Welcome to my crafty blag and a quick Christmas card using Stampin’ Up!’s new ‘stars are shining’ set. I decided to go for a bit less of a traditional colour scheme with the palette from the new challenge at Color Throwdown, which I teamed with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started by stamping… Read More Christmas baubles
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses a set from the current Stampin’ Up! annual catalogue that I haven’t used for a few months – the ‘birds and branches’. I think these little birds are so sweet, and they work for lots of different occasions. I’m getting back into the swing of combining blog… Read More two bluebirds
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m a bit late posting today, so this will just be a quick one. I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘forever ferns’ set with the colour scheme from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I stamped the leaves and berries from the set across the bottom corner of a… Read More you always have a way
Welcome to my crafty blog and a card with a new stamp set that arrived earlier this week – Stampin’ Up!’s ‘delicate dahlias’. I’ve been using quite a few of my older sets recently after tidying my craft shelves, so thought I’d ring the changes with this one. I took the layout from the current… Read More dahlias
Welcome to my crafty blog, and a clean and simple card inspired by a couple of this week’s blog challenges. I’ve picked up the lovely rich colours from The Paper Players and teamed them with Cecile’s design from Freshly Made Sketches I started with a piece of A6 card and stamped the circle from Stampin’… Read More feel better soon
Welcome to my crafty blog and another birthday card. This one uses the wonderful Julie Hickey’s ‘floral happiness’ stamp – I did an online class with Julie a couple of months ago using this set, which inspired this design together with the layout from this week’s Freshly Made Sketches. The fab colours are the current… Read More happy birthday wishes
Welcome to my crafty blog. I had meant to share this card yesterday, but spent the day in central London with my sister and just ran out of time… It is so lovely to have the Covid restrictions easing – we even went to the theatre (wearing masks, of course) for the first time two… Read More black & white butterfly
Welcome to my crafty blog and a second card for today. I had a lovely happy parcel delivered this morning, with my new goodies from the recent Claritystamp club members sale, so I got straight on to playing with some of the stamps I’d purchased – well it would have been rude not to, after… Read More linocut flowers
Welcome to my crafty blog. I needed a card for friends who are celebrating their wedding anniversary this weekend, and have fallen in love with the new ‘Artistically Inked’ set from Stampin’ Up! after doing an online class using it earlier this week with Joanne James. I thought it would work really well with the… Read More artistically inked anniversary
Welcome to my crafty blog. I recently did an online class with the brilliant Marion Emberson of Sugar and Spice Crafts, using the new stamps she’s designed for Julie Hickey Designs. The ‘Feather It’ set is completely different to anything I’ve got in my stash and I’ve fallen in love with it, so have kept… Read More a birthday feather
