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Did you know that this Saturday 6th October is World Card Making Day?  The new Design Team (where possible – we didn’t give them much notice) have been making Winter or Christmas themed cards for you to use as inspiration for this challenge.  You can see all the DT makes over the next two weeks.  To celebrate we are having a Challenge with one £20 Gift Coupon! All you have to do is make a card using products available from … Read More

I challenged both myself and Jeni to make a purple floral card.  For my card Iwanted to make something clean and simple but still with an unexpected element.   Firstly, I place the second largest cross stitched circle die onto the card base and die cut using the Big Shot. On the die cut circle I stamped a flower outline using Altenew Midnight Violet ink and put to one side.  I then used some purple card and placed the largest and second … Read More

I had a packet of these cork pieces on my craft desk while I was thinking of what to do for this month’s challenge.  “Thanks” seemed to be a good theme, since people will be sending Thank You cards for their Christmas presents, and these cork pieces are from the Elle’s Studio Thankful collection. Links to all the supplies I used are listed at the end of this post.   I created a 5 ¼ inch by 4 ½ inch … Read More

Welcome to our first bimonthly blog challenge! We have been working out the small details and finding some good prizes for you and are now ready to start our first challenge! We hope that you have fun creating something amazing for our challenges and enjoy looking through other people’s entries. The Challenge Rules are at the end of this post. Please add your entry to the gallery below before the challenge ends at 5pm on 22nd February 2016. 18th FEBRUARY … Read More