Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m sharing a card I’ve made for a friend’s birthday in a couple of weeks. I always find it tricky to make birthday cards near Christmas – I try to avoid winter scenes as they just look like amended Christmas cards, and flowers, etc, can look very summery. I went… Read More Beautiful friendship
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back with another Christmas card, which was inspired by the current challenge over at Just Add Ink (http://just-add-ink.blogspot.com/). The theme is ‘Just Add S’, so I’ve picked up the shepherds in this great die from Claritystamp (plus the stars that I’ve added as well). I started by cutting the… Read More S is for Shepherds
Welcome to my crafty blog. Now at first glance, this card has got nothing to do with one of the challenges I’ve been inspired by, but this blog is nothing if not educational! So read on and let me explain… The design is inspired by this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/), and the theme… Read More Robin in the snow
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back to birthday cards at the moment, and thought this one really picked up some of the colours in the beautiful afternoon sunsets we’ve had over the last few days, thanks to some autumn sunshine. I’ve used some of the gorgeous Claritystamp designer paper, with their ‘Meadow Grasses’ stamps… Read More Meadow grasses
Welcome to my crafty blog. Sadly I’ve had to make some more sympathy cards for friends who’ve lost family members in the last couple of weeks, and I turned to the ‘Forever Fern’ set from Stampin’ Up, which works for so many different occasions. The design has been inspired by two blog challenges this week… Read More In our thoughts
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had a bit of a break from making Christmas cards, and turned to a birthday card for today’s offering. I’ve used the ‘Be Happy’ stamps by Julie Hickey, inspired by the colours in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge (https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/) I started by stamping the large half sunflower and watercolouring… Read More It’s your day!
Welcome to my crafty blog. This is the first time I’ve ever posted twice in one day, and I’m now sharing the second card I made from a single die cut. Just to recap from my earlier blog, I started by heat embossing a piece of white card using the ‘Provencal’ shade from WOW embossing… Read More Christmas stag (part 2)
Welcome to my crafty blog. I was inspired today to play with some of my WOW embossing powders, after waiting Marion Emberson on Hochanda, and used them to make some card for this beautiful stag, which is the October die from the Claritystamp New Design Club. I didn’t want him to just be a plain… Read More Christmas stag (part 1)
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card picks up the title of one of the best loved Christmas carols. Despite singing it every year, I knew very little about it’s history, so did a quick bit of research on the BBC website. ‘Silent Night’ originates from Germany and was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818.… Read More Silent Night
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve just got some new Christmas Robins stamps from Claritystamp, so had to get them out to play with! They are a fab set of scrolled designs, with outlines and infill stamps for the robins. I love robins at Christmas, and it got me thinking about why they have such… Read More Holly & robin
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