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Country Floral Foil thank you card

Country Floral Foil thank you card

With only a handful of days left to grab your Sale-a-bration freebies I've combined two of them on this thank you card. The Country Floral embossing folder is absolutely gorgeous and combined with the lush Lovely Lipstick Foil makes quite the statement with only a...

All My Love Rectangle Frames birthday card

All My Love Rectangle Frames birthday card

Remember this card that I made with the Butterfly Elements? I had left over pieces from the die cut rectangles and they only needed a few small additions to make this card. Another frame was die cut from Crumb Cake card and ribbon and a sentiment were added. The...

Puzzle Pieces Missing You card

Puzzle Pieces Missing You card

Yesterday I shared a Puzzle Pieces thank you card. Today I'm back to use up the leftover pieces to make another card. The card base is an A6 portrait of Basic Black, matted with a layer of Botanical Butterfly DSP. Using the leftover puzzle pieces from yesterday's card...

Botanical Butterfly Puzzle Pieces

Botanical Butterfly Puzzle Pieces

When I first got hold of the Botanical Butterfly DSP I loved how they had the same design in both a colour version and black and white. I used that continuous pattern on two previous cards here and decided to recycle the idea with the Puzzle Pieces thinlits. The...

Training for my day job

Training for my day job

A quick post today as I'm in Dublin for the weekend doing some extra CPD (Continuing Professional Development) training for my day job. In case you didn't know from previous posts, I'm now fully qualified as an acupuncturist and I've opened my own practice in...

Sale-a-bration Co-ordination 2019

Sale-a-bration Co-ordination 2019

Wow! It's amazing, Stampin' Up! have created new, limited-time products that coordinate perfectly with select Sale-A-Bration products. Did you adore our little hoppy froggies but didn't want the hassle of fussy cutting them out? Or perhaps you wished for candles for...

All My Love Butterfly Elements

All My Love Butterfly Elements

Over the last few days I've been sharing birthday cards made with the Butterfly Elements (before supplies run out and they're no longer available as a Sale-a-bration freebie). The masculine birthday card and feminine birthday card I shared previously were created with...

Feminine Butterfly Elements birthday card

Feminine Butterfly Elements birthday card

On Monday I shared a masculine birthday card using the Butterfly Elements. Today I have a feminine version, very similar but there are a few small differences. A different DSP was used, a slightly different mat was created for the DSP and the wooden elements are...

Paper Dolls Inspiration Meeting – March 2019

Paper Dolls Inspiration Meeting – March 2019

Would you like to come along and join our next Paper Dolls team meeting? Find out more about the benefits of being a demonstrator and how you can make your crafting pay for itself? Please come along and join us, at my home in Osgodby, Scarborough (YO11...