Crafted by Alison

 Hello everyone & welcome back to my blog! Well, we made it through the floor installation & have put back about 2/3's of our furniture. I looks so much better & was worth the inconvenience. I am looking forward to when all the sorting, culling & placement of furniture & goods is all over so that I can get back to making cards. I've been kept occupied but I've missed creating. Anyway, here's some pics of a card set I made for a friends birthday using the Painted Poppies stamp set. I used Just Jade, Pretty Peacock & Real Red for the main card stock & added in some Granny Apple Green & water colours for the flowers. There are 5 cards using various DSP from the Poppy Parade collection with matching envelopes. The gift box was made to hold the cards on one side, the envelopes on the other & I even made a little box to hold some stamps.  Here's a view of the front of the box & the inside. .... and now here's the card I made to

 Hello all & welcome back. This week has been crazy busy! We've nearly finished packing up most of the house in readiness for the new flooring plus Mum's quick stay in hospital ended up being an 8 day stay! There wasn't much time for crafting unfortunately 😞 but I promised some Good Morning Magnolia cards so I looked back over some of the cards & gifts I've made in the past year & found quite a few. Here's a special selection for you..... This card is the first one I made using the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set & I still love the way it turned out. I used a spritz with green ink for the background & hand coloured the image. Being one of the earliest cards from when I first started using Stampin' Up products, the colours are not unique to SU but work well for the card.    This next card was something a little different that I wanted to try. The sentiment & image is stamped on white card stock & hand coloured. I mounted it on some Ju

 Hello everyone,  I apologise for the late issue this week. I've been incredibly busy packing up the house in readiness for the new flooring & Mum was taken to hospital so I've been visiting her every day too. This meant that I got a little behind with making my cards for the blog. But, all good, cards are now finished & ready to share with you! 😀 This week I focused on using a stamp set that is just sentiments which meant I was able to create 2 completely different cards by changing which stamps I added to the mix. The focus stamp set is Peaceful Moments which is just a mixture of sentiments. The two stamp sets I chose to add to the cards are the Painted Poppies & Baby Pull Toys sets. Here's how the cards turned out.... For the first card I wanted something simple that could be used for male or female & for a variety of occasions. I used some DSP from the Sale-A-Bration Berry delightful collection & added a heap of stars in Daffodil Delight using the s

Welcome back & thanks for visiting my blog. My week has been a mixture of busy & relaxed. Thursday saw an early finish for the end of term 1! Yay!! School holidays are so looked forward to after a busy time with the kids.  But these school holidays I'm spending a lot of time packing up most of our house as we're getting some floating floors put in the first day back to school. Sorting, culling, boxing & reliving memories. Rob's busy with banging in any floorboards that are a bit squeaky or loose & there are boxes all over the place. Thankfully I don't have to pack up my craft room again! In addition to that I had a work birthday buddy & the focus cards to create. Here's what I created this week.... I had a lot of fun re-visiting this set. I decided to use a mini-pizza box to go with the coffee card so I can pop a few coffee bags inside as a small gift. This set could be for a birthday or just for a tired looking friend! I used Early Espresso, Cin