Just a note to say…

Just a note to say…whatever you want it to say! Who needs an excuse to send a card, heh? This one would be great just to cheer someone’s day.

I used this stamp set from Hero Arts and challenged myself to use the smallest flower stamp. I have great ideas for the two big flower stamps in this set, but hadn’t thought about what I’d do with the smaller one, so I promised I would do a card with that one first before I broke out the ‘easy’ ones.

This whole set is just made for paper piecing. You’ll be seeing a few more of this sort of card from this set! Love it!

As promised yesterday, the video is below. It’s a little longer than usual. Not sure why…perhaps I’m just on a jet-lagged go-slow following my holiday =)

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I’m back!

Well I’m now back from 3 weeks in Australia (hence the prolonged absence!), and I have already shot another video, and edited it. So all that’s left to do is the voice over and uploading it to YouTube…so the next tutorial should be live tomorrow evening all being well! I just wanted to let you know what was happening as I’ve been neglecting blog-land for a while because of being on the other side of the world. I suppose that is a good excuse though? Lol!

Here’s some pictures from my holiday for you to see, and I’ll be back tomorrow with the card & video…


Headland/coastal walk along some of Australia’s beautiful coastline.

Uluṟu from a distance in the Red Centre. So magical.

A beach. All to myself. Wow!

A gorgeous little koala at the Billabong Zoo. So cute!

We did so much on this holiday, I need another week off to recover! We climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge, swam the Great Barrier Reef, went whale watching, did Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa, then a few days in Singapore on the way home. We had an absolutely awesome time. Back to work & reality tomorrow though…

Hope you enjoyed seeing some of my holiday snaps. I’ll see you tomorrow with a new card & video! =)

Hey Dude!

I know, I know – this is slightly different to the video – but after I finished shooting, I decided I wanted to see what it would look like with the brown lettering on the sentiment, rather than the lily white letters they began as…so I used my copic markers and coloured them in dark brown and stuck them back on the card (similar to what I did in this video here). I rather prefer it this way, but it was too late to go back and reshoot the video.

I figured you’d all get the idea though so I didn’t need to reshoot =)

The ‘happy birthday’ stamped flags were inspired by Kristina Werner, who’s work I adore (similar to her card in this post)! I’ve been told I have a Kristina Wernerish style, so it’s no surprise that I just LOVE her work and that I’m constantly inspired by her creations!

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Happy Anni

This card was a commission I did for someone last month, but have only got around to posting just now!
My two best friends have just got married last weekend, and I have been super busy doing all the stationary for their wedding, which went off wonderfully (thank goodness!). [I hope to share the stationary I did for them soon. It’s super scrumptious – I only wish I knew half the techniques I used on it for back when I got married, and my stationary would have no doubt been similar…]


Back to this card – I love the American Craft Thicker stickers – they add a nice bit of bling to the overall card. The patchwork quilt heart was all hand drawn and cut out (rather laboriously) but I’m sure there is definitely a simpler way of doing this technique, I just didn’t think it through properly when I was doing it for the video, but you get the idea anyway I’m sure =)

The video is below, I hope you enjoy watching it & happy crafting!

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It’s a GIRL!

This card is for a new baby girl, and can be easily converted to an “it’s a boy” by using blue themed papers and changing the sentiment. I’ve used a set of digi stamps called "On the Line" from MyGrafico.

I’ve used the paper piecing sentiment for the whole of this card, so there was a lot of cutting out required! But it was worth it in the end, and I just LOVE the little baby-gro effect, it’s super cute =)

The sentiment does not come with the digi stamps, but I created it in no time using MS Word. The font was Helvetidoodle by Ed T, which you can download for free at DaFont.com – an absolute treasure trove of super fonts to suit all different tastes and needs.

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