Preview(opens in a new tab) Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. It’s another warm weekend here in the UK, and today’s card turned out to have a very summery feel. I’ve made it as support and encouragement for a friend who’s having a procedure done next week – I thought this sentiment from… Read More You can do this
Hello. Welcome to my little crafty blog. I’m getting busy now making Father’s Day cards for friends to send, ahead of next weekend. I was asked to make a card with a train theme, and found this lovely vintage postcard style stamp from a little company in the UK called Crafty Individuals. As usual, I… Read More Full steam ahead!
Hello and welcome to my little crafty blog. I thought I’d share with you a card I’ve made for my friend’s son, who is a very keen cricketer. Live sport is slowly starting again in the UK, although without spectators, and I know lots of sports fans who’ve been really missing the live games and… Read More Cover drive
Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. I wanted to share a card a made for close friends who’ve recently managed to move house out of London, as the lockdown restrictions have slowly eased. I was a bit worried that it looked a bit wintry, but i wanted a very clean and simple effect… Read More New village home
Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. I made a quick card today to send to my cousin in Italy, who I haven’t seen for several years. I had hoped I might be able to visit her this year, but Coronavirus has put paid to that! Hopefully, things will be in a better place… Read More Sending love
Hello. welcome to my little crafty blog. I spent some time this afternoon working on my colouring technique (I’ve been following the daily YouTube videos from Barbara Gray at Claritystamp https://www.youtube.com/user/Claritystamp), and this seemed like the perfect sentiment for a Sunday afternoon. I used one of the ‘Poetry’ collection from Claritystamp, and started by stamping… Read More Time to stand and stare
Hello and welcome to my little crafty blog. Today’s card will be going to thank a friend for something they did for me. One of the things that has struck me about this time of lockdown is just how people are coming together to support each other in so many ways. Some of it is… Read More Thank you heart
Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. Some of you may remember there was an advert running in the 1970s encouraging us to “say it with flowers”, so I made a card that does just that (mainly because I couldn’t decide what sentiment to put on it!). I’ll keep it in my stock pile… Read More Say it with flowers
Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. Thanks for dropping in. I’m sharing a birthday card I made for a friend’s father, which seemed an appropriate image as the UK government has announced this week that some of the lockdown restrictions have been eased. We can now go and meet a friend in a… Read More Sitting in the park
Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. Tuesday 12th May is celebrated worldwide as International Nurses Day, as it was Florence Nightingale’s birthday, and this year is the 200th anniversary of her birth. Our celebrations will be rather more muted this year – there’s no service in Westminster Abbey, or any of the other… Read More International Nurses Day
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