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Gift of Joy with Words for the Season

Gift of Joy with Words for the Season

December 9, 2025 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

A recent class using Gift of Joy saw us create this deep and moody card. A rich Night of Navy card base and matting layer formed the base of our project. Stamping the line drawn floral image from the Gift of Joy Stamp Set with Versamark, I then heat embossed

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Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: Christmas, Die Cutting, Heat Embossing, Ink Blending

Creation Station – Wrap it, Tag it

Creation Station – Wrap it, Tag it

December 7, 2025 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

Welcome to the Creation Station Blog Hop, where this month we’ve a Wrap it, Tag it theme to inspire our creativity. With the gift giving season upon us, you can never have enough tags. I decided to create a batch of rather special tags for those extra special parcels. Starting

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Filed Under: Blog Hops Tagged With: Christmas, Creation Station, Die Cutting, Ink Blending, Tags

Global Design Project #GDP507 –  Christmas in July Challenge

Global Design Project #GDP507 – Christmas in July Challenge

July 29, 2025 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

This week’s Global Design Project challenge #GDP507 – Christmas in July Challenge.   It can be hard to create for christmas in July but not if you’ve the perfectly fitting Designer Series Paper. I turned to the Celebratory Sips pack and set to die cutting a series of pine sprigs,

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Filed Under: Avid Crafter, Challenges Tagged With: Christmas, Designer Series Paper, Global Design Project

Snowy Wonder for a fun Snowy Scene

Snowy Wonder for a fun Snowy Scene

December 24, 2024 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Having been prepping for an upcoming event using the Snowy Scene Suite, I just had to create this Snowy Wonder to share. A row of Christmas cheer with these cute little Penguins from the Snowy Scene Designer Series Paper. With a backdrop of paper from the Nest of Winter for

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Filed Under: Artisan Tagged With: Christmas, Die Cutting, DSP, Fussy Cutting

Stamping Sunday – Christmas Magic and Joyful Traditions

Stamping Sunday – Christmas Magic and Joyful Traditions

December 15, 2024 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

Welcome to this month’s Stamping Sunday hop where we share Christmas Magic and Joyful Traditions. The tree brings so much joy for us, representing all those family members passed, it brought inspiration for this card. Christmas Magic for me starts with a Pretty Peacock card base and a matting layer

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Filed Under: Avid Crafter, Blog Hops Tagged With: Christmas, Die Cutting, Ink Blending, Stamping Sunday

Artisan Design Team – A Bokeh Snowy Sky Christmas Card

Artisan Design Team – A Bokeh Snowy Sky Christmas Card

September 18, 2024 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

Learn how to use the Bokeh Technique in your festive projects to form a Snowy Sky. The festive season will soon be upon us and I wanted to share a card that mainly used basic shape dies, one tree die, some ink, card and a sentiment. Taking a matting layer

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Filed Under: Artisan, Gift Giving Tagged With: Artisan Design Team, Artisan Design Team 2024, Blending, Bokah, Christmas, Festive, Techniques

The Crafty Carrot Collective – Round We Go

The Crafty Carrot Collective – Round We Go

August 26, 2024 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

It’s been a fabulous month of inspiration so far at the Crafty Carrot Co and we’ve still our final tutorial to go. This month we’ve been sharing our inspiration using the Round We Go Bundle. This was my sneak peek for this month, these cute little Angel Ornaments. Made using

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Filed Under: Avid Crafter, Crafty Carrot Collective Tagged With: Christmas, Die Cutting, Gift Giving, Home Decor, The Crafty Carrot Co.

Artisan Design Team – Season of Green and Gold Suite

Artisan Design Team – Season of Green and Gold Suite

July 9, 2024 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

The Artisan Design Team share their inspiration using the Season of Green and Gold Suite. What a lucky girl I am to have been given this beautiful suite to create with. Not only my favourite colour, Green, but also my favourite season, Christmas. I honestly couldn’t have been any more

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Filed Under: Artisan Tagged With: Artisan Design Team, Artisan Design Team 2024, Blending, Christmas, Die Cutting, Heat Embossing, Techniques, Watercolouring

Gift Giving for the Joy of Christmas

Gift Giving for the Joy of Christmas

December 25, 2023 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas one and all … It’s the season of Gift Giving. I share a project designed for September’s Overnight Retreat that saw us creating with the Joy of Christmas Suite. This project had us playing with the Nested Treat Boxes (Retiring) to create a four drawer Gift Box. Ideal

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Filed Under: Artisan Tagged With: Artisan Design Team, Artisan Design Team 2023, Christmas, Gift Boxes, Gift Giving

Wishing you the Joy of Christmas

Wishing you the Joy of Christmas

December 24, 2023 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

The Joy of Christmas was the perfect Papercraft class to finish the year on. Folding paper in such a way and assembling to create three hanging Pinecones for a Home Decor piece of Gift. Selecting paper from the, now retiring, Joy of Christmas Designer Series paper, my ladies … and

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Filed Under: Artisan, Christmas Tagged With: Artisan Design Team, Artisan Design Team 2023, Christmas, Designer Series Paper, Gift Giving, Home Decor

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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. 

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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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