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For ideas, inspiration and tutorialsCASE Challenge 17 – Using Up Scraps
Hello and welcome back for another CASE Challenge with my Demonstrator friends Emma and Becki. Week 17 on the CASE challenge it was Becki's turn to share her inspirational post, this time choosing our Demonstrator colleague Carolyn King and her ideas for using up scraps. You can find her blog post HERE.We ALL have lots of scraps and, more importantly, I'm sure most of us save every valuable piece of Designer Series Paper ?I've previously posted about cutting my scraps into strips at 8.5cm...
Festive Retreats with Santa’s Workshop
With today being the start of Advent, it seems appropriate to share with you one of the projects three groups of ladies have completed with me at my Festive Retreat Escape weekends, over the last month. I am sharing our most involved project of the weekend, using the Santa's Workshop Suite. These were all completed from scratch, no smelly match boxes, just started with 16 sheets of thick white card, together with lots of cutting, scoring and above all …….lots of patience !...
CASE Challenge 16 – Embossed Card Sampler
Hello and welcome back for another CASE Challenge with my Demonstrator friends Emma and Becki. Week 16 on the CASE challenge was my turn to share my inspired post, this time choosing our Demonstrator colleague Cathy Proctor and her lovely embossing folder sampler. You can find Cathy's blog post HERE.For my project today, I asked one of my dear and loyal friends (I call my 'adopted' Mum) for her favourite Christmas colours. She loves traditional Real Red and Old Olive.The...
Ink Share Share : November Blog Hop
Welcome back to our Ink, Stamp & Share Blog hop, joining myself here in Norfolk, UK and other fellow Demonstrator colleagues around the Globe.For todays share, we are all creating Christmas Gift Packaging and I am sharing a co-ordinating set using the Under The Mistletoe Designer Series Paper #146768.Firstly, I created another little box within a bag I made recently here.The tag is a 1-3/4" circle punch #119850 in Whisper White card #106550. Elements from Mistletoe Season stamp set...
Papercraft Blog Hop – December Holidays
Welcome back to another hop around the globe with my fellow Demonstrators sharing projects with a 'December Holidays' theme. You may be starting the hop with me or just arrived from someone else in the loop, but you won't want to miss anyone's inspiration, so I've listed everyone at the bottom of this post. Today I am sharing projects I planned for this mornings 'Card & Cuppa' event at Wymondham Library. This is a community event, introducing local people to crafting...
CASE CHALLENGE 15 – Winter Sketch Challenge
Hello and welcome back for another CASE Challenge with my Demonstrator friends Emma and Becki. Week 15 on the CASE challenge was my turn to share my inspired post, this time choosing our Demonstrator colleague Chris Smith with her lovely Winter Woods Sketch Challenge. I loved this design and looked forward to creating todays project to share with you. You can find Chris's blog post HERE.I have only just purchased the Winter Woods stamp and die bundle #149992 and...
STAMP ‘N HOP November Blog Hop : Casing the Annual Catalogue
Hi and welcome back to another hop around the globe with Stamp 'N Hop! My name is Sandra and you are joining me here in Norfolk, UK.This month we are all CASE-ing a project from the Annual Catalogue, meaning we Copy And Share Everything, or Copy And Selectively Edit. Whichever way you choose, we are inspired by something we have seen that we liked to create in our own way. As I'm still currently working on Christmas themes, I've chosen Mistletoe Season stamp set #146768....
Kre8tors Blog Hop – Birthday theme
Today I'm back with my fellow Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrators, sharing our creativity globally through our Kre8tors Blog Hop group. You join me here in Norfolk, UK and looking forward to sharing my Birthday theme cards with you today.Firstly, we wish Melissa, our blog host, a very Happy Birthday today. A great choice of hop theme!For todays challenge, I was back playing with my Brusho Crystal Colours #144101. You may have seen some of my last work using these a couple...
CASE Inspiration 13 – Stamping Off Technique
Hello and welcome back for another CASE Challenge with my Demonstrator friends Emma and Becki. Week 13 on the CASE challenge was Emma's turn to share her suggested inspiration, this time our Demonstrator colleague Julia Carmichael. You can find Julia's blog post HERE.This challenge was a stamp set that retired a while ago. I immediately saw this as being a Dandelion Wishes type of design.The left and right boxes were stamped with Bermuda Bay ink #147096 and stamped off for a...