Masculine Makes 1

Do you struggle when it comes to making masculine projects?       If you do you’re not the only one, lots of crafters find this challenging too.  Most of our friends are male so I need quite a few masculine cards, gift boxes/bags etc.  I’ve been thinking about doing a series based on masculine projects for […]

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World Card Making Day 2019

Kayleigh and I have had a great time in Spain.  We did lots of shopping and sight-seeing and the food was amazing especially all the ice cream we had.  Coming back to the UK was a big shock to the system, in Spain we had sunshine and 28-30° every day but when we landed at […]

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Colouring Vellum

  When I reorganised my cardstock last month I found a box of vellum that my Mother-in-Law gave me several months ago.  In the box there were several sheets of coloured vellum and I thought it was a good idea to use some to punch/die-cut several flowers and leaves, that was until I tried finding […]

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Snowflake Showcase #2 Pink Snowflake Swirl Box

  Thank you for joining me for Project #2 in my Snowflake Showcase. This beautiful Powder Pink and Silver box really has that WOW factor, the photo’s don’t capture the sparkle from the silver heat embossing.  

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Heat Embossed Foil Snowflakes

I was heat embossing Christmas sentiments yesterday afternoon and out of the corner of my eye I spotted the Foil Snowflakes I had on my worktop and I had one of those ‘light bulb moments’. There are 12 gold and 12 silver snowflakes but I wanted to see if I could emboss them with copper […]

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How to Steampunk your Shoes

I love Stampin’ Up! products but every now and then Stampin’ Up! doesn’t have the stamps I need.  Some of our friends love Steampunk and they have had birthdays over the last few months so I used Stampin’ Up! products to make this card but I had to buy the stamps from Stampendous! Nalini had a birthday coming up and I […]

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Metallic Rose Cards

These are the 4 Roses I heat embossed with Silver, Gold, Platinum and Copper embossing powders.  The photo doesn’t do them justice because they look stunning in real life. I was going to put these Roses in a frame and put it in my craftroom but I decided to make them into cards instead.   For […]

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Gold, Silver, Platinum and Copper Heat Embossing Comparison

Metallic colours are still really popular and I love images that have been heat embossed with metallic embossing powders, they look stunning. Earlier this year I went to a papercraft show where I found a pot of Platinum embossing powder that had been reduced to £1.  

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