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Month: June 2013

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Birthday cards from friends

A quick post today as I continue editing over 500 wedding photos that hubby and I took for our friends on Friday  These are the gorgeous handcrafted cards that I received for my birthday from my lovely friends. From Jan: From June: From Cheryl: From Joanne (a sneak...

Hubby’s card en francais

Hubby’s card en francais

Today I have a guest blogger - my adorable hubby! This is the lovely card that he made for my birthday yesterday. What a great split negative treatment. The card base is an A6 portrait of Basic Black. A mat of Very Vanilla was stamped with En Francais (109521) in...

Birthday Blog Candy Winner

Birthday Blog Candy Winner

Whoops! Sorry if you popped by earlier to find an odd post here. I've been working away today (I know! On my birthday! and not even my crafting work which I don't even view as work ) and I'd tried to set up part of the post ready for when I got home ... but I forgot...

A Manhattan wedding card

A Manhattan wedding card

A quick reminder first of all, that my blog candy giveaway closes at noon tomorrow - you have to be in it to win it!  What a busy few days we've had. We had our regular monthly Template & Technique class on Thursday and Saturday and sandwiched in between was our...

July Template & Technique Class

  SATURDAY 13 July 2013 1.30PM – 3.30PM In July, we’ll be combining a Double Pocket card template and the an embossed ribbon technique, to create a gift of card. The tags included in the pockets can be used as bookmarks or for extra messages. Included in the...

For the Birds New Home card

For the Birds New Home card

My good friend Jan recently moved house (in fact our next Paper Dolls team training meeting may well be at her new place, or is that palace? ). The house move had involved a lot of backward slides and heartache and I'm so very thrilled that it's all finally gone...

Parlor Prints Birthday Card

Parlor Prints Birthday Card

I'm back with another retiring stamp today and this time it's a biggie. Although these background stamps are perfect for making your own background papers they can also become the main focus of the card by just adding a sentiment and one or two embellishments. The...

July Summer Stamptacular!

July Summer Stamptacular!

Independent Stampin’ Up Demonstrators Sara Rayner, Jan Jones & Hazel Ford invite you to their: Summer Stamptacular! This time it's all about paper - but be warned, we will be cutting into it and using it, not just stroking it, lol. We can't share too many pix at...

Apothecary Accents Birthday Card

Apothecary Accents Birthday Card

We have another Paper Doll birthday today. Happy Birthday Chrissi! This was the card I made to help her celebrate her special day. The card base is an A6 portrait of So Saffron with half the front cut away. Tangerine Tango ink was wheeled across the remaining card...