Happy Mother's Day

 Good morning and a very happy Mother's Day!

Here's the card I made for my mum with the beautiful Independent Women papers from Relatively Thoughtful.

Don't these look fabulous when combined with Stamperia's Provence die cuts.

I started by choosing my papers (I love the pop of yellow against the purples). Then I cut and sewed my layers.

Then I cut out my images from a cut-apart sheet and inked all the edges. I wanted to make some flowers to go with the die cuts.

I gave all the cutouts a coating of clear embossing powder to make them a little sturdier, together with a little bit of fine glitter. Then I layered up my flowers.

This is how it looks when closed.

And this is the inside.

And the inside of the inside lol.

These panels are from a cut-apart sheet in the Stamperia Provence collection. These are also available in the Relatively Thoughtful store.

And this is how my flowers turned out.

The collections can be found here in Sally's store.

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I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend, I shall be venturing into my still chilly craft room while Neil falls asleep in front of the Grand Prix clutching the remote as if his life depended on it!

Take care and have a happy, crafty week x

Number 1 Dad !

 Good morning and a very happy Monday.

Today I'm sharing my second project for the Country View Crafts Masculine Birthday challenge, and this time it's a card for my No 1 Dad!

I started by making a background with a stencil and some Distress Oxides.

Then I added some stamping with a Katzelkraft set.

These are my characters, all stamped, fussy cut, and ready to go!

Susan has a great range of fun Katzelkraft stamps here in the store.

I hope you like our challenge and that you join in with your own birthday card for a man.

Have a great week whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking xx

An Independent Women Twist & Pop Card

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday!

Today I'm really happy to be sharing a Twist & Pop card made with the beautiful new Independent Women Collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

This collection coordinates perfectly with the Stamperia Provence range and the great thing is, Sally now has this available in her store.

I started by choosing my images for the twist & pop mechanism. The postcards were perfect for this, just the right size. I used the cover sheet to mat and layer my images - never waste a thing! As it turned out poor old Amelia didn't make it as I put my glue in the wrong place lol.

I also needed some panels for the front cover and the inside. I've used a really old punch to make my lacy layers. The sentiment is also from the cover sheet.

These are the tags that I've made for the outside from the postcard cut-apart sheet.

And this is the inside! So many inspirational women - I think Queen Victoria was going through her unamused stage!

The whole thing folds flat(ish) ready for posting.

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I hope you love the new collection as much as I do.

It can be found here in Sally's store

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Take care and have a very happy week xx

Birthday Boy!

 Good morning and a very happy Wednesday, welcome to March!

After a lovely beginning to February (we were in Tenerife) we've had rather a poor ending as we both have Covid (again!) This time however I passed it on to Neil rather than him giving it to me as a birthday present. I will be able to let this go eventually, but not anytime soon!

Anyway, on to brighter things, it's time for a new challenge over at Country View Crafts, and the lovely Corrie has chosen Birthday Cards, but for a MAN! Yup, the thing all crafters love to make, a birthday card for a man who doesn't want it, already has it, or just can't remember where he put it!

As I've really been feeling quite poorly I haven't been in my craft room for ages. It's also the time of the year when it's soooo cold in there. So on Monday I literally found myself in need of a card for today (Wednesday)

So I decided that I had to keep it simple and pulled out a couple of sheets of designer paper. I knocked them back just a little with some gesso.

I added some stamping and stencilling and made the panels into tags.

These are my stamps, and of course Susan has a brilliant range here in the store. 

So it's over to you now, please join in with our challenge and show us your birthday cards for men,

Have a wonderful March, and thanks so much for looking x

A Votes 4 Women Tag Page

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm sharing a page of my tag book made with the beautiful Votes 4 Women collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

I started by choosing 3 papers and die cutting some tags.

Then I chose some more papers from my scrap box from other collections.

I love how this looks - it's been stamped on the Votes 4 Women paper and then paper pieced with my scraps.

I though my pretty elephant would be just right on the green/grey sheet from the Votes 4 Women collection. I toned it down with a white Stabilo pencil.

For my third tag I stamped directly onto the base tag, and coloured in with Posca pens and Prisma pencils.

This is how they look when they are all put together.

I added a little bit of background stamping on the tags too.

I think this one is really pretty.

And I love how they all look together.

These beautiful collections can be found here in Sally's store.

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Have a very happy day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

A Sentimental Birthday

 Good morning and a very happy Tuesday. Here is my second card for the Country View Crafts "Be Sentimental" challenge.

I started by inking through a 12x12 Stamperia stencil, then I added some splatters.

Lots of stamping and fussy-cutting later....  This is my favourite "happy birthday" font and the stamp sheet has loads of great sentiments. It doesn't actually have "to" but it it was easy to mask and stamp.

These are the stamp sets that I've used - why limit yourself to one when you can trash your whole craft room??? 

It took me a few days to make this card as we were having a mega cold snap at the time, and it was 7 degrees in my conservatory one day! As you can imagine I only stayed for a little while at a time!

As always Susan has a fab range of Katzelkraft stamps here in the store.

Have a very happy week whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking xx

Votes 4 Women!

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Today I'm sharing a pinwheel tower card made with the fabulous Votes 4 Women collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

I've used a tutorial by Paul Ford (Papercrafting With Paul). This card is SO easy to make AND it folds flat for postage.

I started by making my base card with some sturdy cardstock to coordinate with the colours in the collection.

Then I cut some panels from the papers and inked and stitched them, together with the 6x4 postcards from the collection.

Now it's just a case of sticking it all together!

I've also added some images from a cut-apart sheet.

These postcards are fabulous!

There is no front and back to these cards so you can really show off the fabulous papers.

This is how it looks from above.

The collection can be found here in Sally's store.

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Have a lovely day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

Baby Love!

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! As you may know ('cos I've been telling absolutely everyone 😁) I recently became a grandma. This is the first time I've shared any photos so please be prepared for a total cuteness overload!

I wanted to make a couple of pages for my Jane Austen discbound journal. However I don't have a punch for the pages, and as I'm on a craft spending ban until at least 2030 I won't be getting one anytime soon lol. What I do have however is some insert pages for a Happy Planner, (exactly the same size) so I simply chopped them down and attached my papers to them.

Of course, I had to add some stitching - I think it makes all the difference, and it also ties the black edges to the paler pages. I used papers from one of my favourite Relatively Thoughtful collections, The Magic of Childhood.

I printed out some photos, and also die-cut some baby images. The sentiments are from a cut-apart sheet from the same collection.

I always photograph my layouts before I stick them down, just so I can remember where I put everything - yes I have the memory of a goldfish!

A little bit of matting and layering makes all the difference.

These papers are so beautiful they hardly need any embellishment.

I told you there would be a cuteness overload! 

This is how the pages look in the journal. They are so easy to put in and take out - I love them!

The fabulous journal can be found here in the store.

And the papers can be found here.

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Have a lovely day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking xx