At our team training day we experimented with stamping with acrylic blocks. We inked up our blocks with a couple of colurs,( I used baja and craft), added a little shimmer paint with gladwrap, spritzed a little water and stamped. Once dry it gave a beautiful background for some more stamping. This card uses the Noteably Ornate set and the Elements of style rose.

Artistic Etchings is another great set. The Ornate circle is stamped in Frost white shimmer. The butterflies are from the beautiful wings embosslit die, sponged and shimmered.

This is my boss' farewell card, using the sale-a-bration Bliss set, Crackle background and lots of inking and Frost white Shimmer paint. It also uses a Tim Holtz die I borrowed from a friend.

Artistic Etchings and Notably Ornate sets. The crown was stamped in the Champange shimmer paint.

The Style beautiful set, has beautiful flouishes which are used in the background of this card. The Clearly for you set, used in the image is another beautiful set with 12 little images you can use for many different designs.

Natures Turtles

Manhatten Ribbon Rose

Love Island Floral die Flowers

Butterfly Elements

Grunge Rock Birthday

Now I am doing workshops again, I have been busy making samples showing different techniques and sets.





















Brayered emboss resist Ocean Commotion, Perfect Punches, Elegant lines EF






















Loads of Love, Top Note, Scallop Square, Lots of Tags dies


















Elements of Style, Tiny tags, Beautiful wings embosslit, Finial Press EF.

Kimono Kids, Well scripted, Itty bitty puches, two-step bird punch, Scollop Oval Punch, Greenhouse Gala DSP.

Sew Suite, Square Lattice EF, DS Paper stack, Itty Bitty punches and Bitty buttons.

UspsyDaisy, Nature Walk, Jumbo eyelets.

Friends 24/7, Clearly for you, Vintage wallpaper EF. Antique brads.

Dasher, Perfect Punches, Music Notes, Petals-a-Plenty EF, Jumbo Brads.

Contempo Christmas, Winter Post, Jolly Holliday DSP, Basic pearls, Vintage trinkets.

Friends 24/7, Lap of Luxury DSP, Scallop circle punch.

Brayered and Sponges background. Medallion, Just Believe, and Two-step bird.

Clearly for you, Little leaves, and Foral Fusion Dies, Botanical gazzete DSP.

Bliss, Greenhouse Gala DSP, Filigrae brads.

Sew Suite, Oval All, Elegant Soiree DSP, Scallop Oval.

French Foliage Mosaic card using Peach Parfait, Pear pizzazz, Poppy parade, on Sahara Sand cardstock.

Another French Foliage mosiac card on Tangerine tango cardstock.

Friends Never Fade in Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, and Certainly celery.

Thanks for Owl you do card using the owl punch, Kraft, Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler and Marina Mist.
Babooshka doll made with the owl punch. Also used Elements of stlyle , Lap of luxury dsp, Pretty in pink, Concord crush.

The 7 week term of Community Learning is almost at an end. These are the cards we got to make.

Week 1 Thoughts and Prayers set. I just love this set and the Bella Rose DS paper. The new Eyelet border punch gives a real lace feel on the white cardstock.

Week 2. Eastern Influence. This rose is great for watercolouring or blending with with your blender pen and inkpads. The Haiku DS Paper also has a great eastern feel.

Week 3. Voila' Cheers and Tart and Tangy, combined nicely to create this fun card. The colours were Green galore and Lovely lilac.

Week 4. Good friend. We had fun with this two-step set, and new supernova glitter.

Week 5. Fresh cuts. Here we got to try our hand at colouring the glosss card with alcohol and reinkers. We also got out our finger daubers to sponge a little colour exactly where we wanted it!

Week 6. All in the family. Everyone got to design there own family with all the cute images you can mix and match from this set. The background clouds are easily sponged using the Scallop circle punched out. The flower trio punch also gave us our fake buttons!

Week 7. Dreams de jour. This is a simple but elegant card with the image directly coloured with markers. It's great now that you can purchase them separately.

Well that's all for this year. I'd like to thank all the lady's that share our special time together stamping for their encouragement. I love sharing and creating with you all. God bless!

This is an embossed resist image in the background, that I used a few different stamps including the baroque wheel and allscollops set. The on board blooms and supernova glitter really gave this card some sparkle.

This is my 'in the night garden' website card. The colours and design were so much like Thoughts and Prayers that I had to make a card.

This is an Inspired by Nature card with the butterfly out of Dreams ju Jour. The colours are Ballet Blue, Not Quite Navy and Ridinghood Red.

Christmas in July

For my Christmas in July workshop, I was able to play with the I Wish scrappin' Kit to make decorations for the table. These were fun and easy to create, and will definitely help make any Christmas table festive once Christmas arrives.

With the double sided paper and stickers I was able to make these coasters, placecards, napkin rings, stars and even decorate a candle.