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Tutorial – create a framelit purse

Tutorial – create a framelit purse

This little purse is perfect for a girlie gift of choccie or biscuits or similar. It's made using the larger size of Labels Collection Framelit dies - here I used the second largest size. Step 1 - die cut 2 large labels from your chosen cardstock.      ...

A Summer Mini Blog Hop

A Summer Mini Blog Hop

Here we go! I can now share our new Summer Mini Catalogue with you online. Just click on the image above (or the button over on the right of the page) to have a browse. And welcome to our Summer Mini Catalogue blog hop. Again, a bunch of us from over at the In Love...

Cherry picked

Cherry picked

The Fruit and Flowers set is a great set for creating your own background papers - and you don't need to confine them to cards. Why not use your "papers" for boxes too? To give a little more strength, I used the Confetti White card as my base for stamping this little...

More his ‘n’ hers easter baskets

More his ‘n’ hers easter baskets

I'm back again with more Easter baskets! These his 'n' hers ones were for my Mum and Dad. Again they're made following the tutorial I shared here but resized again to take the bigger chick. Both baskets are 7.5" square, scored at 2.5" on all four sides. Here's the...

His ‘n’ hers Easter Baskets

His ‘n’ hers Easter Baskets

I've been busy again making more Easter baskets for family. These his 'n' hers ones are for MIL and FIL. They are made following the tutorial I shared here but resized to take the bigger chick (which is sitting on some mini eggs). Both baskets are 7.5" square, scored...

Choccie easter bunnies in a candy wrapper

Choccie easter bunnies in a candy wrapper

It's always a fun challenge to find ways to make my existing stamp sets work for alternative occasions and I decided that the little balloon holding bunny from my Perfect Postage set, could be an Easter Bunny. And how lucky, I can just squeeze a couple of mini...

A bright gift bag for Mother’s Day goodies

A bright gift bag for Mother’s Day goodies

Hubby and I share the tasks in our house - haha, not really! - but since DH made the card for Mari, I made her gift bag. Mari loves bags and boxes and she loves bright colours, so I took some of the Big Top Birthday DSP as the basis for my colour combo. And as Mari is...