Hello friends and welcome to the weekend, with my Seasonal Saturday post for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. Our theme this week is ‘winter sports’ – not something I indulge in, but I searched my stash and remembered the skier in Clarity’s Wee Sports People, so here he is! he’s more of a Nordic cross-country style… Read More Winter sports at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
Hello friends. I’ve got another of my designs with Clarity’s new Square Tree Aperture stamps to share with you today, which were perfect for our new theme of S for Square at Alphabet Challenge. This time I’ve created a little wintery scene with the One Day At A Time set, layering it up with a… Read More S for Square at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. I’ve been trying to use up some of my stash today, starting with a gel plate print I pulled last week using Sam’s Christmas BOW-WOB papers. I was actually making it for one of my live demos last week (check that one out here), but forgot to put a square of stencil card… Read More Tis the season
Hello everyone. Another late post from me (it’s getting to be a bit of a habit!), but it’s been a busy day again and I hadn’t drafted this one up ahead of time. This is another of the designs I was demoing at Clarity’s Open Days last month and I realised I hadn’t shared it… Read More Christmas in grey
Hello everyone. It’s a busy craft day today, with the first of the Clarity Crafts Open Days in Kent, where I’m demonstrating with a couple of fab new stamp sets, but also because there are a couple of new blog challenges today, starting with Alphabet Challenge. We’ve reached the letter P and it was my… Read More P for Pumpkin at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. It’s time for our next challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and we’re back to colours this time round. Suzy’s given us a fab palette of autumn shades (although they’d work with floral and lots of other designs too). I decided to make an autumnal birthday card for my friend, Shirley using the… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 571 – autumn colours
Hello again and welcome to a second post for today. This time I’ve got our new challenge at As You See It to introduce you to – Heather has given us the perfect summer theme of ‘picnics’! I just had to reach for the Lemon Tree set from Linda’s In The Garden collection which has… Read More picnics at As You See It 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. I’ve got a busy DT day today, starting with our new theme at Alphabet Challenge, where Tee has given us G for Girlfriend. It was a great opportunity to get the Hippie Chicks back for another outing, this time with a little paper piecing and added inspiration from TicTacToe (CAS, summer colours… Read More G for Girlfriend at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there. I’m back with card 2 for today, and am delighted that CAS on Friday invited me along as Guest Designer for their new Summer theme challenge. It’s a prime time of year for weddings, so that sorted the reason behind my card – and the sharp-eyed amongst you will have spotted that it’s… Read More Summer at CAS on Friday challenge
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