Chain card swap following MY card
Welcome to the tenth in a series of blog hops for our Chain Card Swap. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group late last year to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter (although I’ve called it Chinese Whispers cards). The first card in each sequence is […]
Chain Card swap following Nancy’s card
Welcome to the ninth in a series of blog hops for our Chain Card Swap. A group of Australian Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators formed a group late last year to create cards and swap them in a process like a chain letter (although I’ve called it Chinese Whispers cards). The first card in each sequence is […]
Lighting the way shoebox swap card
While our shoebox swaps are supposed to be quick to make, this one took a bit longer, with lots of flowers and leaves to stamp. Julie created this cute easel card using the Lighting the way bundle. She even gave us all the battery tealight to put behind the vellum to make the lamp glow! […]
Flying Seagull card using Countryside Inn DSP
Have you seen the Flying Seagull card before? It was designed by Susan Campfield (AKA Sue Stampfield) and is perfect for those special birthdays. You can see her blog post here, and her video here. Her size doesn’t fit our Australian C6 envelopes so I’ve adapted it and converted to metric to create mine. I […]
Lattice strip card with Cheerful Daisies
Last month I went on another craft retreat with my fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrators to Maldon. We always create ‘shoebox swaps’ where we create a card, then make kits so that everyone there can recreate the card. This is the card I made. I’d seen a few of the lattice strip cards appearing on Pinterest […]
Watercolour World rainbow card
Sorry its been a while since I’ve posted here – I’ve been away on a several times delayed holiday (thanks to CoVid) to Egypt, Jordan and Israel, followed by a stop over in Dubai on the way home. I’ve been wanting to see the pyramids for years – thinking of how hard it must have […]
Balmy Blue Framed Florets card
The Framed Florets bundle was an early release from the Jan-Apr 2023 mini catalogue but I didn’t get a chance to play with it till recently. I created these coloured flowers by using the stamp set and colouring them in with Balmy Blue Blends, and the leaves with Soft Succulent. The DSP mat is from […]
Christmas card featuring the Brightest glow bundle
The final card from our shoebox swap was this bright card by Fiona. She created it using a die for the background that I hadn’t even noticed in the 2022-2023 Annual catalogue, called Artisan Additions dies. This die adds a lovely background for an easy card to give it a Wow factor. The sentiment and […]
Merriest Moment card
The fourth card I put together from our shoebox swap was created by Julie using the Merriest Moments bundle. She chose to do it in not the usual Christmas colours, instead stamping the flower petals in Pale Papaya ink, and the centres in Polished Pink ink. I ran my Blending brush over the embossed background […]
World Card Making Day – 1 Oct 2022
Stampin’ Up! held a virtual event on Saturday 1 October, creating three cards. I opened my house to allow friends to come watch and create along with me. Lots of laughter, chatter – and brownies! The first card was made using the Cottage Rose bundle. We coloured the flower in using Dark and Light Flirty […]
Playing with the Split circle technique
I recently had a lot of fun creating cards using the Split circle technique. There are quite a few ways to put these together, and endless combinations of colours you can use. And you don’t have to just use cardstock – you can use DSP (Designer Series Paper), foil paper or glimmer paper for some […]
Abigail Rose suite
The Abigail Rose Suite makes it so easy to create gorgeous cards. I chose to use the colour Petal Pink from the striped paper in the Abigail Rose DSP pack to colour my stamped flower image using Stampin’ Blends, and also for the cardstock base. The image was diecut using a die from the Cottage […]