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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop – Rustic

    Welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay Soriano here sharing my project for  the Creating Kindness blog hop with a Rustic theme. Our special guest designer this hop is Caroline Van Der Straatan of Caro’s Kaartjes from The Netherlands You may have arrived here from Sense of Whimsy by Cheryll Miller or started here, you will find all the blog links at the end of the post so be sure to check out all the projects by the design team I went for a shabby chic look for my card idea with the Blended Seasons Stamp Set & Stitched Season Framelits Bundle (which is only available in August)…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Mixed Media

    Welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay Soriano here sharing my project for  the Creating Kindness blog hop with the theme of Mixed Media or Florals It’s an exciting month for us as Charlet Mallett and Sara Levin have joined the Design Team. We also have Valerie Perlin as our special guest designer this month. Please join us in welcoming these talented ladies and comment on their blogs. You can find all the blog links at the end of this post So onto my project in which I combined both themes and created this DL size card using a mixture of products and techniques I embossed…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Packaging

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay here sharing my project with the Creating Kindness Design Team with our Special Guest Designer this month, Anja Luft Our theme this month is packaging and you know how I love fold flat gift boxes, so I recreated one which I found on Pinterest with no measurements. I used the new Detailed with Love Stamp Set & Detailed Trio Punch Bundle with the Birthday Backgrounds stamp set Barry & I are still cruising along Norway so there is no video from me this month. I actually did this box last Saturday morning, just before we headed off…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Technique

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping for the Creating Kindness blog hop. The design team and our special Guest Designer Carolina Evans, are sharing all kinds of different techniques to inspire you One of my favourite technique at the moment is creating an ombre effect with sponge brayers. I teamed this technique with the exclusive early release of the Share What You Love Bundle and this is what I came up with Products used on this simple card idea can be found on the Gotta Have It All Bundle until the end of May, then will be available individually in June when the 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Colour

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay Soriano here sharing my project for the Creating Kindness blog hop with our special Guest Designer Liz Yuille of Old Stables Crafts and our new member Lou Kitzelman Our theme this month is Colour and how it impacts our style. I love using bright colours for my projects and the colours I have chosen for my card was inspired by a video game I play most days on my phone Mitosu Crafts Colour Combo Melon Mambo Perfect Plum Pacific Point Tempting Turquoise mitosustampin.blogspot.co.uk I also wanted to use the Waterfront Stamp set from the Spring/Summer Occasions Catalogue…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Inspire

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts in the UK. It’s Jay Soriano here for the Creating Kindness Design Team Blog Hop with Special Guest Brian King of Stamp with Brian We all have created projects for you to enjoy with the theme of INSPIRE. For me, nature and Stampin’ Up! products inspires my creativity and for my project today I decided to use Sheltering Tree with Brusho Crystal Colours I love working with the watercolour pigments that is the Brusho Crystal Colours from the 2018 Spring/Summer Occasions Catalogue. They are available as a pack of 5 pots with the following colours: Brilliant Red, Gamboge (Orange), Moss Green, Prussian Blue &…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Fun Fold

    Welcome to the Creating Kindness Design Team blog hop and thank you for stopping by here at Mitosu Crafts in the UK with me Jay Soriano The design team with our new addition, Jerim Dickins and our Special Guest Designer this month, Lou Kitzelman of With a Bow on Top have created Fun Fold projects for you to enjoy. As always with the Creating Kindness Blog Hop, you will find a video demonstration of my project, as well as a full list of the blogs in this hop at the end of this post #ckdt #creatingkindness #stampinup The Magical Day set from the 2018 Spring / Summer Occasions Catalogue is one of…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Celebrate

    Welcome to the Creating Kindness Design Team Blog Hop and thank you for stopping by here at Mitosu Crafts with me Jay Soriano This month is all about Celebrations, with the start of the new year and the launch of the 2018 Spring/Summer Occasions Catalogue and a new addition to the design team as well, the talented Paula Dobson, there is much to celebrate! We have created projects for you to enjoy with our Guest Designer this month Sara Levin of The Artful Inker With the excitement from all the new craft products, I decided to celebrate the new year and the catalogue launch. I created a fun pop up…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Because We Care

    Welcome to the Creating Kindness Design Team blog hop and thank you for stopping by here at Mitosu Crafts with me Jay Soriano #ckdt #creatingkindnessbloghop #stampinup The design team and our Special Guest Designer, Stesha Bloodhart of Stampin’ Hoot have created projects to inspire you and to give back to charities or the community For my contribution, I have chosen to create 3 Box Sets containing 4 assorted Christmas cards. I will be donating these box sets to Christ Church in Chineham, Basingstoke where Barry & I hold our Cardmaking & Papercraft class every month We normally sell our handmade cards at the Reception with half the proceeds going to…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Support or Friendship

    Hi Everyone Welcome to the Creating Kindness Design Team blog hop and thank you for stopping by here at Mitosu Crafts with me Jay Soriano #ckdt #creatingkindnessbloghop #stampinup The design team with our new addition, Sacha van de Kerkhof and our Special Guest Designer Juana Ambida from Juana Create have created projects to inspire you with the theme of Support or Friendship For my project today, I created a U Fold card using the High Tide Photopolymer Stamp Set as the sentiment is perfect for the theme this month. This type of card is fairly easy to make and one to be displayed which hopefully will remind the recipient of…