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Lily Pond Lane Puzzle Slider card

Handmade card made using paper featuring ducks on a pond

Recently I’ve been seeing a few of the puzzle slider cards (created by Susan Campfield – click here for the link to her blog post) but they’ve always been either two or four sections slotting together. I’ve always heard that to make things look appealing artistically, you should do things with odd numbers. For example, […]

Tic Tac Toe challenge blog hop

Flying seagull card handmade - pink and green with a circle cut from the centre and flowers added

It’s time for another blog hop with the Let’s Craft Together group. This month, we were given a Tic Tac Toe challenge. At the moment, my favourite two colours are a couple of the new In Colours – Petunia Pop and Summer Splash. I’ve been using the stamps from Spotlight on Nature a lot as […]

Tricorn Fold card using Countryside Inn DSP

Front view of tricorn fold card in blues

I made this Tricorn Fold card for a special friend to celebrate her 60th birthday. She has been a customer of mine since my very first class so I knew I had to make her a special card. I found it on Pinterest which lead to JanB’s YouTube video, which has measurements in both imperial […]

Picture to Page Christmas class

Gatefold pop-out Christmas card, Christmas tree tag and gift card holder

In October, I was part of the team working on the Stampin’ Up! stand at the From Picture to Page Craft Show at Sandown Racecourse. Here’s our team photo, I created the items for the Christmas class we ran there in the mornings, using the Merriest Trees bundle and the A Walk in the Forest […]

Flying Seagull card using Countryside Inn DSP

Flying Seagull card with 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 […]

Candy Cane Tower fun fold card

Tower fun fold card made using Sweetest Christmas bundle - candy canes

This week I went to a fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrator’s house to craft. She had been given one of these tower fun fold cards for her birthday which I hadn’t made before. After making up a template complete with all the measurements, of course I then had to make a card. This one features the […]

Vertical easel cards

Vertical Easel card featuring Bottled Happiness stamp set, and Abigail Rose DSP

This month’s class was all about creating Vertical Easel cards. I saw this style on Splitcoast Stampers and decided to give it a go. The trick is in attaching the floating panel to the front of the card so it floats freely. The first card features the Bottled Happiness stamp set. I stamped the bottle […]