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Monday, 20 October 2025

Pretty Gift Box tutorial


I made this box recently for my Mother-in-law's birthday.
It was filled with her favourite chocolates. 



I used mirri card for the bottom and papers from an old stack
from We R Memory keepers for the lid.
I had some nice blue ribbon which made a lovely big bow.
I cut out a die shape and stamped the sentiment and name
using Happy Birthday to You and Alphabest stamp sets (SU).
I cut some birds from the leftover papers to decorate.

As I haven't done a box tutorial for ages I decided
to give the old grey matter a shake and do one!


I did make it smaller than my first one but you can make this box
any size you want and the design will work.

For this one I used papers from Paper Discovery and some
co-ordinating card for the base from my stash.
It was decorated using punched flowers and leaves.
The sentiment was stamped using Itty Bitty Birthdays (SU)
and finished with some gems.

You can watch my tutorial here


Measurements needed to make this size
Paper - 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"
Card - 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"
Score all sides on both at 1 3/4"

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Wet and murky day today with leaves lying everywhere
after yesterday's heavy rain.
Clean up on aisle four 😂
Have a lovely week and thanks for dropping by.

Saturday, 18 October 2025

Double Post


It's time for my midway post for our challenge over at
where the theme is Autumn or anything goes.

We have a great prize up for grabs so come and join us.
Our prize this month is a £25 store voucher from Personal Impressions 

For my card I kept is pretty clean and simple.
I used a stamp set called Gather Together (SU)
and stamped and masked to create my pumpkin scene.
Everything has been coloured with markers.
I matted it onto a scrap of wood plank paper (SU)
and added some rustic gems to the corners.
The sentiment is from the same set.

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It's also time for my midway post over at
where the theme is anything Autumn/anything goes.

The prize over here is also amazing so well
worth your time to get an entry in.

For my card I just went crazy attempting to make a scene.
Looking at it now my moon looks like it fell
from the sky 😂
The stamp sets I used are called
Stylish Sketches and Mountain Air (SU).
I used a scrap of paper top and bottom, probably SU,
then added string and handwrote the sentiment
in white pen.
The background was inked using distress inks.
The fox and leaves were coloured with markers.
It was good fun to make and obviously
a learning curve lol.

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Thursday, 16 October 2025

Needle felted pumpkins


I was very tempted to buy some pumpkin decorations for my hall
for Autumn. There are so many variations and sizes out there,
lovely colours and patterns.
Then my sensible head kicked in and I got out my needle felting wool
and had a go myself.
I made three different sizes in a wool that has a mix
of orange, yellow and deep pink running through it.
The wool is from World of Wool.
The colours didn't pick up well in my photo but
I am well pleased with them.

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Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Autumn fun!


It's time for my midway post for our
Autumn challenge theme over at

For this one I used some background paper
from a set I bought years ago from Lidl would you believe!
It is gorgeous papers, partly embossed and sparkled.
So I ran it through my printer with this gorgeous image
from Mo's Digital Designs and printed the sentiment,
dog and leaves.
I then stamped the little dog out on my colouring
card so I could add colour with my markers.
I then cut him out and stuck him on top
of printed area.
I added some colour to the leaves and
finished the tag with some ribbon and a
cute bone brad from my stash.

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used paper and cut dog with scissors



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For my ATC I just used some scraps from my stash.
I cut my base in deep purple and
ran it through my embossing folder.
I then cut the scraps to fit with
a little hint of gold mirri here in there.
I only had a tiny little big left.
I then stamped and gold embossed the
dragonfly from Dragonfly Garden (SU),
punched it out and stuck in place.
I edged it all in black and added
a black word (Hunkydory).

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Remember have this amazing prize up for grabs so
be sure and join us!!

Monday, 13 October 2025

Wedding card and album


Happy Monday!

My Son and Daughter-in-law's good friends were
married in Italy in September and
Milo wanted me to make something nice to give them.

So I went with a cute little tag album using a set
of dies from Alinacutle. You can buy it on Amazon.
I have linked her YouTube channel on my video.
The papers are from a pack called Garden Blooms from
Anna Marie Designs.
I filled the album with photos from the wedding and
some from their earlier days together as a family.
This is a view of the inside and the back of the tag album.
Inside there are lots of wedding themed quotes etc.

I used flowers, ribbon and tulle from my stash.

You can see the full album here

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Hope you all have a lovely week.

Friday, 10 October 2025

Yummy cake!


I have another card for my Mother-in-law to give to
her Great Grandson Max who is turning one this month.
I used an image from Mo's Digital Pencil called
Kai is One boy.
The papers are from Nitwits called Big Top.
He has been coloured with markers
and the embellishments have been printed,
cut and layered to decorate.
There is a dimensional square paper sitting on his name lol.
Luckily I noticed before popping in the envelope!

