Welcome to my crafty blog. The weather’s been miserable here for the last couple of days, so I thought I’d start looking ahead to summer and lovely bowls of strawberries & raspberries. I got Stampin’ Up!’s ‘sweet strawberry’ set earlier this year, together with the ‘berry blessings’ stamps in the Sale-a-bration and thought they deserved… Read More wishing you the berry best
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Father’s Day next month (on 20th June), so I’ve started getting some cards made ready for sale. I’ve gone with Stampin’ Up!’s retired ‘glass half full’ set for this one – I think it works really well for masculine cards (although quite a few ladies I know are partial… Read More Father’s Day glass of wine
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s International Nurses’ Day today, as 12th May was Florence Nightingale’s birthday, and there have been lots of celebrations and events to mark the contribution nurses make in hospitals and healthcare organisations across the UK. The annual service at Westminster Cathedral has taken place today, after being postponed last year,… Read More International Nurses’ Day
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been catching up with an online class from last week with the brilliant Julie Hickey using some of her new stamps, and I adapted this card from one of her demonstrations. I’m always in awe of what she manages to come up with. I’ve used the colours from the… Read More birthday circles
Welcome to my crafty blog. I decided to CaSE (copy and selectively edit) a previous card I made with the Stampin’ Up! ‘arrange a wreath’ set – here’s my original Easter wreaths. This time I’ve added an extra wreath under the flowers and completed the circle, using the colours from this week’s challenge at TGIF.… Read More a wreath of flowers
Welcome to my crafty blog and my regular Sunday lookback through Claritystamp’s new design club. This week it’s the turn of the ‘lady’s mantle’ floral stamp, #93 from July 2014. I started with a piece of white card, trimmed down to fit on an A6 card blank. I inked up the stamp with Distress Oxides… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – lady’s mantle #93
Welcome to my crafty blog. I spent the afternoon in an online crafty link-up with my sister and my craft buddy, playing with the latest Claritystamp Craft Club set from April. It’s great to just spend a session together with each of us using the same stamps but coming up with very different results. I’ve… Read More new home blessings
Welcome to my crafty blog. I decided to have another play with the ‘friends are like seashells’ set from Stampin’ Up!, inspired by this week’s theme of ‘sea creatures’ over at Less Is More. I’ve CaSE’d (Copy and Selectively Edit) a card I saw elsewhere on social media using the stamps, and took the colours… Read More a get well seashell
Welcome to my crafty blog. Here’s the card I had planned to share yesterday – I missed blogging for the first time since Christmas as I had a day out meeting friends, which was so lovely. You don’t realise how much you have missed things until you can go back and do them again. Today’s… Read More butterfly floral frame
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is a bit of a blast from the past – on several levels! Obviously dinosaurs are prehistoric, but I’ve used a old retired set from Stampin’ Up!, ‘no bones about it’, and it took me right back to when my eldest son was small and was obsessed with… Read More slugs, snails & puppydog tails… and dinosaurs!
