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. This week I have a fun technique for you called Fault Line. It's a simple technique that creates a torn feature edge on cardstock to expose DSP below. I played around with the technique to create a landscape & portrait design. Here are the completed cards... The first card I created was the landscape tear as this is the most common one you find when searching for this technique. It was created...

  Hello & welcome.  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. Stampin' Up® 's Annual Catalogue was released last year with a very different format & it's a beauty! It's set out quite differently to previous catalogues but there are benefits to that. They now have sectioned it t...

 Hello everyone,  Thank you for stopping by my blog. Usually I have a post mid week about techniques, tips or tools to help you learn more about creating cards & 3D projects. This week's post was meant to be about a card technique but I'm sorry that there will be no post. Our family has been blessed with the most amazing soul who has brought love, happiness, laughter, kindness & support in the guise of our family dog - Buddy. He has graced our world for 17 years & brought happiness to everyone who has known him.  Over the last few years Buddy has gotten old & with that comes aged health concerns. We have nurtured & nursed him as best we can but these last few months his health has declined to a point where we can no longer bear to see his struggles. We have had to make the agonising decision to say goodbye to him to allow him to have some peace. Today we said goodbye. Since our family made that decision we have chosen to spend as much time as we can wi...