Welcome to my crafty bog and another card using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘plentiful plants’ set. I feel like I’ve really got my eye in with these stamps & dies now, so keep going back to them. I thought they’d work really well with the colours from Inspire.Create and I’ve added in the ‘make your own stencil’… Read More birthday plants
Welcome to my crafty blog. I managed to find some time to play with the new ‘more about the boys’ set designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs. I decided to start simple, as I needed a quick card – I’m looking forward to Julie & Hazel’s online workshops in a couple of weeks… Read More birthday star
Hello crafty friends. Well, I decided that I really need to start using up some of the stash of designer papers I’ve got stored on my craft shelves – both of these cards use the new ‘Eden’s Garden’ series from Stampin’ Up! I’ve made two cards as the sketches at TGIF challenges and Inspire.Create are… Read More eden’s garden
Hello crafty friends and welcome to day 9 of my 12 Dies of Clarity challenge, with the ‘happy birthday musical notes’ dies from September’s Craft Club. I have to confess this is another set that hadn’t see action until now! I really like the little stave of notes that are the first line of ‘happy… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 9 – happy birthday musical notes
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a birthday card for my father-in-law, who’ll be turning 96 on Friday. He doesn’t get out of the house anymore, so I thought he might appreciate a landscape on his birthday. This one uses the colours from Inspire.Create – I thought they were ideal for a masculine card.… Read More snowy hills
Hello crafty friends – yes it’s another Christmas card today! I’m using Julie Hickey’s ‘poinsettia’ stamp & die set for the first time this year (hopefully not the last!) It struck me as perfect for the theme of ‘bright and bold’ at this week’s Inspire.Create challenge, as well as Addicted to CAS‘s request for cards… Read More bright & bold poinsettia
Hello crafty friends and welcome to today’s offering. It’s another Christmas card, this time using the retired ‘arrange a wreath’ set from Stampin’ Up! with the colour palette from Inspire.Create and the sketch from TGIF. This is another one that’s a last minute entry for both challenges, and I also hope the Inspire.Create team will… Read More Be merry & bright
Hello crafty friends. Well, as promised, I’ve been playing again with the new ‘all about the girls’ stamp set designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs. I pushed myself a bit more with this one, inspired by the fabulous demos from Hazel, Julie & the rest of the team. I took the layout from… Read More enjoy your special day!
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next in my trip back through the Claritystamp new design club stamps. Today it’s the ‘floral tree’ from May 2017 (which also works upside down as a hanging basket). I’ve done some repeat stamping for this card, and used the colours from the current challenge at Inspire.Create I… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – floral tree #127
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m delighted to have been invited to be the Guest Designer for AAA Cards‘ 200th challenge! It’s no surprise then that the theme for the new challenge is ‘celebrate’ and I resurrected another one of my older stamp sets (Stampin’ Up!’s ‘hello cupcake’) that had the perfect sentiment. Having said… Read More celebrate your day
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