This years Halloween themed Designer Series Paper is just spooktacular. The colours Basic Black, Very Vanilla and Tangelo Twist ooze Halloween and look striking together.

Today's set of 4 cards are made using the Go Wild 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper stack. This pack contains 48 double sided sheets of paper, 4 each of 12 different designs in Basic Black, Tip Top Taupe, & Whisper White.


For all four designs I've used a combination of two different coloured pieces of cardstock for the base and the layer. The colours I have used are Basic Black, Tip Top Taupe & Whisper White.


I chose coordinating sheets of the Go Wild Designer Series Paper to layer on top. I've kept my design super simple to make and have used the Greetings Thinlits to die cut the Hello, Thanks & Cheers from Black Glimmer paper, adding the chosen sentiment to the centre of the card.

I can't believe its the weekend already, the last few weeks have flown by! This weekend I will be in my craft room and I have a busy agenda. I'll be making cards for friends and family, creating cards and 3D projects to showcase here on my website and I will also be trying to come up with a unique and fun swap for a team training event that's coming up in 2 weeks time.

Do you ever struggle making cards for men? I certainly do, almost all of my stamp sets are geared towards females. There are a few male themed sets in the catalogue but I've not got round to ordering them yet. This card was designed with the male species in mind, the colours are quite grungy and there are no flowers or butterflies in sight.

I've kept the design quite simple and stamped  a tag using the Merry Everything stamp set onto Very Vanilla cardstock in Basic Black Archival Ink. I have used the coordinating Note Tag punch to punch it out and added it to the Pillow Box with some Stampin' Dimensionals.

You can buy the Merry Everything stamp set and Note Tag Punch in a bundle where you save 15%. For £26.25 plus P&P you get 5 stamps that can be used for Birthdays, Christmas & Halloween. This set is useful to make tags in super quick time, perfect when making multiple tags for Christmas presents.

To finish off the design, continuing with the simple theme, I added a small star / small heart punched out of Gold Glimmer paper using the Itty Bitty Accents punches. I think its just what it needed without being too fussy.

I made some square note cards to fit in the bag but I decided to leave them plain so that they could be used for any occasion or simply just to write a note. If I was selling this as gift I would probably include a number of sentiments for various occasions hand stamped and mounted onto a layer of cardstock, With a few Stampin' Dimensionals thrown in, the cards could quickly be personalised for the relevant occasion.

Just a short blog post from me today, I've had a really busy weekend visiting family and have clocked up 400 miles in less than 24 hours. Tiredness has just hit me so please enjoy the pictures and I'll be back on Wednesday with another project.


For today's project I made two gifts bags using some different patterns out of the Timeless Elegance DSP. I added a glittery banner using Glimmer Paper and the Banner Tripple punch. I then took some wooden sentiments (they are called Expressions Natural Elements) and used Versamark Ink, Embossing Powder and my heat gun to add a lovely shiny embossed colour to the embellishment. To finish it off I punched a hole through the top and then used some of the lovely Satin Ribbon and Linen Thread to secure the bag.

Don't ever feel afraid to keep your design simple. I've kept this design uncomplicated with a Basic Black card base, a Melon Mambo matt and a layer of Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper. All I've added is some Basic Black Stitched Satin Ribbon as I felt adding anything else would not show off this beautiful paper.

I started making this gift tag by stamping the reindeer from the Jolly Christmas stamp set in Versamark ink onto Kraft cardstock. I then sprinkled over Heat & Stick Powder, tapping off the excess and putting this back into the pot. By heating the powder with a heat gun it becomes sticky, so you need to quickly sprinkle over the Stampin' Glitter before it dries. Tap off any glitter that doesn't stick to the powder and put this back into the pot. To set the glitter in place, you neec to heat it one more time with the the heat gun.

I love this effect and I certainly want to include this look into this years Christmas cards! I don't have a design created yet but after another month of crafting with these fab products from the new Stampin' Up! Autumn Winter Catalogue, I'll try and incorporate all of my favourite looks into either one or several different designs.


To finish making the tag, I used one of the Circles Collections Framelits Dies to cut out the reindeer but I wasn't sure what to do with it next.... after some pondering I decided to have some fun and pair it with a really bright colour for a modern look. I chose Melon Mambo - doesn't it look amazing against the Kraft cardstock?

I cut the tag and stamped stars from the Jolly Greetings stamp set in Black Archival ink. I added a Black Glimmer Banner and used Stampin' Dimensionals to add the Kraft cardstock to the tag. It looked like it needed something else which I why I added the Melon Mambo stars punched using one of the punches from the Itty Bitty Accents set. Okay so this is not my usual look but like I said this was just for fun! Do you ever craft outside of your comfort zone?

Now back to my comfort zone.....starting from Wednesday I have 7 projects using the gorgeous Timeless Elegance DSP that I can't wait to show you. If you don't subscribe - I blog 3 times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays - see you then!