Masculine Makes #3 Spot On Target card

Thank you so much for joining me today for part 3 of my Masculine Makes series.  I have a fun card for you today that would be great to give to the males and females in your life. How are you finding this series so far? Has it helped or inspired you to make any […]

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3 Ink Blended Background cards ft. The Raven

Geoff has been ill for over a week and he’s not well enough to make the Halloween walkthrough for the Children this year, he hates letting people down.  I think we will put a few tombstones and decoratations in the front garden because we will still have 300+ children knock on the door on the […]

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2 Pencil Colour Challenge #2

  Aren’t these cards beautiful?   I made them for next weeks 2 Pencil Colour Challenge (#2PencilColourChallenge) but I was so pleased with them I couldn’t wait to share them with you.  My 2 Pencil Colour Challenge is a new weekly series. I challenged myself to use no more than 2 pencils to colour an image […]

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Sam’s Oriental Vases

Last year one of my fellow Pootler’s Anne Melvin made a beautiful Oriental Style gift box. I loved it so much I made one for my Mother-In-Law but instead of making it as a gift box I made it into a vase and put red silk roses in it.

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OnStage Solihull Swaps – Ribbon Scissor Charms

Last weekend Hubby and I went to Solihull for the Stampin’ Up! OnStage Local event which is held twice a year.  Demonstrators who attend get a copy of the upcoming catalogue and play with some of the new products. For the event I made 50+ swaps and I got to swap and chat with lots […]

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S.S.S.C. Blog Hop – Winter Wonderland

Thank you for joining us today for the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge Blog Hop.  The lovely Keila Calver set this months challenge which was to make a card or 3D project with Acetate. Please click on the ‘Next’ button at the bottom of this post to continue the hop.

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Candy Cane Train – Christmas Train using Stampin’ Up! products

A while ago I made a Halloween Train for The Pootler’s Blog Hop that I was taking part in.  A lady called Maggie left a lovely comment for me on the blog post and she asked if I would make a Christmas Train? Christmas is my favourite time of year and I love a challenge so I said I would […]

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Northern Lights Christmas Card

I have finally managed to finish my Northern Lights Christmas card that I started at the beginning of the week. I wanted to try the emboss-resist technique so I cut a sheet of Whisper White cardstock in half and heat embossed the tree images on both pieces. 

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