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 […]
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Day 2 Progress Report
DH has finally finished stripping off the last bit of wallpaper in the living room at last! Â Took 3 days! They’ve finally widened the bit between dining room and living room. Â That was a toughie because it had two skins, the outer bit being the original outside wall of house. Â 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. Â 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 […]
Fresh Cut Notes – Taken with Teal
Next I tried clear embossing on Taken with Teal. I cut a piece of Taken with Teal slightly smaller than the Fresh Cut note. I stamped “thank you” randomly in versamark on Taken with Teal, sprinkled it with clear embossing powder, used heat tool to emboss, this makes the image “pop” out and in my […]
Fresh Cut Notes – Pretty in Pink
With all that going on, how did I find time to craft? Â Well, I just needed to chill, didn’t I, after all that stress and I did promise to come up with more different ones. Â I traced round opening of the flower on to a post-it note, cut round it and used as a […]