Welcome to my crafty blog and another floral birthday card! This time I’ve gone back to Stampin’ Up!’s ‘blossoms in bloom’ set, as I thought it would work really well for several current blog challenges. The Paper Players have given us ‘birthday’ as this week’s theme and AAA cards‘s challenge is for designs that cover… Read More blossom birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’d intended to share this card yesterday evening but life got in the way once again so here it is now! I’ve been playing with the linocut texture background stamps from Claritystamp thanks to the recent online session with Barbara Gray – I’m very taken with the effect they give… Read More good luck cat
Welcome to my crafty blog – another day, another birthday card! More autumn leaves, this time using Julie Hickey’s ‘floral frames’ stamp set. Less is More have a new challenge of an autumnal one layer, which I paired with the colours from The Card Concept I started with an A6 card blank and stamped the… Read More autumn birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick card to share with you today using Claritystamp’s ‘chinese lantern floral spray’ stamp set and the colours from this week’s challenge at The Paper Players Now I’m really sorry, but I forgot to take all my usual step-by-step photos for this one. I started with Clarity’s large… Read More chinese lanterns
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses several Clarity stamps, including two for the background. I haven’t used these ones much, but got inspired following Barbara Gray’s live demo last Friday evening. I based this card on two current blog challenges – the layout picks up the new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches… Read More pink poppies
Welcome to my crafty blog. We’ve got a new theme over at The Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to the letter N and Veronika has challenged us to make cards with ‘no layers’. I often struggle a bit with one layer cards – although I don’t use lots of embellishments, I do like to… Read More N for ‘no layers’
Welcome to my crafty blog and a Christmas card today. I haven’t shared any Christmas ones for a little while, so thought I’d better crack on with a few more. This card uses Julie Hickey’s ‘oh Christmas tree’ stamp, inspired by the current challenge over at Inspired by (!) I’ve taken a bit of a… Read More oh Christmas tree!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses the ‘friendship flower’ stamp set by Julie Hickey and the layout sketch from Fusion card challenge. I also took inspiration from Fusion’s photo with the red flowers (although these are clearly not poppies) and added in the elements from the diagonal on TicTacToe‘s grid – scoring, stripes… Read More red and stripes
Welcome to my crafty blog and something a little different with an autumn theme today. I seem to have produced quite a few cards with leafy themes recently, but wanted to combine the current challenges from Addicted to CAS and CASology I hadn’t used the die from last month’s Clarity Club, which is a butterfly… Read More an autumn butterfly
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back on track with my weekly forays into Claritystamp’s new design club back catalogue, but this week I’ve had a bit of a jump forward – I dropped out of the club for a year and picked it up again at the beginning of 2017. Today’s card uses the… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – rose vase #123
