New Year’s Eve – let the party begin! What plans do you have? At our age, we’re past the razzle dazzle of night life – been there, done that in our youth. These days we’re lucky if we can stay awake past midnight! Light of Aurora and Beautiful Butterflies Today’s card is a clean and […]
Category Archives: Clean and simple
Thank you card – Friendly foliage
Thank you card – Friendly foliage. Hi all – hope you had a lovely Christmas with family and friends. Having unwrapped those lovely gifts it’s time to write those “thank you” cards. We always need them no matter what time of year. I haven’t had much opportunity to use the November online exclusives so now […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. I don’t usually post on a Thursday, but it’s Christmas so I’m popping in to wish you all a Very Merry and Happy Christmas Day! As I write this, it’s actually September but I am working ahead because we are moving house soon and I’m sure it will take me forever to unpack […]
Wedding card with Beautiful Motifs
Wedding card with Beautiful Motifs. I made this card for my niece’s wedding in Brisbane back in October. They’d asked us to save the date for early October, 2025 which we did, and were looking forward to a family re-union. Why we missed wedding Unfortunately, we were in the process of re-locating to West Yorkshire […]
Landscape Christmas card with Gift of Joy
Landscape Christmas card with Gift of Joy. Hello – happy Sunday. I thought I would continue with Gift of Joy’s stocking images to complete the set. This time in landscape. Tent cards and me are not friends, so I usually do my landscape cards hinged vertically rather than horizontally. I usually try to keep Christmas […]
Thanksgiving card – Amber Autumn
Thanksgiving card – Amber Autumn. Amber Autumn stamps and dies are from the Autumn Toile Suite Collection in the September-December 2025 mini catalogue. It’s one of the Mega suites which comprises 2 stamp bundles with ribbon, embellishments, patterned paper as well as Earthen Toned Metallic Specialty paper to coordinate. You’ll find it on pages 39 […]
Male birthday card
Male birthday card. I used a cling stamp set called One More Year, which at the time of writing was on the Last Chance List. This was a card I made for my hubby’s birthday, so I knew the sentiments on the card would be taken in good humour and he wouldn’t be offende Cutting […]
Smush technique – Delicate Pines
Smush technique – Delicate Pines. The smush technique is a way of adding colour to a background. For this technique, you simply need an ink pad, or Stampin’ Write marker pen to scribble ink or pick up ink on an acrylic block, spritz it with water and then smush the block onto your paper to […]