Saturday - welcome to the bank holiday weekend - ENJOY!

Morning readers,

It's a Bank Holiday weekend so it should come as no surprise that ... it's RAINING! Gardens desperate for some quality rain but ... honestly ... it's a holiday weekend!!!

I've a make to share with you today ... another anniversary card for a commission. It was Quick, Clean And Simple AND used a couple of my growing (again) collection of snippets!

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and red, for my card front, insert and matting layer
• Snippets of card in white and red, for my image panel
• Carabelle hearts image (from SA60156 - from 2017) stamped on to my snippet using Versafine Clair strawberry ink
• MFT sentiment (from CS.794 - from 2023) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Stardust stickles to trace around the three hearts and to add some celebratory sparkle!

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Addicted to CAS - challenge No. 315 - ANNIVERSARY
2. Little Red Wagon - challenge No. 873 - ANYTHING TIME THREE
3. HQCL - challenge No. 87 - ANYTHING WITH A HEART GOES + (optional) RED and/or YELLOW HEARTS
4. Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge - ANYTHING GOES
5. Retro Rubber - challenge No. 279 - ANYTHING GOES (must use images older than one year)

TGIF peeps, another weekend looms large!

Morning readers,

I've a make to share with you today ... I sometimes forget how therapeutic I find blending inks, this just reminded me. It was, however, not without issues as I dropped my vintage photo ink pad as I was packing up my ink pads. We crafters hate waste and I did NOT want to start the project again so ... I whipped out my mini ink pad (in ground espresso) and added a few more "corners" to make it look deliberate, what do you think? Did it work?

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in kraft and white
• Distress Inks used: Antique linen, Pumice stone, Tea dye, Vintage photo, Fired brick and Ground espresso - blended with a Tim Holtz mini blender and domed pad
• Once dry, I stamped the Craft Stamper free sentiment (remember those? - I haven't read Craft Stamper in over 5 years so this has to be older than that!) "Tempus fugit" and the Art Impressions clock face (J-2611 - reckon this is 15+ years old) using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Finally, a quick spritz of Crafters Companion Spray and Shine, to protect those water based inks

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Tagalong and ATC's - August challenge - FASHION or ANYTHING GOES
2. The Little Things - challenge No. 07 - MERMAIDS or ANYTHING GOES
3. Retro Rubber - challenge No. 279 - ANYTHING GOES (using older stash) 
4. Crafting Happiness - August challenge - BACK TO SCHOOL or ANYTHING GOES
5. Everybody Art - challenge No. 604 - ANYTHING GOES

Wednesday - how's your week coming along?

Morning readers,

I've a make to share with you today ... since yesterday was designated "Rudolph Day" then it was obviously going to be a Christmas card!

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and red, for my card front, insert and matting layer
• Gerda Steiner image, musical notes and sentiment (from "Carol Puppies" - GSD656 - May 2026 - NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and strawberry inks - sadly, as you can see, my Gerda Steiner order was damaged in transit ... some of the images in this set and the others in my order were also damaged. Gerda Steiner dealt with the issue superbly and promptly.
• Elsewhere on the card I used the MFT sentiment "Merry Christmas" from CS.723 "Holiday Cheers" and stamped using the strawberry ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour my image
• Anita's dimensional gloss on the puppy eyes
• Stardust stickles on the fur of the hat and on the "grounding"

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Rudolph Day - August challenge - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
2. NBUS - challenge No. 89 - USE NBUS
3. Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - challenge No. 277 - "A" is for ANIMALS
4. Holly & Ivy - challenge No. 210 - ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
5. Creative Aunts - challenge No. 116 - ANYTHING GOES

I was the lucky winner over at Dream Valley this week, for their challenge #366 - thanks so much

Monday and another week begins ...

Morning readers,

Hope you all had a good weekend and managed to keep yourselves "gainfully" employed - whether that was actually work!, or perhaps crafting or socialising with friends/family.

I've a make to share with you today ... it's an anniversary card - I figured I hadn't used this wood mounted image in YEARS and it was high time it saw ink again. I do think I may have had it a little too long though, as it didn't really want to stamp as crisply as I remember. Anyone got any suggestions of how I might recondition an elderly rubber stamp?

