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.
Continue ReadingTool Box Tutorial
When I posted the Tool Box Gift Card Holder I made for a recent Blog Hop I was overwhelmed by all the lovely comments I received. I had several requests to do a tutorial for the Tool Box and I’ve finally managed to finish this in-depth tutorial that I hope will help everyone to make the […]
Continue ReadingThank You Dragonflies Card
My project today is a really quick and simple Thank You card. If you follow my blog you may have noticed how much I love Berry Burst, I’ve been using it a lot lately. As I’m sat here writing this post the UK has had the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia and it’s a miserable day […]
Continue ReadingHeat Embossed Snowflake Cards
Back in August I experimented with heat embossing the foil snowflakes and found that after adding 2-3 coats of embossing powder they looked metallic (click here to see the post.) I want to share with you today how beautiful these look on Basic Black card bases, I chose black because it made the metallic embossing really […]
Continue ReadingSwirly Snowflakes All Year Round
To cut down on the cost of Christmas I’ve been making some handmade Christmas gifts. One of the things I’ve been making is covered notebooks, I went Christmas shopping with my daughter recently and I couldn’t believe how expensive they were. It is definitely a lot cheaper for me to buy some plain notebooks and cover […]
Continue ReadingOven Gloves Covered Notebook
Thank you for joining me today. This is a busy time of year for crafters, we are making projects that we can give as Christmas presents and many of us are making them for craft fairs too. Notebooks are really popular but the pretty covered notebooks they sell in the shops are so expensive. I […]
Continue ReadingCraftroom Organisation – Embellishment Holder
Today I have a holder I made for my Embellishments and Metallic Thread. They were all stored in different drawers and I was fed up having to keep going backwards and forwards every time I needed to embellish something. After watching a Dawn Griffith video where she cut the Acetate Card Boxes in half and […]
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