Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Catherine Carroll

Punched Double Gatefold with Festival of Trees

I always mean to try out a punched double gatefold card like this one using Scentsational Season (from way back in 2012) whenever there is a symmetrical-enough motif. Festival of trees gave me a more than suitable punch and stamp combo to try my hand at this simple style of card again.

While using a punch rather than a framelit makes it a lot easier to get both punches level, they haven't got any easier to photograph well!

I can see some lovely versions with hearts appearing on my blog come January, so hopefully I'll get a bit better at photographing them!

 

 

 

 

A White Christmas Slider Card

This is another of my (hopefully) Wow! cards from my recent class. I really loved the scenes that so many of my fellow demonstrators were able to create with the photopolymer White Christmas set that I had to give it a go.

Although the photopolymer made it easy to line up and create a scene, I think I need a bit more practise when it comes to the composition!

It's a very simple slider mechanism, created with a piece of folded ribbon around the inside piece. It's a long time since I first made one of these - I remember making one in one of the earliest Stampin' Up! meetings that my upline held. But I think they are due for a revival, don't you?

 

 

 

 

Year End Closouts from Stampin' Up!

We're so used to waiting for Sale-a-Bration for the best deals from Stampin' Up! but this year they have also given us some amazing year end closeout deals.

These offers are strictly while stocks last, so have a look at my online shop now and you could pick up some great bargains. Because we all know we need more craft products, right?