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Karen Hadler Stamping Bees

Create and Learn Basic and Advanced Techniques Cardmaking and Paper Crafting with Stamping Bees and Stampin' Up Products

Love of leaves and Baby Wipe Technique

Have you tried this fabulous technique yet?? This is such a fabulous way to add colour and texture to your stamps. I have used the Love of Leaves and Baby Wipe Technique. For this card the colours I used were Cinnamon Cider, Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Cobbler. Perfect Autumn/fall combination. For this Card I created my own DSP. This second card I have stamped from the Baby Wipe 3 individual leaves and then cut out. They were then placed on dimensionals. There are so many different ways ... VIEW POST

Timeless Tropical Retirement

Wouldn't this be a fabulous way to retire! My amazing Courier who delivers all my fabulous Stampin' Up! boxes retired a couple of weeks ago and I made him this card to say Happy Retirement and thank you so much. Wouldn't it be fabulous to have a Timeless Tropical Retirement. The background is water coloured on Shimmery White Card Stock. Creating Backgrounds like this is a favourite of mine, using are amazing aqua painters. To create the waves I have combined our White Chalk Markers ... VIEW POST

Cute Halloween- You Can Create it.

Welcome to September's Challenge with Stampin' Ups!, Cute Halloween -You Can Create it. This month in the kit we included amongst card stock and Black Glitter paper, 1 pieces of the Cute Halloween Designer Series paper. These papers are very cute, but the great thing is if you don't observe Halloween the flip side has some fabulous patterns as well. In New Zealand we observe halloween by getting dressed up and Trick or Treating for fun. We don't tend to send cards as such so I have made ... VIEW POST

The Stunning Cork Specialty Paper

Love this very unique paper and it is perfect for cards and notebooks! Have you seen The Stunning Cork Specialty Paper yet? It is in the July - December Mini Catalogue pg 55. It is a shame that catalogues cannot provide touch as well! The papers are wonderfull textured and has a feel of cork but a lot softer. I have used it for a few projects but knew it would be perfect to cover a notebook! Covering the back of the Cork Specialty paper with Adhesive sheets made it easy to adhere. ... VIEW POST

Christmas Cheer and Magical Moments

A blended card using the Whimsical Trees stamp set. As I am sure anyone knows that follows me I Love Blending. For this card I have used my Blending Brushes directly onto coloured Card stock, Pear Pizzazz. But prior to blending I clear embossed the Whimsical Trees. This meant that whatever colour I added on top the trees would remain the same for Christmas Cheer and Magical Moments. This really does create a magical appearance. Colouring the outside darker and getting lighter as I ... VIEW POST

Clean and Simple Stamping-Global Stampin Video Hop

Beautiful Clean and Simple Cards is the theme this month Clean and Simple Stamping-Global Stampin Video Hop is this months fabulous theme. I love the simplicity and freshness of this style of card. For this one I have used the Textures and Frames In the Sale-A-Bration catalogue and Lovely You. Just stamped the images and added some bling. When I see Clean and Simple Stamping cards I always admire them but must admit initially did struggle creating them. It was all that white ... VIEW POST