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. A few weeks ago I attended an online stamping retreat held by Kylie & Bruno Bertucci from Australia & Lisa Cursio & Gina Hawley from America. This was the fifth retreat I had attended &, as always, it didn't disappoint. Today I have 3 lovely creations to share with you but there are loads more to share in future blogs. There are 8 different designs that are taught but a total of 3

  Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I live in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. For those of you who have previously visited my blog & are now returning, thank you. For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome!  Here's a little bit about me. 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, embossing folders, projects & sometimes special DSP and Wednesday evenings when I highlight a technique, fun folds or tools & tips. I would love to hear from you if you have any questions or suggestions & my email address for that is craftedbyalison@gmail.com. This week was a very busy week. I had a few commissions to work on including creating Thank You cards for my daughter to send after her engagement party. We all had a wonderful time celebrating with them & now look forward

 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. Scoring is an essential part of card making as you need to have good score lines to create card folds, especially for fun folds. But scoring can also be a feature or addition to your cards. Plus it's a quick & easy way to lovely cards. This week I have 3 pretty cards I made in around 30 mins using DSP, cardstock & embellishments that were readily available. These three cards were very easy

 Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I live in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. For those of you who have previously visited my blog & are now returning, thank you. For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome!  Here's a little bit about me. 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, embossing folders, projects & sometimes special DSP and Wednesday evenings when I highlight a technique, fun folds or tools & tips. I would love to hear from you if you have any questions or suggestions & my email address for that is craftedbyalison@gmail.com. This week was a wonderful week for our family as we all came together to celebrate my eldest daughter's engagement. It was a wonderful chance for family & friends to get together, eat, dance, drink & catch up. This w

 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. In this week's blog I have 2 cards that use the Deckled Circles & Deckled Rectangles dies as well as some DSP that I created for Sunday 11th February's Colour Challenge blog.  The colour challenge is the Global Design Team colour challenge for February 2024. The colours they chose are Lemon Lime Twist, Blackberry Bliss, Pumpkin Pie & Crushed Curry. Amazing, rich colours that allow you

  Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I live in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. For those of you who have previously visited my blog & are now returning, thank you. For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome!  Here's a little bit about me. 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, embossing folders, projects & sometimes special DSP and Wednesday evenings when I highlight a technique, fun folds or tools & tips. I would love to hear from you if you have any questions or suggestions & my email address for that is craftedbyalison@gmail.com. This week's creation is designed from a Colour Challenge. It's also been scheduled for publication as I will be participating in another Online Stamping Retreat with the lovely Kylie & Bruno Bertucci as well as Lisa

 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. In this week's blog I show you a unique way to gift some humble chocolate bars so that they look impressive rather than humble plus I will recap some of the highlights of my previous 99 mid week blogs, including links to them. First of all, let's fancy up the humble chocolate bar with some fancy wrapping. How fancy does a simple block of chocolate look when you put it into one of these??? I us