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How to use your own painted watercolour card stock to make flowers.
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Showcase Blog Hop. This month I am showcasing a 3D Home Décor item that I made for a swap at a recent Team event using my own painted watercolour card stock. One thing I love about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is that all the products coordinate. Most of the time I will use the printed card stock available but this can make flowers look a bit uniform. This does not happen in nature as no flower is the same as another. In the Annual Catalogue there...
How to make a Christmas Card using a coloured outline stamp.
Welcome to this month's Tech4Stampers Academy Blog Hop. The theme this month is Festive. I thought I would show you how to make a square Christmas card using a coloured outline stamp. I love how many different ways we can colour in an outline image. Today I am showing two options. One using water colour pencils and a Blender Pen and the other using Stampin' Blends (Alcohol Markers). For both cards you will need an 10cm x 10cm card base. I used Basic White Thick card for mine. Next you will...
How to use stencils to make a card
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop. The theme this month is Autumn. For this blog hop I decided to show you how to use stencils to make a card. We currently have some wonderful stencils in the Mini Catalogue called Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks. One of them is a lovely stencil of leaves so I decided to make two Thank You cards. How I used the stencils to make Card 1 I started by cutting a piece A4 Pumpkin Pie card stock in half at 10.5cm and scoring at 14.85cm to...
How to make a scrapbook layout using embossing folders and punches.
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop. The theme this month is: Mode of Travel. The theme for this month has been decided by the talented Sharon Dalton. Sharon chose this month's theme as she saw loads of different modes of transport as she has been travelling in Western Australia. So I decided to start preparing some scrapbook layouts for my forth coming cruise in 2025 rather than doing them afterwards. I decided to make a scrapbook layout using embossing folders and punches. As I had...
How to make a card using punches
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop. This Month's Theme is a Card Sketch. As this card sketch is nice and simple I wanted to create a nice and simple card using punches and a sentiment. This card uses 2 punches, a simple sentiment, some embellishments and 3 different coloured card stock. This means that any one should be able to make it. How to make my nice and simple card using punches First I cut a A5 portrait card base using Basic White Thick card stock. I then cut a mat...
How to make a card using paper scraps
Welcome to this month's Tech 4 Stampers Academy Blog Hop. The theme this month is Paper Scraps. Now if you are like me you may have loads of pretty papers that you have not used yet and they are slowly piling up. Or you keep every scrap of paper and card stock you have leftover from a project. Well I am going to show how to use up those scraps to make a variety of quick and easy cards. I made this card using up some scraps from the Them Bones Designer Series Paper. How to make a Halloween card...
How to make a card using your own water coloured card stock.
Welcome to this month's Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop. This Month's Theme is Celebration. For my Celebration project I decided to use up some of the water coloured card stock that I had made from another project and an embossed mat layer for my background. How to make water coloured card stock. First I took a piece of Basic White card stock and brushed water all over it. Next I put some Azure Afternoon ink onto a stamping block. Using a wash brush I painted it onto the wet card stock. I then...
How to use Inks and Blending Brushes to make a summer background.
Welcome to this month's Ink, Stamp, Share Monthly Blog Hop. The theme this month is Summer. For my card today I am showing you how to use Inks and Blending Brushes to make a summer background. I also wanted to share one of the Online Exclusives bundles currently available. I started by cutting Basic White Thick card stock in half to make a portrait card base. Next I cut a Basic Black mat layer a couple of millimetres smaller and finally I cut a Basic White mat layer. I will use the Basic White...
How to make a Scrapbook Layout using a Sketch.
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop. The theme this month is: The theme for this month has been decided by the talented Sharni Haines How I made my Scrapbook Layout using a Sketch. First I needed to decide which way round I was going to use the sketch to make my Scrapbook layout. With a sketch if you turn it around you have 4 different options. Once I had decided which way I wanted it (mainly as I had portrait photos) I started to design the different elements. Next I started by...
Birthday Card using Vellum
Welcome to the Tech 4 Stampers Academy Blog Hop. The theme this month is Vellum. For this month's blog hop I decided to use the Cheerful Daisies stamp set and matching dies to make a birthday card using vellum. I got the idea from seeing fellow demonstrators cards where they heat embossed onto vellum. Also this is a trial to see if it would work on vellum as I need to do this for my daughter's menus for her wedding next year. First of all I cut a portrait card base using Basic White Thick card...
