A Cherry on the Top

This is a birthday card I made for a special lady.  She makes the most beautiful cards and I’m in awe of her talent, so I couldn’t just do the run of the mill card and this is what I came up with.   It was her birthday yesterday, so I think I’m safe to post this now.  The […]

Advent Calendar

Where has 2012 gone? I can’t believe that we’re in the 12th month in the 2,012th year! I shall have to make a special project to mark the 12th day of the 12th month in 2012 so watch this space…..! It brings me to having to confess that I haven’t got round to making anything […]

Stampin’ Up! Trimmer

Hooray!  Our long awaited trimmer is here at last and is available for sale as from today.  You’ll find it on page 180 of the Annual Catalogue Item 129722 @ £25.95.  It cuts anywhere, in any direction, and you can keep the scoring and cutting blades on the track at the same time.  The trimmer […]

3D Snowflake #2

Yesterday I very  quickly put together a snowflake using some retired papers to experiment with.  I’ve had lots of emails asking me how I did this so I’ve written a tutorial which you can find under “Tutorials” in the navigation bar at the top of my blog.  Once in the Tutorials section, click on the relevant […]

Guest Designer – Catherine Lacey

I am so proud of Catherine.  She’s my Stampin’ Up! daughter and as she doesn’t have a blog (yet!) I thought I would feature some of her work on mine.  These are some of the cards she designed for her card classes. I love this card using the square scallop die.  Here it is closed……. […]

3D Snowflake

I still haven’t got organised enough to take pictures of my projects and edit them for the blog and then schedule them so this will be a quick post!  I seem to be chasing my tail.  Life just gets in the way of crafting!   This was made with 3″ x 3″ squares of DSP,  […]

Peek-a-boo with Snowflake Soiree

Oh my gosh – where does the time go?  Hope you’ve all had a good week.  Here’s my Sunday share.   This stamp set has been sitting on my shelf uninked for several weeks and before you know it, christmas will be over!  So I thought I’d better mount the stamps and get inking!  I made […]

More Owl Occasions

Do you ever have days when everything you do or try to create just doesn’t rock your boat?  Well, today was that day when everything I made or attempted to make just didn’t go right.  In the end, I had to abandon ship and I’m using one of the cards I made for the show in […]