Hi there Creators, Today I'm showing you how to create a little box with a Christmas Tree standing up on top of it, this is actually one of the projects my Craft@Home group have to create this month (if you would like more details about my Craft@Home group, just ask) You could give a Christmas presy in this box, and then it can be stored to use as a decoration, the ribbon is a belly band around the box, so it will slide on and off, and the tree can be stored inside the box when it's been packed away How to make this?  well...... you're going to need  3 (or more) symmetrical trees for the tree decoration, I've used Twinkling Lights Dies , you can also buy them as part of a bundle with a stamp set too (bundles give you a 10% discount) Christmas Lights Bundle . 😍 Something to colour your trees with, I used Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz and Shaded Spruce inks brushed on with a blending brush.  (Although I'm now thinking they'd look good cut from Designer Papers.) An

 Hi there Creators Iust realised that I haven't done a blog post yet for the cards we'll be creating in class on Wednesday 2nd at 10.30am Laanecoorie, Thursday 3rd at 7pm in Laanecoorie, and Saturday 5th at 10.30am in Maryborough. This month we're ramping it up for Christmas with 3 Christmas cards and one other (which is so cute!)  lets go the cute one first 😀  I've used the Glad We're Friends stamp set, I just think the dog (which reminds me of a corgi) is so cute! then I've teamed it up with the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks.  If you'd like to see the full list of what I've used in this card, click here:  What Heather Used   Next up are our Christmas Cards, I absolutely love this circular die in the Brightest Glow Bundle, and it works perfectly to add a dangly bauble in the middle to see what I used click here:  What Heather Used The next also uses the same dies from the Brightest Glow Bundle and this pretty Wonderful Snowflake, check out what I used

 Hi there Creators,  My video today was on 2 Step Stamping, which I'm sure most people if you've been stamping for a while would have done, but not everyone would have realised there actually is a name for it!  The basics of it is that you stamp one image then stamp another one on top, usually it would be an outline image then a fill in image on top, which is what I'm showing using the Hand Penned Petals Stamp set today, I mention in the video that it does come as a bundle, however it appears I was wrong 😳  oops, apparently that was last year, now it's separate, so..... you can also get dies that go with it, called Penned Flowers Dies that cut out the various images.  Do check them out with the links I've added.  Anyway, on to the cards, I decided in the video to use the same colours for each one, and I've got to say, I absolutely love the way these have turned out, I hope you do too. I've used Evening Evergreen for the leaves/ stems and outline, stamped

 Hi There Creators, Well somewhere I saw someone had done Faux Tiling, and it kind of fascinated me, so I've been experimenting...... to begin with I wasn't impressed with the results and eventually I realised that it's because I like to see the grouting looking white, or at least, contrasting with the "tiles", so I discovered that if I added extra colour to the background it worked for me 😃  enter, Watercolour shapes stamp set , perfect to give a smidgen of colour! Here are the 2 cards I completed before the video to show off the technique, I used the large rectangle watercolour shape for these. The top card uses Edens Garden , Jar of Flowers , and Charming Sentiments Stamp sets and the bottom card uses the Charming Sentiments , and Painted Poppies Stamp sets (along with the Watercolour Shapes) Then I also made this one, which I'm not so keen on, I used the circle watercolour shape for the background on this one, and moved onto Good Feelings Stamp set, an

Hi there Creators, Today I'm showing off this Black Ice technique, all you need is silver foil cardstock, stazon black ink and a stamp set. The basics of it is: stamp carefully onto the silver foil with Stazon Black ink (the stamp will tend to want to move slightly when you stamp on foil), allow to dry then drag the stazon ink pad across the foil card.   You end up with a sort of aged looking Sepia/Black & white image, I think it's really cool - let me know what you think 😃 Here is the card I made up before the video, I thought the Heron Habitat stamp set would look good with this technique, reminds me of old Chinese pictures, I ended up using the Heron Habitat bundle (dies and stamps) as I do love the gorgeous tags in it, and thought the long wave type die would look good on the side   Then this piece of foil is the one I actually stamp up in the video, and this is how I made the card with it, there are actually 3 different foils in the Silver Foil Specialty Pack, there&

Hi Creators,  A friend mentioned recently seeing someone doing this technique and suggested I did it as a video, it's one of my favourite techniques although I haven't done it for ages, and I hadn't done it since we had Blending Brushes, Oh my goodness it's a game changer - so much easier! It's called Josephs coat for relatively obvious reasons - that you get a beautiful multi-coloured pattern. Anyway on to the photos, here is the one I created in the video, I'm quite impressed with how it turned out, as I really couldn't see where I'd stamped so I was kind of guessing 🤣  I forgot to use my embossing buddy hence the lighter areas where the embossing powder stuck to the cardstock, all in all though I'm happy with it. And my finished card, I decided to minimise the bits that the excess embossing powder stuck to by popping some vellum over the top, it allows the pattern to show through, and I've heat embossed the saying with white powder.  Oh, the

 Hi there Creators Snow way - Snow and Mice!  (been waiting to say that for ages 🤣) Ok, this week I thought I'd show off the Snowfall Accents Puff Paint , it's so fascinating!  to begin with it's this watery liquid, that you can dot/draw on, then magic happens when you heat it up with the heat tool, and it becomes this puffy snow stuff!  I think it works well with the Caroling Mice host set (you can only get this set if you purchase over $250 of goodies or host a party/ gather up orders to get you over $250) Here's the 2 cards I made before the video: This one first, which is kind of hard to photograph the white snow on white card (umm didn't think that one through lol)  So then I got smart and went with night of navy (which makes sense as I'm envisioning the mouse singing in the night)  I've coloured a bit of green watercolour pencil into the gaps in the snow to give the ground a bit more of a grassy effect.  I thought the Merry Melody embossing folder