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Creating my own DSP with Best Friends for Life

Creating my own DSP with Best Friends for Life

July 5, 2024 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

Here I was creating my own Designer Series Paper with Best Friends for Life. Starting with a sheet of the fabulously colourful Full of Life paper, I decided to make some additions to it. Starting with a Basic Black card base, I cut away an inch of cardstock from the

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Filed Under: Birthday Tagged With: Designer Series Paper, Die Cutting, Heat Embossing, Stamping

Team Birthday Challenge with Circle Sayings

Team Birthday Challenge with Circle Sayings

July 8, 2023 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Our latest Team Challenge is all about Birthdays and with male cards being the most difficult, I set to work on this. I’d wanted to team up the Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper with the Circle Sayings bundle since I received it. The beautiful ombre paper screamed ‘Beach vibe’ to

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Filed Under: Birthday, Techniques Tagged With: Blends Alcohol Pens, Blends Pens, Designer Series Paper, Die Cutting, Masculine Cards, Punching, Techniques

Monthly Papercrafting with Beautiful Balloons

Monthly Papercrafting with Beautiful Balloons

June 2, 2023 by Mikaela Titheridge 1 Comment

This past month we were creating with the wonderful Beautiful Balloons Bundle. A fabulously generic bundle that’s suitable for so many occasions. Wanting to turn up the dial on colour, I picked a colour palette that was gender neutral and oh so cheerful. Our first card was quite simply Stamps,

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Filed Under: Birthday, Classes, Techniques Tagged With: Birthday Cards, Blending, Celebration, Fun Fold, Generation Stamping, Second Generation Stamping, Shaker Card

Around the World on Wednesday – Techniques

Around the World on Wednesday – Techniques

February 8, 2023 by Mikaela Titheridge 11 Comments

Today we’re going Around the World on Wednesday as we share the Teams favourite Techniques. Welcome, and if you’ve hopped over from  Aurélie, then I know you’ll have already been spoilt to fabulous inspiration. Asking the Team what their favourite Techniques are, it materialises that Embossing comes out tops. It’s

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Filed Under: Birthday, Blog Hops Tagged With: Around the World on Wednesday, Die Cutting, Dry Embossing, Heat Embossing, Hybrid Embossing

Hello Beautiful Sunshine & Rainbows

Hello Beautiful Sunshine & Rainbows

January 16, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 6 Comments

Today I share a fun and quirky Birthday Card that I made using the Hello Beautiful stamp set and Sunshine & Rainbows DSP. Wanting a young, fun and vibrant card, I set to making a slice of rainbow cake. The stripes are perfectly fitting for a striped cake, with each

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Filed Under: Birthday, Cards, Techniques Tagged With: Die Cutting, Dry Embossing, Fussy Cutting, Heat Embossing, Sale-a-bration

Creation Station – Sale-a-Bration Good Times

Creation Station – Sale-a-Bration Good Times

August 1, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 14 Comments

Welcome to the Creation Station Blog Hop where this month it’s Sale-a-Bration Good Times. Welcome to this month’s blog hop, where we have a Sale-a-Bration of Good Times to share. If you’ve hopped on over from the fabulous Sara Levin, then you’ll have already started to celebrate. I can’t wait

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Filed Under: Avid Crafter, Birthday, Blog Hops, Cards, FREE Products, Techniques Tagged With: Alcohol Markers - Blends, Blending Brushes, Creation Station, Die Cutting, Free Products, Sale-a-bration

Stampin’ Creative – Summer Dreams

Stampin’ Creative – Summer Dreams

July 29, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 22 Comments

Today, the Stampin’ Creative Team are bringing you their Summer Dreams. Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where we’re bringing our summer dreams to life. For me, it had to be Sharing Sunshine and the sight of the sun from behind the clouds. At first I looked at

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Filed Under: Birthday, Blog Hops, Techniques Tagged With: Birthday Cards, Die Cutting, Stampin' Creative, Stamping, Vellum

