My daughter’s friend had a birthday last week and she wanted to make her a coupon book.  Inside are printed sheets of birthday treats and offers, and we thought it would look nice to present in a little bound book. The book consists of a front and back cover made from mountboard, bound together with [...]

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This is a card I made for a card class I hold every two weeks, and which was yesterday! Everyone was in agreement that the Fiskars Squeeze Punches and little Lever Punches are absolutely the best, they cut the design so easily and neatly. Fiskars Products Used: Squeeze Punch – Heart Squeeze Punch – Heart [...]

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Something a little different today, although who can resist cupcakes! I made a gorgeous batch of Orange & Almond cupcakes over the weekend and if you are having a celebration of any kind its quite fun to make some little flags for the cakes, etc. that you are making.  Simplicity itself too!  Also, if you [...]

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Don’t you just love chipboard?!  I love chipboard and so have amassed quite a bit which I am loving using.  I especially love detailed designs which are great either leaving naked or painting.  As the design is detailed there is not a lot more you need to do to create a lovely focus point for [...]

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Today I have made a tag and used the lovely ShapeCutter and Butterfly Template, which I love, and also using colours I love.   There is also a little peep of the Flower Squeeze Punch just underneath the chipboard flower. Fiskars Products Used: ShapeCutter ShapeCutter Mat ShapeCutter Template – Butterfly Squeeze Punch – Flower Additional Products [...]

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With school ending in just a few days time (for my son anyway), its a time to say thank you to Teacher!  This card is an idea for a male, which is always harder to create for than a female, I find.   Using the nice ‘Summer’ rub-on and the little peeps of travel rub-ons it [...]

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I’ve given this the title of kids crafts as its one of those things which kids would love to make and is easy too – but its great fun for the adults too, of course!  A great Summer project… The instructions show a Pinwheel template which creates curved ‘petals’ although it can just as easily [...]

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With our theme for July and August being Summertime and Celebrate and the product focus being the ShapeCutter I thought a dip into the archives would be fun and this handbag charm incorporates the theme and focus just right! Its a summertime themed handbag charm using ShapeCutter template shapes and good old shrink plastic, which [...]

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Here is a bright card for our July/Aug theme of ‘Summer and Celebrate’ and using the Fiskarette Focus of the fab ShapeCutter!  I seem to have been hoarding this paper for a long while now, you know what its like….but its gorgeously bright and sunny and so appropriate for a summery and Celebrate theme. Fiskars [...]

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I am on a mission to use up the loads of chipboard I have!  Naked and decorated, I seem to have quite a bit so instead of ‘saving’ it, I am going to use it! This card used the ShapeCutter – our focus for July and August.  I used the ShapeCutter to create the tag [...]

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