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Sunday, 8 December 2024

An Egyptian Dream

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Just to have a little break from Christmas crafting, I've chosen one of my favourite Relatively Thoughtful collections and made a floating centre panel card, following a tutorial from Paul Ford (Papercrafting With Paul) 

The colours are much brighter in real life, but we've reached the time of year when there is no sunshine here.
Isn't she beautiful! This image is actually one of the backing papers that I've cut down.
And the following are from one of the cut-apart sheets.
They are so vibrant in real life!
Wish I had eyebrows like this!
As always, the collection is available digitally and as an A4 Craft Pack. I'll include the links to Paul's Facebook group and YouTube account below.
YouTube
Take care, and have a very happy weekend xx






Sunday, 17 November 2024

Dachshund Through The Snow

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm sharing a Christmas card made with the fabulous Not Just For Christmas collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

Just look at that face, he's such a cutie!

I love all the cut-apart sheets that you get with this collection, and also that they are in the traditional red and green, and also this gorgeous blue.

With so many different sheets you can really go to town with the embellishments.

Beautiful traditional colours.

And quirky sentiments too, what's not to love!

As always the collection is available as both digital and A4 paper collections.

Digital

A4 papers

I hope that you like my card. How is your Christmas crafting coming on, or shouldn't I be mentioning it just yet lol.

Take care and have a lovely day xx



 







Sunday, 3 November 2024

Well Charming Sherlock!

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Today I'm sharing a couple of boxes from the Sherlock Holmes collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

The boxes come in two sizes. The Small Rectangular Book Box and the Charm Box With Charms.

I love the flexi hinges - they really help keep the boxes together. I've used gilding paste rather than paint to colour the chipboard as it leaves a much thinner layer so all the pieces still slot together.
I've added some stamping to the inside as well. I've also added an ATC sized Mary matted in black to give the silhouette on the front of the box.
And here are some more ATC's to fit in the box.
This is the teeny tiny box that comes with charms.
Again I've used gilding pastes to colour, and these are some of the fabulous charms.
And everything fits perfectly inside!
As always the collection comes in both physical and digital formats.

I hope that you like my boxes. Take care and have a wonderful day xx







Sunday, 27 October 2024

Elementary My Dear Watson

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Today I'm sharing a loaded pocket made with one of my favourite new paper collections Sherlock Holmes from Relatively Thoughtful. 
I do love all the old Sherlock Holmes films and television series, but I must confess that the latest BBC one is my favourite. Andrew Scott as Moriarty is just perfect!

The collection is full of backing papers and cut-apart sheets with images and sentiments.
Of course, I had to use a Papercrafting With Paul tutorial to make my stuffed pocket. This was so user-friendly - nice easy measurements lol. I'll put Paul's links at the end. This is the front with two pockets.
And this is the back with a picture of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
These are three photo mats that fit into the wallet
And these are the backs. As you can see, Relatively Thoughtful now has stamps - whoo-hoo!!
I made some tags and journalling cards from the cut-apart sheets.
These just fit into the pockets on the front. Is that a bloody handprint that I see.....
Yup, the photo mats fit perfectly. I love these boarders from the cut -apart sheets.
After 'Elementary my dear Watson' this is the quote that I always remember from Holmes.
Here's the very dashing Sherlock Holmes.
And the equally handsome Dr Watson.
As always the collection is available in both digital and paper format.
Digital
Papers
Stamps
And you can find Paul's Facebook page and YouTube channel here.
Thanks so much for looking and have a wonderful day whatever you are doing xx











Sunday, 20 October 2024

Bad Witches Only!

Good morning and a very spooky Sunday! Aren't these the cutest  Halloween papers that you've ever seen? It's the Halloween Happiness collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

Today I'm sharing one of my favourite card styles, as designed by the wonderful Paul Ford (Papercrafting With Paul), which is the Floating Hexagon.
I love how this style really shows off the papers.
I fell in love with this one as I used to have a white can when I was little.
And what's not to love about bats?
I would love to be a bad witch, but I think I'd be more of a well-meaning but clumsy one lol.
There's so much dimension to it, yet it all folds flat into a standard sized envelope.
As always the collection comes in both digital and paper formats, and can be found here in Sally's store.
And Paul's Facebook page and YouTube links can be found here.
Have a very happy day, and thanks so much for looking xx


Sunday, 6 October 2024

Twit Twoo!!

Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I've been playing with the beautiful new Autumn Glow collection from Relatively Thoughtful

I'm a massive fan of Paul Lang-Ford (Papercrafting With Paul) and when I saw his new tutorial for the WV fold card I knew that I wanted to give it a try. I'll put links to his Facebook page and YouTube at the bottom.
I started by choosing my papers and making the panels. The card fits perfectly into a 7x5 envelope.

You can see why it's called a WV card. Though in my head it will always be a VW - you can guess what car we used to drive! 
Aren't these owls gorgeous? As with all of Sally's kits there are loads of cut apart sheets.
Are you looking at me???
Whoooo me!!

I gave the owls a coat of Gloss Mod Podge, which does exactly what it says on the tin. They are really shiny and quite sturdy now!
You wouldn't mess with this guy, would you! 

 
As always the collection is available in both digital and A4 formats.
Paul Ford YouTube WV card
Have a very happy day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking xx



Sunday, 15 September 2024

Isn't She Lovely!

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. For my second project for Relatively Thoughtful this month I've made a tagbook using the beautiful Walter Crane, In The Garden collection.

I started by cutting out lots of tag shapes from the colourful flower papers.
Then I made them into tags.
Which I joined together with ribbon between the layers to make a booklet.

Aren't these beautiful images! I backed them onto black card so that they would stand out against the tags.
Here are some close-ups.
The quotes have been cut from the Autumn Passions collection.
I'm not an expert on flowers so hopefully I've not put Autumn quotes with Spring flowers lol.
And it all folds up nicely together.
As always the collection comes in both digital and A4 formats.
There is new inspiration every day on our social pages.
I hope you like my tag book. Have a lovely day, and thanks so much for looking xx