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7 days to Valentine’s – day 1

7 days to Valentine’s – day 1

Over the next 7 days I'm going to be sharing a valentine project each day. Now don't worry if you don't celebrate valentine's day for any reason, there'll still be something for you. All the designs can work equally well for a wedding, engagement or anniversary,...

Spiced Paisley Blossom box

Spiced Paisley Blossom box

Here's another of the projects that we made at the Open House this weekend. And we have a winner of the door prize - drum roll please  Alison ... has won the box of thank you cards. I'll get them to you when we meet at the end of the week Alison. Recipe Stamp set:...

Fresh Vintage birthday card

Fresh Vintage birthday card

We had a group of experience crafters at our Open House yesterday and so we stepped up the difficulty of our first project. This is the birthday card we made using one of the free Sale-a-bration stamp sets. Recipe Stamp set: Fresh Vintage (W125115 or C125117),...

Array of sunshine and an invite to my Open House

Array of sunshine and an invite to my Open House

Today's card uses one of the lovely special sets, that offer such brilliant value for money to our hostesses. When you host a qualifying workshop you get to spend your hostess pounds anywhere in the main or mini catalogue, however our exclusive hostess sets are...

Guest designer with a bright, zingy gift bag

Guest designer with a bright, zingy gift bag

My guest designer this week (yes, it seems to be becoming a regular feature ) is Mari and she's made a bright, zingy gift bag, guaranteed to chase away the winter blues. If you're a regular reader then you may know that I made Mari this gift bag at Christmas: Well she...

Elegant again … for an engagement

Elegant again … for an engagement

One of my friends at work has recently got engaged and so of course I needed to make a card to help him and his lovely fiancee to celebrate. I love a Vanilla and Gold combo for anything engagement, wedding or anniversary. It also gave me the chance to use some of the...

January thank you cards

January thank you cards

Time again to share the batch thank you cards that I've been making for my customers this month. Unfortunately the weather has been so bad recently that I didn't get a pic of all of them lined up before I needed to pass them on. I did make a couple of spares though so...

Cupcake class now available online

Cupcake class now available online

If you liked the look of these projects but were unable to attend our recent in-person Cupcake Class, you now have a chance to purchase the online version of the class. You get unlimited access to a password protected website that contains: - full step by step photos...