Welcome to my crafty blog and a clean and simple birthday card. I haven’t used the ‘birthday dangles’ set from Claritystamp for some time, so thought it deserved an outing! It’s such a great image that it really stands on it’s own without a lot of other embellishment. I thought it would work perfectly for… Read More birthday!
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card ready for Mother’s Day next month. This time I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘plentiful plants’ set, with the new sketch from Global Design Project and the inspiration photo from Just Add Ink. I’ve also incorporated the bottom row of sentiment / embellishment / die cut from TicTacToe‘s grid.… Read More Mother’s day plants
Welcome to my crafty blog, and another wedding card (trying to get my stocks built up!). This one uses the January Craft Club stencil from Claritystamp – I decided to expand my club membership this year to include the stencils, and this one is a great start. I’ve taken inspiration from a few challenges for… Read More wedding day celebrations
Welcome to my crafty blog and a post with exciting news. The lovely team over at Color Throwdown have invited me to be their featured guest stamper on today’s new challenge! I have to confess, though, that I feel a bit of a fraud with this card as there’s not much stamping on it! We’ve… Read More valentine hearts
Hello crafty friends. I had a great tie on Monday at an online class with Joanne James using the new ‘daffodil daydream’ set from Stampin’ Up!, and decided to have another play with it today. I’ve used the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches (well, Joanne is hosting it, so it would be rude not… Read More daffodil daydream
Hello crafty friends. Well, I decided that I really need to start using up some of the stash of designer papers I’ve got stored on my craft shelves – both of these cards use the new ‘Eden’s Garden’ series from Stampin’ Up! I’ve made two cards as the sketches at TGIF challenges and Inspire.Create are… Read More eden’s garden
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
Hello crafty friends. You may recall that my friend and I ran a craft group last week – we made a variety of cards with strip of paper and I thought I’d share one of the techniques with you today. I first saw this design on Pinterest and then spent a little while figuring out… Read More white on white
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another Christmas card, this time using Stampin; Up!’s ‘merriest moments’ set and some retired ‘joyous noel’ paper. This one picks up the sketch from The Paper Players and the left hand column from TicTacToe‘s grid (stitching, wreath & sparkle) I started with a piece of the’joyous noel’ paper and… Read More poinsettia wreath
Hello crafty friends – well I’m back to Christmas cards today! This time I’ve once again used the retired ‘wreath builder’ dies from Stampin’ Up! – I still find it odd when I produce cards that don’t use ink or stamping (apart from a tiny bit for the sentiment.) I’ve picked up inspiration from a… Read More merry little Christmas
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