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Men’s cards, Halloween and Easy Christmas

Men’s cards, Halloween and Easy Christmas

As promised, I'm back already with a small selection of samples made using the new Autumn Winter goodies - to tempt you  First up are these cute little owl cards that I made for our swap at team training last week. I think these work well as men's cards, although it's...

Hello to the new, goodbye to the old

As we say hello to so many lush new products (both this month in the Autumn Winter catalogue and next month with the exciting new main catalogue), so we have to make some room for them, by saying goodbye to some old favourites - our retiring stamps and accessories ...

Autumn/Winter Catalogue now available

Autumn/Winter Catalogue now available

Woohoo! The Autumn Winter catalogue makes its debut today and believe me, this one's no mini! We've got 40 A4 pages of gorgeous products for all your Autumn, Winter and holiday crafting projects and you can order them from today by sending me an email or giving me a...

A pleated ribbon card

A pleated ribbon card

Well today is the last day of the Summer Mini catalogue. Guess that means it's the end of Summer too, perhaps we'll have some nicer weather now  The end of the Summer catalogue means the end of these pleated ribbons. They are so lush, I've used them on so many...

Last chance

Last chance

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the last day for ... ... ordering any products from the Summer Mini catalogue So if you haven't got your Simply Scored Scoring Tool, Framelits or Edgelits yet, not to mention the stamps, papers and embellishments, then at best,...

August team training – swaps part 2

August team training – swaps part 2

Back again with more swaps from our Team Training on Saturday. If you missed them, then Part 1 of the swaps are here. Again, they’re in no particular order, except that we finish with a couple of sneak peeks! Woohoo! From Andrea, using Vintage Vogue: From Mari, using...

A vanilla scented cupcake

A vanilla scented cupcake

Yesterday evening went to plan and I got chance for a little relaxing crafting time - just what I needed after such a busy week and weekend! And I wish we had smell-o-vision blogs heehee, because this vanilla cupcake really does smell of vanilla, thanks to the...

August team training – swaps part 1

August team training – swaps part 1

I've mentioned Saturday's team training a few times now and finally I've had a chance to catch my breath and photograph everyone's swaps, so here I am with the first batch. As usual, they’re in no particular order. From Cheryl, using Nature Walk and Beautiful Wings...

Sharing August thank you cards

Sharing August thank you cards

Oh dear, well today was something of a washout. A very big thank you to those of you that attended our Open Gardens event to raise funds for but we had a much lower turn out than previous years. I can't really blame folks, it rained pretty hard, I was glad to be...