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Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Catalogue Inspired

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Catalogue Inspired

June 6, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month has us seeking inspiration from the Catalogue for our Catalogue inspired creations. Welcome to the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Team Challenge and one that saw me inspired by the fresh colours of a card on page 72. Wanting to team up the flowers from

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Filed Under: Artisan, Cards, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Cards, Die Cutting, Flowers, Heat Embossing, Stampin' Fancy Friday, Watercolouring

Cactus Cuties Flower Note card

Cactus Cuties Flower Note card

April 14, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Love to get versatility from your stamp sets? Well, the Cactus Cuties isn’t just for Cactus building. I show here how you can use the images to create a Cactus Cuties Flower. Making the card base colour teamed with the flower helped bring a coherent feel. Repeated stamping of the

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Filed Under: Cards, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Cards, Die Cutting, Dry Embossing, Embossing, Fussy Cutting, Heat Embossing, Punching

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – CASE a Fancy Friday

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – CASE a Fancy Friday

April 7, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month had us CASING another Fancy Friday Team Member. I love a good CASE and what an honour it is to be able to CASE a fellow Fancy Friday Team Member. All ex or current serving Artisan Design Team members, it’s always a pleasure

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Filed Under: Artisan, Cards, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Cards, CASEing, Die Cutting, Dry Embossing, Flowers, Heat Embossing, Sponging, Stampin' Fancy Friday

Every Chapter of a Friendship

Every Chapter of a Friendship

April 7, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

This line drawn Every Chapter image by Stampin’ Up! was the perfect image for me. I don’t enjoy reading but I do adore colouring. Where some would read, others will Watercolour and this image offered the perfect combination for me. Stamped with Black Memento Ink onto Basic White Cardstock, I

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Filed Under: Casual Crafter, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Stamping, Stamping Through the Catalogue, Techniques, Watercolour, Watercolour Pencils

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Artfully Composed Rainbow

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Artfully Composed Rainbow

March 28, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Mini Challenge this month had us creating with our favourite Mini Catalogue Products. Projects using Stampin’ Up! Products from the Mini Catalogue that we love and for me, I worked with Artfully Composed and Rainbow of Happiness.     Both of these Bundles offer some amazing

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Filed Under: Artisan, Cards, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Cards, Die Cutting, Heat Embossing, Stampin' Fancy Friday

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Sketch Challenge

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Sketch Challenge

February 14, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month had us creating with a Sketch Challenge. There is nothing quite like a Sketch Challenge to help trigger your inspiration. I so love a layout for a starting point. This fabulous layout was provided by the wonderful Jennifer Frost and from there, we

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Filed Under: Artisan, Cards, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Alcohol Markers - Blends, Blends, Cards, Die Cutting, Heat Embossing, Stampin' Fancy Friday

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Birthday Challenge

Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Birthday Challenge

January 22, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 6 Comments

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month had us creating for a Birthday Challenge. With a Birthday Challenge I turned my hand to flowers, since I absolutely love flowers as a gift. I decided to go for a serene no-line image to colour from the Daisy Garden Stamp. Stamping the

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Filed Under: Artisan, Cards, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Cards, No-line, Stampin' Fancy Friday, Watercolour Pencils

Stamping Sunday – SAB Driving By

Stamping Sunday – SAB Driving By

January 9, 2022 by Mikaela Titheridge 12 Comments

Welcome to the Stamping Sunday Blog Hop where this month we share inspiration from the Sale-a-Bration offering. I make use of the Driving By Stamp Set. Welcome to our Blog Hop today and to a month where we share inspiration using products from the Sale-a-Bration Promotion. My absolute favourite is

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Filed Under: Blog Hops, Challenges, Techniques Tagged With: Alcohol Markers - Blends, Blends, Die Cutting, Faux Embossing, Sale-a-bration, Stamping Sunday

A Birthday In The Wild

A Birthday In The Wild

December 24, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Today I share a masculine Birthday card using In the Wild Designer Series Papers. Inspired by a card on Pinterest, I couldn’t resist but recreate. When you’re not a lover of the animal side of the In The Wild papers, use the other side. Double sided papers allow us the

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Filed Under: Blog Hops, Challenges Tagged With: Die Cutting

Let’s Get Hopping #49 Sketch Challenge

Let’s Get Hopping #49 Sketch Challenge

December 20, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 7 Comments

The Let’s Get Hopping Team are bringing you inspiration with a Sketch Challenge.  Welcome to the Hop and an abundance of inspiration from the Let’s Get Hopping Design Team. This month we have a Sketch Challenge to help inspire our creativity. If you’ve hopped on over from my dear friend

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Filed Under: Blog Hops, Challenges Tagged With: Colouring, Die Cutting, Heat Embossing, Let's Get Hopping, Sketch Challenge, Stampin' Write Markers

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Do you like to Colour? I'm often known to carry my Do you like to Colour? I'm often known to carry my Watercolour Pencils on holiday for a spot of relaxing colouring by the pool and this trio of cards was of no exception. 

Coloured whilst on holiday, these Kindest Gnomes have now been made into cards to share, which I hope you like. You can see more about this, including a full list of Stampin’ Up! Products used on my website today or selecting the image through Pinterest >>
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Never Ever Grow Old I was told, so a playful card Never Ever Grow Old I was told, so a playful card of celebrating hippos it had to be for the Around the World on Wednesday Blog and Instahop today. 

I paired these playful Hippos with images from our Party Puffins for this cheerful Birthday themed card. 

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The Instahop can be followed by heading Around the World on Wednesday to see what the rest of the Team have to share. 

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Do you love to Emboss like me? I adore Heat Emboss Do you love to Emboss like me? I adore Heat Embossing and will never tire of the magical moment the embossing powder melts. Today the Creation Station Team are sharing Embossing inspiration and I share this Festive Card showing various types of Embossing in one card.

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Next up in the Hop is Kathy Kartak @kkstamper I can't wait to see what she shares. 

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Are you familiar with the All Star Tutorial Design Are you familiar with the All Star Tutorial Design Team? We create projects to share with you each month and bring you 12 fabulous written and video tutorials from around the globe. This month we've been creating with the He's the Man Suite. You can see my Sneak Peek and those that the rest of the team share here but first, an additional card showing yet more inspiration using the suite. 

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You Can Create it with this Quarterly Papercraft K You Can Create it with this Quarterly Papercraft Kit. With a taster of Stampin' Up! Products it's amazing what you can create and the Team share their inspiration. This month we were creating with the Hues of Happiness Suite. 

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