Hi there! There hasn’t been much action on my blog for the past two weeks as I have been on holiday – my husband and I have just returned from visiting family in Hong Kong. Typically, I managed to find some craft shops over there and have treated myself to some new goodies which I… Read More Uniko Studio Challenge
I have been thoroughly inspired by the gorgeous Uniko stamp sets I was given for Christmas. I have combined two stamp sets to create the following cards; Pure florals – Gerbera and Background Builders – Round in Circles. I love teaming these two stamp sets to create these graphic style cards and have tried several different colour … Read More Gorgeous Gerberas
A different card from me today. I wanted to take part in the Less Is More challenge this week – to create a one layer card with the theme of Love. Here is my effort: I used Kaisercraft’s English Rose Collection for the background stamping with Memento inks in Rich Cocoa and Lady Bug. The… Read More Less is more challenge
I was very excited to stumble across a new challenge blog, The Card Concept and was determined to give it a try. This week’s challenge was based on using the below colours: I decided to make a clean and (possibly too) simple card and came up with this… The image is from the Artemio Feathers stamp… Read More The Card Concept Challenge #1
The Christmas rush is over and I have a new excuse to head up to my craft room – “thank you” cards! I will be entering the below card into the Keep It Simple challenge. My husband gave me a fab new stamp set from Uniko Studio called Pure Florals: Gerbera. I used Distress Ink… Read More Time to say thank you
Every so often I stray away from stamping and try something different. I have stacks of patterned paper that I don’t use enough, but the Back to Basics Christmas papers from Dovecraft really caught my eye. I love how simple this is. I just cut strips of patterned paper and adhered them to a piece… Read More Christmas Paper
The challenge on Avery Elle this month is to design any card you like – easier said than done! I have been suffering from a lack of inspiration recently – long hours at work and not enough down time have not helped. I did manage to have a play today though and came up with… Read More Mistletoe… and wine
I have a large crafting stash. I admit it. I sometimes can’t help slipping that one extra stamp into my basket… It means that some of my stash is packed away so I forget about it. I love it when I rediscover something I have packed away, because I never leave it undiscovered for long.… Read More Old and new inspiration
Today I have used a free stamp set from Get Stamping magazine to create a couple more Christmas cards. The foliage stamp started out as a straight stamp so I had to bend it in order to get it to follow my circular template. I used Memento ink in Summer Sky and Distress Ink in Chipped Saphire to… Read More Christmas in shades of blue
There’s a Christmas challenge over at the Stamping and Sharing blog this month and the lovely husband has bought me some Clearly Besotted stamps, so it would be rude not to play along: I used the Basic Stripes stamps and Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire. The sentiment is… Read More Stamping and Sharing challenge #6
Poppaea Cards 