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Tuesday 30th January 2024 Hello after such a long time!  I recently changed my full time job for a part time one and this has as a result left me some crafting time.  I got married in September and as a result I changed my surname so no longer Jo Penney now Jo Poulton! The same initials luckily so I don’t have to change my email or blog name Joppy ! You can probably see by the photos that I have been using a new stamp set that came out with the new Stampin’ Up spring/summer catalogue. It is called 'Thoughtful Expressions' It has a beautiful humming bird on it and I love the way you can curve it around your card sentiment. I bought it as soon as I saw the humming bird, as my daughter living in Canada has fallen  in love with these beautiful birds and sends me videos of them coming to her feeder.  I love a stamp set that has some main images and sentiments that I can use on a day to day basis. The sentiment ‘ there are no words’ is actually a good one despite the irony...

  I thought I would share with you another set of cards and technique that Learned recently on the Creative Card Retreat I attended. I am catching up with some of the presentations still and this tutorial came from one of the Creative team Jackie Bolhuis. These are the cards I made and the envelopes to match and you may just be able to see the inside decoration for the end card in the photograph! The cards look really striking in the new bright in-colours and you simply cut four circles in different graduating sizes using a circle punch - I used my layering circles dies. The you cut them in half on your trimmer. Then arrange. So this is how I layered up my half circles and then the photograph belo shows how I arranged them onto the card. Then simply add a sentiment to the card. The bright colours look great with black but what about trying pastels or a gradient of the same colour, or even glitter card - what about stitched circle dies? Lots and lots of variations and combinations w...

I had a lot of fun this weekend at an online retreat with Brandy's Cards. One of the tutorials was heat embossing with white embossing powder onto vellum. I made three cards using the tutorial at the retreat but all of my cards are very different because the stamp sets are the ones I have and not the ones used by Brandy. So for example in the card above I stamped the butterfly stamp Butterfly Brilliance onto a piece of vellum using versa mark ink and then sprinkled on white embossing powder and heat it with my heat tool. The once dry I cut the image out using the co-ordinating dies from Stampin' Up and this gave me 6 butterflies which I then coloured on the back using blender pens. I found the darker colours worked the best and shone through the most. You don't see the back - so it is very forgiving technique if your colouring isn't very good! Following Brandy's lead I also decorated inside the card and made a matching envelope. I think its going to be a thing! Anot...

 Hello there! What can you do if you have bought this wonderful party packaging kit for your party and you want to utilise the stamp set and some of the spare items such as the colourful pink and green dots and even the left over cut out pieces! What kit am I talking about ? Its the Lets Party Treat Packaging Kit - it costs only £18.00 and you can make 8 cute boxes using the contents. However, the major draw for me was the stamp set!! (pictured below'. In the stamp set you have sentiments, some cute images and a couple of little background textures. So a very handy little set! in addition the kit contains a Misty Moonlight ink spot, double sided tape and dimensionals and a stamping block. OF course it also includes all the paper/card bits and some bright sticky spots! I thought of lots of card ideas that I can use the stamp set for BUT what about adding some co-ordination to your party! So I used the leftover items , some watercoloring pencils and some additional white card to make...

  Yea! There is a new Winter catalogue out today and Sale-a-bration has begun and will be with you for the next two months. This means lots of lovely new things to try and lots of Freebies when you spend £45.00 or £90.00. There are no limits on how many Sale-a-bration Free gifts you can have subject to availability. This Hippo stamp set and dies have been very popular with Demonstrators like me who have been able to order everything a month early in order to prepare some samples for when the promotion begins. This Stamp set is Free when you spend £45.00. The dies are also free when you spend £45.00 The dies are adorable and apart from dies to cut out each of the 3 hippos in the stamp set there are additional dies (some with scored details) to dress up you Hippos! There is even a propeller for the little boat. (I wasn't sure what this one was to start with I thought it was a wonky flower!) I made 5 cards one in each of the new in-colours and I continued to use the In-colour card whe...