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Simple Stamping Birthday card
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop This Month's Theme is Birthdays For my project this month I wanted to use the Oceanfront stamp set to make a simple stamping birthday card which I could make in a short time. I started by scoring a sheet of A4 Basic White card stock in half along the short edge. Next I cut the card stock at 14.85cm along the long edge and made 2 card bases. One I put away for another day. How to make the Simple Stamping Birthday Card. Next I cut four 9cm x...
Scrapbook Layout using Vellum Butterflies
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop The theme this month is: The theme this month has been chosen by When I saw the them for this month I did have to google different ways to use vellum. As my logo contains a butterfly I decided that I would make a scrapbook layout using vellum butterflies. I was very unsure how the velum butterflies would work out but still gave it a go. How to make the vellum butterflies for the Scrapbook Layout First I decided to use Vellum A4 card stock and the...
Card using Paper Piecing Technique
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is to CASE one of our Stamptastic Friends For this blog Hop I decided to CASE a card that my good friend Heather Thomas made using the Paper Piecing Technique. Heather is a fellow demo who loves colouring in and what better way to relax than to stamp and image and colour it in. You may be wondering what CASE actually means. Well it is when you Copy and Share Everything from a project or card. Here is Heather's card using...
Using Blending Brushes for flowers
Welcome to the Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is 'What is your favourite Stampin' Up! Tool There are lots of useful tools from Stampin' Up! but my favourite has to be the blending brushes and using them to colour in flowers. In my blog a few days ago I used them to make a scrapbook layout using only 3 colours well this time I had all 52 colours to choose from. I saw this idea on Ginny's facebook page and just loved how real the pansies looked. I cant wait to see what Ginny...
Scrapbook layout – Colour Challenge
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop The theme this month is: The theme for this month's scrapbook layout has been decided by Mai Chapelain. I love doing Colour Challenges as I often do not think that the colours chosen will actually look good together. How wrong I am? I was pleased to be proved wrong with this Colour Challenge for my scrapbook layout. When my daughter got engaged a couple of years ago her first words were 'Mum, I will not be asking you to make my wedding stationery'....
Birthday Card – Sketch Challenge
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop The theme this month is a card sketch What better way to make a card than using a card sketch. When using a card sketch you can either copy it as shown, turn it around or just use elements of it. For my project this month I decide to copy the card sketch as shown to make a birthday card. How to make a Birthday Card using the card sketch I started by making a 10.5cm x 14.85cm landscape card base using Basic White Thick card stock. Next...
Happy Easter Bunny Card
Welcome to the Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is Animals For my project today I decided to use the Easter Friends stamp set to make a Happy Easter Bunny Card. How to make the Happy Easter Bunny Card I started by making a 10.5cm x 14.85cm portrait card base using Basic White card stock. Next I cut a 9cm x 13.8cm piece of Basic White for the card front. I then stamped the bunny image using Crumb Cake ink. Next I coloured the bunny in using SU400 from the Medium Deep Combo...
Simple Male Birthday Card
Welcome to the Kre8tors February Blog Hop The theme this month is Sale-a-bration It is lovely to be joining in with the Kre8tors Blog Hop again. For my project this month I decided to make a couple of simple male birthday cards using the Simply Marbleous 6"x6" designer series paper from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. If like me you have a lot of male birthdays but work full time then these two cards are so simple to make. How to make the First Simple Male Birthday Card I started by making a...
Scrapbook Layout – Happy Birthday
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop The theme this month is: The theme for this month's scrapbook layout has been decided by Julia Quinn. I love making Happy Birthday Scrapbook Layouts as they are lovely to look back on and see how people have changed over the years. I decided to use the Light The Candles Card Kit which has just been released. Sometimes people just make the cards in the kits but it is often nice to think outside of the box hence my Happy Birthday Scrapbook Layout....
Colour Combo February 2022 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop The colour combo for this month is Real Red, Pale Papaya and Gorgeous Grape For my project this month I wanted to use the Watercolour Shapes to make a selection of stamped water coloured cards that I could then add a sentiment when I needed to use one. I wanted to explore how they would look on a 10cmx10cm card base. In December I CASEd the card in the Annual Catalogue that used this stamp set. How to make the Stamped Water Coloured Cards First I...
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