Hi! Happy Monday!
It's cold and grey here today but it's been a good day! Just back from a lovely lunch with my daughter and now spending some time in the craft room. I don't think my mojo is quite back yet so I just had a look through random dies to see what I could do. I found this set from Sizzix (664360). It's actually for a 3d flower pot but the flower works well on it's own too. I've used a card size that I very rarely ever use - just for a change.
Hi and happy Sunday!
I'm sat here in my happy space surrounded by an overwhelming stash of supplies. What do I do? Something that barely makes a dent - but brings so much joy - I use up some scraps! I've crafted three little "memory" books with chipboard covers, matted and layered pages, little inside pockets, and z-fold spines. These are so easy and rewarding to make! The larger one is 4"x 4", and the smaller two are 2" x 2". Even working with these smaller dimensions is a breeze! It's hard to believe these scraps could have ended up in the bin!
But here's the best part; these mini memory books make perfect gifts. Imagine handing someone a beautifully crafted, personalised book filled with shared memories, quotes, or even small photos. It's a heartfelt gesture that shows you care. Plus, the creative process itself is incredibly relaxing and fulfilling. Each book can tell it's own story, capturing moments and turning what could have been waste into something truly special. Happy crafting!
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In an effort to try and get a bit organised ahead of time I've started making some Christmas themed items - cards, tags and money/gift wallets.
I've been playing with the gorgeous Reindeer Fun set from Stampin' Up! I just love this little reindeer die cut! I've used a mix of DSP (including some retired sets) as I had so many scraps to use!
I started with this little pop up card and then just continued until all the scraps on my desk were used!
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On this chilly Sunday I've found some time for creativity. I've used stamps and papers from Tracey Hey, her cute and charming designs make card-making so easy and fun! What a delightful way to spend the afternoon!
I think Sundays have to be my favourite day of the week! Time to relax, the smell of the Sunday roast and then a chance to chill out reading a book. Just perfect!
I'm entering my card from today in the Creative Fingers challenge. It's "Anything Goes".
I hope you're having a lovely day!
And here's a quote to finish!
"Creativity is intelligence having fun" - Albert Einstein
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It has been absolutely ages since I lasted posted! I honestly don't know where the time has gone! I have't been doing very much crafting but as the weather gets colder I am hoping my mojo might try to snuggle up again!
So why do I feel silly? For the last week I have been trying to do this post but couldn't see any option to create new. And I just couldn't work out why (other than I had been away for so long that Blogger had gotten fed up and gone into a huff!). Then today... a stroke of "genius", I worked it out that I wasn't logged on with the right account. So don't I feel silly! All sorted now though. And a quick make to hopefully get started again!
I was looking for some inspiration so I checked out some challenge blogs. The first one I looked at was CAS On Sunday - their Friday challenge. It's theme is "leaves". So here is my quick and simple make using Tim Holtz Dies and some randomly coloured watercolour paper!
I hope you like it! Have a lovely day!
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It's a wild day here as we seem to be catching a bit of storm Kathleen. Heavy rain, cold and windy. A perfect day for lunch with my daughter and a bit of crafting!
Today's craft started with one sheet of 200 gsm copier paper, some inks, water colour pencils and a stamp. with help from a gelli plate, brayer and some washi tape the end result is a birthday card using Party Giraffe by Kate Crane for Carabelle Studio.
I'm really pleased with this one as both of the backing papers are handmade and I love the different effects with the gelli plates. The inks used were Soft Succulent and Rococo Rose from Stampin' Up! and they've blended together so well. This giraffe is so much fun to colour too!
I hope you like it!
Hi and Happy Monday!
Something different from me for this week. Two makes from yesterday, yes, a whole day devoted to craft yesterday (and a nice little drive down to a wee village in the Scottish Borders). Attended a workshop run by the most lovely people at Stampers Grove, and the most amazingly talented Kate Crane! A totally amazing experience, with expert tuition, taking me out of my comfort zone of "colouring between" the lines! It was a lovely day with lovely crafty ladies.
We played with Gelli Plates, brayers, alcohol inks, acrylics, watercolours, stencils and dura-lar!
Here are the results!
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Here we are with another Monday! The weather's improving and I've been enjoying a quiet day so far! I really should be spending some time tidying but just not in the mood! I did clear some scraps from my desk though so here's a little make with some leftovers!
Have a lovely Monday!
Hi! Start of another week and I'm carrying on from my craftiness yesterday. Sticking with these gorgeous stamps by Tracey Hey.
