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. 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. 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
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Remembrance Sunday here in the UK, although many of the usual services and parades that would mark the day have not been able to take place. The poppy is still standing as the symbol of remembrance, though – they are the flowers which grew on the battlefields after World… Read More Remembrance poppies
Welcome to my crafty blog. I was asked by a friend to make a Christmas card with robins for her mum, and so went for this stamp and wreath from Claritystamp. I started with the ‘Olive branch’ stencil, which is one of Clarity’s Christmas wreaths set. I first ran it through my Gemini to emboss… Read More Robins wreath
Welcome to my crafty blog. Two of my friends are about to start new jobs, and I remembered this sentiment stamp from Claritystamp’s New Design Club (several years ago), which said exactly the right thing. Things are not always exactly what they seem though (spoiler alert!) – I looked up this quote from Gandhi and… Read More Be the change you want to see in the world
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is quite a bit bigger than the ones I usually make – it’s on an A4 card blank as it’s a farewell card for a friend from a group I belong to, so lots of space for people to write their good wishes. I’ve used the glorious ‘snowdrops’… Read More Art nouveau snowdrops
Welcome to my crafty blog. Christmas jumpers have become a big thing over the last few years since the 1980s, and I thought would make a great theme for a card I was asked to make for a 9 year old. There are loads of them in the shops every year (Christmas jumpers that is,… Read More Christmas jumper
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