After finishing the back, it was time to move on to the main event: the rocket. Not 3D-printed but made out of air-dry clay instead. My other half hadn't had any joy trying to find a design he liked so I found a likely illustration, pointed at it and asked "something like that?". He said… Continue reading Rocket monolith: the front
My other half asked me to make him something with a rocket. The idea was that he would find a rocket design he liked and 3D print it and then I could paint it and create a background for it. I decided to use one of the MDF monoliths in my stash; that way he… Continue reading Rocket monolith: the back
I nearly didn't make this card. I'm really not a fan of gnomes — I've only ever made one other card with gnomes on it and that was done with a particular person in mind — and I didn't want to make a card I am unlikely to use (my card stash is big enough… Continue reading Gnome wedding
Not everything has to be a card. I coloured this over a year ago, laminated it and stuck it up on the wall on the landing just above where things that need to be put in the loft tend to accumulate. Completely missing out the "take photos for the blog" stage. In an attempt to… Continue reading Loft notice
Time taken to finish this jar? Months. Or about five days. Or a few hours. Depending on whether you’re counting time spent working on it, the number of days it was worked on, or the time elapsed between starting it and finishing it. I think this project fits quite nicely with Country View Craft's April… Continue reading Buttons and flowers jar
Because I spent March mostly working on mixed media pieces, I didn't get around to making this until almost the last day of the month. And then my craft desk was still an absolute mess so I couldn't take the photos to go with the blog post and I ended up putting a quick photo… Continue reading Cat on a bookshelf
I am definitely enjoying playing around with mixed media projects — I've spent most of my crafty time in March getting my hands covered in glue and paint (apart from those odd occasions when I actually remembered to put on disposable gloves). I am very much still at the stage of experimenting and am happy… Continue reading Spring flowers panel
I don't make many Easter cards — just one for my mum and one for my other half's sister because she loves bunnies. For my mum, I decided to go down the floral route. Which means more Power Poppy flowers. And this time I treated myself to a new digi; Heart Abloom is a heart-shaped… Continue reading Easter flowers
The hungry hamster is another of those printed-out digis that have been in my to-colour pile for quite some time. When I'd finished colouring him, I fussy cut out his sunflower seeds to take the photo for Instagram, but then I started to worry that he would get separated from his seeds so, rather than… Continue reading Hungry hamster
And then you realise that there's a really good reason why the other Mother's Day card didn't get posted to the blog. Although you wrote up a load of other cards and scheduled them, you didn't actually get around to writing the post to go with this card. So, a couple of days late, here… Continue reading Flowers and mice
There's nothing like a young girl's birthday to give you an excuse to break out the cute images and pink Copics 🙂 Okay, so a pink dragon might be a bit cliched, but it was fun to colour! I decided to combine making this birthday card with the February IG Crafty Crew hard challenge, which… Continue reading Cupcake dragon
My go-to provider of floral digi stamps is Power Poppy, who make the most gorgeous floral arrangements, but every now and again it's nice to colour something simpler that I can add a few tweaks to. Unfortunately, I discovered Wee Stamps just after she (hopefully temporarily) closed her digi stamp store, so I have to… Continue reading Mother’s Day flowers
This was another of those digi stamps that had been sat on the side for ages, waiting to be coloured. I did need a wedding card, but it would have been tricky to turn these bunnies into something in keeping with that particular Harry Potter themed event. So I decided that it should be a… Continue reading Wedding bunnies
I finally came up with a design for the wedding card! I had been pondering ideas ever since we were told that my other half’s niece was having a Harry Potter themed wedding. Should I go the mixed media route and create a bouquet around a wand, should I do a card with patronuses, or… Continue reading Harry Potter wedding
A new member of the extended family was imminent, so a card had to be made. And I thought this cute little elephant floating away with his balloons would do the job nicely. A quick check back on Facebook confirmed my vague memory that it was going to be a boy, so I took out… Continue reading Elephant and balloons
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