Love this little guy and he was so easy to colour!
It's colder today, the winds from yesterday seem to have passed but its just kind of grey and miserable. So I might have to turn up the volume on the happy tunes and do some more colouring!
Happy days everyone!
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It's Sunday play time.. and for the first time in ages I've not found myself procrastinating! So with my playlist on, and the desk still pretty messy, I found my folder full of Tracey Hey stamps and got the alcohol markers out! Coloured this little guy, cut him out and just went for a pretty simple layout. I'm really loving the colour combo!
I hope, wherever you are, you're enjoying your Sunday and living your best life. There are reminders all around us that we should take nothing for granted.
Here he is....
Hi! What a wild day it is today - storm Isha rocks huge parts of the UK. There's no trains running today.. and I'm very glad I don't have to go anywhere! I thought I would have a little play in the craft room today. I really still need to try and tidy it up. The main problem at the moment is finding things. The ideas are there but the mojo disappears with the thought of having to hunt for whatever it is I need!
I did make a little card to use up some scraps on my desk though. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Just a little bit of colouring which was really relaxing!
Hi! and happy Sunday!
I hope everyone is having a lovely day! it's been a lazy one here.. some crafting and a trip to the beach. It was kind of cold and not that bright, and the sun started to set around 3:45pm. Got a pic with my phone, and you can see Edinburgh in the background.
Hi! Well, the wrapping is done and the table is set so not much else to do in prep for tomorrow. Today is going to be a crafty day! If I could just keep my mojo! I've started with this simple little make and some scraps!
Hi! Well it's the eve of Christmas Eve and already I'm unable to work out what day of the week it is! A quick make for this morning with, hopefully, some more crafty time this afternoon. But, for now, I'm off to finish wrapping pressies!
Have a lovely Saturday!
Hi! I hope you've had a lovely week! It's been another busy one for me. I had great intentions to do some tidying in the craft room but that's not materialised other than I did manage to get some of the presents that were lying around wrapped which has cleared a bit of floor space!! So now my good intentions to tidy up will continue into any available free time this week! I have to try and make some room as I've a bumper parcel from Stampin' Up! coming hopefully mid week!
I am trying to keep my crafty hand in the game though so I made this little birthday card. I love this little guy! Kept it simple with the colours!
Hi! Well, after all the snow on Friday night the rain today has cleared nearly all of it! Mind you, it's not stopped all day! So, another lazy one. I really should be wrapping pressies or, at the very least, tidying up the craft room! But no, just made a little card instead. I like Christmas with non-traditional colours!
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Brrr! it's a cold day here and the snow from yesterday hasn't shifted! Never mind though, just means time to potter indoors!
I've made this little Christmas gnome card. So simple and fun to make!
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It's been 6 months since I last posted. That's no good. It's been quite a busy six months, nothing major, but just enough to kind of lose the crafty bug. I'm sure most crafters go through that at some time or other and sometimes it's really difficult to get motivated again.
I decided to have a bit of a craftroom clear out so I could see more things that I had that would inspire me and it's worked... a bit. I still have way too much stuff but I have been fairly good at not buying too many new things! The clear out isn't finished yet either!!
But I thought I would stop filling black bags and have a bit of a play! I used colour to inspire this one, starting off with a small scrap of paper from Stampin' Up! in Soft Succulent. Then I coloured one of the Woolly Jumpers from Carabelle Studio in Soft Succulent and Smoky Slate. Other scraps added and some Tim Holtz collage paper.
I hope you like it! I'm going to enter it in an Anything Goes challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.
Hope you have a lovely day!
Hey! Happy Sunday!
Where does the time go? Not long back from a week away in a lovely dog friendly cottage and then a busy week catching up at work. I decided to have some me time today. The main aim was to clear some space in the craft room as I'm expecting quite a few parcels in the next few days. Needless to say, I failed.. I have made no new space as I just can't bear to part with stuff!
I did stop tidying to make a quick card though. I recently got a gorgeous set of stamps and dies from Mama Elephant called Stackable Cuties so I thought I would do some quick colouring. I could easily have kept on just colouring but I stopped to make this quick little rocker card. It's plain and simple but I had fun making it!
Have a lovely Sunday!
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Happy Sunday everyone! I'm having a lazy day today and enjoying being spoiled on Mothers Day!
It's been a really busy week at work, and yesterday was spent visiting family then some crafty time with some like minded ladies. Very relaxing! We were doing some decopatch on eggs for Easter.
