There’s a corruption of an alleged Oscar Wilde quotation I quite like: Always be yourself – unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn. I suspect there are other variations for other creatures to be. Sadly, I have no stamps with any of them, but I do have this mermaid one about… Continue reading Be a Mermaid
Tag: card making
‘Tis the Season
I went back to the Polkadoodles’ Christmas Gnomes set from Creative Stamping 102 this week. Partly, this is because I haven’t really tidied my craft desk – the bin was removed to another room and has yet to be replaced! – so the stamp set was still sitting where I’d left it after last week’s… Continue reading ‘Tis the Season
Dinosaur Adventures
One of my main crafting problems is that I collect supplies, if I’m lucky with at least a vague idea of what to make, and then do nothing with them. As they say: collecting craft supplies is a hobby in itself… Such happened last year when I found some Natural History Museum-inspired paper packs in… Continue reading Dinosaur Adventures
Believe in the Magic
I got lucky for a crafting session: Tiny and I went to a baby group where I (and the other mothers) was shown how to do a baby massage. Although Tiny got bored and hungry halfway through, it was still sufficient for a sleep in the pram on the way home and which gave me… Continue reading Believe in the Magic
The Birthday Macaw
Tiny would cause crafting problems if I liked to make complicated cards. As it is, the only problem caused is one of timing, and being able to snatch the time to plan a card and then to create it. Hence the lack of card posts of late. Or any sort of crafting posts, really. There… Continue reading The Birthday Macaw
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Finally, I have managed to start making cards again. Which is good because the magazines have had sets recently which I like and think I could actually use for a change. A lot of last year the sets were too similar to ones I already had, especially the Christmas sets. But I liked the Magic… Continue reading The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Sleigh Bells Ring
I haven’t been much in my craft room for the last month or so. I’m not sure how often I’ll get in over the next few. Probably sporadic crafting for the foreseeable. However, with the arrival of a baby-sling (the Koala Cuddle Band; takes babies from 2-9kg/4lb7oz to 19lb13oz) which is suitable for my lighter-than-average… Continue reading Sleigh Bells Ring
A Musical Birthday
I know: Fridays are for festive cards, not birthday cards. However, in my defence, the musical note die came with (not as part of, admittedly) the musical stamp and embossing folder from Simply Cards and Papercraft 236. So sort of festive. The paper was discovered in a pack from a previous magazine, though I've no… Continue reading A Musical Birthday
The Gold Stag
As with last week’s card, I started this one with the background paper. Partly this is because I’m a bit tired of staring at stamp sets which don’t change (though I have a new festive set arriving shortly which may help with the general disinclination malaise). In the end, though, I didn’t do any stamping… Continue reading The Gold Stag
The Spiral Effect
It can be easy, sometimes, to fall into a downward spiral of lack of inspiration and restlessness. Sometimes it’s the weather outside (too hot, too rainy, too whatever); sometimes it’s just because there’s nothing new in the craft room and you’ve run out of ideas for what you have; sometimes it’s just a disinclination you… Continue reading The Spiral Effect
Fairy Cake Living 