Lovely As a Tree, Forest Friends

This is a side step card I did for one of my workshops. Stamps: Lovely As a Tree, Forest Friends, Best Yet (Hostess Level 1 – retired) Ink: Old Olive, Garden green, Chocolate Chip Papers: Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Real Red Accessories: Snips, dimensionals, Oval scallop punch, large oval punch, Real Red grosgrain, Dazzling diamonds, […]

Halloween/Christmas Treat Buckets

I have been keeping this under my hat until today’s class. I’d promised 6 buckets for each class and couldn’t find the inspiration for the 6th Halloween one till the early hours of Sunday morning and that’s when Count Dracula was “born”. Thank goodness we had that extra hour with the clocks changing. I eventually […]

Voila

I’d been given this set last birthday, but haven’t had a chance to use it till now. My Mum’s cousin, who I address as “Aunty” is 85 next birthday. She was always a dab hand in the kitchen, but now, sadly, she’s had to take a back seat, so I thought this “chef” would cheer […]

On a Pedestal

I absolutely adore this new SU set in the 2009-2010 SU Idea Book & Catalogue. My niece’s birthday is this Monday and it is the perfect excuse to break open the package and get stamping! It’s a 3″x8″ card (6″x 8″ Whisper White folded in half lengthways). At last I get to use the lovely […]

Animal Stories

This is the owl from the same set. I had sewn linen thread across the card and stamped owls sitting on the “line” , matted on to Old Olive which was then adhered to Barely Banana. With the piercing tool and pricking mat, I made 2 rows of holes on the Old Olive as a […]

Animal Stories

I’ve been a bit under the weather – it took me a long time to get over jet lag and the late nights, working flat out to meet deadlines etc has finally taken its toll. Just haven’t had the energy to set up the camera to take pics of my projects – some of which […]