Author: Kristy

  • Happy World Card Making Day

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    We didn’t come up with World Card Making Day, but we are thrilled that it’s a thing! It’s a day dedicated to doing what you love most—making handmade cards! It celebrates the creativity and personal connection handmade cards create between loved ones, and it’s a great time to  make your own cards to send to…

  • Snowflake Sentiments Class To-Go

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    Snowflake Sentiments Class To-Go I’m excited to share with you this month’s Class Kit-To-Go!  What is a Class Kit To Go?  It’s a class to go kit that includes four projects along with the coordinating stamp set! This month’s class features the Snowflake Sentiments Stamp Set from the Holiday Catalogue This month there are 4 ways in…

  • Perfect Pack of Paper

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    Perfect Pack of Paper I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’re probably love the Designer Series Paper.  Am I right?  (If not, feel free to spend some time getting to know some; I think you’ll change your mind.) Created for the primary purpose of card making, Designer Series Paper also works…

  • Make a Card Monday Challenge #5

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    Make a Card Monday Challenge #5 Welcome to Make a Card Monday Challenge #5.  Learn more about Make a Card Monday Weekly Challenges HERE  This week we have a sketch challenge.  I use to think sketches were hard, but after you’ve done a few they become quite easy and to be honest a sketch is…

  • Daisy Delight Thank You Card

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    Welcome to Make a Card Monday, this week we have a colour challenge. Creative Challenge #4 Daffodil Delight Dapper Denim Old Olive Pool Party www.kristycoromandel.com I usually struggle with colour challenges, and this weeks colour combination proved to be a challenge.  I ended up using the Daisy Delight Stamp Set. I’ve stamped my greeting from…

  • Shaving Cream Marbling with Kids

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    Shaving Cream Marbling with Kids If you haven’t tried shaving cream marbling yet, you must! So fun and so beautiful.  This was an activity we did recently at playgroup.   Items Needed Shaving Cream Food colouring or dye ink refills Shallow pan or tray Cardstock Ruler Step #1. Spray shaving cream Spray shaving cream into…

  • Make a Card Monday #3

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    Make a Card Monday #3 Welcome to this weeks Make a Card Monday feature.  I thought I would combined this weeks MACM with our team Creative Challenge. Our challenge this week is to create a project using a stamp set we’ve either Haven’t used in a while, or Have never used I’ve chosen to use…

  • The new 2017 Holiday Catalogue is LIVE!

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    The new 2017 Holiday Catalogue is LIVE! Here is the new Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalogue 2017: Click here to place your order from this catalogue! Want to know what I ordered first?  Christmas stuff!  Halloween is not that big here in Australia, as yet. So I am getting a jump start on some decor type…

  • Daisy Delight Class To-Go

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    Daisy Delight Class To-Go I’m excited to share with you this month’s Class Kit-To-Go!  What is a Class Kit To Go?  It’s a class to go kit that includes four projects along with the coordinating stamp set! This month’s class features the Daisy Delight Bundle. Which includes the Daisy Delight Stamp set & coordinating Daisy Punch.…

  • Clean & Simple Thank You Card

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    Clean & Simple Thank You Card Welcome to our Make a Card Monday Challenge #2.  You can learn about our Make a Card Monday feature HERE This week it’s a theme challenge “Thank You Card” I’ve created a simple card, one that can be easily mass produced and with limited supplies.  I started by stamping…

  • Make a Card Monday

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    Make a Card Monday This new addition to the blog will happen in one of two ways Every Monday we are going to take a card and make it over using all Stampin’ Up! product AND/ OR We will use  a sketch, colour combination, or some other challenge to create a card This allows you to…

  • What are you making for Father’s Day?

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    What are you making for Father’s Day? This project was featured in my “Ultimate Guide to Masculine Cards” that I posted earlier in the month, if you missed it you can view it HERE. Coming up with the right colour combination can be tricky.  I like to look at the pattern paper I have and…

  • Pick a Pattern

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    Pick a Pattern It’s been four (4) years since I started this blog and I’ve shared a lot with you during that time.  Today, I went back to the beginning and found this project, the second blog post I wrote (or lack of) I thought it would be fun to recreate this Clean And Simple…

  • Carols of Christmas Early Release

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    Carols of Christmas Early Release Would you like to get your hands on product from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue? Stampin’ Up! have just released the new  Carols of Christmas bundle, which includes the Carols of Christmas stamp set and the Card Front Builder Thinlits Dies (when you buy the bundle, you get the products at a combined 10% off).…

  • My Top Five go to items to create masculine cards

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    My Top Five go to items to create Masculine Cards For some reason, many of us come up with a creative block when it comes to masculine cards, therefore, today I want to share with you my Top five (5) go-to items to Create Masculine Cards Cardstock  Often the first stumbling block is colour. Colours…