Hello crafty friends – welcome to Monday and the start of another week! It’s also the start of our new theme at Sparkles Challenge and #201 is ‘masculine’ – perfect timing for Father’s Day cards, but any other occasion will do. It gave me the perfect excuse to play with the new Friends & Family… Read More Masculine card for Sparkles Challenge #201
I’m back for the final time today (I said it was a busy one!) with my design team card for the new theme at Sparkles Challenge, where we want you to feature a trio of something on your card. I opted for a simple route on this one, turning one of the new Flower Wall… Read More Flower wall trio for Sparkles Challenge #200
Hello crafty friends. It’s a busy couple of days in my little bloggy world and I’ve got a second card to share again today, this time for the new theme at Sparkles Challenge. Maria has given us ‘pastels and/or rabbits’, which is a great springtime theme and I’ve managed to combine both elements into my… Read More Pastels & rabbits at Sparkles Challenge #199
Hello crafty friends. Our new theme at Sparkles Challenge starts today and, appropriately enough, it’s ‘spring time’! I opted for a tree filled with blossom using the new Branches, Twigs & Sprigs stamps, inspired by the flower filled ones around us here. Taking a 5×5 card blank, I first used a square embedder and a… Read More Springtime at Sparkles Challenge
Hello there. I’ve got another look for you with the new Say It With Flowers sampler stamp set and the Floral Elements BOW-WOB paper that launched last Monday. Now, our new theme at Sparkles Challenge is Vintage/Mixed Media – I thought a pink & brown colour combination had a vintage feel, with my background print… Read More Vintage / Mixed Media at Sparkles Challenge 197
Hello crafty friends. I’m a bit late today with my DT card for our new challenge at Sparkles where Melissa has given us ‘snowflakes’ as our theme. I’ve kept it very simple with one of Clarity’s Christmas Corners stamps, an Art Deco sentiment and the new sentiment embedder stencil – probably more products than you’d… Read More snowflakes at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another new challenge to share with you today – this time it’s our next theme of ‘autumn leaves & pumpkins’ at Sparkles Challenges. Well, I knew exactly where I was going with my DT card for this one, and that was straight back to Clarity’s Autumn Build a Wreath stamp… Read More autumn leaves & pumpkins at Sparkles Challenge
Hello there. We’ve got a new challenge starting today at Sparkles and it’s right in my happy place – clean & simple! I needed to replenish my stash of new baby cards, so went with the ‘baby’ theme over at CAS on Friday and the lovely blue tones at Creative Colour with Clarity’s Adorable Baby… Read More Clean and Simple at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. The sun’s still shining here (although the temperature has thankfully dropped back down to the seasonal norm after the recent heatwaves) and we’re celebrating ‘summer days’ with our new theme at Sparkles Challenges. I pulled out another piece of the fab backdrop prints from Clarity and once again just added a few… Read More summer days at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Well, we’re halfway through June already and so it’s time for our latest challenge at Sparkles. This time round our theme is ‘fairytale or storybook’ and it gave me the perfect excuse to play with the Sprite Mini Poppets stamps again – I think Mabel and her little frog are one of… Read More Fairytale at Sparkles Challenge
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