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Diamond anniversary double gatefold

Diamond anniversary double gatefold

Here's the second of our anniversary cards this week and this one's a biggie! 60 years - a diamond anniversary! Congratulations to Shirley and Don and thank you for inviting us to celebrate with you yesterday - we had a lovely time! Here's to many more happy years...

Mini treat bag hearts card

Mini treat bag hearts card

We have a few wedding anniversaries to celebrate this week (and then my own next weekend 🙂 ) Those of you who've been following my blog for a while, may know that I tend to opt for white for my anniversary cards. Well, I'm so glad that SU! have brought out a white...

Cutie pie birthday box

Cutie pie birthday box

You can get these cake slice boxes either as part of the Sweet Stack Project Kit or make your own individual ones using the Cutie Pie thinlits. Either way they're a great method of packaging a gift. I used the Cutie Pie thinlit set to create this one. Two of the cake...

Snow Place cute card

Snow Place cute card

You know how we love cute stamp sets but then complain about having to fussy cut everything out? Well SU! have put together the perfect bundle for us! Snow Place is a fun stamp set with two snowmen, a penguin and lots of little accessories to dress them up - and they...

Lovely Lace Circle card

Lovely Lace Circle card

Back to birthdays today and this is a card that I made and posted last month but didn't get around to sharing with you. Lots of lush elements on this to give it a bit of bling and luxury. A Circle card thinlit was die cut from Tangerine Tango and the front of the card...

Sleigh ride shadowed

Sleigh ride shadowed

One of the great new bundles in the Autumn/Winter catalogue is the Jingle All the Way stamp set and Sleigh Ride edgelits. The stamp set has four sentiments, all curved to match the curves of the edgelits, together with a bunch of teeny, tiny images. In addition to the...

Tip for “mum” lettering

Tip for “mum” lettering

A quick tip today to share how I cheated to create the "mum" lettering on this card 🙂 Step 1  - die cut two "yum"s using the Baker's Box thinlit.       Step 2 - snip the "y" away from the front of one and the "m" away from the other.    ...

Reason for the Season simply stamped

Reason for the Season simply stamped

One of our new stamp sets, available in the new Autumn/Winter catalogue, is this Reason for the Season set. It's not only a great two step stamp set, allowing you to layer the image - but it can also be bought as a bundle, with the Festive Flower Builder punch, for...

New Autumn/Winter Catalogue

New Autumn/Winter Catalogue

Woo! We have a new Autumn/Winter catalogue out today. Lots of fabulous new kits, bundles and individual stamp sets, papers and tools for Autumn, Halloween and Christmas. There are 52 A4 pages packed filled with great card ideas, gift packaging options and Project Life...