Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday. I dipped back into my stash for a set I haven’t used for some time, the Festive Rounds Poinsettia, ready for our latest challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. It’s our technique challenge this time round, and Andreja wants to see us using heat emboss resist… Read More Heat emboss resist at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-08
Hello friends – I’m back with this week’s Christmas card offering and this time I’ve gone for non-traditional colours, although I have used a seasonal stamp from Tina’s Christmas Angels elements set. I was inspired by the sketch from my bloggy friend Catherine, aka InkyFingeredCat, who’s running a ‘Christmas in July’ challenge all month, as… Read More purple poinsettia
Hello crafty friends! Well, it’s finally Christmas Eve and as it’s Sunday I’ve dipped back into Clarity‘s Craft Club for the next stencil in my series – although it’s a floral pattern one it felt right to turn it to a Christmas theme with the colours from Just Add Ink, which also picks up the challenge… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – flower confetti stencil
Hello again and welcome to another Monday! I’m back with another card using the same ‘winter’ set of ‘Linda’s bijou children’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as featured on yesterday’s creation. This time, though I’ve focused on the corner & border stamps from the bottom part of the set. I started by stamping the large poinsettia corner… Read More Merry Christmas frame
Good morning and welcome to another set of fabulous new stamps from ClarityCrafts – the ‘festive rounds’ are launching on TV this afternoon. These are pairs of two-way overlay stamps – I went with the poinsettia ones for today’s card, linking in with the challenges at The Card Concept and Christmas Craft Creations I started… Read More poinsettia rounds
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next letter from Alphabet Challenge. We’ve now reached R and Veronika has chosen ‘reduce’ as the theme, i.e. make a CAS (clean and simple) card. You all know that’s completely in my happy place, so here’s another Christmas card using the ‘merriest moments’ set from Stampin’ Up! I’ve… Read More R for reduce (CAS) at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Today’s Christmas card uses Stampin’ Up!’s ‘merriest moments’ set again – a friend asked me to make this one for her daughter. I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches (I rotated it to landscape format), and am also going to share it with Can You Handle The Pressure, Inspire.Create (anything goes)… Read More magic of Christmas
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been playing with Julie Hickey’s foilable die cuts again, this time with a wreath from her ‘Festive’ set. I’ve taken the colours from CAS Colours & Sketches, which might not be an abvious choice at first glance but it is possible to get poinsettia with green/cream bracts! I used… Read More Christmas wreath
Hello crafty friends. Well, I’m continuing the poinsettia theme today, but without using a poinsettia stamp or die on this card! My Sunday dip back into Clarity’s craft club reached May 2020, which was a mandala die. When I looked at it, I thought I could turn it into a poinsettia style design and get… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – mandala die
Hello crafty friends. Herre’s another Christmas card, this time using the ‘merriest moments’ set from Stampin’ Up! which have come out for the first time this year. I’ve taken the colours from the new challenge at Just Us Girls, together with ‘anything goes’ from Happy Little Stampers‘ Christmas challenge. I wanted the poinsettias to be… Read More poinsettia tidings
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