Inspiring Inkin'

Tomorrow I am off to the 2nd Stampin’ Up! Europe convention, it is being held at Addington Palace in Surrey. Convention is amazing, there will be around 300 demonstrators from the UK, France and Germany all together for 2 full days of stamping, swapping, learning and laughing and on Friday evening an awards dinner. I [...]

I have used the Christmas tree from Contempo Christmas set again today, this time in a monotone colourway.  Using the Clear mount stamps makes lining up the tree really easy!   I love the colour combination of Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point, it’s not traditional Christmas but I think the colours are a bit frosty [...]

I was in need of a pink fix when I made this card, do you find you have times when you just need to use a certain colour? I know Poppies aren’t traditionally pink, but I think this one works! Do you like the little bit of paper piercing at the bottom, it’s using a [...]

So are you enjoying the sunshine? It’s still glorious here and has been for days, the garden is struggling and the water butts are empty, so it’s lots of watering cans full………! I’ve been really busy this week, Saturday was Eclipse the Twilight movie with Kimberley, then off to London to take Connor and his [...]

On Thursday we have a new Mini Catalogue launching and this is the first of my sneak peeks……. I can’t claim this as all my own work, it was definitely a team effort, we made it at our the Stampin’ Up! training in Reading, using a new stamp set and wheel, Vintage Vogue and Very [...]

Today I am joining in a Sale-a-bration blog hop with some very talented ladies from the ILWS forum. If you have joined me from Dawn’s blog a warm welcome to my website, whilst you are here do have a look around, there are lots of samples, tutorials and inspiration, the tabs at the top and [...]

Stampin’ Up! has an idea book and catalogue, in which you find all our products, it’s called idea book first because although it catalogues all our products; on each and every page you will find ideas and inspiration for cards, scrapbook pages, home decor and other papercraft projects. Last week I ran a home workshop [...]

So what exactly is Blog Candy……..? I was asked this several times on Sunday when I was busy talking to the visitors to the Papercraft show and telling them about my website.  So if you like them don’t know what it is I shall explain, basically it is a giveaway, or free products that someone [...]