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Hello tribe. Hope everyone is safe & well. I’m sharing a card this week using some of my favourite Catherine Pooler products. Stenciling First I stencilled some picked raspberry distress ink through the Flourish & Whimsy stencil from Catherine Pooler. It is one my all-time favourite stencils!  Stamping I then stamped the sentiment from the Stand Tall stamp set in the top right corner. Then I added 3 flamingos from the same set.  Adding leaves After the flamingos, … Read More

  Hey crafty people! This week I’m sharing a clean & simple card design with tips on easy mass production to refill your Birthday stash for any age/gender!  I broke out the Life Of The Party collection of Catherine Pooler inks and chose three different combinations of three inks that I thought would suit a wide variety of potential recipients. Catherine Pooler inks are really forgiving when it comes to colour matching. They are split into two categories Party or … Read More

Hi, I am a Winter baby but I am ready for Spring with a brighter sun and slightly warmer days! I use the With Sympathy stamp set by Trinity Stamps for today’s card tutorial with some bright inks by Catherine Pooler Designs. Watch the video tutorial and read on for the written tutorial.  Like this video? Please give it a big thumbs up (you can do this on YouTube, right under the video) and share with a crafty friend! … Read More

Hey crafty people! I’m back with some more inspiration to share, and I’m easing into the New Year with a super simple, scaled back design. I grabbed a couple of my Pinkfresh Studios stamp sets and my Catherine Pooler inks to create the focal point and sentiment for my card. Grungy stamping Using my stamping tool I stamped the middle diamond from my Pop Out Diamond rubber stamp set in Peppermint Scrub, then I skipped the next one and added … Read More

Welcome to the first card tutorial for 2021. Has this year started better than how 2020 finished? Is it too soon to tell? I haven’t made any “Use All The Stamps” cards for a while and normally I just share one video.  I’ve decided to have separate tutorials to be able to do more techniques. I have already shared two other video tutorials (which you can see here and here) using the Beautiful Day Floral stamp by Catherine Pooler.   … Read More

Happy New Year Did you have a fun and safe festive season? Instead of the traditional New Year Sale, we will donate a percentage from every order placed between 1st – 31st January to three charities.  (There are still lots of items in the Clearance/Special Offers and many more may be added).   Our Chosen Charities We both donate our free time making garments for Pyjama Fairies but feel that we should also help a dog rescue too (since Milly is … Read More

Are you all ready for Christmas? Any last-minute socially distant shopping you need to do? Last-minute presents to make?  I have been busy getting your orders ready for Jeni to post tomorrow morning.   The last posting day for UK orders is Friday 18th, but remember that the cut off time is 2pm Thursday 17th. You will get a “confirmation’ email on Thursday but Jeni will be taking your orders to the post office at 8am tomorrow morning.  If you … Read More

Do you make gift tags for all the presents you give? I normally make a few for the ‘important’ presents, run out of time to make more and end up writing on the paper.  I have some quick tags that use minimal products and recycles some scraps of wrapping paper. A few (a lot) of Catherine Pooler inks were on my desk and I grab the Layered Tag dies and two CP stamps sets.   Making The Tags Wrapping paper … Read More

Hi, I’m back with another card using the From Our Gnome To Yours stamp set by Trinity Stamps. I use Catherine Pooler Designs inks from the Party collection to do some quick watercolouring.  You can watch the video tutorial below or over at YouTube. Card Details I stamp the gnome with Midnight ink by Catherine Pooler Designs onto Bristol Vellum card.  Midnight is an archival ink and perfect for watercolouring.   Holding the board that my card is taped too … Read More

Hey crafty people!  It’s Tasha here, back for another Saturday inspiration drop and this week I’ve fallen even deeper in love with the adorable little critters from Trinity Stamps. It’s no secret that I love the Bunny Burrows set, in fact I’ve used it quite a few times for my Saturday posts, so when I saw the Winter Burrows add on set, I had no choice but purchase! I mean, it *literally* jumped into my basket by itself!! Well that’s … Read More