Design Dilemma, Petal Pizzazz in a Flower Pot

I’ve taken the opportunity this weekend of the quiet (no builders) to try and devise something for a forthcoming workshop.  This one has been relegated to the shelf because there was a lot of cutting out to be done and it was too pretty to discard it without first having made a record of the […]

Day 3 pictures

I thought the kitchen looked quite comical with just the sink, washing machine and cooker left – caught with its pants down!   We had a disaster last night, the new kettle we bought for the builders to use sprung a leak and wet all the plans, so I hung it out to dry on […]

Downing tools

Just a quickie as no pictures today as the back orders on the oval scallop punches and Oval All stamp sets arrived mid afternoon today and I just had to nip out to deliver them to anxiously awaiting customers – you know who you are 😉 I thought they’d waited long enough so delivered them […]

Day 2 Progress Report

DH has finally finished stripping off the last bit of wallpaper in the living room at last!  Took 3 days! They’ve finally widened the bit between dining room and living room.  That was a toughie because it had two skins, the outer bit being the original outside wall of house.  More kitchen units have been […]

A card for Phil

So this one is for you Phil. I don’t have precise measurements for the Really Rust mat piece, just did it by eye and scalloped round all four edges leaving a gap to retain the aperture look. Using the two step method, I stamped the solid image in Old Olive, and the outline in Garden […]

Late Christmas Card

Today we received a christmas card from an acquaintance who we met whilst on a grand tour of Italy to mark our Silver Wedding Anniversary in 2000.  The christmas card is from an elderly gentleman who was on tour with us together with his charming wife and she sent us a christmas card every year […]

Oops – and we all fall down!

I landed unceremoniously in a heap sitting on our temporary dining table which is a collapsible picnic table that folds out into a four seater bench and packs up into a long ,thin, flat trunk. My ever so galant other half was speechless trying to stifle his laughter but didn’t succeed! Me, my laptop, the […]

Fresh Cut Notes – with Vellum

This is the final one for this session. I used vellum for the insert, tore the edges to distress it, stamped the large script stamp from Fresh Cuts set and embossed it in black. I inserted the vellum inside the Fresh Cuts note to gauge where I should tear the Fresh Cuts front of card […]