InspireInk Blog Hop August 2023 – Memories.

Happy Saturday! welcome to another Inspire Ink Blog Hop. This month’s theme is Memories.

 

Here’s what I came up with. I am still sorting through Mum’s belongings since she passed away last June. There are so many photographs to sort and share out among the family. These were among the pile with me in. I haven’t made a scrapbook page since lockdown so when I saw our theme is memories I decided now was the right time to get another one done.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s Memories projects.


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InspireInk Blog Hop July 2023 – A 3D project.

Happy Saturday! welcome to another Inspie Ink Blog Hop. This month’s theme is 3D.

 

Here’s what I came up with.

 

A little box to gift a wafer biscuit pack.

I will put a tutorial on my You Tube Channel later so check back tomorrow for that. Meanwhile lets check out what everyone’s 3D projects.

 



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InspireInk Blog Hop May 2023 – Sketch Inspiration

Happy Saturday! welcome to another Inspie Ink Blog Hop. This month’s theme is to use a sketch for inspiration.

So i looked at the sketch but did not have it beside me when i was crafting. I remembered 2 rectangles and a circle!

Here’s what I came up with.

The Coffee with Friends stamp set had just arrived on my desk so I took the opportunity to ink it up. I was going to colour it but I decided i liked the line drawing . The background paper is from Earthen Elegance Designer Series Paper, the Moody Mauve strip is from 2023 – 2025 In Colour Luster Speciality Paper.

I will put a tutorial on my You Tube Channel later so check back tomorrow for that. Meanwhile lets check out what everyone else has done with this sketch.

 

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InspireINK Bloghop July 2020 Theme: In Colours. 12 x 12 inch full sheet stamping with Celebrating Sunflowers, Peaceful Poppies and Beautiful Friendship #stampinup

 

Welcome to the InspireINK Blog Hop for June 2020. The Theme this month is this years new In colours. I absolutely adore this group of colours and they work so well together as a palette.

 

This project is heavily inspired by Ruth from Artfulstampin with Ruth – I will link to Ruth at the bottom of this post after the blog hop links.

I have taken a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock and stamped in a wreath shape. This is my first attempt at doing a full sheet of stampin on 12 x 12 inch cardstock. I stamped with the intention of cutting this up. I have used several stamp sets but the only colours I have used are the 2020 -2022 In Colours. I have used quite a few different stamp sets but you can do something similar using stamps you already have.

Once I was finished stamping I cut the sheet into 4inch squares. and made nine cards.

Each card base is made from a piece of cardstock 5.5 inches x 11 inches and scored at 5.5 inches on the long side when folded on that score you have a 5.5 inch square card base.

one layer of Designer Series paper 5.25 inches square

a layer of In colour card stock 4.25 inch square

I matt and layered up the cards decorating each one with ribbon, enamel dots and sentiments as I thought appropriate at the time. The picture above shows how the bits of my sheet matched up and the picture below shows the cards the right way round as i decided to use each piece. All in all I really enjoyed this project and I am really pleased with the results. Of all the cards I like the middle one the best – which one do you think is best? Please let me know in the comments. 3 people will be chosen at random from the comments and i will send them one of these cards.

 

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This project was inspired by Ruth from artfulstampin

 

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Home Decor SU Style Blog Hop – Framed picture with See The Good and Tasteful Touches stamp sets #stampinup

Welcome to our Home Decor SU Style Blog Hop for July 2020! I hope you enjoy our designers choice hop.

This was my first play with See The Good stamp set. I cut an 8 inch square from a 12 x 12 sheet of Whisper White and I stamped with the Stamparatus. I kept moving the card round using one stamp at a time. It was fun and at the time I didn’t know I would end up with a piece I would want to frame but once I stopped I really like it. I think it would be nice in a Kitchen. I also used the flower stamp from the Tasteful Touches stamp set.

I couldn’t make up my mind when to stop as you can see from these next pictures. As you can see I used the sentiment stamps for texture and pattern rather than what they say.

Why don’t you get a cuppa and a comfy seat and have a wee look around our blog hop by clicking below – I know the ladies will have some amazing Home Decor projects to share – please let us know what you think by leaving some encouraging comments – thank you

 

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Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop July 2020 – Monochromatic with Timeless Tropical, Beautiful World and Wildly Happy #stampinup

Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop July 2020 – the theme is ‘Monochromatic’. I’m so glad you have joined us and you will be as excited as me to see all the pages in this hop.

So this is my second entry to this hop with my very first layout with real people and memories. While I was considering what monochromatic meant I remembered about a photo book that had been found by one of my Dad’s sisters in what was their family home where they grew up. He must have left it behind when he left home. These pictures invoke all sorts of emotions for me and I wanted a way to share them with the whole family. As I am a beginner I have kept this layout very simple but I think it gives us a little window on Dad’s time in the jungle. 

