Time to start trimming the tree

 This was another card that I made while I was away- Relaxation can be so inspiring! For this card I’ve used Kiwi Kiss, Bashful Blue, Riding Hood Red inks and used Holiday Treasures DSP and the wonderful eyelet punch. I think that this will feature at some card classes later in the month. It’s a [...]

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Merry Christmas and happy (almost) New Year!

I have just realised that it’s been an age since I last posted.. I got caught up in the Christmas rush, was busy with classes at the Community Centre and Photobucket hasn’t been playing nice, so I couldn’t show you what I’d been doing…. you get the gist.  I gave up on the posting for a little while [...]

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How quick is this? Very!

Here’s a very quick Christmas card using the Very Merry stamp set 2 sizes of square punch and 2 sizes of star punch – Very simple, very easy ~ really!

Colours used are Real Red, Certainly Celery & Whisper White.  ‘Nuff said!
Michelle

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Bloomin’ Merry Merry..

Or should that be Blue Merry Merry?  I was inspired by my something in the recent Cardmaking and Papercraft & not surprisingly, it was my upline, Jayne.  She had used some of the in colours ~ Soft Sky & Blue Bayou and Purely Pomegranate ~ which she had used to create some lovely Christmas cards.  [...]

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Is it a card or a gift box….?

Perhaps it’s a Gard? or .. ..hmmm, I can’t think of anything that doesn’t sound well, just odd.  How about an “exploding card” ~ that explains it properly!

It’s a great little box that doubles as a card.  Just for those wee gifts.  How gorgeous!  We did these last week at my first class at Chelsea [...]

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Season of Joy

This is another card that we made at the “Christmas with a Twist” class at the Chelsea Heights Community Centre.

We embossed gold and silver metallic ink on purely pomegrante card to make the front part of the card. We used the word window punch to make the slit to pop in a gift card.

The Season [...]

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…and an ornament in a lime tree….

Just a slightly different Christmas Carol.  I haven’t got the traditional tree up yet, so the Tahitian Lime had to act as the Festive tree on this gorgeous sunny day.  Didn’t she do a fine job? (Yes, it’s a she and she has a name ~ ‘Maddy’, surely you name your beloved plants?)
How gorgeous are [...]

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It’s Wheely good!

Stampin’ Up! has a great special this month – buy a selected stamp set and get the matching Jumbo wheel for free!  That’s a saving of $15.95.  Check my website for details.
One of the sets is the Priceless Bundle ~ that I just LOVE (you probably already know that…)

Not to mention that it coordinates well [...]

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