Yesterday was a difficult day – expressions of sympathy in whatever guise are always difficult and so inadequate at the time when you see people you love hurting and grief stricken by their loss. My elderly cousin’s husband was laid to rest yesterday – he gave the “father of the bride” speech at my wedding […]

This note card measures 5 3/4″ x 4″ with a Cherry Cobbler base, and each layer was cut 1/4″ smaller than the previous one in Wild Wasabi and Whisper White. I used markers to ink the Notably Ornate frame, the part that I wanted to show and a special free stamp we were given at […]

This was a “card and envelop in one” that my Card Club members made some time ago – I can’t remember where I saw it to give credit where credit’s due so thank you whoever you are. When you open it, it reveals layers – the ladies were using the crayon resist technique. They certainly […]

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate! I’ve barely had time to breathe recently and am running around like a headless chicken preparing for Convention next Thursday, dealing with family crisis (sick relly – Australian speak for relative) hence the lack of blog posts. All the Halloween stamps are from my personal collection – very quickly […]

I had a wonderful club meeting last night with some wonderful ladies. We experimented with Stampin’ Up!’s new scallop trim and scallop corner punch and used the water colour paper, the crimper, the new basic pearls which are such good value. The pearls come in 3 different sizes, 50 of each, that’s 150 pearls for […]

A couple of “Thank You” cards I dashed off the other day. Excuse the shadow on this photo, I had to take a quick piccie and didn’t use my light tent – had to give it to my husband to deliver by hand so you can see my head and camera poised! I love this […]

Time to share one of the many cards I made during the “wilderness” period of no new posts way back in September! This is one of the new stamp sets in the new catty called Artistic Etchings. The base card is Cherry Cobbler, one of the new colours in the Regals Collection and definitely one […]

These are really old retired stamp sets from my personal collection – but as it’s been such a grim day, I just fancied a “pick-me-up” card. I’ve been busy making up samples for my pre-launch catty event this Thursday and have been working all day with really pale colours so I just needed a change. […]