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Water Coloured Shapes Good Luck Card – CASE the Catalogue
Welcome to the Tech 4 Stamper Academy Blog Hop The theme this month is to CASE the Catalogue For this month's theme I looked through the Annual Catalogue, the July to December Mini Catalogue and as I am a demo the NEW January to June Mini Catalogue. I needed to make a Good Luck card for a male friend who is leaving work and moving onto new adventures. I found one card I liked on page 103 of the Annual Catalogue using the Watercolor Shapes stamp set. As I have only used this stamp set a couple...
Colour Combo December Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop This month's three colours are Granny Apple Green, Pool Party and Just Jade For this month's Colour Combo blog hop I decided to have a go at using the three colours to make a blended background for a male birthday card. Whilst I was tidying up my craft desk I found a piece of card where I had been trying out my blending technique and wondered what it would look like using Granny Apple Green, Pool Party and Just Jade ink. How to make the Happy...
Happy 40th Birthday Fancy Fold Card
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Showcase Blog Hop If like me you have many friends and family who have birthdays in December that get swamped by Christmas. I decided to show you a Happy 40th Birthday fancy fold card I made for a friend whose birthday is between Christmas and New Year. I chose to use the Pansy Patch stamp set, Pansy Dies and matching Pansy Petals DSP. How to make the Happy 40th Birthday Fancy Fold Card I started off by making cutting a A4 piece of Soft Succulent card...
Christmas Gift Tags
Welcome to this month's Stamp 'N Hop Blog Hop The theme this month is All things Christmas For this month's project I decided to show you how easy it is to make some Christmas Gift Tags using Tailor Made Tags dies and the Penguin Place stamp set and matching Penguin Builder punch. How to make the Christmas Gift Tags I started by using the largest tag die to cut four tags out using Basic White Thick card stock. Next I die cut out the matching hole reinforcers out of Pumpkin Pie card stock. I...
New Baby Card using Tic-Tac-Toe
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop The theme this month is a Tic Tac Toe Challenge If like me you sometimes struggle with what to use when making a card or stumped for ideas then a Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge is ideal, I decided to use Blue, Circles and Jewels as my first Grandson has just been born and what better way to celebrate than to give a New Baby handmade card. How to make the New Baby Tic-Tac-Toe Card I started by cutting a piece of A4 a Basic White Thick card in...
Poinsettia Table Decoration
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is Table Favour/Gift Packaging For the blog hop today I thought I would make a glass jar Christmas Poinsettia Table Decoration I did similar table decorations for my wedding in 2015 and suddenly thought why not turn that idea into a Christmas Poinsettia Table Decoration. How to make the Christmas Poinsettia Table Decoration. I started by choosing my glass jar and if like me you may well have a few to choose from. Next I...
Autumnal Good Luck Card
Welcome to this month's Tech 4 Stamper Academy Blog Hop The theme this month is Seasonal Fun For this blog hop I decided to make an Autumnal Good Luck Card. If like me you work full time you will have times when people are leaving and you need to make a quick card. Also this weekend I visited a Garden Centre and they had these lovely Rudbeckia plants on display so when I can home I had to use the image from the Nature's Harvest to make my Autumnal Good Luck Card. I first started by stamping...
Colour Combo October 2021 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop This month's three colours are Costal Cabana, Real Red and Basic Gray For this month's Colour Combo blog hop I thought I would recreate the Christmas Stocking Gift or Voucher card I made for a blog hop yesterday but this time using Coastal Cabana, Real Red and Basic Gray. How to make the Christmas Stocking Card I started by cutting a piece of A4 Basic Gray card stock in half along the short edge and scored in half to make the card base. Next I cut...
Christmas Double Z Card
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share October Showcase Blog Hop For my showcase blog hop this month I wanted to share with you the Christmas Double Z-Fold card I made for World Card Making Day last Saturday. I had to make a YouTube video of how to make this card and it was used to showcase 24 hours of card making. I must admit the card was way easier to make than making the video. Making the Christmas Double Z-Fold Card I started with a sheet of Basic White Thick card stock and cut it in...
Stocking Gift or Voucher Cards
Welcome to the Stamp 'N Hop Blog Hop The theme this month is anything from the Mini Catalogue For this month's blog hop I thought as I have a lot of special occasions coming up and of course Christmas I would start making some Gift or Voucher Cards using some of the products from the Stocking Suite. I fell in love with this suite as at the time I had two dogs and a cat so could tailor make cards for my family. Unfortunately my cat had to be put to sleep this week so they will probably just...
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