Would you like some pretty ribbon to add to your stash?
I am offering a 1 metre ribbon share… that’s 1 metre of all the ribbons from the July to December Mini Catalogue, so 9 metres in total for just £7.40 excluding postage.
These are the ribbons included;
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I put my website into ‘maintenance back in May, and where has time gone? I’ve still been crafting – well, until I went on holiday mid June, but then I’ve had technical issues with the upgrade of my website, along with catching Covid which knocked me off my feet for a few days. So, these are actually cards I made prior to my holiday to Cornwall and some I have demonstrated on my Facebook page.
I know…its flowers again! But, I love this set…so simple to use and so many colours possible…you can never make 2 cards the same!
This card used a base of Granny Apple Green, a layer of Gorgeous Grape and then stamping onto Whisper White – yes I’m not onto my basic white stock yet!!
I stamped the cards in Fresh Freesia and Gorgeous Grape and then used Granny Apple Green for the ‘vines which were from the Very Versailles set
I die cut the smallest Scalloped Contour die in white and stamped the sentiment from the Color & Contour set. After sticking the top two layers together, i wound some white bakers twine around before attaching the sentiment.
To finish off, I added a stamped image to the inside on a layer of white.
I love how these colours go together and give the card a real’pop, what do you think?
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My lovely upline, Zoe Tant, showed a group of us (her) team members how to make this next card.
Its far easier than it looks, and is a bit like sticking a card within a card!
Adhere the back of the largest piece of coloured card to the back of the base card at the hinge, leaving the front section ‘hanging.
Attach the DSP onto the layer, and then fasten to front of card.
Add your stamped and die cut images, remembering that the middle layer and back layer hang below the front, so what ever is placed in the centre or back may show. (I carefully stamped ‘friend’ so I knew you could see it fully from the front.
I used sentiments from Daisy Lane stamp set
This card works equally as well orientated on its side….why not have a go?
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The 2021/2022 annual catalogue is available right now, but ordering doesn’t start until May 4th.
Would you like a copy?
Click on the ‘contact’ tab at the top of this page and leave your details and I will get one to you asap (UK only).
Shortly after the launch of the catalogue, you will be able to download it from here if you prefer not to have a physical copy.
I’ve had Butterfly Brilliance Stamp set and the co-ordinating Brilliant wings dies for a while now, but not shown them to you until today!
I love how British these stamps are….so like our butterflies. They have so much details and the dies are stunning!
Yes, they are one large stamp, but by clever positioning of your paper, there is no need to stamp or die cut all of the butterflies in one go.
I made 1 card before hand using the Painted Texture 3D embossing folder on Sahara Sand card stock, to give it a lovely faux wall background. I coloured the butterflies with blends…Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody, Blackberyy Bliss and So Saffron.
The cards I made Live, used soon to be retiring DSP (Designer Series Papers).
The first card used Forever Greenery, layered onto a Garden Green card base. The butterflies were coloured with Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight and Balmy blue blends for the outside, and a smaller butterfly was added to the inside which was coloured in Pumpkin Pie.
After the Live session had finished, I added a few Holiday Rhinestone jewels
The second card used Artisan Blooms DSP, on a layer of Pumpkin Pie. This time the butterfly was die cut from a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and again some Holiday Rhinestones to embellish.
Sentiments for these cards were all taken from the Many Messages stamp set and the coordinating Messages Dies.
The Butterflies are from the upcoming Annual Catalogue, but are available now. The Many Messages is from the January to June Mini Catalogue.
Don’t forget the brand new Annual Catalogue will be available later this month. If you are not a regular customer, but would like a catalogue, please use the ‘contact me’ tab above, and I will get one to you.
During yesterdays Craft and Chat session, I demonstrated a Corner Flip fancy fold card. I got the inspiration for this card from a video by Rachel Tessman.
This card uses the discontinued Berry Blessings stampset and Berry Delightful DSP
For those who were not with us, and those who didn’t get their card finished, here are the instructions;
You will need:-
Cover the front of your card base with DSP, taking care to not leave any parts unstuck, as when you cut through you don’t want any loose edges.
Take the scrap paper/post it note and measure 1cm from the top left corner down the left side and make a mark.
Do the same from the bottom right corner along the bottom
This should be a 7.5cm square!!
Lay this paper onto the top right of your card, lining up the top and right sides
Transfer the lines onto your card, but include around the bottom left corner too
These lines will be on your DSP not on the blank card as shown
Carefully line up the lines on the cutting guide of your paper trimmer and cut along between the marks
Take care not to cut right to the edges!
Very gently bend the top right corner of the card forward, pivoting on the 1cm edge pieces, until it reaches the front of the card and is square to the rest of the card. Once happy crease these edges so that it lays flat
Gently manipulate the fold
The top of your card should look like this!
And when stamped and layered and an insert added to the inside, should look like this !
Hope you have fun trying this out!
Happy Crafting xx
A couple of weeks ago, a lovely lady called Zoe (Tantalizing Stampers) demonstrated to an online group of crafters, a fabulous folder to put your homemade cards in, which we all agreed would make a nice gift, particularly when people are not getting out as much.
