, and since today is the first snowy day we’ve had I decided to make a snowy card.
Read MoreWe all know Santa has lot’s of elves to help him make toys, but it looks like he has to do his own baking!!
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