Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new letter over at the Alphabet Challenge – we’re now on to I and Helen has chosen ‘interests’ (hobbies, etc) as the theme for the next fortnight. My son wanted a birthday card for his father, who is a very keen cricketer, so I thought that fitted the… Read More I for interests
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m delighted to have been invited to be guest designer for the new TicTacToe challenge launching today! I decided to take the top row of butterfly, die cuts & sentiment for my card, although looking at the grid again the diagonal from top left also fits (butterfly, free & floral).… Read More TicTacToe guest designer!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses some of the new foilable die cuts from Julie Hickey Designs – having resisted for a while I am a real convert for foiling now! I’ve used the sketch from The Paper Players for my layout, together with the gorgeous colours from As You See It I… Read More sending hugs
Welcome to my crafty blog, and a bit of a two-for-one today. I’ve taken the same design and made it in two colourways, which is a great way of getting extra mileage out of stamp sets. I’ve used the ‘wonderful world’ stamp set, which is part of Stampin’ Up!’s current Saleabration offer. I started with… Read More one design, two cards
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is a last minute offering for Color Throwdown – I thought their colours would be perfect for a countryside scene using one of Claritystamp’s ‘room with a view’ aperture dies. This one is set 1 ‘sunshine’. The first step was to cut the die into the forn of a 6×6… Read More sunny day
Heoo there! Well, it’s Sunday again so back into Claritystamp’s Craft Club, this time to May 2021 and the ‘wicker texture’ abstract stamp. This is such a great background and I thought it would work for the current layout at Freshly Made Sketches, together with the colours from Just Add Ink I started by cutting… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – wicker texture
Hello crafty friends. I’m sharing some delicious cocktails today that have headed off to my niece for her birthday, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘nothing’s better than…’ set. I thought the colours from CAS Colours & Sketches were just right for this – these two could be a mint julep and strawberry daiquiri, don’t you think? I… Read More cocktails day
Hello there. Today’s card picks up a couple of challenges that feature favourite things. TGIF‘s new theme is exactly that, and I’ve just got time to get this card entered into Inkspirational‘s ‘favourite monochrome’ challenge as well. My friends won’t be surprised to see that this card features shades of teal! I’ve used 3 Distress… Read More a card of favourites
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses the ‘lovely leaves’ dies from Julie Hickey Designs with a bit of ink blending. I’ve picked up the challenge from Global Design Project, which is to CASE (copy and selectively edit) the card designed by Susan, and added in the colours from Just Us Girls I started… Read More thoughtful leaves
Hello crafty friends. I decieded to have another play with the fab ‘farming fun’ set from Newton’s Nook, thanks to the challenge theme of ‘kards for kids’ over at The Paper Players (Congrats on the 600th edition to the team!). These tractor & digger images are just fab! I’ve also used the layout from Atlantic… Read More digging your birthday!
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