Time, product and money saving tips.

Hello thanks for stopping by. I have been working on swaps for a group that I’m in for our new Mini Holiday catalogue swap. What is a swap I hear you ask? Well basically a swap is where you create the same card x amount of times and then mail them to the group. You …

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Postage stamp punch

Stampin Up have released a new punch in the 20-21 annual catalogue. It’s called the Rectangle Postage Stamp Punch. I love punches, in fact I have a wall of punches and I very rarely sell any of my punches. Punches are great for creating quick cards, adding detail or depth to your projects. Today I …

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Prized Peony

Hello friends... it’s a cold day here in Melbourne, Australia, the kind of day that you don’t want to go outside, not that we can here in Victoria. We are currently in stage four restrictions thanks to Covid-19 which means we can only leave our house for essential items like food and medical and one …

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Vintage Peony

I simply can not stop working with this lovely Prized Peony stamp and die set. I also love vintage looking cards. So to create this card I reverted back to using my favourite colours together Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla. These colours without fail always give you a vintage look to …

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Birds and Branches

My favourite of all stamps that I buy has got to be one with things that start with the letter B. Weather it’s birds, butterflies or bees, I have a thing for the letter B. Maybe that’s why I prefer to be called Bec and not Rebecca, perhaps that’s why I married my husband who …

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June Team Swap

For last months team swap with my team members I made a simple Hello card using Stampin’ Up!s new stamp set called Tasteful Touches, paired up with the Forever Fern stamp set and matching dies. Tasteful touches stamp set has versatile textures and images that will help you create all types of projects that are …

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Creating easy embellishments

Hello friend, today I want to share with you a way that I make quick and easy embellishments to put on my cards, journals, and tags etc. Basically what ever you are making you can pop these little embellishments on anything. The items I have used is paper clips, scrap designer series paper, thick card …

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Secret Tip….How to get extra gold foil accents for free…

Today I have been working with the Stampin’ Up!s Forever Gold Laser Cut Specialty. These are papers that have pre-cut card fronts and greenery accents, with these you can adhere the card fronts over a card base for a quick card or easily add a gold accent to your projects. As a quick tip for …

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Congratulations

So a quick update on the card I made for my friend who joined the army. He has nearly finished his recruitment training and his mum asked me to make him a congratulations card. I didn’t want to make it all army colours thinking he may have seen enough of these over the last twelve …

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Celebrate Sunflowers

As we hit winter with cold temperatures and no flowers out in our garden. I thought I would bring a little sunshine into my craft studio by the way of sun flowers. The Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set from Stampin’ Up! did just that. With the huge sunflower stamp, I have coloured in the image using …

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