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Something Saturday - Citrus Blooms

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 Hi There Creators Today I thought it would be fun to try out a technique I haven't done in ages - Paper Tole, using the new Citrus Blooms stamp set and dies.  Every so often I come across a stamp set that inspires me to do a spot of Paper Tole'ing, and this one has lots of dimension to it perfect for this technique. To those of you who are saying "Paper Tole-what-ing?"  Paper Tole is a way of taking a picture and literally adding dimension by having several images of the same picture a and cutting out the various parts of it and laying them up, so the picture literally builds up and gives a 3D type image. I thought it would make a beautiful framed piece (and a nice gift for a friend) - let me know what you think.... I did team it up with the fabulous sayings from Unbounded Love Stamp set (the dies that go with this stamp set are a must have!)   Then to create shiny bits I've added some of the fine tip glue pen which dries shiny clear😍 I also said in the video I&

Mini Camera Shutter Card

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 Hi There Creators, Today I'm showing you how to make a mini camera shutter card, it's made with an A6 piece of card (so cute!) Here are 3 of the cards as closed ,1/2 open, and open, so it makes a bit more sense (little hard to photograph!) And these are the components you'll need to make this particular one, check out this list for the products used: what Heather used   and the measurements are below. j   You'll need: A6 thick white card, scored in each side at 3.7cm 2 pieces Misty Moonlight card cut to 7cm x 5.9cm scored at 1cm on the long edge 2 pieces of designer paper cut to 1" x 4" 1 piece of designer paper cut to 2" x 4", scored in at 1/2cm (or 1/4") both ends and with the medium filled in balloon from the dies cut from the middle of it. a small balloon cut from designer paper. 2 3/8" circle punch take your pick tool  I'm not sure I'd do justice to explaining how to create this one, so I'll leave it up to the video!    I

Something Saturday - Fancy Fold Planets Card

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 Hi there Creators, We're onto Week 3 of the Designer Paper sale (which goes all of June)  and I'm still kind of stuck on the AMAZING Stargazing Paper (currently on sale for $18.48 from $21.75), it is actually part of a whole suite Stargazing Suite, but the stamp set didn't really appeal to me, however the papers are a different matter......  Oh and check out the Holographic Trio Papers (oh WOW!) having said that I haven't used them in these projects! Also there's a joining deal on during June too!  you can get an extra $48 on the normal starter kit's amazing value, so that's: Join my team in June and pick $283 of goodies but only pay $169!!  wow!  If you're interested ask me for more details - or if you know you're sure, go here:  Join Heather's team However I'm guessing you want to see the cards, and get the measurements, so here goes.................. by the way I think they might be called a Reverse bridge fold card, but I wouldn&

Something Saturday - Folded Designer Paper Card

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 Hi there Creators, Today I thought I'd show you how to make a card out of designer papers that shows off both sides of the papers (let's face it when we look at these gorgeous papers sometimes its hard to know which side is the one we want to use!) - problem solved - use both sides 🤣 And BONUS there's a designer Paper sale on all of June - woo hoo! (funnily enough both of these papers are in it 😁)   Also discovered there's a joining deal on during June too!  you can get an extra $48 on the normal starter kit's amazing value, so that's: Join my team in June and pick $283 of goodies but only pay $169!!  wow!  If you're interested ask me for more details - or if you know you're sure, go here:  Join Heather's team Here are the cards I made up, this one from the video this first one uses the fabulous Zoo Crew and the back of the card. Then this one I made up afterwards to see if I could make up a landscape card too How cool is this Stargazing Designe

Something Saturday - Designer Paper Boxes

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 Hi There Creators well today we're doing a spot of folding - Go the Origami boxes!  I used to make an origami box like this (with origami, it doesn't require glue) I wondered how I could make it so it displayed both sides of the Designer Paper, and now I've worked it out (kind of by accident!, and mine requires glue!) 🤣 Currently until the end of June there is a Designer Paper sale on - woo hoo hopefully you'll find the papers here:  Patterned Papers   The one I'm using today is called Stargazing it's quite gorgeous (as are most of the Stampin' Up! Papers)! Anyway here are the photos then I'll attempt to explain how to make them, ummmm! Ok here goes, you will need a square of Designer Paper (that is patterned on both sides) Fold the square in 1/2 so you have a rectangle, then open and fold in 1/2 the other way and open it up again (you'll now have a + in the square) now fold the corners in to the centre Then turn the whole thing over and fold the s

July Mega Class

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 Hi there Creators,  I usually do a Mega Class in January and July (normally I try and do Christmas in July) however this year as the Annual Catalogue has only just come out we don't have much of a Christmas offering, so I'm going with Kids and Big Kids (let's face it we all need Big Kids cards! - especially if you have any guys in your life - husband/kids/nephews......)  I know my husband is just a big kid 🤣  Might have to try and do Christmas later after my trip to UK. A sneak peek of the cards will be happening in my videos throughout June, however here is a conglomerate photo to whet your appetite: This time rather than receiving a Stamp set I thought we go with something different but useful......Stampin' Write Markers, very handy as you can colour your stamps with these and stamp, or use them to colour in images (and in fact other things you can do with them eg create an interesting background by colouring on a clear block and stamping it)   You'll also re

Something Saturday - Stage Window Card

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 Hi There Creators, The Zoo Crew Suite , just lends itself so perfectly to a stage setting that I just had to create an easy window card to show you. Here's the first one I made before the video: these images have been cut out from the Designer Series Paper, some of the dies do match the images, but these ones are fussy cut. then in the video I start on making this one, and this is how it turns out.  I was thinking it would make a great Christmas Card, if I can find a saying with words from a Christmas Carol for it.  I loved the idea of having double curtains, let's face it most stages have extra curtaining behind the main first curtain, if I made it again I realised that I should have positioned the 2nd curtains upstage a bit, so you see the bottom of them - ah well trial and error! Lol in the video I wonder what the sausage looking pieces are for, and then on reviewing the video I realised they could be tree decorations, I've just had another epiphany - curtain tie backs!

Cards for June Classes

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 Hi there Creators,  here is my offering for my June Card classes - dates are Wednesday 7th at 10.30am Laanecoorie, Thursday 8th 7pm Laanecoorie, and Saturday 10th at 10.30am in Maryborough, If you plan to come, do let me know!  Also due to catalogue price rises as I announced at the last classes the class cost is now $24 for all 4 cards. First Up is using the new Beautiful Balloons stamp set (such a fabulous set for anyone!)  And it does come as a bundle with the dies (which we use later anyway)And do you spy some of the new colours in this? Azure Afternoon, Lemon Lolly, Lemon Lime Twist 😍 Up next another one of the new Bundles, I especially like this one as I love punches especially useful circles! The Circle Sayings Bundle has a 2 3/8" circle punch, the 2" circle punch in the Online exclusives is a great fit for the middle! (do you spy more new colours?  Moody Mauve and Copper Clay) I couldn't resit using the fringing die from Beautiful Balloons Dies to create this