The project at Stamp Club this year has been to make a card to depict each letter of the alphabet. I admit that I have been a bit too preoccupied with … life and have only just started working on it. I also must admit that I am loving the challenge! The hardest thing is choosing what to do...
I’ve been working on them on and off for months now, determined not to get to December and start panicking. Every time we’ve had a challenge or some ‘homework’ to do at Stamp Club I have made it a Christmas Card. Every time I’ve seen a new technique I fancied trying, I...
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...
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,...
Most people who travel by motorcycle will understand the term ‘helmet hair‘ – it’s something which cannot be avoided and which we all tend to ignore – we get used to everyone looking as if they’ve been dragged backwards through a hedge or, as in some cases, like they’ve...
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, Nigel and I spend a lot of time on our motorbike and – as naff as it sounds – the trend is to wear clothing decorated with images of one’s vehicle (well, you wouldn’t tackle a Hells Angel about the clothing he wears would you? ). I recently...
A few years ago Non Sequitur (wonderful stamp manufacturer in the US) had a competition for items using their images. I sent several items to them but they picked my least favourite to give a Highly Commended award to. I stamped the image of the man onto glossy card with a permanent black ink. I then...