I have used a sheet from In good Taste Designer Series Paper which is mostly Basic Gray and textural, I stamped on it with Basic Gray using stamps from Timeless Tropical, Beautiful World and Wildly Happy. I chose 8 pictures and 1 scrap of whisper white card stock and cut them to 6.8 cm squares and matted  onto 7.2cm squares of basic black card stock. I arranged them in this grid pattern as i see it a symbolic of a windows into the past. All the products I have used are available to purchase from my online shop by clicking on the product pictures listed at the bottom of this page.

Oh my goodness I thoroughly enjoyed this process – it is so therapeutic I am already working on a layout with pictures of my maternal granny. This journey has only just begun!

I hope you will stay and have a look at all the pages in the hop. Make yourself a cuppa, get comfy and click below to see Sandra’s page which I know will be amazing!

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InspireInk Bloghop May 2019 Retiring Set – Dragonfly Dreams

So this month’s InspireInk theme is retiring favourites. I have a lot of favourites from last year’s catalogue so it was quite hard to narrow down my choices.

I am sad to say goodbye to this lovely paper – I have gone through several packs of it this year. I have also loved Dragonfly Dreams stamp and die set – dragonflies are amazing insects and so are bees. Although it is hard to say goodbye to some fabulous sets I am really excited to share this year’s Annual Catalogue it is so full of gorgeousness!

Please come back tomorrow to see a method video for this card. Please click below to see what my blog buddies have done – I know there will be some amazing ideas here for you. Please encourage us by leaving us some comments we really appreciate your support.

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I run small classes in my home. At these classes you will learn different techniques, be supplied with all resources and have full use of my equipment. You will make beautiful cards, gift boxes, gift bags, matching tags and other projects. If you are interested in one or all these activities then ask me about my classes.
I also run product-based classes with will include you taking home with you a stamp set, card kit, punch etc, whatever the class is featuring. The benefits of a product based class is that you will have instructions to complete projects with the product, use my resources that go with the product, and my advice of how to get the most out of the product.
Classes last 2 hours and price vary with the activity we are doing.
Basic class will be £10 – £15
Product based class is price of product plus a class fee.
Classes run in the day and evenings to suit participants.
If there is a particular project that you have seen on my blog or on a video that you would like to make then please ask, I can do small tutorials for you and your friends if there was a special occasion you wanted to make something for. Wedding invitations, favours, party invitations, favours, craft fayres etc

Please contact me via email janice.mcglen@gmail.com

Inspired Ink Bloghop – Embossed Anniversary with Stampin’ Up! Best Birds

Here we are with the July blog hop already. This month’s theme was chosen by Sally – it’s Embossed Anniversary. I thought of these love birds right away because i love the best birds set and knew it would be perfect for embossing. This theme has provoked special memories for me as today 28th July 2018 would have been Mum and Dad’s 62nd wedding anniversary unfortunately Dad died 35 years ago. We were always on our summer holidays somewhere in South of England in our handmade caravan when their anniversary came round, so lots of fond memories. This one’s for you Dad – miss you loads.

I made the card above for this hop and then I filmed the method when making the one below.

Measurements

The base card is an A4 sheet cut in half long ways and folded in half.

The first layer is 14.4cm x 10.1cm

The top layer is 14cm x 9.7cm

I used the large ‘hessian’ like stamp to give a textured background then stamped the branch where i wanted it. The birds and sentiment were stamped with versamark and heat embossed with gold or silver. The images were coloured using wink of stella and my chosen ink colours.

Please click on the ‘next’ button to see what my lovely friend Jill from Paperdaisycrafting.co.uk has made.

 

 

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Celebrate Sale-A-Bration with a week of Cards! Amazing You

Spring equinox is here and one of my favourite flowers to look out for are blue poppies. This flower in the Amazing You set made me think of blue poppies. I have never been successful growing them in my own garden but enjoy seeing them in other gardens.

Measurements

The base card is an A4 sheet cut in half long ways and folded in half.

The first layer is 14.4cm x 10.1cm

The top layer is 14cm x 9.7cm

Method: watch the video to see how this card was made

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Spend £45.00 from the Annual catalogue or the Spring/Summer catalogue and you can have this stamp set FREE!!!!
Who doesn’t like a freebie? Also if you spend over £25.00 and use the host code CEQE94A2  during March 2018 you will also get a small product gift from me – sent separately after the end of the month.
If your order is over £150.00, please do not use this code as You become the hostess and get the Rewards!

Sale A Bration is also a brilliant time to join my team.

 

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Coffee Break Suite – Girlie Coffee Date

 

 

How lovely is this card – it would be ideal to use for sending out to ask some friends round for a coffee and chat or coffee and cardmaking! I think these colours are amazing together.

 

Measurements

The base card is an A4 sheet cut in half long ways and folded in half. – Melon Mambo

The layer is 14.4cm x 10.1cm – Designer Series Paper

The method is in the following video

 

 

 

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