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It’s sparkly!

I recently had a wonderfully relaxing weekend away in Daylesford – – *sigh* – – and took along my stamping bits so that I could have a play if the mood struck.  The mood did strike and this was one of the cards that I made -

It’s such a simple card, and think that the colours are [...]

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This was the card we made at last weekend at my Sunday class at the Chelsea Heights Community Centre -  it’s a tri-fold card. 

 We got to play with the Circle Circus stamp set – I’ve stamped it in four colours and then punched the different layers with various punches (mmmm circle scallop, second favourite after Oval scallop [...]

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..that’s what little boys are made of.  Well not quite.  But with a  few snips you can make yourself a little boy.  Card that is.. not a Pinocchio wanna be!  After being inspired by this post to make this little baby girl card . . .

. . . . I thought that I would try [...]

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I meant to mention my new header – did you notice it changed a few days ago (again)?  I’ve been trying to find the right image to have ‘up there’ so have been playing musical images. This still isn’t quite what I was after, but I was really happy with the card that this came from, [...]

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Have you had a chance to play with the new In Colours yet?  I think that Purely Pomegranate and River Rock are my latest favourites (farewell Cranberry Crisp, I’ll never forget you!).  Here’s a little box that I made using these two colours, with some of the matching double stitched ribbon (thanks for the measurements [...]

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Actually, I don’t have a little girl per se, just one of the fluffy-trousered kind.  It was her birthday yesterday ~ she was 21 (in dog years).  She’s our Little Miss Manic and we love her.  She has become (our old boy) Brutus’ best mate and pesonal exerciser. Where she goes, he goes ~ where [...]

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Just a quick note ~ I have started a new page that has tips and links to pages that have great ideas and techniques using Stampin’ Up! tools and products.  I will be updating this regularly, so keep checking the “Great Tips” out!

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play day

I finally got my stamps out yesterday for a little stamping session.  It was great to get inky fingers again! And get inky I certainly did!  I was playing with a new technique that I have been wanting to try for awhile now.  It’s called “Polished Stone”.  It’s created on glossy paper with Stampin’ Up Classic [...]

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It’s mum’s birthday so I’m sending her loads of love (from too far away) and along with her presents, I am sending a handmade card (of course!).  It’s using a new technique (new to me) called ‘crayon resist’ & I just love it.  For mum’s card I used the stamp set that we were given [...]

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I spent all day Saturday over at Fleur’s place and we were Stampin’ Up! all day. For our first project we decided to each bring a challenge, something that neither of us had done before. Fleur had a doozy! It was a Waterfall card~ it was great once we got all the bits sorted out [...]

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