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Welcome to my Craft Blog
Wandering round my house I’ve found so many things that I have made over the years – I think I must have been crafting all my life – and I look forward to sharing them with you. If you want any explanations about anything then please contact me – if I can remember how I’ve done it then I’ll gladly share with you. I’d love you to leave a comment about anything – good or bad – I like constructive criticism! Please, enjoy browsing, I do hope you’ll grab a cuppa...
New website feature...
I understand that some people don’t like leaving comments on blogs and some just visit so many that they don’t really have time to comment as they’d like, so I set my web-maestro the task of making it simpler for you. After a lot of research he did it (didn’t doubt it for a minute ) and so you now have the option to tick one...
Pat’s 70th...
My sister-in-law had a momentous birthday this month and so I made her a special card. It took me about 3 evenings of faffing about with it to get it how I wanted but I was happy with the final results. To compound the lengthy business my mother-in-law asked me to make one to give from her so I guess I spent about a whole week working on this birthday...
Folded Star...
This was made for a friend of mine – not a special birthday or anything but she is a special friend. If you Google Folded Star you’ll find lots of tutorials for these in various sizes, mine was made from a piece of 12×12 scrapbook paper and I made sturdy templates out of plain card for future use. The templates made included those for...
Michael Strong Sat Sketch...
I hope I can manage to enter all the challenges throughout the year on the Michael Strong group – it’s only two per month at most so it should be do-able. The main image was made using the large Cloisonné Flower which I stamped randomly over some glossy card stock using a Versamark pad. I then sprinkled with fine, clear embossing powder and...
Dec 2011 Birthdays...
I don’t quite know why I’ve only photographed two of the four birthday cards I mailed in December but somehow I must have forgotten! Can’t imagine what it is about December which would make me forget stuff…… A GoldWinging friend of ours turned fifty last month so I sent him the ‘birdie’ card and the other...
Christmas Card Commission...
I was telephoned – I think it was about July sometime – by a young man who had seen this blog and wanted a special Christmas Card making for his girlfriend. Once I’d gotten over the shock of (a) a man actually ordering a special card and (b) him planning it incredibly early in the year, I came up with this Telescoping Card. I made another...
Alphabet Project – t...
Well, it’s taken some time (a whole year I guess) but I’ve finally finished all 26 Alphabet Cards. Actually, I have done 27 ‘cos I wasn’t happy with ‘D’ so I did a second version . I think it’s obvious that I left most of the difficult letters to the last – Q, U, X! What a great challenge this has been...
Michael Strong December Ch...
For the month of December the lovely Michael challenged us to use the template he provided. It is basically a box, there’s a tab to close it so if you wanted to put a small gift in there it could be very useful (thinking chocolates jewellery…..). I’m afraid mine is anything but useful – there’s so much decoration on it...
Christmas Cards 2011...
These are photos of some of the cards I have made for this Christmas, 2011. Several of them were duplicated – though not identical – they were basically the same idea so I only photographed one of them . I like to keep a record just so I can look back next year and see what I did and make sure I try something different. At the bottom of the page...
Michael Strong Holiday Tag...
Time for the Holiday Tag Blog Hop! There are 13 blogs to visit and you should have come here from Mike’s – if you get lost then please go back to Hetty’s Blog and you’ll find all the links there. You’ll find the scavenger hunt letter you’re searching for at the bottom of the post – find them all, make a wish and send...
White Christmas...
I personally think that black and white is really quite elegant and works well for a Christmas Card. This starts with an A4 white base card folded in half and trimmed slightly (I don’t like the size of the full A4 with a fold, it always looks just a little too big to my mind) and the corners rounded with my Corner Chomper. I trimmed the edge...
Greeting Card Holder...
I saw this great idea posted at Stamper’s Quest and just had to try it. The hardest part of all was choosing the hard-backed book to desecrate . If you know me well, you’ll know that I have a library in my house and it’s full of books – obviously – but I kept picking one out and then deciding I might want to read that one again...
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