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    By The Bay FREE Sale-A-Bration Stamp Set – Quick Card Idea

    Hello and welcome to Mitosu Crafts. It’s Jay here with a quick and easy card idea using the FREE Sale-A-Bration Cling Mount stamp set By The Bay I wanted to add colour to the design quickly without being too precise so I decided to use the sponging and masking technique Creating a night scene with this beautiful design makes it forgiving if you make a mistake. You can go straight onto your project with the inked sponge for added texture and still create something wonderful For the mask, I stamped on a sticky note and fussy cut with the snips. Ensure you cut off the lines so your project image…

  • Inspiration,  Paper Craft Crew

    Fable Friends Card Idea for Paper Craft Crew Challenge #PCC327

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts, thanks for stopping by today. It’s Jay here with my Design Team inspiration card for Paper Craft Crew card sketch challenge #PCC327 We received new products recently from the 2019 Spring/Summer Catalogue so I decided to create something with the Fable Friends Cling Stamp Set for the card sketch above The Fable Friends Stamp Set includes 9 Cling Mount designs, 4 of which are of cute animals great for Easter and Baby Cards. For my project today I decided to leave the front blank so it can be personalised in the future if needed There are 7 elements needed to follow the card sketch…

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    Stamp Review Crew ~ Butterfly Gala

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by today. It’s Jay here with the Stamp Review Crew blog hop. The Stamp Review Crew are a group of independent demonstrators sharing inspirations using the same stamp set by Stampin’ Up! For this hop we are showcasing the beautiful Butterfly Gala photopolymer stamp set Make the most of your stamps with Stamp Review Crew and continue along the hop by clicking the ‘Next Blog’ button at the end of this post. If you are following the hop already, you have arrived here from With A Bow On Top by the talented Lou Kitzelman The Butterfly Gala Stamp Set comes…

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    Precious Parcel FREE Sale-a-bration item

    Hello, Barry here. Today I wanted to share with you a quick video showing how amazing the Precious Parcel Card Kit is and to make it even better, you can choose it as your  FREE item with a qualifying purchase from us during Sale-a-bration. Wow, who loves a freebie? So below I’ve put up the video showing you how easy it is to make these little note cards and they are very simple. But sometimes that’s what we need as crafters, quick, simple, yet stunning cards. Check it out below. Remember to hit the subscribe button for future video inspiration. Don’t you just love them?  ———————————————————– Whilst you’re here we just wanted…

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    By The Bay for Paper Craft Crew Challenge #PCC326

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts, thanks for stopping by today. It’s Jay here with my Design Team inspiration card for Paper Craft Crew card sketch challenge #PCC326 The layout is full of different elements and layers which I achieved using the Rectangle Stitched Framelits with an image from the FREE 2019 Sale-A-Bration By The Bay stamp set. I made this card in between our local card classes yesterday although I already had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do I wanted a sepia look with a touch of colour and opted for Sahara Sand cardbase, Very Vanilla mat and Soft Suede layer. The other colours…

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    Nine lives for Valentines

    Hello Welcome to today’s project. Today I will be showing you these 2 easy cards made using the Nine Lives Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! It’s such a cute little set and purrrfect for any cat lover. I’ve used pre-cut & scored note cards, coordinating cat punch, lovely lipstick Embossing powder or Lovely Lipstick Ink as well as the FREE Sale-a-bration Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets + few basic materials. I really enjoyed making these projects and the inspiration behind it came from a challenge we do each month with our team. This months theme was hearts. I also wanted to do something different and this I think hits that brief.  Below you can…

  • Creating Kindness,  Inspiration

    So Hoppy Spinner Pop Up for Creating Kindness

    Hello and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for popping by. It’s Jay here with the Creating Kindness Design Team blog hop Our theme this month is Birthdays and we have an array of wonderful projects for your cardmaking & papercraft inspiration so make sure to visit everyone’s blog including our fabulous Special Guest Designer Louise Sharp! If you’re following the hop already from Paula Dobson’s Stampinantics, you can continue your way around the hop from the list at the end of the post Spinner Pop Up Card The inspiration for my project came from a Spinner Pop Up card I saw on Pinterest. I wanted to create my own…

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    Home To Roost for Paper Craft Crew #PCC325

    Hi and thanks for stopping by today. It’s Jay here with my card idea for Paper Craft Crew cad sketch challenge #PCC325 I used the FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp set Home To Roost again for my project, coloured with the Stampin’ Blends I stamped the rooster in Tuxedo Black Memento and the colours I used were Dark Bermuda Bay, Dark Night of Navy, Dark Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie Combo. Dark Smoky Slate is great for adding shadows and Light Soft Sea Foam to cover the background. I also used Ivory for the ground and outer edge of the stitched topper The Crumb Cake mat was gutted for the banner before adhering…

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    Home to Roost #simplestamping Sunday FB Live

    Hello crafty friend Thanks for stopping by to have a look at what we created for our #simplestamping Sunday project which we did live yesterday over on our Facebook Page.  This week we had a slight change to the schedule and Jay took over and did one of his amazing sponging projects to create a beautiful sunset scene. He used the Home To Roost Stamp Set which is a FREE set during Sale-A-Bration with a qualifying order. Once again we’ve seen some amazing examples throughout social media and we’re really looking forward to having a play and showing you all some more great projects. The Home To Roost stamp set is now available to earn…

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    Butterfly Gala #simplestamping Sunday

    Hello crafty friend Thank you for stopping by to have a look at what I created for our #simplestamping Sunday project which I did live yesterday over on our Facebook Page.  This week I’m using the Butterfly Gala Stamp Set from the Gingham Gala suite. We’ve seen some amazing examples throughout social media and we’re really looking forward to having a play and showing you all some more great projects. **Warning – This set has sold better than predicted and is soon not going to be available to order until mid-March. Hurry, order soon if you want it before it sells out for a short while.** What do you think of this set? This stamp…