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Orange poppy

February 12, 2021February 7, 2021 Crafty Rat

This is the first card I've made this year. I should have done another early in January but I had neither the energy nor the inspiration — I shall have to make her a random "just because" card at some point to make up for missing her birthday. I still have quite a stack of… Continue reading Orange poppy

Tagged birthday card, colouring, Copic, flowers, Power Poppy1 Comment
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Cherry blossom

September 28, 2020September 26, 2020 Crafty Rat

I really ought to colour something other than Power Poppy images but they're just so pretty and perfect for feminine cards. Though, to be fair, I have coloured up a couple of other digis recently, they just haven't made it onto cards yet. This digi stamp has a single branch of blossoming cherry so I… Continue reading Cherry blossom

Tagged birthday card, Copic, flowers, Power Poppy2 Comments
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Bunny in the woods

September 14, 2020September 10, 2020 Crafty Rat

This is another "from the stash" card. My brain is still not in card-designing mode at all, which is a bit worrying as I really should be thinking about starting on Christmas cards soon. The bunny and the toadstools are two Some Odd Girl digistamps that I combined on my Mac and coloured during one… Continue reading Bunny in the woods

Tagged Art-Classes, birthday card, bunny, Copic, Some Odd Girl3 Comments
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Butterflies and flowers – update

September 7, 2020September 2, 2020 Crafty Rat

I posted this card back at the end of July before I had decided what to do with it. I thought it might get used for my other half's mum's birthday, but I wanted to leave my options open. In the end that's what I decided to do, though it was going to need a… Continue reading Butterflies and flowers – update

Tagged birthday card, butterfly, Copic, flowers, Power Poppy2 Comments
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Junkyard robot

August 31, 2020August 15, 2020 Crafty Rat

According to my spreadsheet — yes, I keep a spreadsheet listing all the cards I make and who they get given to, how else am I supposed to keep track? — according to my spreadsheet, this is handmade card number 600 🎉 I have been doing this since 2014 so that's averaging around two a… Continue reading Junkyard robot

Tagged birthday card, Copic, Opal Manor, robot1 Comment
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80th birthday

August 3, 2020August 1, 2020 Crafty Rat

When it comes to greetings cards this year, I have really only been making the ones that I absolutely have to. My energy levels weren't that great at the start of the year and, let's face it, no-one's energy levels have exactly been boosted by subsequent world events. So, I was originally thinking about skipping… Continue reading 80th birthday

Tagged 80th, birthday card, patterned paper4 Comments
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Flowers in a crackle vase

July 6, 2020July 3, 2020 Crafty Rat

I love how this card turned out because, for once, it actually turned out just the way I wanted it to. The thing that took the longest was finding the right flower stamp to fit the design I had in mind and then flipping the design because my original sketch had the flower curving the… Continue reading Flowers in a crackle vase

Tagged birthday card, Clearly Besotted, flowers, Inktense4 Comments
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Vintage mouse on leaves

November 4, 2019October 30, 2019 Crafty Rat

By the time we got to the middle of October, I was starting to worry that I was running out of time to come up with an idea for my mum's birthday card. I've used all my blackberry images and didn't want to repeat myself unless I absolutely had to — the same goes for… Continue reading Vintage mouse on leaves

Tagged birthday card, colouring, Copic, mouse, Power Poppy3 Comments
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Twist-and-pop bots

July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 Crafty Rat

All the time I was making the art cards for the Daily Marker colouring challenge, there was a nagging voice in the back of my head reminding me that it would be my other half's birthday only two days after the challenge ended and I really ought to be spending a bit of time making… Continue reading Twist-and-pop bots

Tagged birthday card, colouring, Copic, MST3K, robot, twist and pop3 Comments
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Purple monster

May 6, 2019April 10, 2019 Crafty Rat

Another masculine card to make. They're hard enough to come up with ideas for when you know the person well, but when it's a nephew who you haven't seen in ages and who is somehow now 22 years old, well... If it was a niece, I'd do flowers, but my fallback for men seems to… Continue reading Purple monster

Tagged birthday card, colouring, Copic, monster, Useless Trinkets2 Comments

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Hi, my name is Sarah and I live in London, UK with my very techy other half and our pet rats. When I’m not looking after them, my days are spent getting crafty and trying to remember to blog about it.

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