Today I thought I'd have a look through some dies that I've not used for a while and came across one set I hadn't used at all! Great fun making this really easy 3d flower pot! And it folds flat which would make it a great card!
I hope you like it, and that you're having a lovely Sunday!
Hi! Welcome to a miserable Monday here in central Scotland. It's not stopped raining and there's the threat of snow later.
I've not been spending much time crafting today but I have made this little card!
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Sunday, day of rest! (day to avoid housework and look forward to a lovely lamb roast for dinner!)
And time to play!
I think this may be one of my new favourite stamp sets. It's Stampin' Up! "A Fish and a Wish". I love the way they have done the textured look on the fish and the fact you get a great splatter dots stamp to use in the background.
I've gone with Orchid Oasis and Pretty Peacock as the colour scheme for this one. Orchid Oasis is one of my favourite colours ever!
Hope you're having a lovely crafty weekend!
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Happy Saturday! It's a cold one here today and we're supposed to get snow... but no sign of it so far!
I've been having a crafty play today... I've not used my alcohol markers for ages so I thought I would try and get back in the habit! I've used this little guy from Whippersnapper (which I've had for years!) and coloured him using Stampin' blends.
Nothing fancy on this card but I think I'm starting to prefer a CAS look generally.
Hi! I really thought I had posted this pic before. Back in Oct last year I started playing with Jesmonite. I'm still hooked and these are just some of the little trinket trays I have made. These are so easy and quick to make! I've been using Stampin' Up! re-inkers to colour the mix and they've set really well.
They are really handy to have on your craft desk if you are making small die cuts or beading as I typically lose things!
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Wow, I can't believe my last post here was October! I have still been crafting in that time, maybe not as much as I would have liked. I've just not felt like blogging even though lots of positive stuff has happened. I'll try and catch up!
All is good though and I'm hoping this will be the start of a seriously fun crafty year! I suppose the main crafty resolution will be to use what I have! Although I know that won't happen! Not with so many lovely new crafty items out there.
Today I've been playing with the new "Thanks a Bunch" from Stampin Up! which was available as a Sale-a-bration reward. To be honest, I wasn't really sure if I would use this set but it was really quite fun, and I love the finished effect on the carrots! I've layered white on white which I think gives a nice effect. The tartan paper is from Memory Box (Madras Plaid Coral and Green).
I hope you like it!
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Well, it's Friday already! Another quick week. I was doing a bit of tidying out today - so a black bag full of craft stuff is heading the way of the recycling! I did find some die cuts I had done last year (or maybe even the year before!) so I thought I would throw together a Christmas card. And here it is. It really couldn't be simpler. I used the dotty embossing folder to make the background look like snow but unfortunately didn't have the embossing start right at the top of the card. So I had to improvise - the result is it's now a book fold card and the lack of embossing is covered by the gold ribbon. I also used some washi tape and a scrap of tartan paper as the background.
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Well, it's a miserable day here today. I don't think the rain has stopped even for a moment! But who cares? Certainly not me! After a lovely family day with the doggo at the beach yesterday the weather can do whatever it likes! My attention did turn to the pile of scrap paper that's just been getting bigger and bigger these last view weeks so I decided to have a play and see what I could use. Two cards for today!
Hi! Here's my card for today. Lots of fun watercolouring this little guy. Then simply cut him out. Stamped him again on the base card and the glued the coloured image. Simple, but I like it!
I'm going to enter him in the Layered challenge at Addicted to CAS.
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Wow! We're half way through October already! And it's starting to get colder. Personally, I love this time of the year. The darker nights coming in! Also perfect time to get crafting!
I've not had a chance to do much in the last couple of weeks with the exception of yesterday and today. Time spent yesterday afternoon with good friends crafting was just a lovely way to spend the afternoon and we were doing something a bit different - we were needle felting little pictures. A very therapeutic way to spend the time stabbing away with a felting needle - very de-stressing!
I think I like the first one with the sheep on a hillside better than the second one - but you have to start somewhere!
Hello! and yes, it is time for tea! I've just noticed it's just after noon so a perfect time in the day for a break and a cup of tea before getting ready for a crafty afternoon with friends!
I took my inspiration for my card today from another sketch challenge. This one is at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. Lot's of layers on this card. A change for me as I've been tending towards CAS for my more recent cards. Which means my paper stash is just constantly growing because not using it does not mean I don't buy it!!
I hope you like it. It's Stampin' Up! "Cup of Tea", matching papers, dies and the new In Colors.
Have a lovely day!
