Card ideas – 12 Days Crafting Advent. Happy Boxing Day! I hope you had a lovely Christmas and Santa granted all your wishes! If you purchased or was gifted the 12 Days of Crafting Advent Calendar, by now you would’ve opened and revealed the contents within. Were you disciplined enough to open one window at […]
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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 […]
Twelve Days of Crafting Advent also free shipping 10-12 December
Free shipping Please note that, due to the time difference, this promotion will start on 9 December at 11:00 p.m., for Ireland and the United Kingdom. Twelve Days of Crafting Advent project Twelve Days of Crafting Advent. I wondered why it was only a 12 day Advent Calendar. The philosophy behind this is that The […]
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 […]