This card has been created using a base A4 white card folded in half, matted and layered with black and red card then the matching backing paper. The topper is decoupaged and mounted onto black card. The topper, backing paper and the greeting are from a large card kit bought from QVC.

This card has been created using a base A4 white card folded in half, matted and layered with black and red card then the matching backing paper. The topper is decoupaged and mounted onto black card. The topper, backing paper and the greeting are from a large card kit bought from QVC.

This card has been created using a base A4 white card folded in half, matted and layered with black and red card then the matching backing paper. The topper is decoupaged and mounted onto black card. The topper, backing paper and the greeting are from a large card kit bought from QVC.

This card has been created using a base A4 white card folded in half, matted and layered with black and red card then the matching backing paper. The topper is decoupaged and mounted onto black card. The topper, backing paper and the greeting are from a large card kit bought from QVC.

This card has been created using an A4 cream base card,matted and layered using dark brown card and a cream swirl pearl paper.
The topper has been lifted on 3d foam tape.Four large brads have been added to each corner. The topper and greeting are from a kanban topper sheet

This card has been created using a cream A4 card folded in half.Matted and layered with dark brown card and a cream swirl pearl paper.The topper is pyramaged and the boarder added at the bottom.
The topper,boarder and greeting are all from a kanban card kit

This card has been made using a base white A4 card folded in half. Matted and layered with blue card and a matching backing paper, the topper has one layer of decoupage, and a matching boarder.
The backing paper, topper and boarder are all from a kanban card kit.

This card has been made using a white base card scored off centre. Matted and layered with a dark blue card and the stripped backing paper, the topper is pyramaged, i have added a border towards the bottom of each part of the card front.Both the backing paper, topper and boarder arefrom a card set from kanban.

This christmas card is for the lady who clipps my dog and she has a beautiful alsation. The card has been made using a white base cardmatted and layered with black card, red mirri card and a black folied filigree card, and a greeting from my craft box.

busy

Hello, Just a quick note to say i'm busy making some large cards at the moment so keep an eye on my blogg i will post some pictures and instructions over the next few days.

Floral never ending thank you card

This thank you card has been made using the Lilli of the Valley never ending cards and decorated in pretty papers and toppers from my craft stash. I have loved the freedom to embellish these cards, they are not a quick card to make, the decorateing is very exciting and is for any style or level of crafter to complete.

Girlie never ending card

This girlie birthday card has been made using the Lilli of the Valley never ending cards kit. I absolutley adore the freedom to decorate these card with pretty papers and embellishments, they are great for using all your embellishments and papers that you maybe have left over from previous kit's and cards.

These are the instructions to make the lilli of the valley never ending cards. These instructions result in an 8x8 card, with matching envelope. They are easy to follow and the effect of these cards is fantastic, you have the freedom to decorate them as suites the individual crafters and is suitable for all levels of crafter.

This beautifula nd elegante easter card was made using one of Joanna Sheen's victorian picture mounts. The decoupage in teh centre is from a Joanna Sheen c.d rom. The greeting and name have been added using peel offs. Four pearls decorate each corner and a satin yellow bow has been added to finish off the card

This graduation card was made for a friends daughter. I had used a black alchemy card for the base, silver mirri card for matting and layering and a silver foiled paper, i wrapped a red organza ribbon around the mat's and added a red bow.The topper is a copy right free image from the internet. The greeting plate is from a greeting kit i have.

This is a Golden wedding anniversary card that i was asked to make.
I have used a dark green base card and folded into an off set tri fold.Gold mirrir card has been used for the matting and layering.
I have used the topper and backing papers from one of Joanna Sheen's c.d roms. I have decoupages the topper added gems,greetings and names using peel offs.I have also completed the inside with the faded backing paper and added a verse.

Teddy Bear twisted pyrimage

This card has been made using die cut twisted pyrimage effect. It is very easy to patch up the picture with the twisted effect and the foiling adds to the over all effect of the card

Tear drop style card

These cards have been made using the tear drop style card. I have used pretty papers to back the reverse front of the card, I have dragged my gold / silver marker pen around the edges of both the card and the die cut oval on the front. I have added cute teddy toppers of my choice and added a greeting.

