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Empties | September – October 2017

December 7, 2017Leave a comment

As the end of 2017 draws ever closer, I'll fully admit I'm falling behind on my blog posts! I've had this box of trash sat in my house for far longer than I'd like - mostly due to pouring all my extra minutes into Swatch Perfect - but I'm hoping to rekindle my blogging motivation … Continue reading Empties | September – October 2017

DIY – Easy Layered Candles from Leftover Wax | Recycle Old Wax Melts & Candles

April 29, 2017April 29, 20179 Comments

In today's post I show you an easy way to recycle old candles and used wax melts into layered candles. Read on to find out how!

My Ultimate (but actually affordable) Skincare Wishlist

February 2, 20179 Comments

Interested on what's on my skincare lust list? Today I'm bringing you my ideal routine - a dream of a skincare regime, featuring a slew of products I'm unlikely to ever own all at once. A girl can dream...

Why I’m giving up women’s magazines – and what I’m reading instead

January 21, 20176 Comments

I hate women's magazines - but for years, I've still been supporting them with my hard earned cash. This year - it stops! Read on to find out why...

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🎥 Now streaming 🥰 Today on my YouTube I'm sharing a tutorial with 3 different masculine Valentine's Day card ideas - so if you want some inspiration for a Valentine's card, but without the usual pinks and florals, this one's for you!

I set myself 11 different goals this year and one is to get regular exercise back into my routine 💪 A few years ago I had a long period of going to the gym at least 3 times a week, but then I sprained my ankle pretty badly and couldn't walk properly for months 😔 Since I'd always found the gym kinda boring anyway it was the perfect excuse to quit 😂

Massive throwback to summer 2019 when my craft room was our tiny conservatory! There's no way in heck all my stuff would fit in there now 😂 This was one of the first shaker cards I ever made and I remember being super proud of it. Also it has a pun, so what more could you want? 🐝

I had all these grand plans for posting... And then I got Covid 😂 The symptoms were bad but you know what was worse? Not being able to do anything 😳 I'm constantly working on personal projects - if I'm not working you'll find me crafting, editing videos, shooting content, gardening, baking or organising my house - and I had to learn how to rest 😂 It was boring. 😐 I'm so glad to be recovered and able to do stuff again!!

I am no painter (I wish I was) but I had a lot of fun playing with these watercolour markers and these bird stamps! You'll see lots of them on my cards this year and they were so easy and fun to paint. Messy watercolour is perfect for stamps like these, because feathers never look particularly neat anyway! Kept the background simple... Although I can never resist a bit of glitter..!

This card is genuinely just made up of leftover bits 😂 The background was a tester piece (I wanted to see if I could stamp easily on this textured cardstock) and each element was created from bits at the bottom of my Christmas bag - die cuts and coloured images I had left over from cards last year. All I had to make was the stamped sentiment! It's always fun to combine bits from different stamp sets on one card, I think 😇

After having a huge success on all my festive birds, for some reason these Aqua Markers went a bit crazy on these cute mice 😅 Maybe it's because the linework is thinner, or maybe I just used too much water - but hey, I decided to embrace it. They are now messy mice!! 😉

Obsessed is not quite strong enough a word for how I feel about these Conie Fong stamps 😅 I bought all of the 2020 release, but the angels Crafter's Companion created with her this year are not really my thing. This adorable girl with her poinsettias though? Perfect. I really want to practice my skin tone colouring next year - I'd love to use a wider range of skin tones on my cards. Is that an excuse to go shopping for more markers I hear????

This is a bit of an alternative colour scheme for Christmas, but I love it anyway! I love the pairing of the modern design with a vintage-inspired font. It's like fusion cuisine, but for cards. 😂

Here's another one of those poinsettia backgrounds - this time, I used a letterpress technique with the embossing folder and Aged Mahogany Distress Ink to make a messy printed debossed background. This is a fun technique but you have to let go of any illusion of it being perfect! Having a stash of ready-made backgrounds makes it super easy to put a card together - paired with some watercoloured stamped images and a quick sentiment, plus a die cut circle to ground them all, this makes a lovely modern design 🥰

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