Papercraft with Bridget A

Papercraft, including cardmaking and mixed media art, is another of my crafty loves. I am also a Stampin’ Up! Independent Demonstrator as I have found that SU have excellent quality products and are good value. If you are in Australia, please consider shopping at my Stampin’ Up! shop for your papercraft supplies. I donate a portion of my profit to Dachshund Rescue Australia.

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Circle Fun Fold CHRISTMAS Card.

This is a beautiful Christmas Card I designed for the Peaceful Garden and the Modern Christmas Suites from Stampin’ Up! It is based on a tutorial I did in 2023 which you can find HERE. I just tweaked a couple of things. 😁 Because I’ve lost my voice due to recent thyroid cancer surgery (they…

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Torn Paper Technique

Add Texture and Elegance to Your Cards The Torn Paper Technique is a simple yet striking way to add texture, depth, and a handmade feel to your greeting cards. This technique involves tearing the edges of cardstock to create a soft, organic border that contrasts beautifully with clean lines and stamped images. Reasons to love…

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Split Embossing Technique for Card Making

✨ Add Depth and Dimension to Your Cards If you love creating cards with rich texture and beautiful contrast, you’re going to fall in love with the Split Embossing Technique! This eye-catching approach combines two different embossing finishes on a single background—one soft and blended, the other crisp and detailed—to bring your designs to life.…

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September Unboxing!

Scrapbooking, Christmas, DSP, and a sneak peek at a new card tutorial coming soon! I couldn’t resist sharing the latest unboxing with you. This one includes the Weekend Adventures Scrapbooking Workshop Kit, the Country Woods DSP, some of the new two-tone 12×12″ cardstock, the ‘A Child is Born’ stamp for Christmas, and some other goodies.…

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Corner Pull Fun Fold Card

This fun fold card is easy to make and versatile. Display it with an attached fold-up easel or use a regular folded card for more design options. The original design that inspired me to try this was created for a 5”x7” (imperial) card, but I have re-engineered this card so that it is an A6…

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New Mini Catalogue and Online Exclusives!

The Stampin’ Up! September-December (2025) Mini Catalogue is now live! In this announcement, you will find links to download or browse the Mini and the Online Exclusive products. If you don’t want to browse the catalogues, I have also included two supply lists that contain all products offered in each with links to purchase them.…

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Quick Tips to Deal with Bits:

Glue Trick for Fiddly Bits & How to Get Rid of Annoying Bits in Die Cuts There are two situations I encounter constantly in papercraft…. affixing fiddly bits to projects and getting small pieces out of die cuts. There are so many solutions out there, and believe me, over the years I’ve tried everything. But…

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Big Changes Coming… and a Sneak Peak!

New Mini Catalogue & New Online Exclusives available 5 September 2025! Plus, some really big changes you need to know about! I’ve just received my pre-order from the new September-December Mini Catalogue and the new Online Exclusives that go live for customers on 5 September 2025 and I couldn’t wait to share them with you!…

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Scrapbooking Workshop Kit Part 2

A couple of weeks ago I posted What the Heck is a Scrapbooking Workshop Kit? to introduce the concept of these kits from Stampin’ Up!. With the closure of Close to My Heart due to the owners’ ill health, SU have welcomed the CTMH demonstrators some products into the SU family. When I posted about…

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What the heck is a Scrapbooking Workshop Kit?

I’m glad you asked! Stampin’ Up! are upping their game with scrapbooking supplies and they’ve created a whole bunch of amazing kits to make it easy for us to explore a new way to papercraft! Stampin’ Up! is well known for high quality, good value, cardmaking supplies. A company called Close to My Heart was…

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Free Shipping!!!!

Hi everyone! I’m just popping in briefly to make this quick announcement about the latest offer from Stampin’ Up! – FREE SHIPPING from 23-25 July 2025 on orders over $65 AUD. WOW! This offer is available for 3 days only…. If you’re in Australia, I’d love it if you would consider shopping with me at…

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Important Announcement!