Crafts are here, crafts are there,my craft supplies are everywhere.

I really should clean this mess, but I like it, I must confess.

Floor is littered, chairs are piled, kitchen’s looking pretty wild.

On the table counter too, seems that any place will do.

Hall is stacked with cartons high, filled with things folks like to buy.

Garage is full, but so far, there’s still room to park the car.

I never have an idle day, new ideas come my way.

Don’t know yet what I’ll create, but at least my imagination’s great.

My family smiles, they don’t complain, although at times I am a pain.

But when all is said and done, I really am a crafty one !!

Basic Accordion Album Instructions
To make this basic accordion album you will need:

-3 sheets of 12"x12" card stock (more if you

-Cutting tool or craft knife

-Adhesive (glue or double sided tape)



The final product will have 8 pages(incl covers) and will measure 6"x6" without covers and 6.5"x6.5" with covers
Take a Sheet of 12" x 12" cardstock or patterned paper and cut it in half using your cutting tool or a craft knife and metal ruler. Each sheet will give you two 6"x12" segments. Taking care to make sure that the corners and edges meet (pull out your bone folding tool for precise folds), fold each of the 2 segments in half.

Repeat with the remaining two sheets of card stock until you have 6 sheets of 6"x12" folded sheets to form the pages of your accordion book

Now for the next instruction. Using glue or double sided tape, take each sheet and adhere the right hand page of each sheet to the left hand page of the next keeping the accordion folding pattern.

Now grab your funky embellishments and decorate your accordion album. Covers can be made for your album by cutting two 6.5"x6.5" square pieces from chipboard or stiff cardboard and covering with co-ordinating papers. Adhere the covers to the front and back page of your album centring each page within the covers.

Pop Out Card


Place a piece of A4 card face up on your work surface with the long edges across the top and bottom.
Score a vertical line down the centre of the card. Score another vertical line 7.4cm from the left edge and another 7.4cm from the right edge so the card is split into four equal sections.
Mountain fold the centre line and valley fold the outer lines, crease well and unfold.
Place another piece of A4 card down on your work surface with the long edges across the top and bottom. Score a vertical line down the centre of the card, fold in half, crease well then unfold.
(If you want to cover the front of your card with patterned background paper, then do so NOW - before you proceed to the next step!)
Apply Glue or double sided tape to the left section on the back of the multi scored card up to the score line on the far left. DO NOT APPLY GLUE OR TAPE BEYOND THIS LINE. Fix the left section of the multi scored card on top of the inside scored A5 card blank ensuring the top, bottom and left edges are perfectly aligned.
Cut out the base layer of your chosen decoupage or twisted paper and mount onto mirror card, matt and layer as you wish.
Lay the card on your work surface with the multi scored card on top. Place the mounted decoupage papnel so it sits centrally on the left half of it. Move the decoupage 5mm over towards the right so it is slightly off centre.
(Think about how this would look on the front of your card, make sure you ahve enough space at the bottom or top of your card for a greeting if you want one, and make sure you have at least 1cm gap at the side of the card)
Lightly draw around the left edge of the mounted decoupage and along the top and bottom edges up to the score line.
Remove the mounted decoupage. Use a craft knife to cut line 1mm above and below the top and bottom pencil lines ensuring you cut through both layers of the card.
Cut a vertical line 3mm to the left of the vertical pencil line and connect to the the ends of the horizontal lines. Cut another vertcial line 1mm to the right of the score line to connect the right ends of the horizontal cuts and as such cutting away a rectangle aperture.
Apply Glue or double sided tape to the right section on the back of the multi scored card up to the score line on the far right. DO NOT APPLY GLUE OR TAPE BEYOND THIS LINE. Fix the right section of the multi scored card on top of the inside scored A5 card blank ensuring the top, bottom and right edges are perfectly aligned.
Close the card - the centre score line should mountain fold and form a pop-out section.
Finish your decoupage or twisted paper design.
With the card closed, place your mounted decoupage through the aperture. The aperture is slightly bigger than the right half of the mounte decoupage so position it in the centre. The decoupage should be able to slide freely through the aperture when the card is opened and closed.
Once happy ....
Apply glue or tape to the back of the right half of the mounted decoupage and fix through the aperture so it actually sticks to the card inside.

