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Stamptastic Friends September 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to September's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is Autumn September in the UK sees the start of the leaves on the trees turning from green to orange, yellow, red and brown. Where I live in East Anglia I am lucky to be able to drive down tree lined country roads and look at all the trees changing colour. For my project I decided to continue using the Poinsettia Place Designer Series Paper but this time I chose to use the pine cone sides of the paper. I love going for...
Stampin Dreams September 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to the Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop The theme this month is Favourite Season Having a birthday in November often means that I have trouble doing anything to celebrate without getting tied up in the Christmas Party season. But despite this Christmas is still my favourite season. For my project I decided to continue with the Poinsettia Place Suite and using the Designer Series Paper and Stamp Set to make 3 simple Christmas cards. How to make my three Christmas cards for my favourite season I...
Scrapbooking Global September 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop The theme this month is Celebrate This month we were lucky to be able to celebrate my Step Daughter's wedding a week before the COVID 19 rules changed again to only allow gatherings of 6 people. Even though there could only be 10 people attending the wedding ceremony and less that 29 people attending the party afterwards we have a fantastic time and took loads of photos. For my project this month I decided to do a double spread layout for...
The Joy of Sets September 2020 – Weddings Blog Hop
Welcome to The Joy of Sets September Blog Hop The theme for this month is Weddings. This is my first time blog hopping with The Joy of Sets. Last weekend my step daughter got married. It was a smaller event than originally planned due to COVID 19 restrictions but that did not mean that I could not produce a WOW Wedding card for her. I found this idea for a Double Accordion card in the Mixed Up Craft Facebook group which is hosted by Sam Calcott. It took me 2 hours to make this card including...
Stamp ‘N Hop September 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamp 'N Hop blog hop The theme this month is the Mini Holiday Catalogue Thank you for joining me this month. I have decided to show you a Building Block card I found on the Mixed Up Craft Facebook group hosted by Sam Calcott and decided to CASE it. When I saw the Mini Holiday Catalogue I fell in love with the Poinsettia Place Suite and ordered it straight away. To make the card base I decided to use Thick Whisper White card stock and used the Paper Trimmer to cut and...
Scrapbooking Layout Sketch
Scrapbook layout using a sketch For my blog today I decided to make my scrapbook layout using a sketch. Sometimes I struggle with how I want a scrapbook page to look. By using a sketch it makes it a lot easier to do produce a scrapbook layout.. I needed some closure on my car accident just before Christmas 2019 and what better way than to scrapbook it. I had a rough idea as to what dies I wanted to use and this sketch gave me the ideal layout. First I decided to use the Garage Gears Dies as my...
Kre8tors August 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Kre8tors Blog Hop The Theme this month is Anniversary August is always a very busy month for me card wise as most of the family's birthdays and anniversaries are this month so this could not be a better month to make an anniversary card. With Anniversaries in mind I decided to choose the Have a Hoot stamp set and matching dies from the August - December mini catalogue. I love how you can do various themes with this bundle apart from obviously Christmas and Halloween....
Stamptastic Friends July 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends blog hop This month's theme is 2020-2020 In Colors This is an exciting time in the Stampin' Up! year as in June SU release their NEW Annual Catalogue. Not only do we get a chance to see the new products but we also get to find out the 5 In Colors for that year. The NEW In Colors this year are: Magenta Madness, Misty Moonlight, Just Jade, Bumblebee and Cinnamon Cider. These 5 colours will be available until the end of May 2022. I decided I wanted to...
Kre8tors July 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Kre8tors Blog Hop The Theme this month is a Tropical Nights Colour Challenge using the photo below I decided to make a set of cards using the stamp set Whale Done and to produce 3 cards for a Beginner Stamper, a Casual Stamper and an Avid Stamper. First I found some 13.5cm square cards and envelopes, then I cut 3 13cm squares of Rococco Rose card stock to make a may layer. Next I cut 3 12cm squares of Whisper White card stock to stamp onto. Beginner Stamper Card I...
Stamp ‘N Hop July 2020 Blog Hop
Welcome to this month's Stamp 'N Hop This Month's Theme is 'In Colors' This is an exciting time of year when Stampin' Up! release their 5 new In Colors. The In Colors for 2020-2020 are Magenta Madness, Cinnamon Cider, Misty Moonlight, Just Jade and Bumblebee. For my cards I chose to use Bumblebee, Misty Moonlight and Magenta Madness card stock for my card bases. I then cut Whisper White mat layer for each card base and a mat layer using the Flowers for Every Season Designer Series Paper. I cut...
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