Action Needed to Receive Stampin’ Up! Catalogues! If you want to receive Stampin’ Up! Catalogues from me, please read this! Action needed by 21 July! If you want to receive catalogues (1 annual catalogue and 2 mini catalogues a year) then you MUST to create a customer account at stampinup.com.au nominating me (Bridget Aitchison) as…

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Glue Review!

An honest look at liquid glue, glue tape runners, adhesive foam, and glue dots. I have tried so many different types of adhesives over the years… and many brands of each type. Once I found Stampin’ Up! and became an independent demonstrator, I found some new adhesives to love. One of the questions I often…

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Make a Sunset Background for your cards

It is SO easy to make this gorgeous sunset background for your cards and scrapbook layouts. Water Based ink, blending brushes, a water spritzer, and a refillable water brush pen is all you need! I made this birthday card for a dear friend, who also happens to be the best riding coach I’ve ever had.…

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Make a Gift Card Pouch!

A Mini Tutorial I often include gift cards, little pull out notes, or even money in my handmade cards. I figured out how to make a little pouch to hold these things that can be affixed to the inside of a handmade card. Recently I released a tutorial on how to make the Tower Fun…

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Tower Fun Fold Card

Perfect for the Fright Night Stamp & Die Bundle from Stampin’ Up! This might be my favourite fun fold card!!!! It is surprisingly simple to make and the basic structure allows you to unleash your creativity in how you decorate it. I originally made this for Halloween using the brand new Fright Night Stamp &…

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Sneak Peak! Online Exclusives!

Ready to get inspired? This unboxing video offers an exclusive first look at the incredible new Online Exclusives from Stampin’ Up!, available July 1, 2025. Start your wish list now as I reveal stunning new products and a few of my current favourites! If you’re in Australia, you can shop at bridgeta.stampinup.net! Unboxing Video Suite…

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Vintage & Distressed Card Making Techniques

There is something serenely beautiful, and special, about a vintage looking card. The colours and styles of this type of card is totally opposite what I would normally gravitate toward – jewel tones, geometric shapes, symmetry, etc. But when we make cards, we make them for other people – people whose tastes are often different…

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May 2025 Unboxing!

New colours and products from Stampin’ Up! I had a package delivered extra early this morning which put me in a quandy….I was too excited to wait till I got home to see what was in it and I didn’t want to open it without sharing it with you! What is a girl to do???…

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Why is May so Special for Paper Crafts?

It’s May! That means that in my part of the world the days are getting shorter, the weather colder, windier and wetter, and winter is coming. These days are perfect to stay at home, crank up the heat, and spend the day happily crafting away! On the other side of the world, where much of…

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April News Flash!

Some exciting news for papercrafters from Stampin’ Up! Australia! You can find more information here! Enjoy details on the April promotions below. My apologies that the links in the images dont work on the blog. More detailed information on the NEW Stampin’ Rewards program can be found HERE. Last Chance Products can be found HERE.

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Bokeh Butterfly Shaker Card

How adorable is this butterfly shaker card! This is made from products included in the Beautiful Bokeh Suite from Stampin’ Up! which is part of their January-April 2025 Mini Catalogue. So this is only available until the end of the catalogue period or while supplies last – so get in quick! I have to say,…

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Sale-a-Bration is on… new mini-catalogue and scrapbooking catalogue, free stuff, and a bonus joining offer!

