Last year I had a absolutley brilliant time on Ladies Day at Newcastle Racecourse with 3 good friends. We were lucky enough to enjoy amazing weather on the day and everyone was dressed up and having fun. When I saw the challenge come up for the design team I knew exactly which photograph I was [...]

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Above is the layout I put together using the colour palette (#105) and sketch from The Colour Room. This as you can see is a close up of the title. I have shown this as I have used American Crafts alphas which I have altered using American Crafts rub-ons which helps them fit in with [...]

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A card using a squeeze square punch, a border punch and following the design you put up in the sketch

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Mum has got us all crafting cards ready for dad’s bday. Hope you like it

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I made the flower background paper by using fiskar flower pattern stencil board and aluminium paper. With the paper pitted side up I then applied alcohol inks for colour. To preserve the inks i carefully applied glossy accents to each individual flower and left to dry over night. I then used alcohol ink blending solution [...]

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Can you believe it!!! No stamping on this card!!! These papers just “sing” to me… love creating with them. They just make me smile! I used some alphas, chipboard elements and ribbon (Crate Paper) to create this bright and colourful 40th Birthday card. The paper reminds me of old vintage wallpaper. Fiskars Supplies – Cutter [...]

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Hi Fiskarettes It was my next door neighbours Silver Wedding Anniversary recently and I was commissioned to make a Tri-Shutter Album as a keepsake for them. So I thought I’d share the album with you. I couldn’t possibly not make them a keepsake card from us too, so I made an easel card in pure [...]

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One of the things that I like the best about crafting and blogging is that you end up trying lots of new things. This was my first go at creating a really 3D project and it was great fun! As I don’t have a large craft budget, I enjoy using what I’ve got in different [...]

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I put this layout together using a challenge from Scrap it with a Song (I’m on the design team) and a colour challenge #104 from The Colour Room. The layout is about my husband Paul. On a visit to Herrington Park in Sunderland I asked my husband to hold my sunglasses while I took a [...]

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I created this after being inspired by a project on Hels Sheridan’s blog. The little shelf enables one to include quite 3D embellishments. I made my first grunge rose for this, having at last got the die!

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