Welcome to my crafty blog and a pretty spring pansy on today’s card. I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘pansy patch’ set (which has carried over into the new catalogue), inspired by the challenges at Inspired by, Festive Friday (I picked up yellow, black & enamel dots from their list) and Less is More I started with… Read More spring pansy
Hello crafty friends. I’m finally getting back into the swing of things after my holiday, and was doing a bit of catching up at my craft desk this afternoon. My April Craft Club goodies arrived from ClarityCrafts while I was away, so I’ve given the mandala stencil a first outing on today’s card, inspired by… Read More mandala stencil
Hello again! After my long break I’m back with a second card today, this time for the new recipe at As You See It Challenge, which I put together. Funnily enough, my starting point for this design was one of the last items I added to it – the die cut frame was sitting in… Read More As You See It Challenge 299 – shades of blue
Hello crafty friends! I’m finally back at my craft desk, after spending the last 2 months travelling with friends in Australia & New Zealand – we had such a brilliant trip, but it was time to come home to reality! After unpacking & doing all the washing, I managed to get some time at my… Read More D for Dragonfly
Welcome to my second card of the day, this time for the new challenge at As You See It. It’s a speed challenge this week and Jan has given us an ‘outdoors’ theme. For a speed challenge, the card must be made in less than 10 minutes – you can gather all your products, cardstock,… Read More As You See It outdoors speed challenge
Welcome to the new theme at Alphabet Challenge! This time it’s Z for Zodiac, for which the card should be inspired by one of the signs of the Zodiac. I went with Virgo, which had made me think of the ‘madonna window’ die from ClarityCrafts. I don’t know about you, but I always resolve to… Read More Z for Zodiac
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using one of the new ‘floral delights’ sets from Clarity – this time the ‘bouquets and vases’. I picked up the image from the top left of Just Us Girls‘ moodboard and added in the spring flower colours from The Paper Players The first step was to… Read More bouquet for you
Welcome to my regular Sunday trip into the back issues of Clarity’s Craft Club. Today it’s the turn of the ‘butterfly tangle’ die from July 2021. The ‘blue butterfly’ inspiration photo and colours at The Card Concept were perfect for today’s card, which I’m also going to share with Happy Little Stampers‘ ‘anything goes with… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – butterfly tangle die
Hello everyone and welcome to the 900th post on this little blog! I can’t believe I’ve been sharing my crafting creations and thoughts for the last three years – thank you for sticking with me! Today’s card is a first outing this year for the ‘pansy’ dies from Stampin’ Up! I thought of these when… Read More 900!
Hello there. My new ‘floral delights’ stamps from ClarityCrafts arrived this week, so I made a start on playing with them – well, it would be rude not to! I thought the ‘thinking of you’ set would work well with this week’s colours at Global Design Project and picked up the top row of foliage,… Read More birthday foliage
