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Tutti-frutti DSP mini box

Tutti-frutti DSP mini box

Happy Valentine's Day! Today's project is a cute and dinky little box made from a single sheet of Tutti-frutti DSP using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool. I'll be back to share the dimensions and instructions for the box tomorrow. This one is decorated with a label die...

Eastern Mixed Medallions Card

Eastern Mixed Medallions Card

Happy Shrove Tuesday - hope you're enjoying your pancakes! One of the Sale-a-bration freebies that I shared previously is the Mixed Medallions Card Kit. The kit is fully inclusive and can be used to make 8 basic trifold cards such as these: But today I added the...

A toucan thank you card

A toucan thank you card

One of the cute new stamp sets in the Spring/Summer catty is the Bird Banter set. I used just 3 of the 19 stamps in the set for the front of this thank you card. The card base is an A6 portrait of Lemon-Lime Twist. A card front layer of Bermuda Bay was run through the...

Heartfelt Blooms reverse spotlight card

Heartfelt Blooms reverse spotlight card

Today's card uses a reverse spotlight technique for the sentiment. It lines up two different shades of the beautiful photographic Heartfelt Blooms image. Heartfelt Blooms is a beautiful stamp set that you can get free with a £45 purchase during Sale-a-bration. The...

Coral Painted With Love Box

Coral Painted With Love Box

Back in January I made an Impossible Box with some Painted With Love Specialty DSP but because the lid reverses the pattern of the DSP which wasn't what I wanted at the time I made a second box with Rich Razzleberry card. Today, I've finished the box with the reversed...

Happy Soiree birthday card

Happy Soiree birthday card

Today I'm back again with another card using the Sale-a-bration set - Happy Wishes - free with a £90 purchase. Yes, it's a higher price point but you get a lot of great stamps with this set. I decided to use heat embossing with Silver EP and so I teamed it with the...

Perennial Birthday Project Kit

Perennial Birthday Project Kit

Today I’m sharing the Perennial Birthday Project Kit. To be honest, I bought this kit entirely for the lovely box it comes in. It comes with tabbed dividers for each month of the year. It co-ordinates with the Perennial Birthday stamp set which is sold separately and...

Lots of Lavender Gift Tags

Lots of Lavender Gift Tags

After saying a week or so ago, that my next foray into using the Lots of Lavender stamp set would be to colour the lines cleanly, I have gone again for the quick and messy version 🙂 The monochromatic approach gives a pretty willow china pattern look but also helped...

Wizarding birthday card

Wizarding birthday card

One of the fabulous new suites in the Spring Summer catalogue is the Myths & Magic suite. In addition to a stamp set and framelits there's also co-ordinating Glimmer Papers, Washi Tape and Specialty paper with glittered designs on one side. It's a set full of...