Inspiring Inkin’

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 [...]

Time to get a little inky!
A little tutorial for you, one of my favourites and you will need gloves if you don’t want inky fingers!
You will need
Baby Wipes ( any brand will do)
Plate
Ink refills
Assorted stamps (Bold solid images work best)
Cardstock

Fold the Baby wipe so it is slightly larger than the stamp you are using, This [...]

I had a wonderful weekend, lots of sunshine although it was at times a little chilly! It was really relaxing, apart from the walking backwards off the top of a 30ft abseiling tower which was slightly terrifying in a lovely way, but I did it! 3 times in fact, I now ache in [...]

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 on [...]

Well what a wonderful day, 2 different classes but the same lovely 12 ladies, thank you all for coming.  These are some of the projects we made a  Gable Bag and a Pop up chocolate bar.  

I made this gable bag from Naturals Ivory card stock, it’s a lovely creamy colour with brown flecks.  It [...]

For a swap last week, one of my lovely team Hayley gave me this card.  You can see more of Hayley’s work on her blog here.

Now this is one of my favourite styles of card and I have had some published in Making Cards Magazine.  I’ve been meaning to do a tutorial for a while [...]

This is one of the projects from the team meeting, using one of my secret weapons……….the scor-pal. A scor-pal is a scoring board that is 12″ square and wonderful for making allsorts of things from paper and card.
I currently have the imperial version but they are launching a metric version soon, so that will [...]

This was a card we made at my Pocket Silhouettes class on Valentines day, it is a lovely card the design of which has been around for a very long time. The secret panel is hidden inside.
This is my version, simple as always “I don’t do difficult !”  this is the standard saying in my [...]