Tall Diamond Shaped Card


Cut a piece of White card to 18cm x 27.5cm
Place it on your work surface with the long edges on the left and right. Valley fold vertically in half, crease well and unfold.
Score a horizontal line across the card 9cm down from the top edge. Valley fold the line, crease well and unfold.
Make a pencil mark on the vertical fold line 12cm down from the top edge. Make marks on the left and right edges of the card 15.5cm from the top edge.
Score a diagonal line from the mark on the vertical line to the mark on the left of the card. Score another line from the mark on the vertical line to the mark on the right of the card.
Valley fold the horizontal line so the top edge of the card is almost vertical.
Push the bottom edge of the card up towards the centre so the mark on the vertical line touches the vertical top section.
Fold up the bottom left and right corners so they meet.
Place the right of the card flat on your work surface to reveal the basic diamond fold card blank.
Finished card will fit a C5 envelope

Diamond Shaped Card

Cut an A4 price of card to measure 14cm x 28cm. (I used a blank square card and trimmed it to 14cm x 28cm with the scored fold at 14cm)
Place the card on your work surface with the short edges across the top and bottom. Using the diagram opposite for reference, mark the left and right hand side of the card 7cm, 14cm and 21cm from the top edge with a pencil.
Score a horizontal line 14cm from the top edge and another 21cm from the top edge.
Score a diagonal line from the left hand 7cm pencil mark to the right hand 21cm score line. Score another from the right hand 7cm pencil mark to the left hand 21cm score line.

Mark the centre of the card along the top edge and draw a diagonal line from this point to the left hand 7cm pencil mark. Draw another diagonal from the centre to the right hand 7cm pencil mark. Cut along these lines to create a triangle at the top of the card.

Mountain fold along one diagonal line then unfold. Mountain fold the other diagonal line and unfold.

Valley fold the middle and bottom horizontal lines and unfold.

Place your thumbs and forefingers either side of the lower diagonal lines and your middle fingers underneath the diagonal lines on the back of the card. Gently pinch your forefingers and thumbs together to mountain fold the diagonal lines. The top of the card will naturally spring up. As it does remove your forefingers and fold along the lower horizontal line to form the basic card blank.

Squeeze the folds to hold them in place - the card will naturally stand up on its own.
Apply double sided tape just below the lower diagonal lines then stick to the rectangular base to fix the lower triangle to the base section as shown.

Exploding box from A4 card

The Obsessed Crafter




I started out with just one topper, and then I bought some more.

I decided that a shoebox would make an ideal store.

Then as I added inks & pens, my craft collection grew.

So I bought a roomy plastic crate, it would last for years, I knew.

Embossing then became my thing, with powder & a heat gun,

Metallic, tinsels, pearls & clear, I soon had every one.

By now my lovely plastic crate was spilling everywhere.

And my glitter glue collection lay scattered on a chair.

My husband started muttering & said things had to stop,

So I bought a huge old wardrobe at the local charity shop.

But after a while, I couldn't shut the door,

And I put shelves in the spare room to accommodate yet more.

Our house is now for sale, something larger being sought.

By the way, did I show you, the latest stamp I bought!

Dear Lord


I'm going to need some notice before my days are done,

You see, I’m a craftaholic a fact not known to some.

My craft room, it is bulging all corners, crannies and nooks.

There are loads of boxes under the bed; I hope no-one ever looks.

I tell myself when shopping, "No more craft bits today"

But the craft shops are like magnets drawing me there way.

I'm totally at there mercy, Just "NEED" a dozen of each.

Then I hurry home to hide them, before the family starts to preach.

So Lord, I’ll need a little time to dispose of all my stuff,

And lord, can we just keep this between the two of us

Crafters are a funny bunch,


We'd rather craft than eat our lunch.

