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. If this is your first time here, thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoy what I have to share with you. If you're a returning visitor, thank you so much for supporting me! 😍  Today's blog features a stamp set that's a little bit different. It's called Days to Remember & when you first look at it you think, Calendars. But I'm here to show you that whilst it's very useful for creating calendars it can also come in handy for other important milestones or just to highlight the birthday of someone special with a very personalised card. This card was created for a lovely friend of mine & uses precut DSP for the card base. Stampin' Up® have a pack of 4"x6" DSP called Abstract Beauty & the

 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. I blog twice a week, on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies & sometimes special DSP. My second blog is mid week on a Wednesday where I look at techniques, colour challenges, card sketches, fun folds, tools & equipment & ways to make or improve your projects.  That's what this blog is about. Today I will be showing you how to stamp on Specialty paper which sometimes takes a different approach to achieve the perfect finish. So here's a pic of the front of the finished card. I started with some Stampin' Up Mother of Pearl specialty paper & embossed & diecut it with the Seashells embossing folder & Seaside Seashells dies. This gave me a lovely diecut image that I stamped dire

  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 features a beautiful stamp set called Friends are like Seashells which has a co-ordinating die called Seaside Seashells as well as Seashells 3D embossing folder. This is a stunning set that helps you to create beautiful cards. I hope you enjoy this post. These are the three cards I created with this set. The first card starts with with a Bermuda Bay base. I embossed a Basic White matte with the Seashells embossing folder. I then stamped some of the shells & greenery using Calypso Coral, Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana & Bermuda Bay. These are the colours I used in my blog on Wednesday 18/1/23 for a Colour Challenge. Full details on how the card was completed are on the Wednesday blog

 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.  I blog twice a week. On a Sunday I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies & sometimes special DSP. My second blog is mid week on a Wednesday where I look at techniques, colour challenges, card sketches, fun folds, tools & equipment & ways to make or improve your projects. That's what this blog is about. Today I have a beautiful card with colours from Colour INKspiration challenge #135.  These are Daffodil Delight, Pale Papaya, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana & Bermuda Bay. This is such a gorgeous combination & I'm so happy with how the card turned out. I hope you love it too. Isn't this colour combo gorgeous! I love how bright & cheerful these colours are together.   I started with a Bermuda

 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. If this is your first time here, thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoy what I have to share with you. If you're a returning visitor, thank you so much for supporting me! 😍  Today's blog features a gorgeous stamp & die bundle called Sending Smiles. I shared a card I CASEd from the 2022-23 catalogue in my mid week blog on Wednesday & today's blog gives you more detail on how I created that card plus 2 other cards I CASEd using the same bundle. As there was a bit of stamping & diecutting involved in creating all three I decided to stamp as much as possible at the one time then diecut them to save a bit of time. Here's a pic of the state of my desk during this process! LOL Now I'll walk you through ea

  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 is all about CASE'ing creations from the Stampin' Up® Annual Catalogue. The stamp set I have chosen to CASE is called Sending Smiles & is really sweet. It also has a matching die to cut out the large font greeting plus some beautiful flowers & greenery. First up I have a pic of the card I made as well as the card as it appears on page 14 of the current 2022-23 Annual Catalogue.  It was really hard to decide which one to CASE as they are all beautiful so I decided to CASE them all. I'm only showing you one of them in this post though but don't worry, the others will be in my post on Sunday. Here's a sneak peak at the process of creating the cards...... It's a bit messy I know