Stampin' Up! UK Card Making Kit

Earlier in the year, I reviewed the Watercolour Wishes Card Making Kit from Stampin' Up! UK which I loved! It's such a comprehensive, cute and easy to use kit so I was super excited when I received another kit. I have the *Oh Happy Days Card Making Kit (£31.50) which contains: stamp ink, a stamp block, stamps, glittery dots, twine, die cut white and gold shapes, embossed sheets, glittery wooden shapes, 20 card bases and envelopes and the cute storage box as well as instructions/card design ideas.

I love crafting and DIY projects but they always turn out a little different than I thought they would or the projects I want to try are quite time consuming or involve a lot of tools but making cards is such a quick, easy and relaxing craft project. I've already made four cards using only the products in the kit and I love how all of them turned out!

The designs are so gorgeous and unlike some card making kits, so modern and pinterest worthy! I love the typography of the stamps, it's gorgeous. There are so many card designs you can make or you can come up with your own designs. I think for the amount of items you receive in the kit, it's well worth the money - it works out to be just over £1.50 per card and you then still have the extras and stamps to make more cards.

Overall, I can't recommend this kit enough; it's so quick and easy to use! You can make gorgeous, Etsy/Pinterest looking cards in a few minutes. They also have some christmas card kits and stamp which I need! Overall rating: ★★★★★, 5/5.

Have you tried anything from Stampin' Up! UK? What do you think of the cards I've made? 

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#ThouShaltCraft ft. Viking

April marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death and the lovely people at Viking have created a challenge, to come up with some craft ideas around The Immortal Bard and I was more than happy to take part. I was kindly sent some products to help including a freakin' gorgeous calligraphy kit, Sharpie markers, paper and other products.

As much as I would like to think of myself as an amazing crafting blogger able to create incredible projects but sadly, I'm not. So I've stuck with the things I can do - prints and cards! The first item I made is a Shakespeare birthday card as you know, reasons. I found a royalty free image of Shakespeare, added a party hat and printed it so I could use foam stickers to attach it to a stripy card and hey presto, a birthday card. I used my Watercolour Card Making Kit. I have two family members that share a birthday with William Shakespeare and it's also St Georges Day, so one of them will get this card!

I also made this print 'Anatomy Of A Shakespearian Heart' that I'm kind of in love with! I again found a royalty free image of a medical drawing of a heart and I added annotations of the various lettered labels with Shakespeare's quotes around love and some of his other most famous quotes. I have this print taped to my 'feature' wall in my office (with cute stripy washi tape) and it looks great!

Here's a super short video to show the cards and print better:

What do you think of my Shakespeare inspired cards and print? 

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