The housework, it can always wait.

It will be there on some other date.

No craft is left to be untried,

No creative thought to be denied.

Craft supplies - they're everywhere,

We're never caught without a spare.

Can our time be better spent?

Than practicing our creative bent

Let it be said when we are done,

We worked; we laughed, and had lots of fun.

Crafts are here, crafts are there, my craft supplies are everywhere.

I really should clean this mess, but I like it, I must confess.

Floor is littered, chairs are piled,kitchen’s looking pretty wild.

On the table counter too, seems that any place will do.

Hall is stacked with cartons high, filled with things folks like to buy.

Garage is full, but so far, there’s still room to park the car.

I never have an idle day, new ideas come my way.

Don’t know yet what I’ll create, but at least my imagination’s great.

My family smiles, they don’t complain, although at times I am a pain.

But when all is said and done, I really am a crafty one !!

General instructions for stepper card with end panel.


Can be adjusted and placed where you like!
A4 sheet of cardstock with the short edge facing you.

Make a mark as far across the cardstock as you want your main panel to be - I chose 8cms so let's go with that as our example. Mark the card at the top and the bottom edges and lightly draw the line in pencil. Your sheet is now divided into two long sections - one 8cms wide and the other 13 cms.

Turn the card round so that the wide section is facing you (long edge) with the 8cm panel away from you.

Mark along the edge that closest to you at intervals as follows :

2.5cms; 4.5cms; 10.5cms; 15.5cms; 22.5cms

Score along these lines meeting your original pencilled line. You should have five score lines here.

Take your craft knife and cut between the 2.5cm score line and the 22.5 score line along the original pencilled line.

Carefully fold along your score lines to make the hills and valleys. You can always change this later if you make a mistake in the direction of the folds.

Once you are happy with your folds (make sure to use a bone folder to keep them crisp) fold the card gently and the large 8cm panel will naturally want to fold to match (not quite the centre of the card - so don't panic here) it will sit perfectly well.

Now the difficult bit .... decorate to taste!!

This card is a side stepper card. I have made this card using red satin card matted and layered on a gold foiled filigree card and then onto black card. I used the tree toppers from my Kanabn QVC TSV.
If you would like the instructions for this card then please click on the instructions label.

These two cards have been made from an invetage & pyramage kitfrom create and craft. One sheet gives you two cards an "innie" and an "outie". Pyramage is the "outie" and Invertage is the "innie".
I find this a very intersting effect and very good if you need to make a card in a hurry.

This card has been made with a base white card matted and layered with basic black card and a gold foiled and embossed base card. I have then used a piramage effect for the topper and added a matching greeting

This is a card that I have made for my mother in law for christmas. I used the pointessia petals from my QVC TSV kit. I then matted and layered with silver holographic card over black silver foiled filigree card and over red card mounted onto a cream card.

This is the card I made for my daughters 18th birthday. My daughter has a strong weekness for handbags and all things pink. I have overlayed silver foiled filigree vellum onto a pink card. I have used the Arty Farty handbag template, the main part of the bag i have covered with a silver glittered felt.Added brads to each corner and used silver peel off numbers.The handbag has been decorated with flat back gems and a flower / pearl flower.

Another variation on the Arty Farty shoe template using pretty pink papers and embellishments

This is a card that i made using the shoe template from the Arty Farty range. I loved using this idea as a card front, you can use any pretty papers and embellishments to create your own shoe design.

I was asked to make a very pretty girlie girl card for a little 6 year old girl, who is into pink and princesses. I have used a topper bought from Sharon Duncan and added pink gems. Then matted and layered using silver mirri card, pink card and a pink greeting sheet from Kanban

I was asked to make this card for a 60th birthday for a gentleman who loves his hiking. I have used some toppers from the Kanban range and used a map as the background paper.

This is a card i was asked to make for a civil partnership between John & Colin. I used silver and black which I think has worked well, the image of the champagne glasses is neither masculine or femanine which adds to the cards sophistication and class.