birthday in a box art gallery

Birthday in a box

Happy Sunday! It is such a worry when one’s other half has been diagnosed with a serious illness. Worst still, if the surgery takes place on your birthday! I wanted to surprise my friend with something special to help alleviate such a traumatic day. Julie Kettlewell was a guest on the UK demonstrator FB group […]

bookmarks with Snailed it

Bookmarks with Snailed It

Hello! What do you think of this year’s Sale-a-bration items? Do you have a favourite? My favourite are those Oh So Ombre papers. Using patterned paper as part of the design on any project makes you look like an artist extraordinaire! In this day of technology it’s so easy to send a birthday message on […]

gilded leafing with Art Gallery bundle

How to apply Gilded Leaf

There’s an exciting new product in the new January-June 2021 Mini. This is the new Gold Leaf embellishment from the Fine Art Floral Suite on pages 32 – 34. Remember the Heat & Stick powders from years ago? I am such a hoarder and have kept my tub of Heat & Stick powder for several […]

Simple card Sale-a-bration andMany Messages

Patterned paper and cards

As you know, Sale-a-bration is in full swing. Every purchase of £45 excluding shipping/handling, you can choose a FREE product from their Sale-a-bration brochure. This will be valid from 5 January – 28 February, a shorter period than before without a 2nd release during this time. Instead there will be a second Sale-a-bration event to […]

gilded leafing embellishment technique

Gilded Leafing Embellishment Technique

How are you all? It hasn’t been the most auspicious start to 2021. A new variant of COVID has been spreading not in a gradual arc but almost in a straight line so on 4th January our PM announced that UK is under another national lock down until February. At least Oxford’s Astra zenica vaccine […]

sale-a-bration L2 berry blessings

Sale-a-bration’s Berry Blessings

What do you think of this year’s crop of freebies you can earn? After the festive season, I’m already looking forward to the summer and being COVID free! We can but hope can’t we? One thing good is getting my hands on these Level 2 Sale-a-bration goodies! I earned these free – the Berry Blessings […]

easy card dragonfly garden

Sneak Peek Dragonfly Garden

I hope you all had a good New Year, despite the trials and tribulations of living through this pandemic. At the moment there are parts of England in the highest Tier 4 restrictions, tantamount to a full lockdown. The virus has mutated several times and the latest is its rapid spread hence these draconian measures. […]

Sneak peek Garden wishes

Sneak Peek Garden Wishes

As I write this, news had just broken that further restrictions had been imposed on London and South East England. In short social mixing between households had been curtailed – cancel Christmas! Fortunately for us, we’d planned on spending it by ourselves. We did not want to take any risks. My heart goes out to […]