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Flower Book Fold Card
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Showcase Blog Hop This month I am sharing how I made a Flower Book Fold Card This month I decided that I would have a go at making a Book Fold card as I have never made one before. I decided to use the flower stamp from the Greatest Journey stamp set as it is a stamp that you would not expect to see in this stamp set. How I made the Flower Book Fold Card. I started with a landscape card base using Coastal Cabana card stock. I then scored 10.5cm in from...
Scrapbook Layout using the Adorable Owls stamp set
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop. The theme this month is anything from the January- April mini catalogue or Sale-a-bration. For my scrapbook layout I decided to use the Adorable Owls stamp set which you can get FREE with a £45 product order as part of the Sale-a-bration offer in January and February 2023. I knew I had a few photographs of my children with owls but could I find them? I could only find this one where they attended the Young Ornithologists Club which is...
Fancy Fold Card to Cheer Someone Up
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop. The theme this month is Sale-a bration. This is one of my most favourite times of the year when for every £45 spent on products you get to choose a FREE product. I chose to use three FREE products for my card. The Dainty Flowers 12"x12" Designer Series Paper together with the In the Country stamp set and the Beautifully Happy stamp set for my sentiment and make a fancy fold card to cheer someone up. Since Covid there has been an...
Scrapbooking Layout using a Card for Inspiration
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop The theme this month is: Wow this month our theme is to make a scrapbook layout using a card for inspiration. I decided to use a card that I designed using a card sketch last month. As you will all know Stampin' Up! produces some amazing Designer Series Papers and most of the time we use a small amount and keep it forever. This month I decided that I would focus on using a sheet of Designer Series Paper for my scrapbook layout. I chose to use one of...
Male Birthday Cards using the Timeless Greetings Kit
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Showcase Blog Hop This month I am showing you how I made some male birthday cards using the Timeless Greetings Kit. I tend not to use out kits to make cards but this year I have tasked my self to make up the kits and to design other cards using the elements in the kit. As it is my son's birthday this month I wanted a special card but working full time finding time to craft can be difficult. In the Timeless Greetings Kit you get everything you...
Hoot Hoot Owl Cards
Welcome to this month's Stamp & Hop Blog Hop. The theme this month is Sale-A-Bration. This is one of my most favourite times of the year when for every £45 spent on products you get to choose a FREE product. I chose to use the Adorable Owls stamp set as my FREE product and to make these two Hoot Hoot Owl Cards. How I made my Hoot Hoot Owl Card 1 I started my cutting two portrait Basic White card bases and put one aside for my second card. Next I cut a mat layer using Tahitian Tide card...
Universal Card For Someone You Love
Welcome to a New Year and to this month's Blog Hop. The Theme this month is LOVE. When I saw this month's theme I was initially stuck as to what I could do as I tend not to order stamp sets that are for Valentines Day cards so I hunted through the stamp sets I had and those that had a Love sentiment. I found the Plentiful Plants stamp set and matching dies so I decided to use these to design a universal card for someone you love. How I made my Universal Card for Someone You Love I started by...
Making a Card using a Card Sketch
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop. This Month's Theme is a Sketch Challenge. I love using a sketch to design a card as it does not matter what stamp set, designer series papers or colours you use. They are also a great way to get inspiration. So here is how I went about making a card using a card sketch. This month I have been using the 2022-2024 In Colors in my projects. Basically as I have not really used them much before and sometimes it is challenging to use colours in a...
Scrapbook Layout with a Hidden Message
Welcome to this month's Ink & Share Scrapbook Blog Hop. The theme this month is to design a scrapbook layout with a hidden message. I love designing scrapbook layouts but sometimes we do not want to always see what we have journaled so an way to do this is to design a scrapbook layout using a hidden message. This can be done by using tabs to pull out the hidden journaling but this time I decided to use flaps that you lift up to see the journaling. How I made my scrapbook layout with a...
Non Traditional Christmas Scrapbook Layout
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop The theme this month is: This month's theme chosen by the Creative Design Team Members is a Theme Challenge to produce a Non Traditional Christmas Scrapbook Layout using all of the 2022-2024 InColors below. When you look at the 2022-2024 InColors Christmas does not spring to mind. In fact most people would probably choose these colours for a Christmas project. So this will certainly be an interesting challenge. I decided to expand on the Alternative...
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