Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick card today – I haven’t got a lot of energy at the moment thanks to Covid and I’ve had online meetings all day! I went back to the new fern dies from Julie Hickey for a CAS card, using the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches and… Read More keep calm and carry on…
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had another play today with some of the new dies designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs – these are fantastically detailed ferns. I’ve mamanged to work three challenges into this one card, as well. The Paper Players have got ‘love and friendship’ as this week’s theme, which… Read More beautiful friend
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 – today I’m sharing a birthday card using Julie Hickey’s ‘weathered wood’ designer paper and one of her sentiment circle stamps. I took the layout from the sketch over at As You See It, together with a couple of elements from Just Add Ink‘s ‘choose two’ theme (circle and twine) I started… Read More dandy diagonals
Hello crafty friends. Today’s post is a bit less rushed, with a new theme from the Alphabet Challenge – we’re up to the letter U and Billie has chosen ‘unequal’. Essentially our cards need to have items of different sizes, eg a large and a small flower. I’ve gone for Julie Hickey’s large ‘happy’ sentiment… Read More U for unequal
Hello crafty friends and welcome to the last day of my Christmas journey back through Claritystamp’s 2021 die Craft Club. Today it’s the ‘abstract snowflake’ from December, which arrived just before Christmas (so I don’t feel I have to apologise for not having used it before now!) It’s larger than the usual club dies, but… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 12 – abstract snowflake
Hello crafty friends and welcome to the penultimate day of my 12 Dies of Clarity. November’s Craft Club was this die set of a brick wall with little cats and dogs – so useful! This is also quite an excited post, as the first card was made for the new challenge over at Color Throwdown,… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 11 – brick wall with cats & dogs
Well it’s Christmas Eve and only one sleep to go to the big day! Our plans have taken bit of a unexpected turn today, however. We should have been heading to celebrate my father-in-law’s 96th birthday this evening (you can see the card I made him here), so in line with best practice we did… Read More A merry Christmas tree
Hello crafty friends. I thought I’d better make a start on some thank you cards, now all the Christmas ones are sorted! I’ve picked up the colours from the current Color Throwdown challenge and used them with Julie Hickey’s ‘florals for you’ set. I started with an A6 card blank and blended some ‘picked raspberry’… Read More a floral thank you
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using Julie Hickey’s ‘fresh florals’ stamp set – these are definitely a favourite of mine! This creation has been inspired by the current grid over at TicTacToe challenge – I’ve gone down the left hand column with heart, birthday & gold. I started by die cutting a… Read More wonderful day
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