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Hero Arts challenge blog Design team

Hi all! I’m soooo excited to announce that I am now on the design team for the official Hero Arts challenge blog called A Blog Named Hero! Did you know that Hero Arts have a challenge blog and that there are two gift vouchers worth $25 and $50 to their store to be won every month, just by entering your craft project using Hero Arts products? You didn’t? well, you do now!

The challenges start on…

Shoot for the Stars

While I was creating my little bit of organisational heaven, I was hunting through pinterest for images of stamps to use in my inventory.  Once the stamp is retired it’s not so easy to locate these.  Keeping focused and on track while I was looking for the plain image and not cards to CASE was so not easy but on the whole I managed it.  With a couple of exceptions.

We have all bought stamps on…

Calling All Sistahs – July Encouragement Challenge

Its time for our 3rd Encouragement challenge over at Casual Fridays Calling All Sistahs challenge blog, where any style of cards are welcome, as long as its a card to lift someone’s spirit,  and this wonderful mood blog should help you to do so! I was inspired by the hot air balloon and the blue sky in the mood blog make this card using CAS-ual Fridays Floating stamp set. I wanted to convey a…

Calling All Sistahs – Check Yourselves!

Its that time if the month again ladies, time to check yourselves! Breast Cancer is not contagious, but you can catch it early… if you check yourself monthly and go for regular check ups. This reminder was started by the amazing Michele at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, after she was diagnosed with Cancer. You can read her story here. Since then, a bunch of us Sistahs make cards as a fun way to remind…

Just a quick post today as I’m actually on the road, in France, on our way to see some friends, who have a beach house in the South west of France, where we’ll stay for a week. Its actually our first long vacation together as a family this year and we’re already having a lot of fun! As I made this card before I left I wanted to share it, especially over at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge where…

Waste not Want not

This was a very quick simple card to make so it will be a quick and simple post! I used the Perfect Card Making Formula which I talked about here, and scraps from a card I made which I wasn’t happy with in the end. I first die cut the intricate frame using Spellbinders Art Nouveau Floral Swirls die, stamped it with Versamark, poured gold Wow embossing powder over it and heat embossed it. While…