It’s my Birthday and OnStage Telford swaps

  It’s my Birthday today but before the family come round to celebrate with me I wanted to show you the swaps I made.  I’m too excited to wait until the weekend. On Saturday Geoff and I went to OnStage in Telford where we met up with lots of demonstrator friends and fellow Pootler’s and […]

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Snowflake Showcase #5 & 2nd Generation Ink explained

  Today I have a beautiful card to share with you using the Snowflake Showcase products.  I have used the Snowflake Swirl stamp again but this time I have used it as the focal image on my card.  If you are new to my blog I made the stamp by die-cutting the snowflake swirl die […]

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InspireINK Blog Hop #11 Secret Santa

Yay!! It’s Blog Hop day.  I’ve missed the last few hops but now I’ve finished the wedding stationery I’m back to ‘normal’ crafting and loving every minute of it. 

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Snowflake Showcase #3 Pop-Up Box Card

How to make the Pop-Up Box element without using a die     For my 3rd Snowflake Showcase project I have this stunning pop-up box card to share with you.

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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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Cute Chocolate Coin Holders

  Aren’t these little chocolate coin holders adorable?  I think any child, or adult, would love to find one in their Christmas stocking.  These are a great way to use up some of those scraps of cardstock and DSP that we all keep for a ‘just in case’ moment.  Well I do, do you?  In Asda […]

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Dashing Along 4″ x 4″ Lidded Box

I have another big box to share with you today and the DSP I used for the lid is  stunning. The finished dimensions are 4″ (w) x 4″ (h) x 4″ (d) and you can find all the cutting and scoring dimensions at the bottom of this post. I love the Stampin’ Up! DSP because it’s […]

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Happy Hippo Sweet Shaped Box

Thank you for joining me today.  A few weeks ago I shared a Sweet/Candy shaped box that I had made and I typed up a tutorial for it. Today I have another sweet/candy shaped box for you that is slightly narrower than the original one and it holds a Happy Hippo. After making the Hippo’s in a […]

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Pretty Petal Promenade Wedding Wallet

A few weeks ago we went to Geoff’s son Jamie’s wedding.  Kerry looked amazing in her wedding dress and we all had a great time.  Jamie and Kerry have been together for 20 years and as they have everything for their home they asked for a donation towards their honeymoon. I wanted to make a […]

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Tutorial for Sweet shaped Box

Today I have the tutorial for making these cute little Sweet shaped boxes. In my blog post on Thursday I explained that I CASED this idea from Sam at Mixed Up Crafts but I found it too painful for my hands when I was shaping the box the way Sam did it. To make it […]

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