• Pink Ribbon – Hope

    As it is Breast Cancer awareness month, I wanted to share a couple of cards that I have made. It is such a worthy cause, and when you speak to people you realise how many people are touched by this.…

  • Silver Birch and sentiment

    Just a quick card with a new set of Clarity stamps that arrived this week. I have been practising alot with the brayering technique that Barbara Gray teaches and demonstrates. I follow the online lessons that she gives and thoroughly…

  • Lori’s Garden & Elegant Edges Combined

    I rarely make duplicate cards, but having made a set of 9 handmade cards to give as a gift to a neighbour I included childrens cards that I was so pleased with, I felt I should remake them. They were all…

  • Mums Cards

    When I started this blog, I said it was to be all about sharing our crafty work with each other. So here is a sample of some of Mums cards. I think this first card is one of my all time…

  • Robot birthday Greetings

    This card (well the Robots at least) were made in duplicate, you can see Mum crew here too. Isn’t fascinating to see how the 2 sets have different characters, even though the same colours were used. Mum things her Robots…

  • Brayered Birthday Card

    Hi, although I have not posted in a fair while, I have still been making. Now that I am getting the school routine running well, I am planning to post again on a much more regular basis – and I…

  • Happy Birthday Tom

    Hi again, the summer holiday has meant that I have neglected my blog for a bit. Tom has 10 weeks off school, and at the beginning it loomed ahead of us – can you believe now that he only has…

  • Memory Book

    Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Elise & Country Carnival Chipboard book from stash Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Crackle Paint – Milled Lavender Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Milled lavender Embellishments from stash This project was originally goingto be a monogram birthday card for my…

  • Blue Cameo Card

      Cricut Imagine Pattern Cartridge – Elise Cricut Cartridge – Heritage   This card originally came about because I designed the flourish frame on the Cricut Gypsy. I then continued with the Gypsy to ensure that all layers of central piece…

  • Quickest Card Ever!

    Kaisercraft paper for card base Robotz Cricut Cartridge JT Imagine Cricut Cartridge This card is probably is the quickest card I have ever made – but I like it, and Tom was pleased with it on first impression and happy…

  • From my Niece – Elena

    This is a card that my 6 year old niece Elena, made for her Dad on Fathers Day. It is all her own work, with a tiny bit of help from Mum to tie the yellow ribbon. Its a beautiful…

  • Finally # 3 – From Me

    I really enjoyed making this for Dad, I was able play around with my stamps and inks, the creating that I really enjoy. Apart from the tiny background newspaper print (printed from the Imagine country carnival cartridge), and the text…

  • With Toms help…

    For some reason this card didn’t photograph particularly well, and looks much better in real life. I didn’t stamp the bottom images very well, i applied too much pressure so they aren’t as crisp as they should be. But I…

  • Second of 3 – Father’s Day, Tom’s Creation

    Cricut Imagine Cartridge, JT & Country Carnival Ranger Alcohol Inks – Slate, Salmon, Latte & Silver blender This card is entirely Tom’s creation, and once he had been shown how to apply the inks he was well away. He even…

  • First of 3…From Stephen

    Bazzill basic card stock – blue, yellow green Orange paper from stash White Shrink plastic Zooballoo Cricut Cartridge Wild Card Cricut Cartridge This is Stephen fathers day card, that I designed for him on the Cricut gypsy (my first project). I…

  • ABC,,, Layout

    I have been wanting to get back to scrapbooking, and Stephen created the perfect opportunity for me the other day. We were drawing and making in my craft room, and Stephen was asking about letters and numbers, so I thought…

  • Visitors for the Day

    This is not a crafty blog at all, but I just had to share our day with you. From about 8am this morning we saw a couple of stray donkeys wandering up and down our road. Around about 1pm they…

  • Commissioned wedding card

    Haha, I have found a way to post on my phone. Forgive me if there are any mistakes, when the Internet decides it is going to work properly for me I will come back and make the corrections and alter…

  • Basic grey flower card

      The challenge on crafty creations challenge blog this week is to create something with flowers, patterned paper and a ribbon. I have lots of flower stamps but wanted to try using the stamp in a slightly different way. Also…

  • Sheena Douglass – Stream of Life

    I combined a few techniques with this card, and stamped the detailed stamp over a background created with muted alcohol inks. Because I still wanted to colour the stamp with promarkers I used the momento black ink. I tried to…

  • Lisselan Gardens

    I have just started looking at blog challenge sites, and the theme this week on the 2 sisters challenge blog was anything garden themed. It just reminded me of the page I had created when we went for a walk at…

  • Easter memories

    What a week it has been for bad internet connection, blogging services down for maintenance, this is the second attempt at this post, I had written it yesterday, and thought it was saved to draft, but when blogger went down…

  • Dude birthday card

    As a follow up to the last post, I had kind ‘thanks but no thanks’ reply from Kaisercraft – perhaps i will try again next year. It will be interesting to watch this years designers, and perhaps learn from them.…

  • Kaisercraft Entries

    I have been busy preparing my entries to apply for the Kaisercraft designer team. What with Easter and the boys being on school holidays, it has been a while since my last post. Not that I havn’t been crafting however,…

  • Mothers Day Card

    I am particularly proud of this card, as it is one of those that actually turned out the way I imagined it. How many times do we all sit down with an idea in our head, and find that what we…

  • Elegant Edges meets Cindy Loo !

    This is a quick card I made this morning, I’m feeling much braver with the Imagine, and starting to think that this machine will actually stay with me !! (still have my fingers crossed) I cut the frame and its…

  • Imagine a Pretty Skunk Card

    It’s been a funny old week, i got my third replacement Imagine last Friday, and I have to admit to being quite frightened to use it, even though it has behaved perfectly since coming out of the box and receiving…

  • Easter Cards

     The last 2 days i have been making these Easter Cards for Stephens school to sell at their bring and buy sale at the weekend. I made 18 in total all the same, except half were pink and half were…

  • Crafty Desk Storage

    I cannot take full credit for this project, I saw the idea in one of my magazines and something about it appealed, and it seems an ideal opportunity to use a collection of Basic Grey papers, and enjoy them everyday,…

  • Happy House Mouse – Stamping Tips

    This post is for my niece Elena who is new to stamping, and those who need a few pointers to get the best from their stamps. The house mouse is stamped onto a flower design cut from the accent essential cartridge on my Cricut…