Hi

One of my New Years resolutions for 2018 was be be more organised with my crafts and photos... now that should be easy.... shouldn't it?

My craft room cupboard is full to overflowing and even under the bed is totally full of boxes full of paper and card scraps, bits of material and odd embellishments. I think its going to take some time to get through it all.

I have lots of hobbies and my other passion is photography and with 35,000 plus photos I think I have my work cut out.
I came across a folder with some cards that I made in 2010 and thought I would share a few with you.

Its great to reminisce and they have given me inspiration to use up some of this paper scraps and bits of ribbon and embellishments I have. Watch this space.....

Hi Crafters, what a glorious Sunday it is here in Porto, the sun is shinning, the skies are blue and its pleasantly warm which is more than I can say for the North East of England where I come from......brrrrrr comes to mind.

I have a box or two full of bits of card, designer paper and mulberry paper so I decided to try and use some of it up making Christmas cards. This Santa card is what I came up with using the bits in the box.  Hope you like it.

Products Used:

White Cardstock 1 x Large Scalloped Circle

White Cardstock 1 x Medium Scalloped Circle

Pink Cardstock 1 x Small Circle

Pink Cardstock 1 x Medium Oval

White Cardstock 2 x Very Small Hole Punched Circles

White Cardstock 2 x Leaves

Red Cardstock 1 x Rectangle piece cut into a triangle and folded

White Cardstock 5 x Diecut Snowflakes

White DL Card base x 1

Red and White Cardstock for the centre panel

Designer Paper for the centre panel

Stampin Up Ink in Pink

Hello friends, welcome to my very first post.

After 2 days of rain showers here in Porto, the sun has come out and its inspired me to finally start my blog about my crafting journey.

I love all things to do with crafting and I often get waylaid when I start a project as my imagination starts to run riot.  This time of year though is one of my favourites, as it means I can put my crafty ideas into making cards and gifts for my family, friends and customers, using lots of bright and sparkly things.

Here are a couple of the shoppers notepads I have been making, which are really quite easy to make. All it needs is a little bit of inspiration and imagination to create a lovely gift.

Products used:

Shopper notepad

Ribbon

Punch Flowers

Bird Stamp

Artoz Gemstone

Stampin Up - Designer Series Paper, Stamp 'You make me smile', Cardstock