Inspiring Inkin'

And HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !  Today is my Mum and Dad’s wedding anniversary, I hope they have a wonderful day xxxx Traditional Christmas cards today, one bright and one vintage looking. This first vintage style card uses the Skaters from Winter post and teams them up with the Medallion background stamp, it would look great in [...]

One of my favourite Stampin’ Up! Big Shot dies is the Top Note.  It is exclusive to Stampin’ Up! and really versatile, for cards, scrapbook pages and 3D items. Today it takes centre stage on Christmas cards.  The first card is completely flat, so no postage worries, it uses the new colour Pool Party a [...]

Wow all of a sudden it’s autumn!  But I guess that is really to be expected since we are almost in the middle of October, so it’s Christmas cards again today! These are cards we made at my Card Club which I hold each month at Titchfield Community Centre on the first Thursday evening and [...]

I took part in one organised swap for convention on one of the forums I belong to In Love With Stamping  ILWS you’ll find me there under the name Emerald Tigger…….. This swap was to make something, anything, 3D this was the criteria You must use some kind of embellishment (ribbon, buttons, brads etc) Now, [...]

Today I am in Germany for the first ever European Stampin’ Up! convention.  I’m more than a little excited !  Actually I could probably fly myself there………but I’m taking the conventional route and going on an airplane ! A big part of convention is swapping and I have made almost 100 card fronts to swap [...]

I am here, well just back actually……..Life is a little crazy at the moment……. 2 weeks from magazine launch, my busiest month of the year for Stampin’ Up! I have had lots and lots of home workshops, classes every weekend and the small matter of the first European Stampin’ Up! convention (also in 2 weeks) [...]

Today is the last day to get any of the last chance list stamps…………call or email me to get your orders in! Tommorrow the new catalogue goes live, there will be a link from my website to the new catalogue, but the best way to see it is on your sofa with coffee and cake [...]

Today’s card, uses just a little ink and some designer paper.  This is a great way of using up your scraps.   Stamps : Season of Joy, Winter Post Inks: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip Cardstock: Ski Slope designer paper, Whisper White Happy Stampin’ Amanda