Amazing news from the world of Stampin’ Up! It’s Sale-a-Bration time! This means new products, free products, and great deals for you! Details on the new Mini Catalogue, Sale-a-Bration freebies and the bonus joining offer are below. You can also download digital versions of the catalogue or SHOP NOW at bridgeta.stampinup.net Jan-April Mini Catalogue! The…

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Christmas is in the Air Card

I love the Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up!  I’ve had so much fun designing cards using the whole Nest of Winter Suite but this card may be one of my favourites because it is so beautiful but also so simple… the paper does all the work! I teamed this suite with…

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Elegant Christmas Trees Cards

These cards are really stunning!  They pair elegance to rustic to create a unique style of Christmas Card.  Of course, the basic design can be used for any occasion, but I especially like the look of this for Christmas!  I used the Season of Elegance Suite from Stampin’ Up! to make two card designs. That’s…

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Christmas Cracker…with a twist!

Perfect for creating an Advent Calendar Box! These twisted Christmas Crackers are all the rage in the papercraft world right now! I decided to make an Advent Calendar (Christmas Countdown Calendar) for my grandchildren with them. However, all the instructions I could find made crackers larger than I needed and seemed to waste a lot…

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This Stampin’ Up! Color Coach is a game changer!

Stampin’ Up! are about to release their new collection of Online Exclusives on 5 November 2024 and there’s one item that is a MUST HAVE!!! It’s the Color Coach. Have you ever struggled to figure out what colours to use for your cards? I consider myself pretty good at colour theory but even I get…

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Angled Picture Card

During the holiday card-making season, the author, based in Australia, shares challenges creating Thanksgiving cards for family in the USA. Despite limited themed supplies, Stampin’ Up! offers beautiful autumn products, including designer series paper and embellishments. The author outlines a card-making process, featuring specific materials and techniques for crafting.

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Project Storage Tip!

It’s that time of year again….crazy card making season! The American trio of holidays – Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas – is upon us. Halloween is only just starting to gain traction in Australia and Thanksgiving is a paritcularly American holiday, but I have lots of family and friends in the USA so I make cards…

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Scrapbooking Unboxing!

Stampin’ Up! has just released a digital catalogue for Scrapbooking! With the sad closure of Close to My Heart, Stampin’ Up! have worked with them to transition demonstrators and supplies into the Stampin’ Up! global family. So now, SU has amazing products for card making AND scrapbooking. Even better, the new Scrapbooking digital catalogue has…

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Angled Double Gate Fold Card

Here’s a celver fun fold card design that you can adapt for any occassion. Choose any combination of cardstock and patterned papers you want – mix two, three, or even four different patterns! Then decorate it with stamped images, sentiments, and embellishments. There is so much you can do with this fun fold card design!…

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Pinwheel Pouch Fun Fold Card

These adorable Pinwheel Pouch Fun Fold Cards are really easy to make and add a touch of whimsy to your card making. They can be kept simple or stepped up for more elaborate cards. I made the examples below with the Full of Life Designer Series Paper (DSP) from Stampin’ Up! This DSP is 6″x6″…

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Round We Go 4th of July Cards

I know I live in Australia, but. I am originally from the USA so I still make cards for family and friends to celebrate America’s Independence Day – aka the 4th of July holiday. Living in Australia means it’s really hard to get cardmaking supplies appropriate for that particular holiday. In fact, the stamps used…

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Sneak Peek Unboxing! And a sale!

There are some really great products about to be released from Stampin’ Up! and I’ve had a chance to pre-order some of them. Have a look at my latest unboxing video below and get a sneak peek at some of the brand new online exclusives available from Stampin’ Up! on 3 July 2024. I also…

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Using Alcohol Markers & Embossing Powder on Vellum

This is a fabulous and easy technique for cardmaking! Grab some vellum, your favourite embossing powder and heat tool, and some alcohol markers and add a new dimension to your cardmaking. I recommend Stampin’ Up! products, of course, but you can use any products you already have. The easiest way to learn this technique is…

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Flip-It 2- One Sheet Wonder

This is the second of a 4-part series on One Sheet Wonders. Each part is self-contained and gives you 4-5 cards from one 6×6″ piece of double sided patterned paper. All four parts together give you 18 cards from one 12×12″ piece of double sided patterned paper. Each part is a standalone tutorial. Welcome to…

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New Product Unboxing!

