Two and a half weeks ago I had a nasty fall and needed an elbow replacement as well as facial reconstruction. The main fall out has been blurred vision and being one handed!! So being part of the blog this month has been a little bit of a challenge for me, but a challenge that […]
The challenge for this month’s blog was to use Holiday Catalogue products. I fell in love with the ‘Most Wonderful Time’ product medley when I saw it. I loved the DSP. The medley comes with stamps, paper, dies and accessories for making multiple cards. I have started working on some cards, using Old […]
On the weekend I was at Stamp Camp and one of our challenges was to use ‘Brightly gleaming’ DSP to create a Christmas card or 3D item. I decided to use the Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies to make some boxes from the DSP. I cut the DSP into strips and ran it through the […]
The challenge this month was to use up to five colours – Grapefruit Grove, Mint Macaron, Sahara Sand, Balmy Blue and Basic Grey. I have actually come up with two very different cards – both totally out of my comfort zone! I usually like my cards to have dimension – whether it is diamantés or die […]
This month we were given the challenge of making a card based on a sketch. I decided to use the ‘It’s starts with Art’ bundle for this. The colours were a little outside my comfort zone, but there is nothing like stretching yourself!!! I used Calypso Coral as the base and added some of the […]
I have been teaching piano for many, many years and one of the most difficult things is saying goodbye to students whom you have taught for 13+ years. You get to know them as they mature over the years and follow their challenges through their schooling. One of my students has just finished up and […]
The challenge this month was to use three of the new colours to design a project. My three assigned colours were Pretty Peacock, Rococo Rose and Seaside Spray I also used the beautiful new Perennial Essence DSP for my cards. For the first card, the base was Pretty Peacock. I then attached a piece of […]
As I looked at my retiring stamp sets, I decided that I had not used ‘Needle and Thread’ enough!! This is such a pretty set and I don’t think I have even begun to explore the breadth of possibilities for its use!! The ‘Needlepoint Nook’ Suite caught my eye when I saw it demonstrated at […]
As I prepare to head off to Sharon’s first Stamp Camp this weekend, I realised that my card had to be up on Sunday so, in the midst of a busy week, I decided to do a very simple card. The brief this time was a sketch and I decided to do some very simple […]
I was a little concerned about signing up for this blog as I was unsure what I should do and was struggling to get inspiration!! As I thought about the brief – using three of the ribbon colours, basic black and whisper white, I remembered this beautiful Botanical Butterfly DSP. This sheet is so […]