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I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Shutter card


My Mother-in-law's 86th birthday is coming up this month
and I always like to make her a funfold card.
I used a Tattered Lace die for this shutter card.
The papers are from a Basic Grey set called Sultry.
Stamp sets used
Happy Birthday to You, Alphabest, Approaching Perfection
and Painted Seasons, all SU.
I added ribbons, brads, pearls and a leaf punch.
The flowers have been double stamped and cut and layered.


This is a side view.
It does close flat and fits into a larger envelope.

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Monday, 6 October 2025

Biscuit Buddies!


I had a pile of scraps left after a recent project
and it was a wet Sunday so I decided to make a little
book and fill it with ideas from my newest stamp set from
Card-io stamps called biscuit buddies.

Here are my scraps.

The book is tiny, measuring 2" x 2 1/4"
but it holds lots of ideas using the stamps
which will hopefully inspire me when I need it.
The inner pages are only printed on one side so
I joined them back to back which made the book
nice and sturdy. I then machine stitched
the pages together and covered the spine
with some washi tape.
Papers - basic grey and SU
Die - Tattered Lace
Embellishments - washi tape, ribbon, inks,
white ink, markers.

You can watch a quick run through here

Or you can check it out here for an even quicker look!

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Sunday, 5 October 2025

Autumn has arrived!


Our new challenge has started over at
and the optional theme is Autumn.

We have a lovely prize up for grabs so be sure and join us.
£25 gift voucher!

For my card I used some old paper from a pack I
bought in Lidl many years ago.
It is gorgeous paper. The squirrels and leaves are embossed
and glittered.
I used my plank embossing folder (SU) for a band
across the card which also had ink added.
I then stamped the leaves, corn and pumpkins using
Gather Together stamps and dies (SU).
I coloured the pumpkins and corn with markers.
I added a piece of jute along the bottom
of my border for some texture.
The sentiment was stamped on the border
then I arranged everything in place.

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Our challenge has now started over at
and the optional theme there is also Autumn!
So you get to enter your card into two challenges.

We of course, have a lovely prize up for grabs.
I really want this prize myself!!!

For my card I used a set called Autumn Days
which I got from Simply Cards & Papercraft many moons ago.
The background was inked with my blending brushes,
the trees stamped in brown and the
leaves were stamped in orange, green, yellow and brown
along the bottom.
I then stamped the sentiment in orange.
I added a bit of sparkly braid along the left of
my card then mounted it onto some orange card.

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Friday, 3 October 2025

Fun birthday!


This card has been made for my Grandson Sean
from his Great Granny.
He will be turning 12 this month.
So hard to believe!!
He has settled into big school well and
already looks so grown up.

For the card I used a Nitwits set called po-cake masc
and the image is an old one from Jelly Park
called teenage boy gaming master.
I have colour it up with my markers.

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embellishments and sentiment cut with scissors

Have a lovely weekend.
Let's hope it will be a bit dryer than last weekend!
Storm Amy is arriving at 12 today so probably pretty wet...AGAIN!
Take care!

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Autumn vibes



Our theme for October over at
has been chosen by Brenda and she went with
AUTUMN.

For my tag I used some orange card for my base
which I punched using my tag topper punch (SU).
I then cut a piece of yellow card which
I ran through with a floral embossing folder.
I then ran my finger over with some lustre rub-ons.
Next I stamped some leaves using
Gather Together (SU) stamp set and cut them out.
I used my markers to add green, yellow
and orange colour to them and then cut as above
to fit my tag.
I finished with a sentiment (Hunkydory)
and some wool at the top.

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For my ATC I used the same stamp set,
Gather Together (SU).
I inked up my ATC with yellow and purple
inks then stamped the large leave
coming off the edges.
I coloured them with markers in the same
ink colours then added some gold ink to
highlight them. I stamped some grey dots
from the same set between the leaves
then flicked some gold ink over it all.
I finished with a quote from Hunkydory
and inked around the edges.

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Remember we have a great prize up for grabs
so come and join us.
You don't have to follow the theme and you
can enter up to four times.

Monday, 29 September 2025

Christmas Penguins


Happy Monday.

Today I have another little journal to share,
again with a penguin theme and perfect for Christmas.
This little book came together so quickly and
was great for breaking into more stash!!

You can watch a walk through here

or a quicker version HERE.

I have used stamps called Penguin Place and Sparkling Snowflakes (SU).
Papers are from an old Brenda Pinnock set.
Embellishments used
pompoms, sizzix snowflake dies, gems,
shrink plastic and various inks.

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Friday, 26 September 2025

Game time!


Final card of the week.
This one is for my MIL's Great Grandson Eoghan.

I followed the sketch from Mo's Digital Pencil.
The papers are from Nitwits called diggersndosers.
The image is from Mo called Baron and Butch
and I have coloured it up with markers.

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Have a lovely weekend.

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