As a crafter I find it really hard not to get excited about new kits and stamps and papers and ribbons and....well, the list just goes on. You know what I mean? Well, Designs by Krista has a lovely new kit out called Enjoy and it uses one of my favourite colour combos: I've made the card below using some of the…
Who doesn't lurve cupcakes? I adore them, I can quite happily sit and chomp my way through whole boxes of cupcakes. Now lemon flavours are my favourite but closely followed by... chocolate of course. What is your favourite cupcake flavour? Details: Papermania cupcake stamp coloured with promarkers and layered with silicone glue. I thought that I would enter this card into Charisma…
It is an almost spring-like day in London today. It is milder than it has been and I have the windows open! I've been doing lots of blog hopping recently with visiting those I usually visit and then all the new blogs I'm seeing through my blog candy. One of my regular reads Emma at Sweet Something has made the most beautiful…
I'm loving distress ink watercolouring at the moment and it just seems to go so well with the Sarah Kay images. This one uses BasicGrey papers and embellished by cutting out the heart leafs from another sheet and giving dimension with silicone glue. The metal hearts were coloured with alcohol inks and the lace with VersaCraft ink. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado,…
I thought I would do a look back on 2008. A number of fabby blogs have been posting their 10 favourite makes from 2008 and I thought what a good idea :) So here are some of my favourites. They are in no particular order and in some cases it might be more about the creative journey than the outcome (does that…
Hop on over to Carlyann's blog CarlzCardz for some fabby blog candy, including Papermania and BasicGrey Papers and wonderful stamps. She has also launched a new challenge blog called Charisma Cards Challenges, as you are there why not join in? This week the challenge is PINK :) There is also some lovely Forever Friends candy with papers and stamps up for grabs…
I have a bit of a dilemma – I love going to the craft shows but I always spend toooo much :) Being London-based I go to the London shows and there are three spring shows on the horizon: Stitch and Creative Crafts: 28th February–1st March in Excel Stitch and Craft: 19th - 22nd March in Olympia Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show…
I've been overdoing the old BasicGrey a bit recently (can you over do BasicGrey?) so I thought I would play with some Papermania paper for a change. A card for the Magnolia Vs Stampavie challenge blog, which has a sketch for us all to have a go at. Details: The image is coloured with distress inks and Derwent Inktense pencils and I'm…
So some bits and bobs for you today and perhaps a card later if I get a wiggle on :) First of all, just to let you know that Emma has a fantastic sale over at Sassy Crafts with everything – yes, I said everything – reduced. The sale ends on the 12th Jan so you better get over there, as soon…
Wahoo - I've found my scissors! They were hiding in my ribbon box and I looked everywhere for those naughty Minkeys :) A card that hits two challenge buttons today. Firstly it uses the lovely sketch over at BasicGrey Challenge blog and then it incorporates embossing for the Penny Black Challenge blog. Sorted :) Details: the embossing used my cuttlebug and embossing…
OK, so it is not spring quite yet but I just love tulips and here are some for you. Made from the fab BasicGrey OffBeat paper, which just gave itself to the tulip petal and edged with distress inks. The petals were slightly curved on a knitting needle :) to give a little more dimension. Oh spring how we love you :)…