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 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. Here’s another Christmas card I made, this time going for a bit more of a wintry feel with the blue and white. This card is pretty much all die cut other than the sentiment (which isn’t my usual style), and I used several Stampin’ Up! sets to make it. I… Read More Snowflake wreath
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back to making Christmas cards, and once again used the design from Freshly Made Sketches (https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/) I was thrilled last week to be one of the top picks in their blog challenge, with my ‘Trimming the Town’ card – here’s a reminder of my design & my badge from… Read More Holly and sparkle
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s been such a busy week, and I haven’t had much time for crafting, but got my act together yesterday and had a crafty session with my friend Jean vian Zoom. Today’s card uses the Stampin’ Up ‘Coming Home’ stamp set and coordinating dies from the ‘Trimming the Town’ suite,… Read More Trimming the Town
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. Today’s card is another commissioned one for a friend to send to celebrate the birth of a new baby girl. Even though it looks like we’re now in the second wave of the Covid pandemic in the UK, life’s events still continue. I took my inspiration from the design over… Read More a bunch of hearts
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
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is one for a young person who’ll be celebrating their first Christmas this year – I thought the Claritystamp ‘Christmas stocking’ set would be ideal. I started by stamping out the different elements in the set, colouring them with Stampin Up alcohol ink blending pens and then cutting… Read More A first Christmas stocking
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back to Christmas cards today, this time with a commissioned card a friend wanted for her granddaughters. I saw the inspiration for this in a post on Pinterest, which I CASE’d (Copy And Selectively Edit, for the uninitiated!) I was really pleased with this finished card, which I think… Read More Christmas snowflakes
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