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Colour Combo December 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop This month's colours are Gray Granite, Real Red and Cinnamon Cider This month I was struggling to think of what to make using these lovely colours. So I decided to start with a scrapbook layout using the Enjoy The Moment stamp set as it is not a stamp set I would normally choose. This stamp set is available in the January - May mini catalogue. Project 1 - Scrapbook Layout I started by stamping my own background using one of the images for each...
Stamp ‘N Hop December 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamp 'N Hop Blog Hop This month's theme is Christmas For this Blog Hop I decided to show you a variety of Christmas cards using the Coming Home stamp set. I also chose to use the matching Trimming The Town designer series paper and I wanted to show you two ways to colour in stamped images in. The reason I chose this stamp set is because for every Coming Home stamp set sold Stampin' Up! will give £2.50 to a charity devoted to adoption, fostering and infertility and as I...
Stamptastic Friends November 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop This month's theme is a colour challenge using non traditional Christmas colours For this month's project I decided to do a scrapbook page using the Joy To The World Paper Pumpkin kit. This year Stampin' Up! has released two Paper Pumpkin kits world wide. One in the Summer called Box of Sunshine and one in November. The colours I have chosen to use are Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape and Granny Apple Green. I started with a 12x12 piece of...
Stamp ‘N Hop November 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this Month's Stamp 'n Hop Blog Hop This month's theme is a 3D Project I decided I wanted a quick but effective 3D Project for those who do not have much time to craft. So I chose a two drawer box which only took less than 2 hours to make. My project is a box with drawers. There are loads of various templates available On-line but basically you are just making boxes of different sizes. I started off by making the drawers from two boxes the same size using Blackberry Bliss Card...
Colour Combo November 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop Here is the UK we are going into winter so what better colours to use to brighten up your day: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight and Rococo Rose. When I saw these colours I though of flowers and decided to use the Beautiful Friendship stamp set and make a couple of simple stamping cards. I love this stamp set and love that all you need to add are a couple of ink pads and card stock to make lovely cards. I started by cutting the Whisper White mat...
Stamptastic Friends October 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is Samplers I decided to make two samplers to showcase the lovely Playful Pets Designer Series Paper (DSP) and to show that you can make samplers be using minimal products. I started off by cutting one sheet of the Playful Pets DSP into a 9" square, this is the base layer for the samplers. Next I cut Basic Black card stock into 2.5" squares and 2 strips 2.5" by 5.5” Then I cut DSP into 2.25" squares to make a mat layer...
Stampin Dreams October 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop This month’s theme is Halloween. I thought I would share a simple but effective project I did last Halloween. These Halloween Mini Curvy Keepsake boxes are so quick and easy to make. Pumpkin Box I started making the Pumpkin box out of an A4 sheet of Pumpkin Pie using the Mini Keepsake box die. Granny Green Apple and Basic Grey and using the Mini Curvy Keepsake die. Next I added lines using a Paper Pumpkin Stampin Marker onto the die cut box...
Scrapbooking Global October 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month’s Scrapbooking Global October Blog Hop The theme this month is Nature When I saw this theme I knew exactly what I was going to scrapbook and already had the photos mounted ready to design a double page layout around them. This year one of my friends sons is fundraising to go and help out on community projects in Ecuador. One of his ideas was to plant some tomato and cucumber seeds and sell them once they were ready to plant out. As I found out about this just as the...
Colour Combo October 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Colour Combo Blog Hop The colours for this month are Mossy Meadow, Bermuda Bay and Smoky Slate When I saw these colours my immediate thought was flowers and leaves. I decide to use Beautiful Friendship which is a new stamp set to me. and to make some simple stamping cards. First I took an A4 piece of Whisper White card stock and scored it into 4 quarters and stamped images along that line and and along the edges before cutting it to a 10cm x 14.3cm mat layer. Once cut I...
Stamp N Hop October 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamp 'N Hop Blog Hop This month's theme is Favourite DSP One of my favourite things about Stampin' Up! is that they produce papers that match their coloured card stock and match their stamps so I do not have the worry of making products match. In this blog hop I am going to show you what my favourite Designer Series Paper is from the Annual Catalogue. As you may have already noticed from previous blogs that I have been using the Forever Greenery DSP which...
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