Well firstly, I had to stop posting for a while because my laptop died! It was eleven years old so in fairness it’d had a good innings! What really finished it off though was my boyfriend managed to stand on it when I’d moved it off the coffee table to the floor for a few… Continue reading Cards using ‘Spare Parts’
I got a new stamp from Alinacraft which I was dying to use. It’s a huge flower and pretty much covers a whole 6 x 6″ card so it was perfect for off-the-edge stamping. I stamped using black Altenew Obsidian ink and then heat embossed with clear powder. I coloured the image in using brush… Continue reading Floral, Stencil, Off-the-edge
So we adopted a wee Romanian Rescue doggo last November (our gorgeous Bentley) who has had a terrible first 2 years of his life living on the streets where he’s been abused, possibly knocked over by a car (we found out when we had him checked by a Vet that not only had he at… Continue reading Notecard Sets
A really quick and easy card today. I have this Hero Arts stamp that I love but haven’t used for a while so since I was doing something involving ‘happy mail’ it fitted well. I didn’t want to use the whole stamp because I wanted a decent amount of white space so I masked off… Continue reading CAS, Framed, Happy Mail
Using what I’m now going to call my ‘Inspiration Generator’, I got the above 3 options. I was at a bit of a loss with the ‘stamping only’ onto kraft card as the colours are always really muted and dull so I searched in YouTube for ‘kraft cardstock’ and lo and behold Jennifer McGuire had… Continue reading Masculine, Kraft Cardstock & Stamping Only
I don’t know about anyone else but I have got to a point where I struggle for ideas despite having a gazillion products. If anything the gazillion products hinders my crafting because there’s too much choice and it gets overwhelming! So I decided two things this year; 1) don’t buy things I don’t need –… Continue reading Getting Out of a Crafty Rut
I don’t know about anyone else (well actually, I’m not having it that this doesn’t happen to every crafter) but I have LOADS of half-finished projects; there’s folders with random die-cuts, backgrounds, shapes, sentiment strips, sentiment die-cuts… Basically I’ve got bits of cards that I’ve started but then for some reason changed my mind. I… Continue reading Use your Scraps!
I made two cards for two different challenges; the first is for Simon Says Stamp ‘Whatever the Weather’ challenge. I stamped the little umbrellas and raindrops using the Lawn Fawn ‘Plus One’ stamp set. I coloured the umbrellas using Promarkers and a Gelly Roll Stardust pen. I used a Wink of Stella pen to lightly… Continue reading Card Challenge
I’ve been quite busy lately but have managed to get a few cards made. The following two cards were made with the challenge “It’s Raining Cats & Dogs” from My Time to Craft in mind. The first card I made, I stamped the cute pug from the Newton’s Nook ‘Pug Hugs’ set along with the… Continue reading Card Challenge
I decided to make another ‘nature’ card for The Male Room challenge so used a die I got in the Sizzix sale. It didn’t take that long to make and was more paper-piecing than stamping but I like the way it turned out. I die-cut the pop-up cactus out of some teal cardstock and then… Continue reading Card Challenge #4 – 2nd Card
