Hello, I hope you are well. These are the colours for the latest challenge over at http://www.creativecolourchallenges.blogspot.com Please CLICK HERE to find out more about this challenge and to join in the fun with this week’s 3 colours. I’ve been picking out some well loved but recently neglected stamp sets from my shelves this week […]
Hand-Drawn Dots & Dainty Delight thank you card
Hello everyone! I realised that I hadn’t used many of the stamps from the gorgeous Dainty Delight stamps and dies bundle. I’ve neglected some of the flowers from the set even although I’ve used the largest one rather a lot. So today’s card features one of the smaller but equally beautiful stamps from the set… […]
How to make a small gift bag with 6″ x 6″ Country Gingham designer series paper
Hello, I hope you are well. When I shared a video of the swaps I received at the recent Pootlers team retreat someone asked me for a tutorial for a tiny little gift bag created by the lovely Emma Chellingworth. I’m always up for this kind of challenge! Emma’s Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/emmascardsandpapercrafts and her […]
InspireInk Blog Hop – colour challenge featuring Regency Park
Hello everyone. Today I’m taking part in the InspireInk blog hop for March 2023, with my talented Pootlers team mates. This month our theme is this colour challenge… Petal Pink Sweet Sorbet Shaded Spruce Balmy Blue Mango Melody Night of Navy Wow! That’s a lot of colour, isn’t it? We didn’t have to use all […]
#simplestamping with Forever Fern
Hello, I hope you are well. Spring seems to be taking its sweet time in giving us lots of lovely greenery so I’ve stamped my own on today’s card… I reached for an old favourite stamp set called Forever Fern along with a variety of green ink pads you see in the photo above. I’ve […]
The Project Share Project
Hello! It’s Thursday so it’s time for me to share some more amazing projects created by my Project Share friends! We are (from left to right): Gez of http://www.Nigezza.co.uk, Verity of http://www.inkybutterfly.com, me and then Jill of http://www.paperdaisycrafting.co.uk First up this week is Gez of http://www.Nigezza.co.uk with this absolutely stunning gift box… Gez had an […]
How to make an origami gift box for mini Easter eggs
Hello, I hope you are well. At our recent Pootles team retreat I received a little origami box filled with fruity chews from the lovely Linda Worth of http://www.lilocrafts.co.uk Unfortunately she didn’t have a tutorial for it on her blog but I unfolded it and eventually worked out how to make it. I now have […]
Creative Colour Challenges 80 with Nature’s Prints bundle
Hello, I hope you are well. These are the colours for the latest challenge over at http://www.creativecolourchallenges.blogspot.com Please CLICK HERE to find out more about this challenge and to join in the fun with this week’s 3 colours. I make absolutely no apologies for having 2 blog posts in a row using the Nature’s Prints […]
How to make a trapezoid gift box with Sun Prints suite
Hello, I hope you are well. Today I have a YouTube tutorial to show you how to make this trapezoid (I think!) gift box with a fun closure… It’s a VERY long time since I did any kind of mathematics so I could be very wrong with the name of the shape, lol. I used […]
Irresistible Blooms customer thank you cards
Hello, I hope you are well. One of my favourite tasks each month is to send thank you packs to my lovely customers for their order in the previous month. For orders received in February I sent one of the bookmarks I made as my team swap and this card… I couldn’t resist using the […]