Welcome to my crafty blog and another card ready for Mother’s Day next month. This time I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘plentiful plants’ set, with the new sketch from Global Design Project and the inspiration photo from Just Add Ink. I’ve also incorporated the bottom row of sentiment / embellishment / die cut from TicTacToe‘s grid.… Read More Mother’s day plants
Welcome to my crafty blog and another two-for-one post. This sweet teddy bear is from July 2018, and I have to confess is another stamp that’s not seen action until now! I need some more new baby cards in my stash, which seemed like the perfect theme. I started by stamping the bear in black… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – teddy bear #141
Welcome to my crafty blog and the first of this year’s Mother’s Day cards – I’m getting ready for next month. I decided to go back to a Stampin’ Up! set that I got last year – ‘blossoms in bloom’, teaming them up with the design from Freshly Made Sketches and a second run at… Read More mother’s day blossoms
Welcome to my crafty blog and a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge. Melanie has chosen ‘winter’ as the theme for W, which was very helpful in my goal of making a few Christmas cards each month this year. I love making little scenes on cards (a technique I first learned from Barbara Gray over… Read More W is for winter
Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick card today – I haven’t got a lot of energy at the moment thanks to Covid and I’ve had online meetings all day! I went back to the new fern dies from Julie Hickey for a CAS card, using the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches and… Read More keep calm and carry on…
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had another play today with some of the new dies designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs – these are fantastically detailed ferns. I’ve mamanged to work three challenges into this one card, as well. The Paper Players have got ‘love and friendship’ as this week’s theme, which… Read More beautiful friend
Welcome to my crafty blog. I managed to find some time to play with the new ‘more about the boys’ set designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs. I decided to start simple, as I needed a quick card – I’m looking forward to Julie & Hazel’s online workshops in a couple of weeks… Read More birthday star
Welcome to my crafty blog, and another wedding card (trying to get my stocks built up!). This one uses the January Craft Club stencil from Claritystamp – I decided to expand my club membership this year to include the stencils, and this one is a great start. I’ve taken inspiration from a few challenges for… Read More wedding day celebrations
Welcome to my crafty bog and my regular Sunday dip back into the Claritystamp Craft Club. Today we’re up to June 2018, which was this really sweet teapot. I decided it had such a lovely pattern that I didn’t want to distract with a busy background, so I just started by blending ‘juniper’ Adirondack ink… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – teapot #140
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been playing with a new stamp today – the ‘snowdrop’ is the January Craft Club stamp from Claritystamp. I thought the colour palette from As You See It would work really well for this, and I’ve used the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started with the background, and… Read More snowdrop