I’m so excited!!! My box of crafty goodies arrived at lunchtime today from Stampin’ Up! The new annual catalogue dropped this month and most of the things in my order are brand new products! Come check them out as I open my box and share them with you! I wasn’t even expecting the box today.…

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Flip-It 1 – One Sheet Wonder

This is the first of a 4 part series on One Sheet Wonders. Each part is self-contained and gives you 4-5 cards from one 6×6″ piece of double sided patterned paper. All four parts together give you 18 cards from one 12×12″ piece of double sided patterned paper. Each part is a standalone tutorial. I…

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Making Flowers with the Petal Park Builder Punch

Stampin’ Up! makes the most amazing punches but their builder punches are extra special – allowing you to make layered pieces that are great feature embellishments on your finished cards and scrapbooks. In the short video below, I’m going to demonstrate how to take your punched flowers to the next level with texture and shading.…

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Sneak Peek Unboxing!

Are you excited for the May release of the new Stampin’ Up! InColor collection and the new Annual Catalogue? If you’re like me, you can hardly wait to see what all the amazing new products will be and to find out what dreamy colours SU have come up with for the bi-annual InColor release! Well,…

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New Catalogue and Retiring Items Sale!

This is so exciting! The 2024-2025 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue is about to be released! If you want a copy mailing directly to you, please contact me by 30 March 2024! If you’ve missed that deadline, contact me anyways and I’ll mail you a copy when I have a batch delivered to me (it will…

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Framed Illusion Card

This is a fabulous stash buster card to use up some Designer Series Paper (DSP)/Patterned paper. It’s a card you can make multiples of quickly and easily. I leave mine ‘blank’ and when I need a card in a hurry, I can use it as is, or I can add embellishments and/or sentiment tags to…

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Panelled Image Card

The inspiration for this card came from Jan B’s blog. She makes a similar one for a 6×6″ card and gives measurements for USA sized cards. I’ve modified it somewhat to fit an Australian Metric A6 card. So for this tutorial, I’m only going to give the cut plan and instructions for the metric card.…

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Circles of Delight Card

I designed these adorable cards for Easter, but their basic design is perfect for ANY occassion… and a great way to use up your Designer Series Paper (or any patterned paper you have in your stash!). It’s simple to make using a few die cuts and an embossing folder and is adaptable to any colour…

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Double Diamond Pop-up Card

Featuring the Gorgeous Perennial Lavender Suite from Stampin’ Up! Available until April 2024 or while supplies last. I really hope my mother doesn’t see this post! Why? Because if she does, she’ll know what her Mother’s Day Card is going to look like. When the new Perennial Lavender Suite arrived at my doorstep, I knew immediately it was going…

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Stash Buster: Make a Paper Gift Bag

With bonus embellishment tips! Stash Buster Alert!  We all have leftover paper in our stash that we didn’t use up in the projects we bought it for.  We stare at it and feel guilty we didn’t use it.  That’s what a stash buster project is for!  And this is a good one!  Have you ever…

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Beary Christmas Card

Do you need to make an adorable Christmas card (or 10 or 20) quickly? Well, here it is! This is the Beary Christmas Card I made using just a few products from Stampin’ Up! It is so quick and easy to make that I didn’t film a video tutorial. Trust me, you won’t need it…

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Floating Diamonds Fun Fold Card

The Floating Diamond is a new fun fold card I designed for the holidays. The original card is a Hanukkah card I made for a Jewish friend – because I believe friends who celebrate alternatives to Christmas deserve a card for their own holiday rather than a generic ‘season’s greetings’ which is really still Christmassy. …

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Quilted Squares: A Scrapbuster Card

Do you have scraps of beautiful paper at home that you don’t want to throw out but you’re not sure what to do with them either? Well, here’s a scrapbuster card idea for you! It does require sewing the paper in a sewing machine, so for those of you who are multi-crafters like me, this…

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Offset Panel Fun Fold Card

This fun-fold card uses offset panels to create a double-opening front. Pictured here using Night of Navy and Very Vanilla cardstock as well as featured items from the Stampin’Up! September-December 2023 Mini Catalogue: Shining Brightly Designer Series Paper and the Night Divine Cling Stamp Set This card can be made with any patterned paper you…

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Clean & Simple … and… Quick & Easy.

