Christmas Card Creations

Well it's that time of year again. Christmas is upon us,  Joy to the World!
I have created 3 cards,  using the Let it Snow suite and 1 using a retired set, here they are, full details and full size image below for all 3 cards.

TGCDT: September 2019 - Artist Trading Cards

Hello everyone and welcome to the September Blog Hop for The Gentlemen Crafters Design Team.

I have been on a bit of an Artist Trading Card kick recently and that is the my theme for this months post.

Here is what I have come up with, the title is 'Circles'

CASE the Catalogue - Happy Tails

After a bit of a hiccup, we are back with making stunning cards, courtesy of the Stampin' Up catalogue!

This one is Happy Tails.

Hardwood Trees Sympathy

I haven't really used this background stamp very much and thought it was time to give it some love, there is so much new stuff around at the moment, I think it is important to take time out and revisit the older sets.

Hello Cupcake

Seriously though!  Such Fun!
I case'd the Sale-A-Bration catalogue and added a twist!
With fussy cutting and I hate fussy cutting!!

Revisiting Sheltering Tree

Welcome to number two in an occasional series where I revisit an older but still current stamp set.

Today it is the turn of Sheltering Tree and a #simplestamping one layer friendship card.

#stampinforall Design Team Challenge 14th January 2019

Welcome to another #stampinforall Design Team Project.

This week the challenge is to use a Sale-A-Brathion freebie from the 2019 SAB catalogue.

At the moment I only have the one, the most beautiful Botanical Butterflies DSP, and this is what I have come up with by tweaking a sample from the SAB catalogue.

Best Bunny Bundle

What an amazing set this is, stamp set and a matching punch.

This is what I designed.

Revisiting Lovely as A Tree

Such a beautiful set this, been around forever and will probably continue to be so.
A simple card, 1 bit of stamping and 1 bit of embossing to create a classic card. No sentiment is on purpose as it can then go in your card stash and a sentiment added to suit the occasion.

You Are Strong and Beautiful

A meeting of two beautiful stamp sets (see what I did there!)
Beautiful You has to be one of my all time favourites, it's only missing one thing to make it perfect... DIES!!
This is what I have designed for this project. #simplestamping

Strong and Beautiful Meets Love What You Do

Today we are looking at #simplestamping I have chosen a current set and a new set in the Spring/Summer 2019 catalogue.

This is what I came up with

Share What You Love meets Eastern Palace

Ok, so day 2. Over in the #stampinforall facebook group the challenge this week has been to do a fun fold card and here is my take on it, inspired by Klompenstampers here

Easy Beautiful Card with Stamparatus™

Same basic card as the previous video but used the Stampin' Up!® Stamparatus™ instead, made the card a lot quicker to do and with 4 stamping platforms (more than any other stamp positioning tool) was so easy to place 3 stamps.

An Easy Beautiful Card for #stampinforall Design Team

This week the design team have set the challenge of only using products available in the new Stampin' Up! catalogues, so the annual and holiday catalogues only.Thanks go to a German demonstrator for the inspiration of this gorgeous card.

Big Bow Card with Stampin' Up!

Hi everyone, I spotted a video by LiveLoveScrap on YouTube of a lovely big bow card and had to case. The original was made using non-su products and you can watch it here.

My version is 100% current Stampin' Up!

Using up DSP and Other Bits Part 3 of 8

Well it is Monday and time for part 3 of the using up DSP and other bits series.

Today we are looking at the Whole Lot of Lovely DSP and I did 4 colourways with it, the card is a design by Linda Bedinger and you can see her original here

The first two cards has their main colours as Tangerine Tango and Old Olive, and the sentiments are from Sunburst Sayings (retired) and Beautiful You (current)

Case an Overseas Demo Challenge

Over in the #stampinforall group on facebook I have entered a challenge to case an overseas demo and this is my entry. I chose Arelli Johnson of withhisgifts.com her original card is here.

Goodbye Butterfly Basics

Here I say goodbye to one of my favourite stamp sets, Butterfly Basics. Thanks to withhisgifts for the inspiration, you can find her original card here

Birthday card for my wife.

Here is the card I made for my wife's birthday today, thanks to Linda Parker for the idea, you can find her original card here

My March ATC swaps

Hi all, here are my swaps for the UK Stampers Forum on Facebook. The March theme is Florals.