Tuppence Coloured: Sea of Textures

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Sunday, 14 April 2019

Behold - the Swaptopus!

Hello, and welcome!

When this blog is published, I shall be away from home in sunny (I hope!) Telford, taking part in a crafting retreat that my team leader is holding for her team. So this is being done by remote control!

Stampin' Up! demo get togethers mean swaps. It's not compulsory, but swapping is a lot of fun and a great way of sharing ideas for projects. However, this time, I've decided not to swap at the main event but to save my efforts for the team retreat.

Swaps production in full swing!

There will be more than 50 of us at the retreat - so that meant more than 160 passes through the Big Shot and150 punch presses! No wonder my arm hurt the following day. (On the positive side, once the pain died down, the tendinitis that I've been suffering for a few months is also much improved, so that's a bonus!)

Anyway, here's how I made - the Swaptopus! (my husband came up with the name...)

Here's the cutting/ folding diagram, if you'd like to try this yourself. (Supplies I used are listed below.)

Thanks for visiting - hope you enjoyed!

Keep Crafting,

Keren

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Wednesday, 25 July 2018

Mini Album - page 3

Hello, and welcome to the latest instalment of the mini-album project.

Today I've added a waterfall page. I like to have an element of surprise so I made the page so that each page hides the one beneath it - like this!

via GIPHY

Here's a close-up -

I'm so glad I took advantage of Stampin' Up!'s buy 3, get one free promotion on selected DSP this month (there's still time if you haven't treated yourself - you've got until the end of the month!) so that I've got lots of gorgeous papers for matting my album pages.

Here's the tutorial -

Just a reminder that I've created a playlist for all the tutorials in this project, so if you've missed one you can easily find them all.

Keep crafting,

Keren

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Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper

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Sea Of Textures Clear-Mount Bundle

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Pacific Point Classic Stampin' Pad

[147098]

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

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Wednesday, 11 July 2018

A fishy project!

Hello, and welcome!

Today I've been inspired by the Stampin' Up! catalogue. As well as listing all the yummy goodies you can buy from Stampin' Up!, the catalogue is a fabulous source of inspiration - in fact, it used to be called the Ideas Book once upon a time. I spotted a sweet little aquarium made in one of the Tiny Treat Boxes and I wanted to reproduce it (or CASE it).

I changed it a bit - I added in a goldfish from the Jars of Love set, and I used sequins instead of sprinkles. See what you think!

BTW, if the sound is a bit weird, I apologise. It's been unusually warm here lately (I know, if you live in parts of the world where it gets much hotter in the summer 30 degrees C doesn't seem so bad, but this is the UK and we don't have air-conditioning in houses as a rule!) so I have up to 6 fans running, and when that happens it sounds as if I'm in a wind tunnel, so I have to voice-over my tutorials when the weather cools off a bit...

Anyway, I am going to go and take a cool bath to chill down a bit!

See you soon,

Keep Crafting,

Keren

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Saturday, 16 June 2018

Coastal Living

Hello, and welcome.

I don't know how it is where you live, but here in South Wales the weather can be a bit - well, unpredictable. We hope for sunny days in the summer months, but we often don't get them. This year, however, we've had some warm weather, and so everyone heads for the beach.

I'm so lucky to live within walking distance of this!

I've been inspired to make some projects with a sea-side theme - including today's sweet little box.

It holds two Yankee Candle tealights - the fragrance is called Coastal Living, so it's very appropriate, don't you think? - and they are an almost perfect colour match to Mint Macaron. I was so pleased when Mint Macaron returned in the Colour Revamp. I did miss it when it retired.

I'm also loving the Under the Sea framelits which I've used to decorate my box - and I promise you you're going to see me using them again very soon, because it seems that my crafting mojo is enjoying sunning itself on the beach and sending me wish-you-were-here postcards!

Here's the tutorial -