Cape Craft Crazy

Panic set in when I realised it was DH's birthday and I did not have a suitable card in my stash.  I remembered having an old Landrov...

With having no broadband for nearly a month since our move I have resorted to snail mail to advise family and friends our change of addres...

This photo is not the best but as we are moving house (again) I have already packed the card so cannot take a better picture. The backgr...

At a recent craft show I found a company selling a small selection of Impression Obsession stamps and dies.  I was thrilled as I just love...

In January this year I went to a craft fair and sat down at the Tonic make 'n take table.  As I am rather slow at making a card and do...

Better late than never with this Valentine's day card which was all made up in time, I have just been too busy to post it.  I saw the ...

I used an Impression Obsession stamp H1292 - Northern Lighthouse on an Inkylicious Visions - watercolour ready to go coloured background....

Going through some of my dies the other day I found the MFT (My Favourite Things) die called Let's Toast.  This die set includes a lab...

Another Inkylicious Visions Watercolour background.  On it I stamped a couple of images from a set by Hobby Art - Coastal Scene-it.  The o...

This card was made for a 9 year old friend of ours.  I used an image from the Penny Black Eat Cake stamp set with Archival Black ink.  To ...

At a craft show nearly a year ago I popped by the Inkylicious stand and bought a couple of packets of preprinted backgrounds from the...

It is not too often I reach for a flower stamp even though I do have quite a few.  When I was looking through the The Penny Black blog I n...

This is a cute Christmas stamp which I have not yet used.  The card is from DH.  He asked if I could stamp the image for him onto watercol...

I have been really busy in my craft room scrapbooking Xmas gifts.  Need to scrapbook 40 pages in all by the 25th and I am only just under ...

The background paper on this card is Bo BunnyFather Christmas Stripe.  The sentiment is die cut using a Stampin Up oval punch but I cannot...

I bought myself this stencil at a craft show earlier this year and decided to test it out on a scrap piece of paper.  This is only a pa...

Having bought this die in the earlier part of the year at a craft show I did not remember it until I was searching through my die stash.  ...

This is a plain and simple card where I picked a fern out of the garden and inked it up with Peeled Paint Distress Ink.  I picked up the f...

This is a stamp I have had for a long time and never used.  I do love Art Impressions stamps as they are so different. The background to...

This type of stamp makes it easy to turn out multiple cards in a short space of time. The gold paper background is part of offcuts I bou...

It is extremely rare I will mention a specific product let alone do a review on one but this trimmer has to be the exception. On my rece...

I was browsing through Pinterest for Christmas card ideas and came across this one from Scrap Happens.  I thought it would be one I could ...

I was looking for an alternate idea to gift bags and recently saw a pack of 5 Natural Cotton Tote bags on sale.  I have done a workshop on...

For the one sheet box technique I went onto Splitcoast Stampers to have a look at the tutorial and get the scoring measurements.  I did...

I recently picked up this Whiff of Joy Snowburst die in an online sale.  My first try at it was a bit frustrating but I persevered with a ...

Recently I had the opportunity to make up a few thank you cards for a friend who is pregnant.  After making the cards (see separate post) ...

I made 5 of these cards to go into a gift box for a friend who is having a baby.  When looking for a design I went for a simple card with ...

Apologies for not posting for a while but we moved house, again.  Hopefully, this will be the last move for a while ! On a recent shoppi...

It is DH's birthday and part of his birthday gift is a 1 day art course which I booked online.  The problem was how to package it so I...

All the stamps on this card are from an Inkylicious set called Daydreamer.  I found that Versafine Onyx Black ink worked better for me tha...