Hello crafty friends! It’s another design team day here in my little corner of blog-land, with my offering for our new theme of O for Outdoors at Alphabet Challenge. I’ve taken a slightly lateral approach on my card with one of the Mistletoe Build a Bauble images – but then robins live and mistletoe grows… Read More O for Outdoors at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Well, the temperatures have dropped over the last couple of days here in the UK, but there’s no sign of snow yet. Even so, I wanted to share the last of my samples using the new Snow Globe toppers and the little snowman from the Christmas Family & Friends collection – well,… Read More Let it snow-globe
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new challenge for you over at Addicted to Stamps & More and this time it’s the turn of our diecuts and/or stencils theme. I’ve got this card to share with you, using the Sunshine stencil and the Block Print Thank you stamp set for a cheerful sunrise scene. I… Read More Block print sunrise stencil for Addicted to Stamps & More
Hello everyone. I’m still in major Christmas card production mode, so here’s another one for you using our new colours at CAS Colours & Sketches (which I chose!). I decided to try them out on the Holly Build a Bauble stamps, having discovered that there is a variety of holly (ilex aquifolium) that has yellow… Read More Holly bauble for CAS Colours & Sketches #598
Hello everyone. It’s been a bit of a sad, reflective day today, as we bid a final farewell to our Clarity team-mate Sarah Brennan. My simple card to share with you uses a bit of heat embossing (one of Sarah’s favourite techniques) with one of the Retro Shapes stamps and a bit of the Retro… Read More Daisies for my sister
Hello everyone. I’ve had a quieter day today and spent a few hours crafting this afternoon whilst catching up with my sister online (who was also crafting at the same time!) You may have noticed that I’m in full Christmas production at the moment, and took the opportunity for another play with the SHAC Christmas… Read More Deck the halls
Hello everyone. I would normally say ‘welcome to Seasonal Saturday’, but I’ve been sharing Christmas cards with you all week, so that feels a bit unnecessary! Anyway, it’s time for our new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, where Gill has given us a great sketch to play with. I reached again for one of… Read More November’s sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-41
Hello crafty friends. Well, here we are at Friday again and I’ve got our new challenge at As You See It to share with you. It’s the return of our speed stamping round, where we challenge you to make a card in less than 10 minutes – this time it was my turn to select… Read More Speedy greens for As You See It Challenge #385
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of my design team cards for the Triangle Trees toppers to share with you, with added shine from some hot foil! One of the things I love about Clarity’s printed papers and toppers is that the images will pick up hot foiling, which just takes the cards up a… Read More Delivering the presents
Hello crafty friends. I’ve switched away from the Christmas Animals Sampler stamps today back to one of the original full size sets with the Christmas Animals – Elk stamps (I think he’s a moose, although they are called elk in Europe!!) I was absolutely delighted to be a winner in a previous Male Room challenge… Read More Guest designer for The Male Room’s animals challenge
