Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card really picks up the spring vibe – I think these flowers from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘A touch of ink’ set look like crocuses once they’re coloured yellow. I’ve managed to combine three blog challenges for today’s card – the layout is inspired by the sketch at The Paper Players,… Read More spring wishes
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses one of Claritystamp’s three way overlay sets – this one is ‘hare in the meadow’. These are such useful stamps – the first one stamps the line art, the second fills in the image and the third colours the background. I like to mix them up a… Read More Hare in the meadow
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back with some favourite florals again today, this time using ‘Tina’s wildflower spray’ from Claritystamp. There are several different floral sprays in this range, and they’re all lovely. I’ll be sharing this card over at a couple of this week’s blog challenges – the layout is from the design… Read More wildflower spray
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses this happy little bird and leafy swag from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘quite curvy’ stamp set and dies – I’ve decided he’s obviously singing out to welcome the start of spring, which is definitely showing signs of appearing here in the UK. I’ve taken inspiration for this card from… Read More singing for spring
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve decided it’s time I started using up some of the inky backgrounds that I create by mopping up spare ink from my craft mat. Today’s card is the first of several over the next few days. I’ve used one of my all-time favourite stamp sets – the ‘birdhouse garden’… Read More hope
Welcome to my crafty blog. I decided it was time I got a stencil out to play with – I can’t remember when this one from Claritystamp last saw the light of day! I’ve been doing a lot of ink blending recently, so went for something different and jazzed it up with a few WOW… Read More sparkle hearts
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is definitely one for a cat lover! I’m very fond of them myself, but not sure I could cope with five in the house… I’ve been doign a lot of stamping recently, so thought it ws time I got some of my dies out again – these are… Read More A cat lover’s card
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been delving back into my stamping stash for today’s card, which uses Claritystamp’s ‘XL postage stamp’ outline, the postage watermark set (which I can’t see on the website anymore), and the ‘meadow grasses’ stamp set. I based the layout on this week’s sketch over at The Paper Players challenge… Read More A thank you stamp
Welcome to my crafty blog. Regular readers will notice I’ve got a new layout – I updated the blog theme now I’ve got a bit braver with editing my site – hope you like it! Speaking of themes, you may well have spotted the one for today’s card…? Snow it is! As it happens, two… Read More And then there was snow!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card had ‘get well’ wishes for a friend – the UK may be coming out of our second national lockdown tomorrow, but there are still thousands of people testing positive for coronavirus every day, and we have some way to go yet before we are through all this. I’ve… Read More Get well lilies
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