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Watercolour Flurry

Watercolour Flurry

This quick card doesn't require any precision painting. Once the embossed snowflake is in place you can let the ink spread and flow across the watercolour paper as it will. You will need to be patient enough to wait for the watercolour paper to dry before punching and...

Delicate ornaments in black and silver

Delicate ornaments in black and silver

When creating Christmas cards it's worth making life easier on yourself by reusing layouts - saving design time! I recently shared this card. And today it's been recreated - this time using Black and Silver and a different DSP. This time the card base is an A6...

Precision Base Plate

Precision Base Plate

This Christmas card that I shared on Friday uses the very intricate Delicate Ornament die. These intricate dies (the ones with lots of metal spokes involved) can be a little difficult to cut cleanly. I have shared a few tips for this in the past, in terms of using a...

Delicate ornaments in traditional colours

Delicate ornaments in traditional colours

We have plenty of reds and greens to choose from among the Stampin' Up! colours - perfect for traditional style Christmas cards. The Cherry Cobbler and Pear Pizzazz were selected based on the colours used in the DSP 🙂 The card base is an A6 landscape of Cherry...

Anniversary hearts cascade

Anniversary hearts cascade

A quick share today of a lovely handcrafted card we received at the weekend. It was our wedding anniversary and we received the sweet little box envelope above (the card was a little too bulky to go in a regular long envelope and so Mari had designed the envelope...

Honeycomb Hello

Honeycomb Hello

Strange how you can overlook stamps that have been around for a while but spot them when they're repackaged somehow. That's what happened to me with this Honeycomb Hello set. It was in last year's catalogue but it was only when I saw it used a different way, in the...

Golf birthday card by a guest crafter

Golf birthday card by a guest crafter

A quick share today as I realised that you haven't seen this birthday card made by my hubby for his Dad's birthday last month. As we'd bought him a voucher for rounds of golf at a special course, this was the ideal card to go with the gift! All hubby's own work! The...

Flurry of Wishes Pillow Box

Flurry of Wishes Pillow Box

Today's mini gift box co-ordinates with this Christmas card that I shared on Monday. This time we used much more of the remaining sheet of Winter Wonderland Specialty DSP and added the matching Snow Flurry punch to punch out the snowflakes and layer them up. The gift...

Flurry of Wishes in black and gold

Flurry of Wishes in black and gold

The stamp set that we've used for today's card has a matching punch to punch out the duo of smallest snowflakes (and the Flower Medallion punches out the medium one) ... but we we've kept to stamping for this Christmas card. Our black and gold colour combo was...