Inspiring Inkin'

It was one of my friends birthdays last week, she doesn’t like lots of fussy things so a very simple card was in order, blues and browns her favourite colours. The butterfly is stamped on vellum cardstock using versamark ink and heat embossed in gold. Stamps : Occasional Greetings, Touch of Nature Inks: Chocolate Chip, [...]

This was my hostess gift to Elaine to say thank you for hosting us on Saturday and my make and take. I have a new favourite colour combination Sage Shadow and Chocolate Chip so have designed my project around that, a very simple notebook.  Of course I needed to take the hostess a little gift, [...]

This is a card cased ( copy and share enthusiastically!) from the lovely Julie.  A fellow demonstrator from the North of England.  I was blog hopping and found a card here I have changed the colours and papers, and have a bit of Amanda embossing magic…….. but essentially it is the same card, thanks Julie for [...]

Later this week I promise to have some cards not using Fresh Cuts!!!  But here are 2 more for you. I’ve gone for a tonal orange combination for this card.  This first one is the large image stamped in versamark onto Whisper White card and clear embossed.  I have then taken a sponge dauber and [...]

It’s my Nephew’s birthday today he is 6 !   He is a real inventor and engineer so I’ve made him a card he can take it apart to see how it works! This is a fold flat box card made from Textured Close to Cocoa card with a chipboard ’6′ coloured and heat embossed [...]

Well my lovely Mum is 60 today, a very special birthday and she is now officially retired, though she works harder than most people I know! Here is her card, quite bright very simple on the front…….. But the inside is a little bit special! I have made the pop up using a very simple [...]

This was one of the projects on my Stamping but not on cards class.  It is made from Vellum, the great thing about Stampin’ Up!’s Vellum cardstock is it’s really strong but flexible so I have lots more projects coming up using it. Now because pur classic ink is dye based it dries really quickly [...]

To all those wonderful mothers out there but especially to mine!!!! Here is Mum’s card, I hope she likes it.  It’s made with 2 new stamp sets from the mini catalogue and some new Designer series paper called Tea party. I’ve taken an A4 piece of card stock in Almost Amethyst and folded it in [...]