I’m a writer, blogger, cook, mum to three fur-babies, and wife to a wonderful man. I also work full-time as a child carer. I have a series of blogs all under the main heading of The Joyful Soul. In these blogs I explore my love of creativity in various ways.
Our new colour theme challenge at Cupcake Inspirations is perfect for Autumn. We’re sponsored by All Dressed Up for our orange, yellow and brown themed challenge. You have almost two whole weeks to link up for your chance to win a prize! Advertisements
I’m not the best colourist. I enjoy colouring, and I think I do alright at it, but I’m no expert. I have a number of beautiful floral stamp sets which are designed to be coloured, so I thought I’d have a go at finding ways to use them without having to spend ages with markers, … More Creative Ways With Floral Stamps | SSS June 2018 Card Kit | Video
It’s much later in the week (and month, for that matter) than I’d planned, but I’m here with my first Halloween series video for this year! I thought that for this video it would be fun to show the acrylic block stamping technique and use the resulting backgrounds to make Halloween cards. This technique is … More Acrylic Block Stamping | Halloween Series | Video
It’s new challenge time at The Male Room! Actually it started a couple of days ago, but I had to wait for my cardstock order to arrive to be able to finish my card! I still can’t believe I managed to completely run out of card bases… This time we’re looking for my bad/sorry projects. … More TMR 96 | Masculine Sympathy Card | My Bad/Sorry
It’s Watercooler Wednesday time! You might have noticed that I’ve been away from the challenge for a while. Heidi kindly allowed me to take a month off to recover and try to get back on track with my projects following my illness. Now I’ve returned, and I’m even hosting today’s All About Occasions challenge!
As someone who generally likes to work with clean and simple designs I mostly use white card bases. Coloured card bases can of course be CAS too, but like most people, white is my go-to. So you can imagine my dismay when I realised I was out of white card bases. Not only that but … More CASS | Merry Christmas | CAS With A Coloured Base
It’s time for another video for The Little Paper Tree! This one is actually a week earlier than my normal schedule, as we wanted it to be in time to hopefully provide you inspiration for our World Card Making Day challenge! WCMD was on the 6th, and to celebrate it The Little Paper Tree is … More The Little Paper Tree | Christmas Diamonds | Video
