I have to say I was a little stumped when I saw the latest challenge over at Time Out which is the ‘Inspired by words’ challenge using a quote from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “If music be the food of love play on”. I had some musical notes design paper in my stash but no musical… Read More Time Out Challenge #13, Fusion (Old door charm)
A new challenge for me today – Merry Monday Christmas Challenge – what a brilliant idea! Wish I had discovered this blog at the beginning of the year so I don’t experience the usual mad rush at Christmas to get all of my cards made, written and posted in time! The theme for this week’s… Read More Merry Monday #117
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
I am on a roll now, 2 more cards to add to the mix. This card was inspired by a video for Hero Arts, created by Shari Carrol. This video is amazing, it is what inspired me to buy my Silhouette in the first place. The technique is pretty simple, just cut out the snowflake… Read More More Christmas cards
I have finally started to test out some Christmas card designs! I have been meaning to do this for a while now but have not had any kind of inspiration at all. I have been trawling through magazines and blogs to try to become unstuck but found this wasn’t helping at all. Yesterday I ordered… Read More Christmas is coming…
Poppaea Cards 