Welceom to my crafty blog and a rainbow of flowers courtesy of the ‘fresh florals’ stamps & dies by Julie Hickey Designs. I was inspired by one of Julie’s own cards, picking up the ‘rainbow’ theme from both Just Us Girls and Can You Handle The Pressure I started with a piece of watercolour card… Read More floral rainbow
Welcome to my craft blog and our new theme at Sparkles challenges. I’m in my happy place with this one, as Helen has chose CAS (clean and simple) for this month. It gave me a good reason to play with my new little set of ‘celebrate your day flowers’ by Tina Cox for Clarity’s KISS… Read More Sparkles challenge – CAS
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s still too cold here in the UK for butterflies to be making an appearance, so I’ve settled for the ones designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs instead. I’ve sat them on the ‘circle medley’ stamp to reflect the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and picked up two… Read More butterflies two ways
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been playing with the ‘sweet meadow’ stamp from Julie Hickey Designs today, using the colours from Color Throwdown – the image also fits with the inspiration photo! I’m also going to share it as a second offering for Happy Little Stampers‘ watercolour challenge (and there are a few wings in the… Read More sweet meadow
Welcome to my crafty blog on St David’s day! St David is the patron saint of Wales, so I just had to go with another card of daffodils, the Welsh national flower. It’s also the launch of the next challenge at Love to Craft – as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. I’m sharing it… Read More watercoloured daffodils
Hello there! I’m a bit late sharing a card this evening – had a fab day out catching up with a friend for lunch, but I’m here now. I’ve given the ‘beautifully happy’ set from the current Stampin’ Up! Saleabration another outing, this time using the colours from Colour INKspiration, the sketch from Atlantic Hearts… Read More beautifully happy birthday
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ from Julie Hickey Designs, this time teamed with the ‘circles medley’ stamp. I decided to go with the colour palette from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started by stamping the circles in ‘watering can’ Archival ink across the top… Read More butterfly gold
Well I’m back with a second card today, this time for the new challenge at As You See It. It’s my turn to choose the theme and I’d like you to fill in the blank with your favourite thing about spring (which is hopefully only just round the corner here in the UK) You don’t… Read More Spring favourites for As You See It challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a couple of cards to share with you today, both using the new ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for these, Global Design Project and Time Out, both with a theme of CASE (copy and selectively edit) a design team… Read More a kaleidoscope of butterflies
Hello there. Today’s card stars another of the new stamp sets designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs – the butterfly (in case you hadn’t guessed!) I’ve used the sketch from Global Design Project and the colours from Color Throwdown. I started by repeat stamping the butterfly definition stamp in black down the side… Read More Hazel’s butterfly
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