Welcome to my crafty blog and a second post for today – it’s rained all afternoon so no chance of gardening and a great excuse for more crafting! I’ve had another play with the new ‘Feather It’ stamp set, designed by Marion Emberson for Julie Hickey designs and thought it would work well with this… Read More sending happy thoughts
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next in my Sunday journey back through Claritystamp’s new design club. I’m now up to July 2015, which was this sweet elephant heart. I have to confess that I hadn’t used this stamp since I got it, but thought it would make a great wedding or engagement card.… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – elephants #105
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s the hottest day of the year so far here today, so I thought the ideal card would take me to the beach! Amazingly, the next stamp in my Sunday journey back through Claritystamp’s new design club is the shell from May 2015 – I love it when a plan… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – shell #103
Welcome to my crafty blog and a birthday card with lots of blue skies (we’ve got hot weather on the way here). I’ve used a combination of Claritystamp products for this one, including a newbie from the ‘grunge elements’ set that I recently bought (feeling very proud for getting it out of it’s wrapper so… Read More birthday butterfly
Welcome to my crafty blog and a card that is again virtually all die cutting with only a little bit of stamping. I do love Julie Hickey’s Alphabet letter dies, but have never used them before as the central focus of a card. I thought they would work well, though, for the current sketch over… Read More it’s your birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m sitting here watching tennis at Wimbledon, so had to go wiht strawberries for this card! I also took inspiration from a couple of challenges with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches. I’ve picked up the theme of ‘farmhouse chic’ from TGIF challenges – I love homemade strawberry jam, and… Read More strawberries just for you
Welcome to my crafty blog. Under normal circumstances I’d have been down in Kent today at the Claritystamp Open Day, but our persistent friend Covid and it’s restrictions has put paid to that, so Clarity are having an online festival this weekend instead. I decided to have another play with the ‘riverside landscape reflection’ masks… Read More one day at a time
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card using my new favourite stamps – the ‘pansy patch’ from Stampin’ Up! It’s been a busy day today, so just time for a quick post to share this one – I’ve gone for some of my favourite summer pansy colours as well. I started by embossing one… Read More summer pansies
Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick post today – I’ve been out to lunch with friends on a glorious sunny day, including a walk along the seafront and an icecream. Life doesn’t get much better than that! Sadly, not everyone is in the same fortunate position and today’s card is one of encouragement… Read More floral thoughts
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Father’s Day card! My son has already bagged this one, as his dad a is fanatical amateur cricketer. It’s a bit of a mixture of products, but sometimes that can give you the best of all worlds! I started with the ‘cover drive’ die from Tattered Lace (that’s… Read More a cricket-mad dad
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