Hi there Creative Peeps! Well let's face it here in Australia, Christmas in July is a bit of a thing!, and the last couple of years I've done a Mega Christmas in July Class, for obvious reasons that's not possible at the moment, but I figured I can still make up a special Christmas in July kit. The details; this kit will give you 10 beautiful Christmas cards with envelopes to make. I've used traditional colours; Gold, Red, Green, and Silver. And a cute box to store them in, which you'll also be decorating up, so once you've given out the cards, you could use the box to wrap something special for someone in. You'll get full instructions and I plan to do a video, so I'll email the video out those who order it. Order by the end of the day Tues 14th July and I will be aiming to send out the packs on Friday 24th. What you'll need: Multipurpose Liquid Glue, and Dimensionals, scissors, either the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp set, which is $38, and I think i

Hi there Creators, Well I've got to say this was THE set I had to have!  Having raised goats on our property for quite a few years when I saw goats, that was it - "it floated my goat" (as we say in our household). Let's get down to the nitty gritty...  The Stamp set "Way to Goat". ..... the photos..... This first one was inspired by my good friend Reyne, who said Oh I've got to get that set and make a Conga with them, I loved that idea, so here it is..... I've layered the sheet on the Artistry Blooms Patterned Paper , and used some of the dies from the Special Day dies (balloon & grass and saying bubble) This next card cracks me up, the goat looks fed up and grumpy to me (although when I showed my husband he said the goat looks guilty and fat from eating, which I can see now too)  With this card I used the Flowers for Every Season patterned paper , and a bit of vellum. And the last card, see I thought this goat looked a bit guilty (not that goat

Hi there Creators, I'm making myself a bit of a challenge to make at least 3 cards with each set of stamps/dies that I've bought, so here we are onto day 4 (not sure how long I'll be able to keep it up, but so far so good lol)  I figured while I'm making them I'm going to share them with you all (hope you enjoy it and it inspires you). Hence, I've moved onto the Arrange a Wreath Bundle today which consists of the Arrange a Wreath Stamp set and the Wreath Builder Dies .   If you end up with a bundle you save 10% on the cost of buying them (bonus) .  Anyway you're not here to hear me waffle!, on to the cards..... Soooo...... the reason I bought this set was for the wreath's, and Christmas!  however it does come with this cute "Love" heart, and flowers....and bow! For this card I've teamed it up with the Artistry Blooms Patterned Paper , which as I mentioned in the last post, I really love the grading in the paper!, also used the lovely Rain

Hi there Creators I'm on a roll! 3rd day of blogging lol  this time I've use the Friendly Silhouette Dies - I know they're not new to the catalogue, but they are new to me 😀 I think they're pretty cool, there's 4 dies in the pack, 3 of them are large edgelit type dies, and create a scene, which I love. Anyway you're probably not here to hear me waffle on, so we'll commence with the evidence...... this first card uses the die that cuts out the palm trees, I've done this in white card, then masked a circle for the moon, brayered over the background, and attached it onto an Early Espresso piece of card, which then is attached to the main card, it's pretty effective isn't it? This second card uses the flowers die cut from white card, I've coloured it up with the markers and stuck it down onto the card, voila nice and easy! My last card is possibly my favourite, (ties with the palm trees! lol)  for this one again I've used white card, but us

Hi there Creators, Thought I'd share with you today the Hand Drawn Blooms Bundle , it's pretty amazing!  a pretty stamp set and really great dies, I've got a couple of cards to show you. This first one is a nice simple card, the flowers and the stems are 2 different stamps in the Hand-drawn Blooms stamp set , but they fit together very easily, the sayings come in 2 lines, so with this card I've only inked up the one line, and lightly (and roughly) coloured in the flowers with the watercolour pencils . This second card uses the main die from Banner Blooms , how amazing is it?!  it doesn't have dies to separately cut out the saying, so I recommend that you stamp the saying on spare card, then lay the die over it, draw round them both, and cut them out by hand.  I've also used the fabulous Rainbow Glimmer Paper , wow this is amazing!  And if you love glitter, but don't like it coming off on you (or going everywhere) this one doesn't! it clings rigidly to

Hi there Creators Just in case the title didn't give it away, we have Mini Paper Pumpkin boxes   which are only $13 for 10 of them!  they're so cute, you can fit the note cards and envelopes   (the link is for the white ones, but there are vanilla ones too) into it, so they're a fair size!  Also they're food safe, so you could put a biscuit in 😊  I've decorated this one up with the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper , funny really I didn't think much of this paper when I ordered it but I wanted to see what it was like, now I'm feeling a bit hooked! lol Anyway on with the photos..... I've cut the Artistry Blooms Patterned paper so the grading on it goes all the way round the box, starting with the flap, then top, back, underneath and lastly on the piece under the flap, then I've cut 2 separate pieces for the sides.  I do love the way this paper is graded up the page to the different colours. On the top I've used one of the square vellum doilie

Hi there Creators,well continuing the Patterned Paper journey.  I moved onto the pretty "Flowers for Every Season Designer Series Paper"   As this paper comes in 6x6" sheets I've cut mine to 2x3", and decided to have a go at making a card out of each piece (Challenge accepted, as they say! lol) I've aimed to use the same stamp set, which is the Itty Bitty Greetings , such a versatile set!  then I strayed into the Itty Bitty Christmas set for the Christmas card. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here goes..... Pheww!  11 cards (as you can see I used 2 pieces on one card, I've also aimed to use the new colours in these, as they are featured in this paper pack.  Having said that my new ink pads haven't arrived yet, so I found that Shaded Spruce works well with the Just Jade, Night of Navy is ok with the Misty Moonlight and the papers also have Poppy Parade in them, which I already have (yay!) Hope these inspire you

Hi there! I've had a bit of an opportunity to play with some of my new bits, so thought I'd show you what I've been making up with my new Celebrate Sunflowers bundle (stamps and dies)  It's actually pretty cool the way the stamp lines up with the cut die image, so that's what I've gone with in this first card, and I really like the 2 branch/frond things.  Oh not forgetting the fact that there's new colours in this!  Bumblebee , and Just Jade .  If you can see the difference in the yellows, the flower itself is Bumblebee, and the centre of the flower is Crushed Curry .  I think the Crushed Curry is a little brighter than the Bumblebee.  also owing to the fact I don't have the ink pads yet, I've gone with Shaded Spruce for the ink colour, which really blends beautifully with the Just Jade.  this next card uses the new Magenta Madness cardstock (plus the Bumblebee, Just Jade and Shaded Spruce) I've used the Sunflower dies to cut out the