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I love a Wow Trio, do you? Today they’ve released two new ones, and they’re lovely- to me, they feel very autumnal and rich! For today’s card, I’ve used the Ancient Orient Trio (Tarnished Brass, Vintage Turquoise and Turkish Coffee). I’ve been wanting to try a new-to-me Stamp Your Life project kit from Altenew called…
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My friend recently asked me to make a congratulations card for her friends who had recently married. Their wedding invitations had cacti on them, so I decided to adapt a couple of the cacti from Clearly Besotted’s Prickly Plushies set. I stamped the cacti with alcohol marker friendly black ink, then used a pencil to…
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Hey crafty friends, how are you? Today I’m sharing a sweet little card, perfect for a new baby or a special friend. I started out with a panel of watercolour paper, and masked off the third to the left. On the right, I wet my paper and applied various shades of blue watercolour paint, from…
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I love this super bright and cheerful little celebration card! I made it for my lovely friend, who just aced the first year of her nursing course. I started out by die cutting a panel of white card using my favourite Pink & Main stitched rectangle dies, then die cut the giant “Hooray” sentiment (by…
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A new crafty friend of mine is going through a tough time as her fur baby needs a lot of medical attention, so I wanted to make an encouragement card to let her know I was thinking of her. I used a rainbow of distress oxide colours (crackling campfire, scattered straw, salvaged patina, tumbled glass,…
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I can’t actually believe it, but it’s my oldest daughter’s last day at nursery today! She starts primary school on Monday, so she’s gone in with presents for her teachers today. And of course, I had to make some handmade gifts, right? This bookmark was made for her key worker, who has been such a…
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Today I’m taking part in an Instagram Hop that is designed to encourage you to dig into that stash you’ve got sitting in your craft room, waiting to be used! It’s about using your existing supplies rather than buying new, which is something I’ve been trying to do a lot more this year! This month’s…
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It was our youngest daughter’s naming day at the weekend, and of course I had to make a card to mark it! I thought it would be appropriate to make a card with Charlotte’s name on it, so I used the Lea’s Ornate lower case alpha dies from Pinkfresh Studio to cut the letters from…
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Have you seen the new Trios that Wow Embossing have recently released? The thing I love about them is that often they are colours that I would not have thought to put together myself. One of the Trios that Wow! sent me to play with as part of my guest design spot recently was this…
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Hey guys, have you seen this month’s Papercraft Essentials Magazine? I was lucky to be featured in it this month, so I thought I’d share with you how I made this circular shaker card! Products used: Circle nesting dies Sundae Sweeties stamp and co-ordinating die sets Spooktacular die set Cupcakes shaker filling (Lucy’s Cards) Copic…
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CAS new home card
Hi everyone, today I’m sharing with you a clean and simple “CAS” new home card! To create this card, I stamped and coloured some of the images from the Purrfect Day stamp & die collection, and then die cut the shelf from the Purrfect Day Scene Builder dies. I love the woodgrain detail that the… Read more
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Sending crafty hugs
Hey, crafty friends. I’ve not posted much recently as I’ve been busy behind the scenes making lots of cards for a couple of upcoming releases! However, I did make this super cute rainbow card recently so I thought I’d share that with you today 🙂 I started out by die cutting four of the Stripes… Read more
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Hello…let’s chat…I miss you!
Hey crafty friends, hope you’re doing well. Today I’m sharing a card I made with several of the products from the latest Time for Tea Designs release, which is packed full of stuff I love – movies, popcorn, retro phones and red pandas, for a kick off! I started by ink blending my background using… Read more
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Super Dad!
It was Father’s Day yesterday, here in the UK, and I made my husband this “super” cute card to celebrate. My daughter LOVES the Avengers so this stamp set from Clearly Besotted (called Super Pug) was a must buy!! I started by masking off the bottom portion of an A2 piece of watercolour card –… Read more
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Lucky Duck Bookmark
Hey friends, I thought I’d share something a bit different today! I recently made this shaker bookmark for a friend, as a little bit of surprise happy mail to include inside her handmade card! I used this Tulip die from Time for Tea designs to cut the three tulip shapes out of two pieces of… Read more
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Magical mermaid birthday
Another weekend, another kids party for my 4 year old!! The birthday girl is big into princesses, so I decided to make her a magical shaker card using the Fairytale Mermaid stamp set by Clearly Besotted, featuring a mermaid that I coloured up like Ariel. I stamped and coloured the mermaid and other images using… Read more
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