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Continue reading →: Sweet & Simple Card LayoutThis weekend is a special one. Not only is it a long weekend (holiday weekend) for the King’s Birthday holiday, but it’s also my One Year Anniversary with Stampin’ Up! A year of learning and growing in papercraft techniques. A year of buying great products at such good prices. A…
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Continue reading →: Monochrome Madness MultimakeI have a confession to make. I love a challenge. The harder something is to achieve, the more I thrive on the attempt. This week, I set myself a challenge…. make 20 cards in 1 hour. I called it ‘Monochrome Madness’. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me explain.…
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Continue reading →: Introducing the New Earthen Elegance SuiteThis is a bit of an ‘extra’ blog post this week. It’s not a tutorial, but I wanted to show off all the different makes I did with the brand new Earthen Elegance Suite from Stampin’ Up! There is so much to love about this suite and so many different…
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Continue reading →: How To Tie Perfect Bows with Zutter Bow-It-All v3.0I have to admit something that no maker would like to admit. I can’t tie bows. I mean, I can, but they do NOT look good enough to put on a papercraft project. They always turn out wonky and don’t stay together. My grandmother was a master bow maker –…
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Continue reading →: 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,…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: Earthen Elegance SuiteI 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: Spiral BeanieThis 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…








