Happy Hippo Sweet Shaped Box

Thank you for joining me today.  A few weeks ago I shared a Sweet/Candy shaped box that I had made and I typed up a tutorial for it. Today I have another sweet/candy shaped box for you that is slightly narrower than the original one and it holds a Happy Hippo. After making the Hippo’s in a […]

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Sweetie Boxes

I have a really cute project to share with you today.  This isn’t my idea, I watched a video tutorial by Sam at Mixed Up Crafts and I loved this box so much I went straight to my craftroom to make some. My hands hurt when shaping the box the way Sam did so I […]

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Happy Father’s Day

I would like to wish all the amazing dad’s a very Happy Father’s Day, I hope you have a wonderful day. Making masculine cards can be difficult sometimes but the High Tide stamp set was perfect for the Father’s Day cards I wanted to make.

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Gift Bags, Cute Coffee Carrier & a One Sheet Wonder

I have been looking through my photo’s and I found some photographs of projects that I ran out of time to write blog posts for. These projects were made with some of the products that are retiring today so I decided to add them all to one blog post. To see larger images of todays […]

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Background Stamps – Marbled Stamp

A few days ago I shared the Wood Effect boxes I made for Geoffs cloak clasps, pendants and belt buckles that he had made (click here if you missed this post). I have made several boxes for Geoff where I used the Marbled background stamp and he really likes that effect so he asked me […]

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Tutorial for True Gentleman Shirt Cards

Thank you for joining me today.  On Monday I started my new series Memory Lane Mondays and I re-made the Shirt card which was the project in my very first blog post. Today I have the tutorial for the Shirt card in both A5 and A6 and I have also worked out the dimensions for […]

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Memory Lane Mondays #1

I was looking back at some of my first blog posts and it was such a lovely trip down memory lane that I thought it would be fun to do a series where I remake some of the projects with more up-to-date products. I’m calling the series Memory Lane Mondays and I’m starting with the project […]

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Cute Coffee Cafe Box

Do you ever have one of those days where you only have 1 sheet of cardstock to make a box and then you make a mistake when scoring it? That’s what happened to me when I was making this box, it was meant to be a milk carton style box but I put a score line […]

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Masculine Mansize Tissue Box Cover

For the last few weeks Geoff has had a cold and I thought it would be nice to make a masculine cover for his Kleenex Mansize tissues, any excuse to craft. Geoff likes his Real Ale and I thought the bottle caps paper in the Bubbles & Fizz DSP would be a perfect choice for […]

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Coffee Cafe Fancy Fold Card Tutorial

Thank you for stopping by today.  Last Saturday I took part in the InspireINK Blog Hop and our theme was Fancy Fold February. After taking a quick look at Pinterest I decided to make a Bridge Fold or ‘U Shaped’ Fold card using the Coffee Café bundle from Stampin’ Up! I think this is the […]

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