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A birthday card for Dad

A birthday card for Dad

Today is my Dad's birthday and so my share for you this time, is my card to him. I decided to go with Need for Speed (W122715 or C122717) as the main stamp set, as it's such a good set for masculine cards. Instead of the car though, which is an easy choice, I figured...

A frosty snowman button card

A frosty snowman button card

Yesterday I shared a Halloween card made using the Button Buddies stamp set and today I'm back to give the card a Christmas makeover, keeping the same stamp sets. This sweet and simple Christmas card starts with a square base card of Baja Breeze, matted with some...

Smart and classy Halloween card

Smart and classy Halloween card

If you'd like to make a smart Halloween card but want a more versatile stamp set that you can use year round then you can't do better than the Button Buddies set. This fantastic little set has images for all occasions including; halloween, Christmas, birthday, get...

Christmas weave card

Christmas weave card

Yesterday's woven "bandage" card gets a Christmas makeover today and we swap ribbon for paper. The woven paper is made more of a feature by turning it into the "wrapping paper" of a present and then tying it with the wonderfully soft, Sweater Trim. The papers are from...

Bandaged background for a Halloween Mummy card

Bandaged background for a Halloween Mummy card

Oops! Some of you might have seen this ahead of time  I was trying to get organised yesterday because I'm travelling for work today and might not be back until late. In trying to schedule the blogpost for today I made a mistake and accidentally published it. Worse...

Tulle Ribbon Framed Congratulations

Tulle Ribbon Framed Congratulations

Well I was bushed when I got back from the Papercraft Show at Don Valley Stadium yesterday but we had a great day. If you're stopping by for the first time after meeting us yesterday, then "Hi", it was lovely to meet you. And a great big thank you to my regular...

Men’s cards, Halloween and Easy Christmas

Men’s cards, Halloween and Easy Christmas

As promised, I'm back already with a small selection of samples made using the new Autumn Winter goodies - to tempt you  First up are these cute little owl cards that I made for our swap at team training last week. I think these work well as men's cards, although it's...

A pleated ribbon card

A pleated ribbon card

Well today is the last day of the Summer Mini catalogue. Guess that means it's the end of Summer too, perhaps we'll have some nicer weather now  The end of the Summer catalogue means the end of these pleated ribbons. They are so lush, I've used them on so many...

August team training – swaps part 2

August team training – swaps part 2

Back again with more swaps from our Team Training on Saturday. If you missed them, then Part 1 of the swaps are here. Again, they’re in no particular order, except that we finish with a couple of sneak peeks! Woohoo! From Andrea, using Vintage Vogue: From Mari, using...