Inspiring Inkin’

On Tuesday I went to Karen’s for a wonderful workshop with a group of ladies who invite me every couple of months.  They are all very experienced crafters, so it is a lovely challenge to come up with something for them.
Karen asked for a Christmas theme and this is the card we made., the tree [...]

Today’s card is for my Aunt, lots of little elements with a button and ribbon, a great design for using up any little pieces of card you save but don’t use!!  It is using one of my favourite stamp sets Touch of Nature, the butterfly is so useful.

Stamps : Sincere Salutations, Touch of Nature
Inks: [...]

Today’s card is a variation of the cards published in the last issue of Making Cards magazine and the one I did as a make and take at the Eternal Maker yesterday.  This is a Stampin’ Up! imperial one for all my lovely ladies who prefer inches to cm.  I’ll give you the measurements, it [...]

4 Lovely shares for you today, the first three are beautiful cards, from the left a card from Elaine, a lovely Inspiring Inkee, with lots of layers and elements, with some wonderful calligraphy inside.  The middle card is from Jeanette, it’s a shame the camera doesn’t catch the sparkle from the bronze card, it arrived [...]

These are the projects I completed at Elaine’s on Saturday.
Jane designed this first card, well something very similar……….you see I was busy chatting ( not like me at all !  ) and stuck my ribbon on too central then the mat layers didn’t fit so I adapted the design……..I’m really pleased with it and the [...]

I apologise right now for this post sounding a bit like an Oscar ceremony winners thank you, but that is exactly how I feel today!
You all know I have the best Stampin’ Up! team of demonstrators my Inspiring Inkees and of course the most wonderful friends who are also my customers.
Well yesterday through a combined [...]

As a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator each month I receive a mini magazine called Impressions and it has lots of hints and tips about building our businesses  and some great ideas for demonstrations.  This month one of the ideas was to use the Tag punch to create flowers, a very simple technique but very effective.  
To make [...]

Do you multi task?  I’m sure it is a skill built in to Mothers and other very busy people……….Today I was chatting to a lovely lady Anna-Mae catching up on all sorts of things ( even though she was coming to a class an hour later, we had lots to talk about) and whilst I [...]