About Me

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I'm a retired primary school teacher, who started paper crafting in 2008, when I had a fancy to make my own Christmas cards. Since then, I have tried all sorts of techniques and styles - and I kind of like them all. I have been lucky enough to be on blog teams and large design teams and to do a bit of freelance demonstrating - and I love the challenge of working with different products. My crafting style is very varied - from junk journaling and art journaling, bookbinding and journal making, to quilting and patchwork - and of course I still make cards. This variety keeps me interested - and my crafty stash growing!! I'm always seeking inspiration for new projects.

Saturday, 13 February 2021

Birthday wishes

I made this card for a friend of mine. It uses an old Create and Craft Topper and patterned card. I love the sage green colours of the card, and it makes me feel like (hopefully) Spring and Summer are not too far away. 


The gold card is from Crafter's Companion Precious Metals Luxury Card pack, and I used a few gold coloured flat back pearls with ribbon to finish it all off.

Happy crafting,
Cxxx

Monday, 8 February 2021

Football!

 Yes! Another football card. This one is Hunkydory - and I think it's a Made for Men one, but can't be sure. The grey background card is Manly Moments card block, and the blue dotty card is from my local market.


The little dots are from a really old embellishment sheet bought from The Range. 

Happy crafting,

Cxxx


Tuesday, 26 January 2021

You know the drill!!

This one was for my brother-in-law - a carpenter/joiner by trade! Love the colours of the topper. 


I used Hunkydory's Pick & Mix -You're Tool-rific, with some gold mirror card and yellow and brown Core'dinations card. The letters were cut with Crafter's Companion Diamond Block Alpha.

Unfortunately the Core'dinations came away from the mirror card in the post - am hoping it was just because I didn't use enough!

Happy crafting,
Cxxx


Friday, 22 January 2021

The First Post....

 ... of the New Year! Bit late but better late than never. So, have already had family birthdays this month, and here's the first of them.

This one was for my Mother-In-Law, made using Hunkydory Wonderful Women - A House For Flowers, and card from their Floral Delights card block.

A lovely pretty card to start the year!

Happy crafting,
Cxxxx 


Wednesday, 30 December 2020

More Heavenly Hummingbirds

This one was for my sister - and another one made with the Heavenly Hummingbirds from Hunkydory's In Full Plume collection.

Just a little bit of Core'dinations and silver mirror cards was all that was needed for this one. Along with stonking big bow!!

Happy crafting, and may I wish you all a much better 2021 - we all deserve it!
Cxxx

Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Mum's Birthday

For my Mum's birthday, I used this topper from a very old collection I think I bought from Create and Craft. 

It's a very pretty topper, with equally gorgeous cardstock. If memory serves me right, the old Kanban were the manufacturers of this.

I added a bit of purple and blue Core'dinations card, along with some silver mirror card, all finished off with a bow and some flat-backed pearls.

Happy crafting,
Cxxxx

Sunday, 27 December 2020

Heavenly Hummingbirds

This card was for my niece, using Hunkydory's In Full Plume "Heavenly Hummingbirds".


The co-ordinating patterned card is from the set, and I used some silver mirror card, and teal card from Papermill. The letters are cut with the alphabet set from Crafter's Companion Kinetic Card collection.

Happy crafting,

Cxxxx