When I went to senior school basic needlework and home economics classes were compulsory for the first year. The very first thing we had to sew was an apron that we would use throughout our cooking lessons. I remember mine was gingham. I also remember those first lessons in the kitchen were very basic, with instruction on which utensils were used for what purpose. You know it's funny what inspires my papercrafting projects. Like today's memory compelling me to include a wooden spoon in this ... VIEW POST
Apron of Love Revisited
My regular blog followers will know that I love to get the maximum use out of my crafting budget. So when I saw the Signs of Santa Stamp Set I immediately thought of, Mother's Day! Of course I'd need a little help from some other stamp sets, and soon I had what I needed. With Apron of Love and Letter Board Messages from the 2018/2019 Annual Catalogue, I was good to go. THE BASICS Beginning with a piece of Thick Very Vanilla Card, I cut and scored it using my Stampin' Trimmer. Then I ... VIEW POST
Creating my own flowers
For those of you who are not familiar with my papercrafting journey, you may not be aware that I've been a member of the What Will You Stamp? Challenge Design Team for almost 2 years. Each Monday we challenge ourselves and everyone else to create a project using at least one image from the featured Stampin' Up! stamp set for that week. This week the challenge is WWYS167 - Apron of Love, with lots of kitchen and barbecue related images and some great sentiments. As I sat down to create my ... VIEW POST
