Have you ever got part way through making a card and then lost your inspiration? This happens to me more often than I like to admit, and often leaves me with part made cards, embellishments and scraps of card. In general, I don’t throw anything away; unless it is a complete disaster! Here I have… Read More Using up your scraps
Hi there! I have been doing pretty well recently at creating. Today however I hit a bit of a block and when I sat down at my craft desk, nothing happened for a while. I have very limited free time to craft and have to make the most of every minute, so I had a… Read More Cheers to the year 1,2,3!
Sometimes you need to make a card in a hurry. Remember all those rolls of washi tape you have stored up? Here is a quick and easy way to use them to make a classy, no fuss card which takes minutes to put together. Here are your 5 steps to your 5 minute make: Make… Read More Cheers to the Year 5 minute card and a bonus
I love being able to get lots of use out of a stamp set. Stampin’ Up!’s Carols of Christmas stamp set has 2 focal sentiments, and it is very easy to use these to create your card around. For this post however, I have taken some of the smaller elements and used these as the… Read More Carols of Christmas small stamp focus
Today is the launch of the new Autumn Winter Catalogue for Stampin’ Up! There are some beautiful new stamp sets and some amazing project examples to give you inspiration. Contact me at christine@poppeaecards.co.uk if you would like me to email you a copy of the catalogue. Its never too early to start making your Christmas… Read More Carols of Christmas
I’ve been AWOL again, I know… My little family has moved home and I have been without a craft room for a considerable amount of time. Worse in fact, my craft supplies have been boxed up and inaccessible for months. I still don’t have a craft room, but now we have moved I have slowly… Read More MFT sketch challenge #305
So I have made it my mission to take part in Kathy Racoosin’s 30 Day Colour Challenge which is running throughout February. I wanted to do this partly to make me focus on taking some time out to craft each day to keep me happy and also as an excuse to practice my colouring skills –… Read More Merry Monday #190 Santa!
Hurrah! First Christmas card done. I fell in love with the gorgeous Reindeer Games stamp set from Mama Elephant when I first saw their Christmas release. When I went to buy it though it was out of stock everywhere but luckily I was able to pre-order it. Whilst waiting for it to be delivered I… Read More Merry Monday #177 Christmas lights and glitter
Second post of the evening with this card which I would like to enter into this week’s Merry Monday Challenge which is themed ‘The Words Have It’. The idea of this challenge is to create a Christmas card where the sentiment is the star. This sentiment stamp is an old one from Woodware – I… Read More Merry Monday #126
Second post of the day with a very quick and literal take on the Merry Monday challenge this week which is to include a Christmas present on your card. I have used Kaisercraft Christmas design papers to paper piece the presents and picked out some detail using a gold pen. Please leave a comment and… Read More Merry Monday #124
