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Washed clean
Just a quick card which took longer than I thought. It's DH's best friend's anniversary on Saturday (as well as their eldest's birthday) and he's popping round later to drop off all the presents and...
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Cartoon card
I've never been very good at cartoons. DH is much better than I am, so he's been advising with this card, although I'd already done most of it before he appeared. It's Monica jumping "Hooray" from...
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Having a blue day
This has nothing to do with discovering that a local plumber has been advertising our telephone number as his fax number, and that the internet is peppered with it, and old ladies are calling me and...
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Animal antics
Simon Says Stamp's challenge for last week is Animal Antics, and I think I'm just about going to get this card squeezed in for it. I also made it for another challenge which was to use the same stamp...
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Christmas stamp? Where?
For August's card challenge at ScrapJazz, Nora has come up with a truly challenging idea, and it has taken me this long to finish it. She wants us to choose one Christmas stamp, or a set, and create 3...
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Love this sketch!
Creative Scrappers have come up with a great sketch. I just kept seeing things I wanted to do with it. See what I mean?I used Basic Grey's Life of the Party shapes which DH bought me, and the...
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Sketch #2
OK I used the Creative Scrappers sketch again. I rotated it this time, for the ScrapJazz photo inspiration challenge:I love the red and yellow with the grey and white, along with those blue photos....
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Working small
Today's offering is straight from my scrap box. These Kaisercraft scraps are so pretty. I had my usual fight getting the punched border right, but it did help that one set of 5 scallops is exactly 2"...
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Wishing my life away
No I'm not really. But on this glorious early autumn day, with the sun shining on the beech leaves which the sea wind has dried to that delicious rust already, to be thinking about Christmas seems as...
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Sweet
The current Twinchie challenge is "autumn". I used a Kanban stamp coloured with Copics and some punched leaves out of Basic Grey scraps, with the obligatory Stickles in copper.While the Stickles was...
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Replacement Twinchie
I entered my pretty circular Twinchie into the "autumn" challenge last week and was told that they had to be square. Oops. Well, there was an opportunity to make another one!I made this a couple of...
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Foliage
Less Is More this week has a one layer card challenge with the theme of foliage. Well you can't get much less than this, and that is just as well as having thought about it all week, I only just...
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Frugal scrapping?
I have this rule, which I almost always follow, of not cutting into a fresh piece of 12"x12" patterned paper to make a card. I only use scraps wherever possible, or 6"x6" paper. As I had an idea for a...
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Was that thunder?
What a delightful day it is today! Grey skies, dismal heaving sea with white-tipped swells, and rain coming in parts of the greenhouse which don't normally leak. Lovely.The new challenge on Show us...
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I have never before used my blog to call out companies for shocking service. But this is so outrageous that it made me laugh. Does anyone else remember the That's Life saga with the "but I've got no...
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Every cloud has a silver lining
The weather has been 'orrible this week; miserable, dark and soaking wet through the whole of the South West in particular. Poor Clovelly suffered flash floods with a red torrent rocketing down the...
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A hodgepog for BIL
It's our brother-in-law's birthday tomorrow and I was stumped for card ideas. He likes hedgehogs, Bristol City and tropical fish. And posh watches, but I couldn't find a decent Tag Heuer die...
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Chickens!
I've recently taken over making the cards for the choir, and B's birthday is on Sunday. She and her husband keep chickens. We give them our used egg-boxes, and every so often she returns one with...
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Home, sweet home
Just as I took over the job of making the choir cards from dear Pat, who has done it for the last 11 years, we discovered that we're losing our Margaret, a valuable soprano. It's just not good enough....
View ArticleChristmas is over
Christmas is over, Mum and my brother have gone home, and that means that our race to get the house respectable in time has been won. My Mum and my brother arrived on Christmas Eve to stay until...
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