I love the contrast of white on plain kraft card so I randomly stamped lots of small snowflakes onto kraft cards. I then swiped old book pages with TH Picket Fence distress paint to dull down the yellow colour of the old pages. I then cut out snowmen from the whitened pages & stuck them […]

Just booked for this fabby extra Christmas craft fair. Crafts, carols & cakes!

A commission for a 40th birthday card for a lady who ‘likes retro, Cath Kidson, & dreams of owning a VW camper van’. This ‘Britannia die’ looked a bit fiddly with all the separate pieces to cut out but it wasn’t as tricky as it looked, & went together quite well.

I was asked to make a 21st Birthday card for a colleague’s son, who is into video games. The old Quickutz ‘controller’ die worked very well with the new Quickutz ‘Retro TV’ die to make a fun card.

As a lover of all things quirky & retro, I am always on the look out for unusual items to incorporate into my cards. I spotted Christmas trees made out of dymo tape on Pinterest & decided to put my own twist on them. It was a bit of a struggle to track down green […]

Looking forward to it!

A lot of people worry about reaching milestone Birthdays as they sound so old. When I was a teenager I considered people in their 30’s to be ‘proper, grown-up adults’, those in their 40’s & 50’s ‘middle aged’ &  60’s & over, ‘old-age pensioners’, & ‘well past it’. Now, having passed a few of these […]

I had bought a new tunic top for a retirement party but the neckline was a bit low for my liking. It needed a nice necklace to set it off. The top was mainly black with shades of brown, so a necklace in these colours would be perfect. I raided my plastics collection to see […]

The theme for this months challenge was the colour blue & an umbrella. I originally wanted to use my Tim Holtz Umbrella Man, but as I am doing ATC-sized pictures the die-cut was too big. The stamp just fitted but there would have been no room for any words. Instead I opted for the Spellbinders […]

I was asked to make a 50th birthday card for a secretary who likes shopping. I have made a few cards for secretaries using the Tim Holtz alterations typewriter die, which I love. I recently bought this new, smaller typewriter die from In’spire by Spellbinders, & couldn’t wait to try it out. I also just […]