Yo ho ho me hearties! Working on a pirate card has been my latest card therapy, at the end of a busy week with the boys on their first week of half term. Pirates are a favourite of my sons, with a pirate ship bath toy, pirate puppets and pirate costumes, not forgetting a huge…
Oh how lovely it feels to be at the end of the week and about to start the weekend. After spending many years working unsocial hours, I appreciate it so much. Plus my husband works a traditional working week so it’s not just me, it’s our weekend. I just love the feeling of a weekend,…
I’ve had another try with my ‘Message in a Tree’ embossing folder today. I am avoiding the brayer because I just can’t get along with it! If anyone has any tips they would be gratefully received. Whenever I try to ink with it, I get ink where I don’t want it. But yet whenever I…
‘Rain, rain go away, don’t come back another day’, as the kids and I like to sing. Cold but sunny autumn days are the obvious preferred option to keep SAD away. It’s just so dark at the moment isn’t it? We had a 12 hour power cut at the weekend and it needs to be…
Today I have a wallpaper card for you! I have used a wallpaper sample I picked up, because I thought it would look good as a background. Wallpaper is so lovely and thick that it adds a luxury feel and unusual texture to the card. This one also has a pearly sheen with metallic green…
I’ve set myself a little challenge this week – to blog a new card every day. Nearly failing at the first hurdle as it is a bit late so better be quick! I used a Crafts-Too 140x140mm embossing folder that I picked up at the Great Northern Papercrafts Extravaganza last weekend in Harrogate. I’ve been…
It’s been exactly four years today since I had the shock of my life! The labour and birth of our first child, was to me, akin to being involved in a road traffic accident. My husband described it as like the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. Overdramatic? Perhaps. But the experience certainly left me…
I had a very creative morning at home today whilst all my boys were out. My husband took a day’s annual leave to do a 20 mile training run for the first Yorkshire Marathon, his very own first marathon too. Scary proposition for both of us really, although he’s done a LOT of training, he…
