I hadn’t planned to film this tutorial just yet. I was planning and playing and making prototypes and had that ‘eureka’ moment when I realised my box design could have dual purposes. Declaring this on my facebook page, it was met with ‘stop teasing us and share the photos’ which I subsequently did. Well that was then met with ‘are…
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I love to have a simple and elegant card. Sometimes it’s just enough to have a few words to say everything you need. One of my downline, Sam Johnson, makes the most striking cards, and her style is beautiful. One of the first cards she made after joining my team was so striking, I knew I wanted to do a…
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I love this set in the new Annual Catalogue for 2013- 2014. It’s really rather lovely, and when you need to send a note to someone at zero notice, it’s always the kind of card that you haven’t made previously, or don’t have ready made to hand. That you can whip up a card in a few minutes is ideal…
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Colour. I love colour. Bright, muted, soft, hard. All of them. But…. they have to ‘make sense’ in my head. I couldn’t put red and pink and then blue together. It would rattle my brain a bit. But I do love to put really bright colours together and see what happens. Sometimes I just put bits of scrap cardstock on…
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Inspired by a friend, the talented soap maker Peta, of Squeaky Clean Soap, this business card holder has been designed to be free standing on a table, shop counter, or anywhere you want to have your cards easily accessible. Peta spotted my greetings card holder tutorial of a few days ago, and asked if I could make a version for…
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Sometimes it’s less about creating marvellous things with stamps, and more about celebrating the beautiful designs of our Designer Series Papers. I so so love the Afternoon Picnic paper, that I wanted to showcase that rather than anything else. For anyone who has seen it up close, and personal, it has a sort of ‘aged’ and ‘vintage’ look and feel…
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Following the massive popularity of my original Cake Slice Box that needed no templates or electronic die cutting machines, I’ve been asked many many (many!) times to rework it into Imperial measurements. So, as promised, here you go, (with full video tutorial and talk through). It is essentially the same as the original box, with only a slight height difference….
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