• Bee happy!

    Bee happy!

    Hey guys, how are you? Today, I’m sharing a fun slimline card featuring these very jolly bees from Time for Tea Designs! I started out by die cutting a panel using the Bee Hive Slimline die. I then cut another panel to the same size, and ink blended it using different orange and yellow shades

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  • Adding subtle texture with embossing powder

    Hey guys, how are you? I’m delighted to be staying on for another term as part of the Reels team for Wow Embossing! So I thought today would be a good time to share a card I made recently featuring an embossed background. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I think of embossing,

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  • Christmas in July

    Christmas in July

    I am a huge fan of Christmas, and LOVE making Christmas cards, so I was delighted when I found out that Rachelle Anne Miller was doing a Christmas in July release! It’s just the incentive you need sometimes to get cracking on those cards in good time! I’m sharing a Reel over on Instagram today,

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  • To my Flamazing Friend

    Hey guys, there’s a new mini release today at Wow Embossing! It’s a brand new, super fun colour of Sparkles called Cotton Candy – pink with irridescent glitter and sparkles. As soon as I swatched it, it reminded me of flamingoes! Which was a great opportunity to raid my stash and use the Flock Star

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  • Have a T-Riffic birthday!

    Hey guys! How are you doing? I start a new job tomorrow, so I’ve been making the most of my last few days of freedom and making lots of cards! I quickly whipped up a little card for this week’s MFT Sketch Challenge today. Here’s the sketch: Looking at it from a landscape orientation, it

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  • Father’s Day mini album

    Hey friends, how are you? Today, I’m sharing with you a mini album that I made for my husband for Father’s Day. I don’t often do scrapbooking / memory keeping, so this made a nice change and it’s quite a good discrete project to work on, rather than be overwhelmed by starting a full-on scrapbook!

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  • Sending you Koality Hugs!

    Hey crafty friends, thanks for joining me on my blog again today. I’m sharing this koala bear card that I made for my husband for Father’s Day, and it’s also my entry for this month’s Heffy Doodle challenge (celebration cards). I made my background by applying Wow embossing ink through Heffy Doodle’s broad strokes stencil,

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  • Best Friends Make Moments More Magical

    Hey crafty friends, thanks for joining me today! I have a video up on my YouTube channel today, showing how I made this watercolour background card featuring a sweet little image from RAM Stamps called “Swinging Friends – Girls”. Check out the video here: The coloured pencils I used were Arteza 72 coloured pencils in

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  • Father’s Day Card – sending bear hugs

    Hi friends, I’m back today with another entry for the MFT Stamps weekly sketch challenge! This is the challenge sketch: It’s Father’s Day on Sunday here in the UK, so I chose to make a card for my Dad using the RAM Beary Special stamp set. I stamped, fussy cut and coloured my images using

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  • Queen for the Day

    Queen for the Day

    Happy Sunday, crafty folks! Have you managed to get in the craft room this weekend? We’re enjoying the sunshine as a family (summer seems to have finally arrived in England), so crafting is on hold, but I thought I’d share this card I made a few weeks ago with some of the newer Time for

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  • Copic Colouring tutorial – hair and skin tones

    Copic Colouring tutorial – hair and skin tones

    Hey friends, how are you? I’ve got a video up on my YouTube channel today showing how I coloured these Harry Potter inspired characters! I started with the hair, because this can be one of the tricker parts of colouring a character, so I’d rather do that first than colour a whole image and mess Read more

  • RAM Stamps Fairy & Birdie release – more OLO colouring!

    RAM Stamps Fairy & Birdie release – more OLO colouring!

    Hi friends, welcome back to the blog. Today I have a YouTube video up on my channel, showing you how I created this card for the new RAM stamps release: Again, I used my OLO markers for this one, and the colours are listed below: Hair – OR3.2, OR3.4, OR3.6, OR3.7 Skin – O7,1 OR7.1, Read more

  • Olo Markers Reviewed! My initial thoughts… plus, a super cute penguin birthday card!

    Olo Markers Reviewed! My initial thoughts… plus, a super cute penguin birthday card!

    Hey friends! How are you? I recently invested in 128 OLO Markers (Seize the Stamp had a 45% off sale!), so I’ve been putting them to the test, and I thought I’d share my first OLO-coloured card with you, along with my initial thoughts on the markers! My card features the Penguin Party digital scene Read more

  • Mama Elephant – Let’s Eat Cake!

    Mama Elephant – Let’s Eat Cake!

    Hey friends, as promised, I’m back with another blog, trying to catch up on the backlog! It’s siesta time for the family, so let’s do this. My previous post shared the first card I made for Mama Elephant’s Guest Design search – this is my second. I went with my favourite Celebration Hamsters again, and Read more

  • Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters – It’s Your Birthday!

    Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters – It’s Your Birthday!

    Friends, how are you? We have some serious catching up to do! It’s been a hectic summer, with the kids being off school, two family holidays, and two brand new classes to create – as well as the launch of our first virtual class over at Craft & Connect! So, I’m a little behind with Read more

  • Wow Blog Hop & Giveaway – New Mixed Media Release

    Wow Blog Hop & Giveaway – New Mixed Media Release

    Introduction I’m excited to be joining WOW Embossing Powder to celebrate their July 2024 release! It’s a BUMPER release, filled with Embossing Sparkles, Fab Foils and even a completely NEW product line; Mixed Media Additives! The Design Team and special Guests are each sharing inspiration using this gorgeous new release and you’re invited to join Read more


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