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!
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been playing with more of my Claritystamp designer papers today, this time pairing them with the ‘Hot Air Balloon’ stamp set. My starting point for this card was the current theme of ‘float’ over at Just Us Girls , and I then went to the sketches at Global Design… Read More Up, up and away!
Welcome to my crafty blog. I decided we needed a bright and cheerful card today, as the weather here in London has not been great. This is another one of the new sets from Julie Hickey – ‘floral happiness’, and I thought it was perfect for this week’s photo inspiration challenge from Just Add Ink.… Read More floral happiness
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Sunday, so I’m on to the next stamp in my lookback through the Claritystamp new design club – today it’s #92, the ‘row of trees’ from June 2014. I’ve used this one a few times over the years – I love its clean lines. I decided to use it… Read More Clarity new design club lookback – row of trees #92
