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Posted by Jo in Featured Articles on February 28th, 2009 | 6 Comments

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...

Posted by Jo on March 10th, 2010

Mother’s Day Card...

We learned this card making technique at an all-day class (well, in one half of the day!) and I decided it was time to put the ideas into practice. My Mother-in-Law has a very green lounge so I decided to use green papers for this card. You can see in the photos below the 12×12 scrapbook papers I chose and also the card I used for the base and...

Posted by Jo on January 31st, 2010

Bookatrix and Brooch...

I’ve had the Bookatrix board for quite some time but really don’t use it often enough! I was never happy with the cutting-out around the edges of the ‘book’ but I think – since I was recommended to use decorative scissors to cut around the edges – I’ve liked those that I have recently done much better than the earlier...

Posted by Jo on January 8th, 2010

Tri-Shutter 60th Birthday...

A very good friend of ours, one of our GoldWing buddies, was sixty in December so I decided to make him a special card. It took me hours just looking through all our photographs to find suitable ones to use on the Tri-Shutter Card – partly because I get sidetracked very easily and get involved in reminiscing rather than just researching! So, I did...

Posted by Jo on January 4th, 2010

Christmas Wreath...

Many years ago a lovely lady called Pauline started to run a Holly Wreath Class in the community hall of Llanasa. She advertised it through the W.I. and it was incredibly popular. Obviously, being near Christmas, the weather was cold, and the hall was equally cold and totally charmless! We huddled near the wall heaters, sat on hard benches etc.. but...

Posted by Jo on November 29th, 2009

Christmas Cards 2009...

A few years ago I decided to go green and not send Christmas Cards – instead I donated the money to charity. A couple of years later I decided that I really did enjoy making cards too much to carry on being green so I’ve gone back to old ways. This year, I had all my cards made by early November, only around 75 of them, and I’ve taken...

Posted by Jo on November 1st, 2009

Pumpkin Carving...

It was David’s birthday on the 30th and so we took the opportunity for a ‘family meal’ with his brother, Stuart, and his fiancée, Amy. We walked across to a local hotel – Plas Ifan, Northop Hall – and had a fabulous meal and whilst there Amy was compelled to buy one of their home-grown pumpkins and have a go at carving it –...

Posted by Jo on October 25th, 2009

Stamping Workshop part 2...

The afternoon session saw Gloria and Sue swap places and Sue proceeded to show us how to make this fabulous Star Book. Again, we didn’t know what we were due to produce but had duly brought along ‘themed’ stamps as directed. My theme was ‘Christmas’, Jan’s was ‘Faces’. Others you can probably recognise...

Posted by Jo on October 25th, 2009

Stamping Workshop part 1...

We have just had a full day crafting – isn’t that every crafter’s idea of a perfect day? Several hours amongst friends playing with stamps and inks! We were not told what we would be doing during the two sessions but were advised what to bring along to work with. That’s always tricky – I never have the right stamps/inks with...