Craft Room Wall Poppies

Aren't these just wonderful? I first saw these little beauties on my friend Jean's wall and immediately fell in love with them.

From the day I saw them I new that when I got a craft room all for myself that these would have to have priority on my wall space, so here they are and hopefully very soon I will have the rest of the room to show you all.

A closer look at them, click on the image to see them up close.

I figured they would break up the white wall and give me some inspiration into the bargain.

Magnolia Bloom

Another blossom made with the pear punch, I love the natural colour ways of this card.

The simplicity of the Spiral Bouquet stamp set from PTI seems to compliment the blossom perfectly

Remember When... Winners

And the 2 winners of the Remember When Series 2 are.............. (drum roll)

No 2
Jackie (Jazz) said...
Flour Mill? Iron Works? another industry... thats a better general guess LOL. Ma and another small child to make up the family? Hows many guesses am I allowed.? At the chippy on a Friday night? How about a Royale type setting? lol.. do you want me to carry on??
08 June 2008 06:14


and No 20
I think it will be one for the ladies . Ideas that come to mind cotton mill workers, mother mangling, land girls, old bathing machines/seaside, old-fashioned picnic, shopkeepers - bakers or ye olde sweet shoppe. Might even be children with old toys - tops, hoops etc.Well if it isn't - it probably will be in the future!Mags (Beas Nanny)
08 June 2008 14:50

Congratulations Jackie and Mags, ladies if you would like to email me with your address details I will be happy to forward you both a set of the new series decoupage, foam pads and double sided tape to complete your cards.

Thank you to everyone who took part.

Remember When... Series 2

Sneak peeks...

Are you holding a sweep stake to what the next series will contain?

Interesting.....

Still guessing?

Do you know what it is yet ?"ha ha ha"

All will be revealed on Monday 16th June on the La Pashe Website

Available to buy from Craft Shops from 17th June

Floral Punch Craft Card

A simple Flower card with a Tutorial

I was always admiring a flower FPC card made by my friend Pam and she kindly talked me through making the flower over the telephone, mind you I'm not really sure if I did it correctly but I liked the end result so I thought I would share it with you.

Leaf Stamps, ink & Ribbon by PTI

Tutorial - How to make the red Flowers

Tools used, Punch Bunch medium Flower, large ball tool, tweezers, scissors and fine scoring tool.

Punch the flower shape out of red paper.

Turn over the flower and score 2 more lines in either side of the middle line you have just scored. You should now have 5 scored lines in total for each petal.














Using a ball tool in a circular motionpush gently on the centre of the flower until the flower is a cupped shape.









Cut a piece of black paper into a rectangle roughly 3/4 " x 2" we will use this to make the centre of the flower.










Fold the rectangle in half to make a
thinner rectangle.













With your scissors cut little snips along the length of the folded paper from the open ends towards the folded edge about 2/3rds of the width of the paper, continue all the way to the end.











Once you have made all of the snips your folded paper will look like this.

Spread glue along the fold and nip the end of the paper in your tweezers, start to turn the tweezers towards the glue winding the snipped paper around the tweezers until you get to the end of the paper.








Once the flower centre is set, splay out the cut paper with your
fingers untill it forms a pom pom then remove it from the tweezers.











Add a wet glue to the center of your flower shape & add the pom pom quilled shape on top of it.










This is the finished flower I used 3 to make the card, I added some punched out leaf shapes to finish the arrangement.

Scarey Day

Well I awoke on Monday 9th June to a very worrying thing, I had pains in my fingers on my right hand on the Sunday evening and by Monday morning I could not use my fingers at all (well OK I could but it caused extreme pain) I have been struggling for the last month or so with my Psoriatic Arthritis and it has now gone into my fingers, even the simple things like holding a fork is a nightmare.

Today has been a little easier if only for knowing what will hurt and not to do it, I have managed to make a card tonight and hopefully I will get it on here tomorrow so please bare with me.

Silly thing is I normally make at least one card a day to keep me sane, so, you may have to put up with me being a little loopy until I get this under control again ha ha ha.

My Second Try at Stamp Making

Silhouette Lady and Deco Background Stamps made by Me!!!

Lots of score lind using the Scor-Pal, black ribbon for bow and centre line and Nestabilities Dies to make the ovals.

This was great fun to make although the score lines were a bit of a headache to get even.

My little friends

We've been trying for a week to capture this little bird as soon as we get close he does his Scarlet Pimpinell act and disappears but today we managed.

Pictures are took through a window as I'm sure this little fellow has a radar to know when we are waiting with the camera