New cards

Good afternoon,

I've made a few cards recently and I thought I'd share them with you. Here we go;

These are made with my new Tattered Lace dies. The top two are made wholly with the Oval Shutter Card die and bottom card is made using the Chantilly Tiara die and the flowers from the Oval Shutter Card set.

These cards are some others that I made for my friends sons birthdays.

I hope you like these cards. Please leave your comments below if you have any.

New posts coming soon.

Much love,


Clare xxx

A few cards made recently

Good afternoon,

I wanted to show you a few of the cards I've made recently.

I am heading into a new stage of crafting as I recently treated myself to a Big Shot Plus. I've never owned a die cutting machine before (even though I've wanted one for ages) but never had the guts to spend in excess of £100 on one crafting thing! But I did it and plunged head first and all I can say is I LOVE IT!

I bought it at the recent Crafting Live show at Doncaster Racecourse (along with lots of other beautiful things) and I couldn't wait to open it when i got home and some of the cards below are what I made using it.

This was a card I made for two of my friends. They'd recently got engaged and I thought this card was the perfect sentiment for them.

I used some papers and toppers from an old Making Cards for Special Occasions magazine.

This was a card I'd made for a friends birthday. She loves all things sewing and I couldn't resist the opportunity to use the Hunkydory card and toppers that match her personality.

This card was made using my new die cutting machine and two of the free dies I got to choose to accompany my purchase. I loved this little dog and thought it went great with the black and white theme with red accents.

Not bad for my first go at die cutting if I do say so myself!

This was also made with another of the free dies I got with my machine. I had this idea for a clean and simple card made with rainbow sentiments. I love the way this turned out albeit a little fiddly to line all of the 'thank you's' up in the right place.

That's all the cards for the time being but there are lots more to come in the next few weeks. Please keep checking back and of course I'll notify you by social media once I get a new post uploaded.

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Many thanks for reading as always.

Clare xx

Long time no blog and some very exciting news!

Hi all,

I'm really sorry that I haven't updated this blog for a long while but from now on I promise I will behave and be a good blogger!

I've still been cardmaking throughout my time away from the blog and have made many cards but unfortunately I haven't taken any pictures to show you.

From now on I will update regularly and I hope to hear from all of you on my posts.

Anyways, some very exciting news - I've been accepted onto the Design Team of Crafting.co.uk also known as Craft Channel Productions and/or Tattered Lace! WOW!!

I'm so excited to get started with them and to show you all that I have made as part of their team.

I will be back very soon so keep your eyes peeled for future posts.

Thanks for your patience and thanks for reading.

Clare :-) xx

Sorry...........

Good morning blog followers,

I'm sorry it's been a while. Things have been hectic to say the least and I haven't been crafting an awful lot so there hasn't seemed to be much time to blog and much to show you. But I have now . . . . .

A couple of weeks ago, my friend asked me to make a card for her mums 60th birthday. She didn't give me much to go on with regards to a theme (just that she liked normal mum things) so I came up with this card . . . . . . . . . .

I thought that House Mouse would be perfect for the job that the card was intended for. I resisted putting '60' on the card because although it was a special birthday, she probably didn't want reminding of that fact ! ! ! I also thought that because the sentiment on the card was 'For a Very Special Lady', that if she wanted to she could leave the card on show all year round.

Hope you like.

Until next time (hopefully not too long to wait ! ),

Clare xxx 

Splashy/Water Themed

This blog will be based around water as I'm going to enter these cards into the C.R.A.F.T. Challenge blog and that is their theme this week.

The first and last card are ones that I made. The middle two cards are ones that my mum has made to enter into this blog challenge.

The image used is a Kenny K download which happened to be a free download this week so I thought it was fate and just had to be used.

The rest of the items used were from my crafty stash.

Hope you all like.

Many thanks for reading.

Clare :-) xxxx

Special Card for Special People

Good morning,

This is my first ever scheduled post so I hope it works. Fingers crossed.

I wanted to show you a very special card I have made recently for 2 special people (one who is returning to my life, and the other who is joining my life).

Jessica left to go to Australia, just over a year ago and she is returning back home today with her fiance Nelly.

I can't wait to see Jess after such a long time for a catch up and can't wait to meet Nelly.

I just had to make a card for their return home and I'm going to send it to their house so it will be ready and waiting for them when they walk in the door.

Hope you all like.

Can't wait to see them both.

Thanks for reading.



Clare xxxx

Good morning readers

Good morning to all of you reading this,
Sorry I haven't been blogging recently. I have had a poorly mum and have been trying to get her sorted out so haven't really had much time to craft.  The cards that I'm going to show you below are mostly old ones that I've not shown yet but I thought what better time than now?

This card I made for Lyndsey at work as it was her wedding anniversary. The digi image is a Kenny K one. I love his images as they are so different to any others I have seen and some are quite risque.

This card I made for Sylvias birthday. I'm really proud of it as I have never made a gatefold easel card before and was shocked at how easy it was.

This was a card I was asked to make for a guy that we know from work. He enjoys steam trains but unfortunately got badly burnt from the steam whilst he was working on one. This was a get well soon card. I just adore wellington. I think he so cute, even for older men.

Now this card is special as it was my mums first ever paper crafting project. Recently she has not been well so she has decided to help take her mind off it by crafting along with me.

The card consists of an embossed coredinations sheet which she then sanded back, then ran a piece of ribbon across the card. She then decoupaged the image (with a little help from me as her eyesight isn't brilliant) and then she added some peel off buttons which she coloured and some sentiments.

I personally think it's great for a first effort. Wish my first cards looked like that. Although I am biased. lol

I hope you all like.

Until next time.

Clare xxx