Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a birthday card for my father-in-law, who’ll be turning 96 on Friday. He doesn’t get out of the house anymore, so I thought he might appreciate a landscape on his birthday. This one uses the colours from Inspire.Create – I thought they were ideal for a masculine card.… Read More snowy hills
Hello crafty friends. I thought I’d better make a start on some thank you cards, now all the Christmas ones are sorted! I’ve picked up the colours from the current Color Throwdown challenge and used them with Julie Hickey’s ‘florals for you’ set. I started with an A6 card blank and blended some ‘picked raspberry’… Read More a floral thank you
Hello crafty friends. Well it’s Sunday again so I’m dipping back into Claritystamp’s new design stamp club – today it’s for the ‘vintage phone’ from January 2018. I really wasn’t sure how best to use this stamp (it’s not my usual style), so adapted one of Dee Paramour’s designs from the project sheet that comes… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – vintage telephone #135
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been playing with a new stamp and die set from Stampin’ Up! – ‘Eden’s Garden’. I recently did an online class with Joanne James using this set – it’s really beautiful. This card picks up the sketch from Global Design Project with the colours from Colour INKspiration I started with a… Read More a birthday bouquet
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to S and Dawn has challenged us to use silver, which is perfect for this time of year. Our challenge runs until Thursday 30th December, so there’s lots of time to join us. I decided to go with… Read More S is for Silver
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is a nice and simple one that took less than 10 minutes to make, thanks to the current challenge over at As You See It. The team have got a speedy challenge this week, with the theme of ‘snowflakes’, so this one definitely fits the bill. I decided to use… Read More snowflake wishes
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using Julie Hickey’s ‘fresh florals’ stamp set – these are definitely a favourite of mine! This creation has been inspired by the current grid over at TicTacToe challenge – I’ve gone down the left hand column with heart, birthday & gold. I started by die cutting a… Read More wonderful day
Hello crafty friends. Who doesn’t love a cup of hot chocolate? I decided to christen my ‘nothing’s better than’ stamp set from Stampin’ Up!, picking up the themes from the challenges at Inspired by and Inkspirational I attached a piece of brown polka dot paper form my stash to the front of an A6 card… Read More hot chocolate!
Hello crafty friends. It’s Sunday so time for another dip back into Claritystamp’s new design club – this is the ‘Christmas words tree’ from December 2017. It’s a great stamp and I decided it didn’t need a lot of embellishment, so have kept it very clean and simple. I started by making a green A6… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – Christmas words tree #134
Hello crafty friends. Unusually today I don’t have a card to share with you, instead I’ve made a gift wallet that one of my sons will be receiving with a nice surprise inside. It’s really easy to make and I was prompted to think of it by the current challenge at Just Add Ink. I… Read More Christmas gift wallet
