I saw a post from Create a Smile Stamps a few months back using ink on a stamp block to create backgrounds. I felt inspired from this post and adapted it to use my favourite new watercolour paints and my whale stamp from Lawn Fawn Critters in the Sea set. To do this I stamped… Continue reading Have a whale of a time!
As you will probably have realised, I seem to make a lot of baby gifts. I did a whole London/UK themed set for a little man in Canada. I bought the onesies from Asda, jazzed them up using HTV from Crafty Cutter and my Cricut. The designed came from SVG files I bought on Etsy.… Continue reading Embellished baby onesies
Combining in another hobby of mine, photography, I try and use pictures from time to time to create some birthday cards. This pictures is from northern Germany, I printed it out and measured it to make it the size of a 6x4 card but allowing space between each piece, and if I remember correctly, each… Continue reading Photography birthday card
Football birthday cake Boys...birthday...football...cake. Pretty much everything a little boy wants! I’ve made this design cake on more than one occasion and it is incredibly simple to make. Each time, I think the sponge and buttercream have been different flavours, but that goes to show anything will work. Cake was baked in two square tins… Continue reading Football birthday cake
My most popular Christmas present I made in 2019 (and I seemed to make a lot of these) are bowl cozies. You no longer need to burn your hands getting hot bowls out of the microwave! You will need 100% cotton to make these safe for use in the microwave. Cut the outside and inside… Continue reading Bowl cozy
Although not a wine drinker myself, I can see how easy it is for people to mix up their glasses. As both my sister and sister-in-law are partial to some wine, I decided to make them some markers should they have friends round they know what glass belongs to who. These aren’t hard to make,… Continue reading Wine glass markers
Modern calligraphy sweet sixteen birthday card In the autumn, I did two calligraphy courses through The Makery - one modern brush script and one traditional. I really enjoy both of them, although, I feel the traditional one is probably more me as has more rules and straighter lines! I did leave both of them feeling… Continue reading Sweet Sixteen birthday card
Time to start thinking about Christmas cards and gift tags, and if you're like me, I'm nearly done making these for 2019. But those will be revealed at a later date once they have been delivered. I loved my Season's Tweetings cards and used Lawn Fawn stamps and matching dies for these. I stamped out… Continue reading Season’s Tweetings
So a half seasonal cake today - most people would be expecting a Halloween idea from me...but Halloween is not for me! So have gone with an autumnal woodland animal cake. I used a standard vanilla cake and buttercream as this was going to be donated as a charity auction prize, so when in doubt… Continue reading Autumn woodland animal cake
Scrapbooking… one of those things that I always put on the back burner. Why? Because it is for me! I really enjoy scrapbooking, in particular my holidays, and I love looking at all of my holiday photos time and time again (and if you’re not aware I love taking photos as well). But I still… Continue reading Florida scrapbook front page