This card was made for this week’s Just Add Ink Challenge 665 – Clean & Simple. The idea is to make a card that has, “Minimal accents and layers, clean colour pallets, nothing overly fussy…Basically the less is more concept!” Of course, that means this card is also quick and easy! Balmy Blue Basic White…

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Top Tip Tuesday! Freezer + Clay Mold

The Top Tip for this Tuesday is about using your freezer to help get air dry clay out of silicone molds. Right now, using clay in molds to make ephemera for papercraft is a hot craze. There’s a few brands of air dry clay that dry to paper weight so they’re not too heavy to…

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Swivel Fun Fold Card

This is a great fun fold that can be used for any occasion – not just Christmas or Thanksgiving!  The card starts vertical, but as you open it, it swivels to the horizontal while the front piece stays upright in either position! It does require precision with the cuts and the folds to work properly…

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Happy Hedgehogs!

There’s no video tutorial this week… but I promise the next one will be worth waiting for. I’m working on engineering a fabulous fun fold that you are going to love! In the meantime, I’ve been playing with the new Happy Hedgehogs Stamp set and punch. Oh my goodness it is adorable!!! You can use…

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Christmas in July Jackpot!

I know ‘Christmas in July’ is becoming a bit overused these days…but… I live in Australia where it actually IS Winter… and I live in a part of Australia where it is actually freezing cold. So it really does feel like Christmas should be in July. July is also the month when I start making…

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Diagonal Double Mat

Creating matted cards – with a colour or design between the card front and card base – is pretty standard in card making. Sometimes it’s one mat, sometimes it’s two. In this card, it’s two mats BUT with a difference! To add visual interest, I’ve used two contrasting colours and arranged them on the diagonal.…

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Unboxing!

I got my latest Stampin’ Up! order today and was so excited about it that I decided to share it with you all! Welcome to the very first Drunk Dog Creative unboxing! This order contained some special items like things to go with some of the new colours that were recently added to the permanent…

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Retired Stampin’ Up! Items for Sale!

I have some retired Stampin’ Up! Items for sale! These items are no longer available to order from SU so get in quick and grab a bargain! To purchase stamp sets or stamp & die sets, follow the link to the eBay store. If you want more than one item and only want to pay…

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CIRCLE FUN FOLD CARD

Hello everybody! A little while ago I posted a fun fold card that included a shaker element (check it out HERE). I’ve been asked to post a tutorial on how to do a similar card without the shaker element so I’m doing that today! This is a Circle Fun Fold Card. It has a circular…

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Diamond Flap Fun Fold

Welcome to Drunk Dog Creative! This week’s card making tutorial is a Fun Fold card – the Diamond Flap Fun Fold! It features a diamond-shaped sentiment flap that stays closed with a pretty ribbon, string or jute bow. The examples here feature the Stampin’ Up! Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper (DSP) and the Glorious Gingham…

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Sweet & Simple Card Layout

This 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 year of helping others unleash…

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Monochrome Madness Multimake

I 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. One of the things I…

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Introducing the New Earthen Elegance Suite

This 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 cards you can make so…

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How To Tie Perfect Bows with Zutter Bow-It-All v3.0

I 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 – she used to sell Christmas…

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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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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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I’m Bridget A.

Welcome to Drunk Dog Creative, my cozy corner of the internet dedicated to fibre arts, papercraft, mixed media… and dachshunds. Here, I invite you to join me on a journey of creativity, craftsmanship, and all things handmade with a touch of love. Let’s start making!