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How I made a Fancy Fold Christmas card

How I made a Fancy Fold Christmas card

Welcome to this month's Tech4stampers Academy Blog Hop This month's theme is make a Fancy Fold card Hello Everyone, I am taking part in this months Tech4stampers Academy blog hop. The theme this month is to make a Fancy Fold card. I knew as soon as I saw the theme I wanted to make a Christmas card using the Christmas friends stamp set. I love this stamp set and love all the images are nice and big to colour using either my Stampin' Up! blends (alcohol markers) or my water colour pencils. How I...

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How I made a 3d Triangular Treat Box

How I made a 3d Triangular Treat Box

Welcome to this months Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop The theme this month is make a 3D item Hello Everyone Thank you for popping on to my blog. Today I wanted to show you how to make a triangular treat box. It's my first time in taking part in the Stamptastic Friends Blog hop and the theme for this month is to create a 3d item. I knew as soon as I saw the theme, I wanted to make a 3d triangular treat box. I love making these to fill with treats and to give to friends and family for Christmas or...

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How I made a White Christmas card

How I made a White Christmas card

Welcome to this month's Tech4stampers Academy Blog Hop This month's theme is White Christmas Hello Everyone, I am taking part in this months Tech4stampers Academy blog hop. The theme this month is to make a White Christmas card. My inspiration for today's card As a young girl we lived in a house where all around us were fields on steep hills with woods at the top. We used to have wonderful adventures building camps and dens. Another memory was we would take Mum's old trays and have great fun...

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How to add ink to a new Stampin Up! white ink pad.

How to add ink to a new Stampin Up! white ink pad.

Hello Everyone, My new uninked white ink pad has just arrived from Stampin' Up! , so I thought I would pop on really quickly and show you how to ink it up ready to use. It comes uninked but does come with a white ink refill. First of all you need to have a clear space. I would suggest having some protective covering on your workspace as it can get mucky. Open up the ink pad and with the refill squeeze gently all over the pad. Then with something like a bone folder smear the ink all over the...

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How to make a quick and easy Christmas card using the Snowy Wonder stamp set

How to make a quick and easy Christmas card using the Snowy Wonder stamp set

Hello Everyone, Happy Saturday to you all. I hope where ever you are you are having a good day. I can't believe how fast the weeks are flying by. Here at Dorrie's Designs, September has been a crazy busy month, we started on the 5th with me having a 60th birthday. I thought it would be fun to make 60 challenges to do with Herbie. The first was Herbie's first ride on a boat. to read all about it scroll further down this page. Notoriously when it comes to Christmas I am a very last minute and I...

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Tech4stampers blog hop – Make a card for a Birthday

Tech4stampers blog hop – Make a card for a Birthday

Welcome to this months Tech4Stampers Academy Blog Hop. This months theme is: Make a card for a birthday. Hello Everyone, I am taking part in this months Tech4stampers Academy blog hop. The theme this month is to make a card for a birthday. I seem to have lots of friends who have a birthday in September. One of my favourite go to stamp bundles from Stampin' Up! for birthday cards is called Cheerful Daisies. My inspiration for todays Cheerful Daisies birthday card I love my garden and when...

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How to make a quick and easy card using the Beach Day Bundle

How to make a quick and easy card using the Beach Day Bundle

Hello Everyone, Happy Monday to you all. Here in the UK it is a bank holiday so an extra days holiday. I hope wherever you are you have time to do something nice just for you. I am off sailing in a bit then taking Mum and Herbie out on an adventure. Herbie loves the beach. We are so fortunate to live on the coast so have beaches all around so I am sure we will end up at one somewhere. I can't believe we are in September next week. The year is flying by. September is a busy month for me for...

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How to make a card using the Cheerful Daisies Bundle

How to make a card using the Cheerful Daisies Bundle

Hello Everyone, I thought I would show you today how I created my card using the Cheerful Daisies bundle from Stampin' Up!. I can't believe we are half way through August already. July, August and September are busy months for me for sending cards to friends who are celebrating anniversaries, birthdays, congratulations and this year we seem to have a lot of new born baby cards to make, so I thought I would share a card I have made for a friend for her birthday How I made my card using the...

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