Clearly for You

This was the Hostess gift, based on a pattern I’d done for the Inspiration Station at our team Quarterly Meeting back in January which you can see here.   I made this one based on the measurements my fellow Inspiring Inkee’ the lovely Hayley made as a team swap.  You can find her tutorial here.  Why not book your own […]

Baby Blossoms, Four Frames

This is the card I designed for the Make & Take at a workshop for the lovely Lesley last night with a group of lovely ladies too.   Her brief was to do a card using the Springtime Vintage Designer papers and something feminine. The cardstock I’ve used is Baja Breeze, Basic Gray and Very Vanilla. I ran the Baja […]

A pressie from Buddy

On last week’s WOYWW,  Buddy’s Mummy, Kath, you can find her here ,was doing a give-away which to my surprise and delight, I won Wednesday’s one.  It arrived this afternoon, with a little card from Buddy, so thank you so much!   Thank you to Kath and Buddy for the lovely card that went with it. I […]

New Class List for June & July

New class list posted on my website.  You can find it here.  The picture above is just a sneaky peek at the Jolly in July class.   New this year is a Mum and Me class.   I’m really excited and can’t wait to show you what’s in store, so email me to book your place and let […]

Owl Punch Art, Curly Cute

Here is another card I designed for my Owl Punch Art class.  A girly hippo, quite different from the minimilist boy hippo used as a bookmark in yesterday’s post.   The cardstock I used is Pretty in Pink, Basic Gray, Basic Black and the In Colour Paper stack. The sentiment is from the Curly Cute set.  […]

Bookmarks with Owl Punch

These are a couple of bookmarks  made with paper clips using the two-step owl punch which I taught at my Owl Punch Art class.  The picture is deceptive, the hippo used a jumbo clip and is much larger, and the little girl is a standard sized paper clip. I am told that the face of […]

Sail Away, Something to Celebrate

This is the technique I taught my club ladies this month, a partially embossed image using the Vintage Embossing Folder.  Scroll down after this post for the tutorial  as promised which has also been uploaded on to my website and can be found here I made a wedding card using this technique which can be viewed here in […]

Tutorial on Partially Embossed Folder Technique

As promised here is the tutorial for a partially embossed image using the Embossing Folders.   First I cut a piece of chipboard measuring 5″ x 6.25″ and then traced and cut out an oval from the centre of the chipboard – I used the chipboard backing from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty Papers bundle back in […]