Stampin’ Up! Party Puffins

Stampin’ Up! Party Puffins

May 8, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

It’s Saturday and the Stampin’ Up! Party Puffins are in full swing to party. Last weekend I hosted another Online Catalogue Launch Party with my dear friend Tanya Rees from Australia. Tanya is a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator who served on the Artisan Design Team in 2019 when I did. We

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Filed Under: Avid Crafter, Beginners, Birthday Tagged With: Alcohol Markers, Blends, Die Cutting, Papercraft Classes, Stamping, Tags

Hey Chick … Fancy a Birthday Chick?

Hey Chick … Fancy a Birthday Chick?

February 2, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Hey Chick makes a come back but this time with Dies …  but do you fancy a Birthday Chick? During  Sale-a-Bration 2017, we were blown away by how much the Hey Chick Stamp Set was loved. Stampin’ Up! have therefore decided to bring it back, along with coordinating dies and

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Filed Under: Avid Crafter, Birthday, New Product Tagged With: Die Cutting, New products, Sale-a-bration

Dino Days for a Family Party

Dino Days for a Family Party

June 23, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

I just love the Old World Paper Embossing Folder, which teams so well with Dino Days. I loved the look that it created here … almost Dino Skin like. The Old World Paper Embossing Folder from the World of Good Suite offers the perfect Dinosaur skin texture, that I had

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Filed Under: Birthday, Cards, Children's Cards, Techniques Tagged With: Cards, Childrens Birthday, Die Cutting, Dry Embossing

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This quarter's Piccadilli Players hop is all about This quarter's Piccadilli Players hop is all about Seasons from around the globe. 

For me I share the beautiful rich colours of Autumn through the wonders of @stampinupofficial Radiant Sunflowers and rich Cajun Craze. Bright popping sunflowers, warm rich colour palette, autumn is a season of great change and one I love. 

Next up in the hop is the fabulous Bree @craftsomnia who I know will have something quite amazing to share. Be sure to show her some love before heading over to the rest of the team and those taking part today. Enjoy!

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Today I share a Monochomatic contemporary card tha Today I share a Monochomatic contemporary card that's Black and White and designed for the Stamping Fancy Friday Challenge this month. 

Created using the Spooktacular Designer Series Paper, Extraordinary Life and Fern & Flora Dies from @stampinupofficial  Layering up elements for a contemporary collage, helped create this Anniversary Card. 

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I share a Timemless Design that's Elegant and Vint I share a Timemless Design that's Elegant and Vintage as part of today's Stamping Station Hop. 

Designed using the beautifully vintage Bloom Bouquet Designer Series Paper from @stampinupofficial along with their Bordered in Beauty Dies. A delicate little card with flowers created from the Fern & Flora Dies in Hydrangea Hue. 

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I may have been quieter than normal with my crafti I may have been quieter than normal with my crafting but I recently designed a series of cards for Die Cutting Essentials Magazine using the Fern & Flora Bundle by Stampin' Up!

I adore the botanical feel of these dies and what you can create with them. This wreath card screams whispy fresh air combined with richness, I just loved creating it. Would you welcome a botanical card like this for your birthday?

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This week's Global Design Project #GDP563 is a Gar This week's Global Design Project #GDP563 is a Garden Harvest Challenge. 

Pairing up two new bundles from @stampinupofficial Radiant Sunflowers and Painted Pumpkins for this autumn themed card. Rich autumn colours and autumn themed images for a card of gratitude. 

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This week's Global Design Project #GDP562 is a Ske This week's Global Design Project #GDP562 is a Sketch Challenge. 

From this sketch layout I could see a layering hillside that I recreated using torn Moonlight Flora Designer Series Paper from @stampinupofficial With this I teamed it up with a wholesome house from the Welcome Noel Die Set that I coloured with Stampin' Blends. 

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