Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – “Live Love Laugh”

ImageApril 20, 2020August 6, 2025 John - Gentleman Crafter6 Comments

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – “Live Love Laugh” A bit of a user-upper on this card today. You know, where you’ve got lots of little bits from past kits or embellishment packs, that kinda thing. Turned out nice, I reckon.

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – “Thanks For Everything”

ImageApril 19, 2020April 18, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter11 Comments

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – “Thanks For Everything” Another new make to share with you today. This time, a little thank you. Because you deserve it.

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – “Be Strong”

ImageApril 18, 2020April 17, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter11 Comments

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – “Be Strong” Been a while since I shared some makes using the dies that I designed last year so thought that I would pop a fresh batch up. Sorry I haven’t shared these in detail sooner however it’s been a bit chaotic around here, even with the bug thing […]

Couture Creations Cathedral Window Cut Foil and Emboss Die

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – Letter Pressed Handmade Paper Backgrounds Using Cut Foil and Emboss Dies

ImageApril 3, 2020March 27, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter4 Comments

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – Letter Pressed Handmade Paper Backgrounds Using Cut Foil and Emboss Dies Ready for another clip from the recent HOCHANDA shows featuring the creative dies from Couture Creations?

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – Layered Die Cuts and Ombre Letter Pressing

ImageApril 2, 2020March 26, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter9 Comments

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – Layered Die Cuts and Ombre Letter Pressing Having had their debut on HOCHANDA this yesterday, albeit via a very distanced method, I thought that it would be a nice idea to share the demonstrations from the show using my die designs on this blog and to expand on a […]

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – Super Simply Layered Thanks Sentiment

ImageMarch 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

Creative Ideas With Couture Creations – Super Simply Layered Thanks Sentiment Recently I shared an image of a card that I had made on Facebook and Instagram. Many of you got in touch to ask how I did it – here is how…

How To Use Embossing Powders With Hot Foil Stamps and Dies

ImageMarch 17, 2020March 16, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter19 Comments

How To Use Embossing Powders With Hot Foil Stamps and Dies When working on some new demonstration ideas for an upcoming TV show, about the hot-foil dies that I created for Couture Creations, I stumbled across an old technique that worked well at creating a new no-foil style and wanted to share that with you.

Artist Trading Card – 151

November 4, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter8 Comments

Hey, how’s it going? If you follow me on social media you may have heard me waffle/moan about having a bit of a creative block recently. Sorry about that.

To clear my ‘channels’ I decided to go back to doing daily mini creative thingys. You know, random stuff.

A Quick Look At The Latest DT Kit from Couture Creations

October 24, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman CrafterLeave a comment

It’s been a while since I last updated you on DT goings-on and, for some reason, this post didn’t make it out of the gate, so today I thought that I would share a video of the latest kit that arrived with me back in September.

Couture Creations Gentleman’s Emporium – Collecting Moments Card

October 23, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

Hello and welcome to another make created with the Gentlemans Emporium range from Couture Creations.

Time is a precious thing to all of us and we should, therefore, encourage each other to take the time to enjoy the moment and not worry about the future or the past.

For this reason, I created this card as a way to do that.

Couture Creations Christmas Creations – 5

October 23, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter1 Comment

When is Christmas not Christmas? When you make a year long calendar with Christmas crafting goodies, that’s when.

Sorry, clearly not a cracker worthy joke, just a plain fact.

Couture Creations Christmas Creations – 4

October 9, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

Sometimes a voucher is the only option but this doesn’t mean that it has to be wrapped in plain old wrapping paper.

Couture Creations Christmas Creations – 3

September 30, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter3 Comments

Well, it’ll be here before you know it so I’d best get another ‘C’ word in before I lose the opportunity!

Couture Creations Christmas Creations – 2

September 19, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

Hallo again. Time for part 2 of my Couture Creations Christmas crafting design team submissions.

Hope you liked the first part. This time I’ve included a little bit of rubber stamping.

Couture Creations Christmas Creations – 1

September 17, 2019August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter8 Comments

Well, I had to mention it at some point this year and, given that it was included in my last design team kit from Couture Creations, it may as well be now.

Yes, I have been CHRISTMAS crafting!