Create Flowers of the Season

If you think of flowers in summer, you will probably think of roses and what better way is there of bringing some seasonal colour to your creativity, than by making these lovely fabric roses from seam binding ribbon. They will add a great dimension to your cards/layouts and when teamed with stamped images, give a very elegant look to your work. They are also extremely satisfying to make!

In the sample card, the roses have been teamed with stamped images using the Greenhouse Garden two-step stamps and the paper is from the Springtime Vintage collection.
If you'd like to have a go at making them, we will be making them in some of our Caerphilly cardmaking and scrapbooking workshops throughout August, so if you don't want to miss out, book your place now!
The seam binding ribbon is available in four gorgeous colours: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz (pictured in my card) and Rose Red. here is the colour chart from the catalogue.

Adding Shape To Easel Cards

I thought you might like to see these pretty shaped easel cards that I have been making with my Big Shot. By using the fantastic Scallop Circle and Top Note dies from Stampin' Up! you are able to create some really lovely shapes to work with. To make the Scallop Circle Easel card, I started with a folded 5"x5" square card base and placed it over the die, so that fold was inside the die shape. To make the Top Note shaped card, I started with a folded C6 card base and placed it inside the die shape before passing through the Big Shot.

Once they have die cut the base card, score one side of the card in half.

Then make a single die cut shape in the same design and stick it to the lower part of the fold.

The best thing is, you can then die cut your patterned paper to cover it exactly with no extra cutting out by hand and it will fit perfectly! Here is a close up and more details of the two designs:
Made with Springtime Vintage papers and Nature Walk stamp setMade using Elegant Soiree papers and Vintage Vogue stamps.

Scrap Mad with Stampin' Up!

Last weekend, I held one of my popular Scrap Mad Days, so this week I thought I'd share some of the layouts that we did throughout the day. The whole day was based around a fabulous kit of Stampin' Up products including a Designer Series Paper Stack and matching cardstock pack.
The theme of the day was quick and adaptable scrapbook layouts and the ladies who attended were able to adapt my class projects with their packs by swopping their papers to different colours and patterns, in order to suit their photos.

We had some wonderful results and although they were the same layouts, they all looked so different in the different colours and patterns. Everyone agreed it was a great day and I look forward to bringing another Scrap Mad Day to Caerphilly soon.

On The Rocks: was a total die-cutting fest, using all my new Stampin' Up Big Shot dies to great effect. In this layout I used the Scallop Circle, Fun Flowers, Little Leaves and Sweet Buttons embosslits dies and the Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue papers/card from the Subtles Designer Series block. So quick to do and beautiful results!

Once Upon A Time: On this layout I used the pretty Flight of the Butterfly stamp set and the Top Note and Scallop Circle dies, together with the scallop border punch. Colours are So Saffron, Marina Mist and Bashful Blue from Subtles Collection.

More layouts in my Scrapbooking Gallery.