When you've set yourself a personal challenge to design and make 24 different cards in 24 hours, you'll do anything. For the fourth card in the series I fell back on a technique I tried some months ago. This time I decided to create hand coloured Designer Series Paper in autumn colours. HAND ... VIEW POST
Lone Pine Tree – Thinking of You
Just recently a couple of friends have both lost close members of their family. Sympathy card are hard to make but I know first hand how comforting it is to receive them. When preparing to make today's card I automatically reached for the Rooted in Nature Stamp Set and specifically the lone pine ... VIEW POST
Scrappy days
Every now and then I like to have what I call a 'scrappy day'. On a scrappy day I make a conscious effort to use scraps on my projects. This might be card from my card scraps tin, short pieces of ribbon or trim from my ribbon box. Sometimes it's pieces that have been stamped, punched or die-cut ... VIEW POST
One year on
It hardly seems possible but it was exactly one year ago today that we heard the devastating news that our son had died aged just 31. We're planning to spend the day quietly as a family and so I'm writing this post ahead of time. Today I have a 'thinking of you' card. I began with a piece ... VIEW POST