Inspiring Inkin' with Amanda Fowler Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

One of the most important things to me about Stampin’ Up! is it’s philosphy of “Inspire, Create and Share”. The share bit especially, I am blessed with both team members and customers who are very talented and who share their projects with me and I share all my projects with them too.  At the last [...]

More from my team training yesterday, it was a wonderful day. These are the 3 cards they made, all showcasing our fabulous buttons. And a close up of each one. And the final 3D item they made was a button bracelet, I have been making these for a long time as a friend and store [...]

A bit late posting today, it’s the last day before back to work for Brian and back to school for Connor and Kimberley so we have been dashing around making sure everything was ready. I discovered some glorious blackberries and pears in the freezer this afternoon, they made a beautiful crumble yum!!  Just the right [...]

Wow, here we are again, the start of a brand new year.  So many of us use this time of year to reflect on the past year and plan for the next, I am so excited about the coming year, it is going to be the best yet! I don’t make resolutions as they are [...]

Wow and the cards keep coming……. in fact I had a wonderful pressie too, I didn’t mean to open it honest……..!  It was inside the card so I guess Elizabeth will forgive me?  So cute, I think I will be making lots of these next year. Have a lovely Christmas Eve, I hope Santa puts [...]

Well I am finally finished, the shopping, decorating the house, the Christmas cards are posted, the parcels that needed to be are posted, the Turkey and cranberries have arrived, the kids are off school and Brian finishes work tonight ! We don’t have any snow, although it has disrupted our plans as it is so [...]

Typing this, I feel like I need to be in a confessional…It has been 13 days since my last post ! I can honestly say I have no idea where the time has gone, I have been really busy but that isn’t anything new now is it!  I think I haven’t got to the website [...]

Something a bit different for you today it’s a technique called burned batik and makes the most beautiful backgrounds. First onto a piece of Whisper White card I have stamped the circles in Versamark and clear embossed them.  Normally when you are embossing you stop when the image is glossy and raised, with this technique [...]