Crafted by Alison

 Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. Today's blog shows you how to create bonbons for gift giving. I had a good play around with sizes & materials to see what works & what doesn't. I hope you enjoy it! Here are 3 different sizes I created for this blog. The top one is an eight sided design. The centre one is six sided. The smaller bottom one is 5 sided. The following pictures show the steps I took to create the centre bonbon. To begin I used a regular scoreboard.  With a piece of DSP measuring 17.5 x 30.5cm I scored the long side at 5cm & 25.5cm.  On the short side I scored at 2.5cm intervals for the whole length. The following pics show the measurements as the DSP doesn't show the scorelines clearly. Next I used an Envelope Punch board.

 Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create some beautiful cards with the Merriest Moments collection. I previously showed you some cards using this set but I had so many more ideas buzzing around in my head that I had to create more things! This time though, it's not cards but gift tags. These were so quick & easy to make. They all follow the same theme but are different. JOY For the first tag I used Garden Green & Basic White cardstock. I used a strip of Garden Green & the Timber embossing folder to create a nice textured piece. With the Tailor Made Tags dies I diecut one Garden Green & one Basic White tag. I also used the tiny eyelet die from the same set to create a contrast eylet in Garden Green. I then stamped leaves, greenery & a poinsettia with Garden Green, Real Red &

 Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. Today's blog shows you how to create Octagonal Boxes in various sizes for gift giving. These boxes look gorgeous & impressive but are quite easy to make. I hope you enjoy what I have for you this week. How gorgeous does this look? I created this with some ladies from a card making group that I attend each month. We all started with the same design but 'made it our own' by changing the score lines or using a larger piece of cardstock. Here are 3 that were made by myself & 2 other ladies. As you can see, they're all lovely & very different. Once you know the basics of this design you can create all sorts of gift boxes for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, you name it! I first saw this on Rachel T

  Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create some beautiful cards using two stamp sets for the one creation - Nothing's Better Than..... and Sweet Candy Canes.  Here are the two completed cards. One is for a birthday or special occasion the other is for Christmas. Neither of them have candy canes on & I did this on purpose to show that the stamp sets can be used in lots of ways & not always as you first thought! The first card I made kept to the Christmas theme but with a twist. Starting with some Evening Evergreen cardstock I added a matte of Sweetest Christmas DSP. I used the sentiment from Sweet Candy Canes but added cookies & hot chocolate instead of canes. They cookies & drink were stamped onto some leftover circles from a previous post, made using the Give It A Whirl dies. The co

 Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. Today's blog shows you how to create a fun fold step card without having to make cuts in the base card. Traditional step cards can be a little daunting when you are first starting out with fun folds so today's card takes away some of the anxiety by replacing the cutting step with the addition of a panel to create a 'faux' step card. I hope you enjoy this technique.  This week I didn't take step by step photos as the instructions are pretty simple to follow. It looks like there's a lot to do but I've broken the instructions down into simple steps, hence 15 steps, but this is just to make it easy to follow.  To create this card you will need : Framed Florets stamp set & dies Main colour cardstoc