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 tree image. By itself, this tree could be seen as quite sad, but I prefer to look at it as something that has weathered the storms, and still stands strong. It's forever shaped by what has happened ... VIEW POST
Nature’s wonders
One of the things I really noticed when I returned home from my vacation was how much our property had changed in the space of 3 weeks. The trees that were virtually bare are now completely covered in leaves and there's so much more wildlife around. I never tire of seeing how the landscape changes with each season, although right now a little more warmth wouldn't hurt, it is mid-June after all. When I first saw the new Rooted in Nature Stamp Set I must admit that it didn't excite me and I ... VIEW POST
Be you
Do you write lists, notes, reminders? I do. A lot. So I suppose it's inevitable that I'd need to buy lots of notebooks and pads. The one I keep in my handbag (purse) is quite plain, after all with everything else that goes in there it never stays looking nice for long, but the notebooks and pads I keep at home are an entirely different matter. When I saw the script design in the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP) Pack I knew exactly what I wanted ... 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 of the sepia leaf design from the Nature's Poem Designer Series Paper (DSP) and used a light Old Olive Stampin' Blends alcohol marker to colour in all the leaves. Then I attached the piece to a ... VIEW POST
I can’t leaf it alone
Sorry for the awful pun but I am simply in love with the new Rooted in Nature Stamp Set from the Stampin' Up! 2018/2019 Annual Catalogue. I must say right now that I didn't want to like this set, I thought that it was a little too like others that I have, most notably Lovely As A Tree, and what's with that huge slice of tree trunk? Well, while I didn't want to like the set, it was one of the ones we were given to play with at a Stampin' Up! event I attended in Connecticut last month, and I ... VIEW POST
