Welcome to this month’s Ink & Share Blog Hop The Theme for this month is LOVE When I hear the words LOVE I tend to think of hubby and family but LOVE can be for anything you enjoy and get a warm feeling from. So for this month’s theme I decided to do a layout around cream teas which I love especially if it is a Gluten Free one. I have a few photos of […]

Welcome to this month’s Stampin Friends Blog Hop. The theme for this month is Favourites. This is an easy one for me as I love anything with Butterflies on and we have a few stamp sets and dies which fit this category. I decided to go for the Butterfly Beauty dies as you can die cut so many different butterflies. My Project I have been working with Sandra Roberts (my upline) on a Techniques Folder […]

Welcome to this month’s Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop where I am joining various Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world. The theme this month is a Sketch Challenge. Which is where you have a sketch and you can use any Stampin’ Up! products to make a scrapbook layout. I wanted to make a layout where you did not have to spend lots of money on stamp sets or cutting dies. So I went for the […]

We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrator friendship met through attending some business training provided by Pip Todman and Louise Sims. For my sampler I wanted to use the Peaceful Poppies Suite and the colours Melon Mambo and Basic Black. I started by cutting Basic Black and Whisper White squares and rectangles for the bases of each element. Then came the fun bit trying out various designs and techniques. Some of the squares I […]

Welcome to this month’s Colour Combo Blog Hop. This month’s colours are Merry Merlot, Pineapple Punch and Pool Party. I wanted to use the Honey Bee stamp set from the January – June 2020 Mini Catalogue for this month’s card. I started by stamping the bee hive in Merry Merlot ink and placed a mask over the stamped image so that I could sponge the background with Pool Party and Pineapple Punch. Then I stamped […]

Welcome to this months Ink & Share Blog Hop. This month’s theme is up to us to choose. As I am doing my family history I have a couple of photographs that were of my Granddad during his service in the Second World War. Stampin’ Up! has the Painted Poppy Suite which is so versatile and I just had to use it for these photographs. I started by using the larger outline poppy stamp to […]

Welcome to a New Year, New Decade and a New Blog Hop. Stamptastic Friends are a group of Stampin’ Up! demos who met when attending courses organised by fellow Stampin’ Up! demos Louise Sims and Pip Todman. Our theme for this month is Sale-a-bration, which is where you can get free product every time you spend £45 on products until 31st March 2020. For my project I have chosen the hostess stamp set called Little […]

Welcome to a New Year and a New Decade. I hope you are looking forward to seeing what projects we have come up with for the January Blog Hop. This month’s these is Birthday Bash. I decided to use the Painted Poppies and matching Designer Series Paper for my projects this month. Project 1 – Card To make the card I stamped a background mat layer using the individual poppy outline stamps onto Real Red […]

Welcome to a New Year and a New Decade. This month’s theme is CASE A Card. CASE stands for Copy And Share Everything. For my project this month I am casing a couple of cards that were designed by Mary Knabe. First Card I started by sticking the Basic Black mat layer onto the card base. Next I cut a piece of Whisper White card stock and stamped the single poppy from the Painted Poppies […]

Welcome to a New Year, a New Decade and of course a new year of Scrapbooking Global Blog Hops. The theme this month has to be New Beginnings. It is certainly going to be a new beginning for my son as he is about to complete on the purchase of his first house. It is a brand new, newly built house so I have made a start on producing a double scrapbook layout. This double […]