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Flowering Tulips for Mother’s Day Card
Welcome to this month's Tech 4 Stampers Academy Blog Hop. The theme this month is Springtime. This month I decided to make a Flowering Tulips for a Mother's Day Card. Springtime is the time where you think of tulips and Mothers Day. Mothering Sunday has always been the 4th Sunday of Lent and historically was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mothers and family. How I made my Flowering Tulip Mother's Day card. I...
Simple Embossed Just a Note card
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Showcase Blog Hop For this month's showcase hop I decided to make a simple embossed Just a Note card. I wanted to continue showcasing our lovely designer series papers by using a small square mat layer on top of an embossed mat layer. How I made my simple embossed Just a Note card. First I started by cutting a landscape Basic White landscape card base. I then cut a 14.3cm x 10cm mat layer using Bermuda Bay card stock. Next I embossed the Bermuda Bay...
Male Adventure Birthday Cards
Welcome to this month's Stamp & Hop Blog Hop. The theme this month is Males. When I saw this month's theme was males I already had an idea in mind to make some Male Adventure Birthday cards. As it is my brother-in-law's birthday this month and he enjoys going out on his bicycle. So I wanted to make a card using the Greatest Journey bundle and designer series papers. How I made my Male Adventure Birthday cards. First I cut my card bases using Basic White Thick card stock in half to make 2...
Scrapbook Layout – Love my Cats
Welcome to this month's Ink & Share Scrapbook Blog Hop. This month's theme is Love. When I saw that this month's theme was Love and that it could mean any type of love I decided to make a scrapbook layout showing my two cat and how love can help them go from shy, scared cats to lovable cats. As some of you may know I have two rescue cats who were once street cats in Cairo. They were caught and received treatment before being sponsored at the rescue centre. Once their flights had been...
Black & White Card with a Pop of Colour Challenge
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop The theme this month is a Colour Challenge using Black, White and a Pop of Colour. I love making card or scrapbook layouts using a colour challenge and this month's is Black, White and a Pop of Colour Challenge was quite easy to design a card for. How I made my Black and White Card with a Pop of Colour. As I was going to be cutting a piece of A4 Basic Black card stock in half I decided to make two cards. Once I had cut my card bases I...
Two Flap Fancy Fold Card
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop. This Month's Theme is a Fancy Fold Card. For this month's blog hop I found a two Flap Fancy Fold Card that just popped up onto my Facebook which was one of the Mystery Monday Stamping cards by Sharon Armstrong a Stampin' Up Demonstrator in Texas. As all of her measurements are for the American market who use a different sized card stock I had to design it using A4 card stock. How I designed my two flap fancy fold card base. First I curt a...
Scrapbook Layout – Travel Through Life
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop. The theme this month is: Travel. The theme for this month has been decided by the talented Sharni Haines. When I saw the theme for this month's blog hop I first thought of transport and how we travel. But then I thought about making a double layout about how my daughter travelled from leaving school at 16 and being told that she would not amount to anything and 7 years later she graduated with a degree in Graphic Design. How I made my double...
50th Birthday Card
Welcome to this month's Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop. This month's theme is Birthdays. As it is my brother-in-law's 50th birthday this month and he is such a jokey type of person I had to make him an extra special 50th Birthday card to mark this special birthday. Plus he is the baby of the family so joked when we all turned 50. How I made my 50th Birthday Card First I cut a 12x12 piece of Basic White card stock in half to make a 6"x6" card base. Next I cut a 6 1/4" square using Basic Gray card...
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...
