May Tech4Stampers blog hop

Cards and Friendship – Tech 4 Stampers blog hop

This month’s theme is all about friendship for the Tech 4 Stampers blog hop. I’ve certainly made new friends being part of this group. Friends are so precious. They pick you up when you are down, and you can rely on them to help you when you need it. Hues of Happiness Having a brand […]

simple easter card with Daffodil Daydream

Happy Easter wishes – Daffodil Daydream

Hello! Happy Easter wishes to you all with Daffodil Daydream. Even though it’s just hubby and I, I’ll still be cooking a whole joint. Our son is still in isolation having caught Covid, and our daughter won’t be coming down this time so it’ll be a quiet one. I had my booster jab for Covid […]

mother's day card with flowering tulips bundle

Mother’s Day card – Flowering Tulips

A Mother’s Day card with Flowering Tulips. Mother’s day has crept up on me when I suddenly realised I’d almost missed it in my forward planning! So a little re-shuffle of my schedule and am squeezing a Mother’s Day themed project today! The Flowering Tulips photopolymer stamp and Tulips dies was covered in a previous […]

clean and simple butterfly card with catching butterflies

Clean and Simple card – Sale-a-bration

A clean and simple card for this Sale-a-bration stamp set called Catching Butterflies. Hello! ….and Happy Sunday! We’re two weeks into Sale-a-bration and this is one of the stamp sets you can choose as a freebie with a qualifying purchase of £45 excluding shipping/handling. How did I make it? On a scrap piece of Basic […]

windmill card with timeless tulips

Clean & simple birthday card – Tulip Fields

Clean and simple birthday card with Tulip Fields bundle to follow on from last week’s simply stamped Windmill card. This week I’m using the larger windmill die which takes centre stage. This is part of the Flowering Fields Suite on pages 14-17 of the January-June 2022 mini. It was difficult to decide which bundle to […]

clean and simple card with watercolor shapes and dragonfly garden

Water colour backgrounds without the mess

Water colour backgrounds without the mess seems like an apt title for this card. How does one achieve this, you might ask. Thank you Stampin’ Up! for bringing us their patented “distinktive” range of stamps which incorporates light and shade to give a three dimensional look to their images. Say “hello” to the new Watercolor […]

clean and simple card with all squared away bundle

Clean and simple card with All Squared away

A clean and simple card with the All Squared Away bundle for today’s post. I loved the samples in the catalogue of the All Squared Away bundle and couldn’t decide whether I should get them or not. So as you can tell, I lost the battle with my “sensible” head. Finally, I found time to […]

clean and simple card with all squared away bundle

Clean and simple – less is more

I’m a great advocate of clean and simple cards and firmly believe that sometimes less is more. Too often I feel I’m short changing people if I don’t put more effort into a project, particularly when making card. In most of my tutorials, I incorporate a fancy fold, or layers etc, and on occasion I […]