So following her tutorial, I decided to use up some retired DSP (designer series papers), and make a fully co-ordinating set for a friend.
This is what I made;
I made it along with my online crafters this week in our weekly Craft and Chat, and it was lovely to see what you can make to use up all that paper you’ve been hoarding!
To make the folder to put your cards in, you will need;
Score the card on the long edge at 3.5 and 4.5cm.
Rotate and score 13.8cm from EACH end
With the card landscape and the score lines at the bottom, cut up on either side of the vertical score lines and remove the complete central tab (all the way up to the 2nd score line).
Next measure from each of the bottom corners and mark at 3cm. Make a line from this point to the first score line and remove these corner pieces. It should end up looking like this;
Then its just a case of decorating with your pretty papers.
The first one of these that I made, I punched a hole to thread my ribbon through, but this time I wrapped ribbon all the way around before sticking my patterned papers on the outside and feel I got a much neater finish.
And lastly, I made 6 matching cards to place inside.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this little project and it encourages you to use some of that huge pile of papers up.
If you would like to join our weekly Craft and Chat (on Zoom), please use the contact me tab at the top of this page, and I will send you the details.
Happy Crafting xx
Yes…it says Christmas card! This is the first one I’ve made this year, so think I can be excused!
I’ve done a couple of Facebook Lives using the Circle Celebration stamp set, and I’ve had the large stamp keep jumping out at me saying ‘moon’, so I thought I’d have a play and see what I could do.
I used a Seaside Spray card layer to stamp some trees from the ‘Rooted in Nature’ stamp set in memento black ink on the base of the card.
Then using one of the fabulous new blending brushes (Jan to June catalogue), I first used Misty Moonlight and then Night of Navy ink pads to give a little depth around the edges.
On a separate piece of white card I used Mango Melody, Flirty Flamingo and Highland Heather on the ‘moon’ stamp, carefully sweeping the ink pad across ensuring I used the lightest colour first so as not to contaminate my ink pads. When i had all three colours on the stamp, I gave it a quick ‘huff’ to ensure the ink was still wet and stamped onto my white card. I then die cut it with 4th from smallest layering circle die. This die is slightly smaller than the stamped image, but worked perfectly as I didn’t want a white border around my ‘moon’.
I then stamped the spotty stamp from the Dressed to Impress stamp set with Versamark ink, applied white embossing powder and heat set to give a snowy look. The sentiment was from Itty Bitty Christmas. The sentiment and moon where adhered on Dimensionals.
To finish, I used the Stampin’ Chalk Marker around the edges of the trees and also popped a little Wink of Stella to make them glisten.
Hope you’ve enjoyed learning how I made this card. Keep checking in for more.
In the meantime….keep Stamping!!
If you didn’t already know….Stampin’Up!s spring summer mini catalogue will be launched on Tuesday January 5th 2021! And not just that catalogue… the fabulous Sale-a-bration catalogue too!
The Mini catalogue runs from Jan 5th until June 30th 2021 and complements the annual catalogue which is available until May 3rd 2021. (If you dont have a catalogue (either annual or mini) and would like one, then please use the contact me tab above and I will get one out to you (UK only).
On todays Facebook live I demo’d a couple of new products…The garden Wishes Stamp Set, The Darling Donkeys Stampset (Free with £45 spend from Jan 5th) and the gorgeous new Blending brushes!
If you’d like to see how I made these and how to use the blending brushes, checkout my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/thestampingbooth
In Good Taste is the DSP (designer series paper) that I am using this week in the blog hop. This is another of the paper packs that are on offer until the end of October. Drop me a note if you’d like to order.
My three cards are all the same this week, but show how different they can look in different colour ways.
The first card uses Night of Navy for its main colour, and the stamp set used is Tasteful Textures. The die cut leaves are from varies die sets and are cut in the lovely new Brushed Metallic papers
The second has a Petal Pink base, Petal Pink flower and Gray Granite stamping. This time the dies cuts are in Silver foil paper
Finally, the third card base is Early Espresso, with Old Olive die cut pieces and a Daffodil Delight flower coloured with Stampin Blends.
Hope you pop over to the other blogs to see all the other fab ideas with DSP and it inspires you to get your papers out and use them!
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I don’t think anyone would describe me as a cat or dog person. Although we have had both as pets over the many years we have been married.
Playful Pets DSP;
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I got this Designer series paper (DSP) left over from a paper share, so though this a great opportunity to see what I can do with it.
I have made 3 projects this week, all with very little stamping, so making the DSP work do all the work for me.
The first card was cat themed and I used one cat from the DSP as my focal point and then adhered it to some fancy labels from the Tasteful labels die set
And then I played with the dogs…..
A LOT of fussy cutting here, but a cute card for the dog lovers out there!!
And finally I made a really useful, decent sized box! It is 4” square and I thought the colour scheme leant itself to being festive, so I added a Christmas tag to the front
Hope you’ve enjoyed looking at my ‘makes’ once again, don’t forget to click the link below and have a look at the other peoples ideas on this bloghop
