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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...

A lady owl card to match the box

A lady owl card to match the box

What a fabulous day we had at team training today! Ok, so we did have one little hiccup. One of the team didn't make it because they thought the meeting was tomorrow - what a shame that they've missed out   As usual though, we had lots of swaps (some fabulous creative...

Casing the team – no. 11

Casing the team – no. 11

Here's my final CASE of the team swaps from our last team training (before we swap all over again tomorrow). This one is Cheryl's  pretty decoupaged flower card. I haven't changed very much at all with this one, keeping the same stamps (Everything Eleanor W124162 or...

Celebrating my Mum’s birthday

Celebrating my Mum’s birthday

Yesterday was my Mum's birthday, which was the main reason that I didn't get around to blogging  it was a busy day  It's become a tradition that I take my Mum out for the day on her birthday and this year was no exception. We started the day at my friend Jan's...

Casing the team – no. 10

Casing the team – no. 10

Back again to another CASE from my team swaps today. And this one is Jan's beautiful fabric flower card. Jan warned me that punching out the flower wasn't too easy and so I opted to die cut my Fun Flowers (121812) from the Flirtatious Fabric (122335) - very easy, lol!...

Sweet Cake Birthday card

Sweet Cake Birthday card

Today's card uses the Sweet Shop product suite from the Summer Mini Catalogue. I've loved this suite, such bright cheery colours and fun elements  Don't forget that this catty will finish in a little over a week's time, so if you want to be certain of getting any of...

Casing the team – no. 9

Casing the team – no. 9

Back to another CASE from my team swaps today. And this one is Julie's sweet bunch of flowers. I needed an anniversary card for my brother and SIL and so I decided to make Julie's card all in white. The card base used throughout was Shimmery White, to give a little...