Hello, Crafters. Yesterday, here in the UK we enjoyed the hottest March day for 58 years! At lunch time hubby and I spent an hour in the garden repotting and planting the new plants we bought on Sunday when we visited our local garden centre. When we first moved into our house on 24th January 2004, hubby said he wanted…
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Hello, Crafters. Yesterday I received my copy of the new Annual Catalogue and spent most of the day marking my stamp sets, punches and dies that will be retiring. I also had a look at other products that would be retiring so I can use them before it’s too late. I came across some remaining pieces I have from the…
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Happy Sunday, Crafters. Today’s video shows how to make a card I’m calling a Bridge Span Card. I was inspired by a card I saw which had been made by a lady called Pat Tecza and it was the first time I’ve seen this design. It may well be Pat’s own design. Her blog is ramblinstamper.blogspot.com. It’s very easy to…
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Hello, Crafters. Every time I have used the Inspiring Iris Stamp Set I’ve been pleased with the result except when I used it as two-step stamping. Like today’s card, it was a relaxing pleasure to colour it using Stampin’ Blends as follows: flower heads Dark Purple Posy; flower centres Dark Daffodil Delight; stems Dark Granny Apple Green. As usual I…
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Hello, Crafters. Today’s card uses one of the retiring colours – Terracotta Tile – and also a retiring stamp set – Field Journal. The only idea I had was to have a decorative strip down the right hand side, an image on the panel and a sentiment! Simple, eh? No, not at all! As I was creating my card one…
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