Hello crafty friends – time for another Christmas card today as I’m getting my stash well and truly ready for posting! Today’s card uses one of the Claritystamp winter scenes sets drawn by Jayne Nestorenko. I think these are just beautiful – and they work for other occasions as well (this would make a great… Read More Christmas church scene
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is another nice and simple CAS one, this time using one of the ‘Bible Verses’ set from Stampendous and Stampin’ Up!’s ‘forever fern’ stamp set. Once again I’ve managed to combine a few blog challenges with this one. I picked up the bible verse to fit The Paper Players‘ theme… Read More give thanks to the Lord
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another late evening blog. I just can’t seem to get myself organised to share my cards earlier in the day! Today’s card uses one of the Christmas rounds dies from Claritystamp – I bought it last year and hadn’t used it so far so it definitely deserved an outing!… Read More Christmas Santa
Hello crafty friends – I’m back with another Christmas card today. This one uses several snowflake based products from Stampin’ Up!, mixing some current ones with retired pieces. The layout is inspired by the current sketch at The Paper Players and I’ve gone with my favourite teal/turquoise shades which I think look really good with… Read More Christmas snowflakes
Welcome to my crafty blog and another floral birthday card! This time I’ve gone back to Stampin’ Up!’s ‘blossoms in bloom’ set, as I thought it would work really well for several current blog challenges. The Paper Players have given us ‘birthday’ as this week’s theme and AAA cards‘s challenge is for designs that cover… Read More blossom birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick card to share with you today using Claritystamp’s ‘chinese lantern floral spray’ stamp set and the colours from this week’s challenge at The Paper Players Now I’m really sorry, but I forgot to take all my usual step-by-step photos for this one. I started with Clarity’s large… Read More chinese lanterns
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is a return to one of my favourite sets – the retired ‘beautiful friendship’ from Stampin’ Up! This time I’ve chosen to just use the lilac flowers from the set, inspired by the photo at Just Us Girls. I’ve teamed it up with Joanne’s sketch from The Paper… Read More lilac birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog, and a clean and simple card inspired by a couple of this week’s blog challenges. I’ve picked up the lovely rich colours from The Paper Players and teamed them with Cecile’s design from Freshly Made Sketches I started with a piece of A6 card and stamped the circle from Stampin’… Read More feel better soon
Welcome to my crafty blog – I’m back in my comfort zone today with this floral birthday card, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘artistically inked’ stamp set. The Paper Players have got a tic tac toe board for their challenge this week, so I went straight down the left hand column with feminine-birthday-florals (thank you very much,… Read More happy birthday panel
Welcome to my crafty blog and a quick post this evening for two reasons – first because I’m very late sharing this, and secondly because I forgot to take photos during the process! And it’s only Monday…! I’m playing along with two of this week’s challenges with this card. The layout is courtesy of the… Read More happy feathers!
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