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TISSUE BOX – Affectionately Yours Suite
Another paper from Affectionately Yours Designer Series Paper pack, used today to bring Friday's Tissue box up-to-date with NEW Designer Series Papers available in the 2016/17 catalogue, from 1st June. This is the project I designed...
RETIRING PRODUCTS – Floral Tissue Box Cover
Lovely craft day today with some regulars, raiding my supplies to chose their own colour scheme for projects. They found my Morning Mocha !!!!!! The request was flowers but not on sticks/cards. Here I used the retiring Spiral Floral Die and various...
TWO-DRAWER GIFT BOX
With the launch of a NEW catalogue, it's time to set about updating some of my favourite projects, using NEW card and Designer Series Papers. This was a gorgeous little box, I created using Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack, for each of our team...
DEMO SWAP GROUP
Our May monthly Demo swap group was to create two cards, one something from 'old' catalogue but held over into the new catalogue, and one to create something 'new' from our pre-order products. For my 'old' project, I used Butterfly Basics stamp set and...
TRIO OF CARDS – Affectionately Yours Suite
Today I'm sharing the first of my projects made with the NEW Affectionately Yours suite from Stampin' Up! 2016/17 Annual catalogue. Here are my first trio of cards, together with co-ordinating handmade envelopes, created using the Envelope Punch...
WATERCOLOUR & INKS CLASS
This is my favourite from today's repeat of my recent Watercolour & Inks class. I know it may be wrong to have favourites, but it's only human nature to have preferences. Ladies at both classes enjoyed playing with a variety of inking techniques,...
ANOTHER HAPPY CUSTOMER ….
Having not been able to make previous classes, Tracey was pleased to join us yesterday at my Craft Studio and finally make her wreath. I love to see all the different colour combinations and here Tracey used Designer Series Papers she earned for...
***NEW*** ANNUAL CATALOGUES ORDERED
Yippeeeeeeee !!! Stampin' Up! have just released the ***NEW*** Annual Catalogues for Demonstrators to order and mine are on their way. Orders from the NEW catalogue start 1st June, but hurry to grab those Retiring Offers before 31st...
TECHNIQUE TUESDAY
Today I thought I'd share a technique I love, making my own Card Candy dots. Similar plain circles can be purchased from craft stores, however I prefer to make my own, as I prefer them to be in exactly the same shade of card that I use on my...