Hello there! I’ve got a very quick and simple card to share with you today, using the Stampin’ Up! ‘textures and frames’ set from last year’s Saleabration. I haven’t used it very much, but it came to mind when I saw the inspiration photo from Just Us Girls. I’ve also used the ‘one layer &… Read More a little note
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card uses a mixture of old and new stamps from Julie Hickey Designs – I always enjoy mixing things up. For this one I’ve used the sketch from Fusion and picked up the pink tulips in their photo. The colour scheme is thanks to Inspire.Create, who’ve challenged us to use black,… Read More grace
Hello and welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card features the ‘plentiful plants’ stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up!, inspired by Joanne’s sketch over at The Paper Players. I rotated the layout for my card (hope that’s OK, Joanne!) and used the colours from Just Add Ink‘s inspiration photo. I started by rubbing ‘pumice stone’… Read More thoughtful plants
Hello crafty friends. Well, it’s Sunday again so here’s my next dip back into Claritystamp’s craft club – I’m now up to April 2020 and the ‘marvellous macaw’ stamp. I used this little fellow in my end of year trip back through the craft club for 2020, but he hasn’t been out again since. You… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – marvellous macaw
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card for a friend who’s going through a difficult time with their health at the moment. I’ve gone with Claritystamp’s ‘funky foliage’ die for the centrepiece on this one, picking up on the themes from a couple of challenges. Festive Friday are marking International Dance Day – there… Read More funky foliage wishes
Hello there. It’s time for a new theme over at the Alphabet Challenge – we’re now onto B and Debbie has chosen ‘blooms’ for us. We’d love you to join us – you’ve got until Thursday 5th May to share your floral creations. I decided to go with Julie HIckey’s ‘daisy medley’ stamp, as the… Read More B is for blooms
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to another card that features quite a bit of die cutting, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘tulip’ dies. This week’s theme at The Paper Players is ‘April showers’ and Time Out challenges have gone with ‘spring’, so tulips seemed an obvious choice. The ones in my garden are just coming to the end… Read More April showers
Welcome to my crafty blog – today I’ve got a CAS card to share with you using one of the ‘floral frames’ stamps by Julie Hickey. I haven’t used these stamps for a while, but they came straight to mind when I saw the theme of ‘small and few’ over at AAA cards. I’ve coloured… Read More floral frame
Hello crsafty friends. I’m back today with a card using the ‘friendly hello’ stamp set that I got in the last Stampin’ Up! Saleabration and so far hadn’t opened! I thought it would work well with the challenge from Inspire Create, who’ve asked us to CASE the card by Kate on their design team, together… Read More best birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and some more flowers from Claritystamp. This ‘snowflake doodle round’ set hasn’t surfaced for a while so I thought it deserved an outing, inspired by the challenges at Global Design Project and TGIF I started with the frameless ‘snowdrop doodle round’ stencil – I laid it on a square of… Read More snowdrop doodle
