Author: Bridget Aitchison

Choose to Shine! – a simple black on colour technique.

This week I am demonstrating an easy to make card, that doesn’t use a lot of products and makes great use of black on colour. This Choose to Shine card is also my entry into the #JustAddInk Challenge. This week’s theme: to use three Stampin’ Up! colours – Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide, and Daffodil Delight….

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Fun Fold Shaker Card? Wine Not!

I wanted to make a card this week that met a few criteria: Moody Mauve Basic White The result is the Wine Not! card made using Moody Mauve as the main colour. This card uses one of my favourite stamp sets – Bottled Happiness – and the Vintage Bottle punch and shaker dome. Most measurements…

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Earthen Elegance Suite

I absolutely LOVE this suite from the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog! There are just so many possibilities… like this card I made to encourage my daughter who lives on another continent from me. I combined elements from the Earthen Elegance Suite with a Sentiment from the beautiful Courage & Faith stamp set. The details for…

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It’s here! The NEW Annual Catalogue!

The Stampin’ Up NEW Annual Catalogue is live today! There are so many amazing new products to explore: One of the things I love so much about Stampin’ Up! is how all of the products coordinate. Inks, markers, paper, embellishments… all match and coordinate. It makes it so easy to be creative – from simple…

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New Catalogue Out 2 May 2023!

The new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog starts 2 May 2023!  This year SU have done a colour refresh… that means they have added 11 new colours, including the return of some old favourites from the past, in addition to the new 2023-2025​ In Colour Collection! There are some amazing new stamps, dies, embellishments and other…

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Spiral Beanie

This clever little unisex beanie looks like it has been knitted but it is crocheted! The trick is to work in the back loop only using a half double crochet (half treble crochet in UK terms) stitch. The beanie is warm and stretchy (depending on the yarn you use of course) and is one size…

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Quick & Easy Christmas Cards

Are you like me and left making your Christmas cards to the last minute? Yep, I did. But I have worked out a design for a card that is quick and easy to make multiples of with any products you have at home – it’s a great stash-busting design! For each card, I used a…

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Light Up Christmas Card

I’m started to work on my Christmas Cards early this year after last year’s experience of still making them right up until the day I had to get on a plane to join my family interstate for the holidays! I came across a wonderful tutorial by Createinspain on how to use LED lights in papercraft….

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Lost Heritage Shawl

The Lost Heritage Shawl is a very large wrap around shawl (more like a cloak!) that is a modified version of fillet crochet and features Native American motifs.  It is also much more than a crochet pattern – designing this has been a journey into my own lost heritage.  I was born in California, USA…

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