The front/back of my envelope, insert and reverse of my card,
along with the snippet used for my sentiment

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and pearl cream
• PSX Petaluma lily botanicals image (K-1276) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour my image
• CRASPIRE sentiment (WHO-167-57-0256) stamped using Versafine Clair  nocturne ink
• Once my sentiment was fully dry, I fussy cut it, leaving a narrow white border and adhered it to my card front
• Elsewhere on the card I stamped the TCP sentiment (from S.5845.CL) using Versafine Clair morning mist ink
• Stardust stickles added, to give some celebratory sparkle

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. We Love Stamping - August challenge - SUMMER BLOOMS
2. Kleuren met Potloden - August challenge - ANYTHING GOES
3. Neglected Stuff Challenge - August challenge - ANYTHING GOES (using neglected stuff)
4. Polkadoodles - challenge No. 8 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2634 - ANYTHING GOES

Saturday, it's the weekend!!!

Morning readers,

I've a make to share with you today ... I've been asked to make a few anniversary cards recently, plus, I always need them myself! Twice this past week I have set out to make an anniversary card ... only to have them turn out to be BIRTHDAY cards. You will be pleased to hear that I managed to control the urge to make a birthday card and to make the anniversary card below. One down, two to go! This one turned out to be Quick, Clean And Simple - nothing to distract from the message sentiment!

 

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and red, for my card front, insert and matting layer
• TCP sentiment (from S.5845.CL) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Honey-Bee Stamps sentiment (from HBST-218 "Heartfelt") stamped using Versafine Clair charming pink and strawberry inks
• Stardust stickles used to trace the lines of the hearts and give some well celebratory sparkle!

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Papercraft Challenges - challenge No. 133 - BACK TO BASICS (Keep it simple)
2. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - challenge No. 2633 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Dream Valley - challenge No. 366 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Stamps+Fun=Creativity - challenge No. 499 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 834 - CAS (Clean And Simple)

TGIF peeps, got plans for the weekend?

Morning readers,

I've a make to share with you today ... Quick, Clean, Simple and masculine! Always handy, I find, especially if you happen to know a globetrotting male motorcyclist!!! I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out too

And a better view of the stickles!

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and pearl grey, for my card front, insert and matting layer
• Altenew image and sentiment (both from ALT303 - 2019) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and morning mist inks
• Inkadinkado motorcycle image (96346) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Stardust stickles to add some celebratory sparkle!

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Seize the Birthday - challenge No. 332 - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) FUNNY / PUNNY
2. Stamps + Fun = Creativity - challenge No. 499 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Krafty Chicks - challenge No. 834 - CAS (Clean And Simple)
4. Papercraft Challenges - challenge No. 133 - BACK TO BASICS (Keep it simple)
5. Try It On Tuesday - 18th Aug challenge - INSPIRED BY A SONG - in this case "Motorbiking" by Chris Spedding

Wednesday .... have a good one!

Morning readers,

I've a make to share with you today ... this make was SUPPOSED to be an anniversary card but ... as you can plainly see, it evolved in to a birthday card somewhere along the way!! Don't care, I still like it BUT ... I do still have three anniversary cards to make, along with some ATC's so - my mojo had better start behaving!

Materials used:

• White, 250gsm, C6 card and envelope
• Card in white and yellow, for my card front, insert and matting
• Using low tack tape I masked off a section for inking
• Using a makeup brush and Versafine Clair cheerful ink I applied a layer of colour on my masked panel
• Alex Syberia foliage images (from "Create your own happy" - August 2026 it was an NBUS prize and also NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• HLS sentiment (from "Butterfly birthday") stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne ink
• Stardust stickles used to trace the "veins" and stems of the foliage and give it a bit of sparkle

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. NBUS - challenge No. 89 - USE NBUS
2. Seize the Birthday - challenge No. 332 - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) FUNNY / PUNNY
3. Ally's Angels - challenge No. 109 - ANYTHING GOES
4. Creative Crafters - challenge No. 103 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Simply Clean And Simple - August challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) NATURE