Archives for February 2011
Yippee, I won a prize!
There’s been a Valentine’s Day Competition at Abi’s Craft and I am so excited to have won one of the two runners-up prizes. I’m showing here the winning entry by Lynsey from Norfolk and the other runner-up entry by Marianne from Oxfordshire. Although it was an international...
All Creatures Great and Small
Sir Stampalot are having their February Challenge and the theme is All Creatures Great and Small and I thought I’d have a go. I firstly dug out this lovely stamp from Third Coast Rubber Stamps of a cat with wings (I can’t direct you to the exact stamp – they have thousands of them! Go...
Queen of Hearts
Over at Quietfire Designs there’s the 2nd Annual Queen of Hearts Challenge going on. I thought this would be easy but found it wasn’t really – everything I had in mind didn’t look quite right when I tried it! Oh well, I did manage to put a card together and I’m sure I’ll...
Project Book
We had been asked if we fancied a year-long project at Stamp Club and after everyone agreed they’d like that we were commissioned to make some sort of record of each technique we learned throughout the 11 months of the club year. We could make or buy the book itself so I used an album I’d...
Valentine Challenge
A Valentine card with no red or pink in sight – that was the challenge thrown down by Michael Strong this week. I’m showing my contribution here, just the one scan this time as I didn’t think about photographing each step – it’s all quite simple really. I took a piece of recycled...