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. I blog twice a week, once 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 have a super easy card sketch to share with you plus 2 cards that I made using that design.  Firstly, here are the two creations... ..and here is the sketch I used to create them... The measurements are: 1st matte (not shown in sketch) - 8.9 x 13.2cm  I added this extra matte to give colour to the front & so that I could have a contrast behind the DSP when using Basic White for the 2nd ma

  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! 😍 This week's cards both started with the lovely, tranquil Oceanfront stamp set but they are both very different. Here they are side by side... I love how they turned out & also love how the one stamp set can be used with other stamps & dies to give totally different looks. The first card is similar to others I have made but this time I wanted more of an evening feel to the card rather than a sunny day time. I used both the Oceanfront & Waves of Inspiration stamp sets so that I could have the cute pelican as a feature. The colours used for 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 something special for those you love. I blog twice a week, once 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's blog features blending, masks & silhouette stamping. It's very useful to create background mattes for cards & is very versatile as the combination of colours, stamps & masks is endless - just use whatever you have on hand! I started with some Basic White mattes, blending brushes and the retired Butterflies & Flowers decorative masks. Remember, you can use whatever mat

 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! 😍 This week's cards are created using the lovely Circle Sayings stamp set. The set comes with lots of semi-circle images & sentiments & is complimented with a 2 3/8" (6cm) punch. The set goes really well with other stamps & embossing folders that I already have in my stash so I decided to make 2 cards using retired By the Bay DSP, Seashells embossing folder & the new Twisted Rope embossing folder. I hope you like them. I chose beachy, earthy colours for both of the cards & different layouts.  The first card is all about the shell

 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, once 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's blog features two cards made using the new Circle Sayings stamp set with it's co-ordinating 2 3/8" (6cm) punch. They are based on cards from the annual catalogue (pg17) & as with most CASE'd cards are similar to the original but slightly different. They are quick & easy to make & I had a lot of fun re-creating them. I hope you like them too. Here are my finished c

 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! 😍 This week's cards are created using the He's All That stamp set & the co-ordinating dies, All That. I am trying to be good & use up old stock so I've included some DSP & diecuts when creating. I hope you enjoy them. These 2 will go into my stash for upcoming birthdays. Male cards are always a premium aren't they? Here's how I made them. For the blue card I started with a Blueberry Bushel card base & added 2 mattes, one Night of Navy & one DSP from Rings of Love. I decided to offset them a little for a slightly differ

 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, once 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.  I do love a technique that is different but can still create a bit of a WOW factor to make a card special. This week I have a very easy technique that I hope you enjoy. Here is a closeup of the finished project.... To start this techniques you will need some DSP & a piece of clear plastic window sheet. The DSP featured here is from Like An Animal. Cut the DSP into 1cm strips. Next, apply a small