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.
Happy September, everyone! As today is not just the first of the month, but also the first Wednesday of the month, it is time for a new challenge at The Male Room. I’ve been on a break from this team over the last few month’s as I tried to get my crafty mojo back, and … More TMR 154 | Give Thanks | Nature’s Bounty
We’re still playing with colours for the latest Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. The challenge is well under way but you still have until Friday to play along, and we’d love to see your projects focusing on the colours aqua, red and brown. You can bring in other colours too, but the focus should be the challenge … More CIC 525 | Birthday Alpaca | Aqua, Red, Brown
I’ve been working hard on cards all day, but nothing I can actually share yet. I’m halfway through the cards for my first (yes, first!) video using the Love From Lizi August card kit. I spent pretty much the whole day on it. Actually, more than that, because I started planning out what I would … More You’re A Treasure | Gatefold Card
Ready for a new Perfectly CAS challenge? This month our theme is Stripes and/or Dots. I went with stripes on my card, in the form of candy canes! My husband was of the opinion that that doesn’t count- what what you think?
In my blog post early today, which was sharing the cards I’d run out of time to share yesterday, I mentioned that I wasn’t sure if I’d get cards made for today. But I did! Both of the cards that I’m sharing now are clean and simple designs with repeat stamping, but they both look … More Repeat Stamping on CAS Cards
I was planning to share these cards yesterday, but by the time the third one was made it was already pretty late. I do have a studio light for my photos, but they look better with natural light, which had already gone, and sorting the blog post would take a while, and I wanted to … More Adding Colour To Cards
Seems like I really can’t manage to keep up with cardmaking/blogging and work lately! I think I’m getting more easily tired than usual because I’m still recovering from this virus. Maybe I’ll manage to get myself back on track eventually. In any case I wanted to share my final card for Camp Create, and this … More All About The Coffee | Die Cut Card
We’re playing with colours for the latest Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. From now until next week’s Friday we’d love to see your projects focusing on the colours aqua, red and brown. You can bring in other colours too, but the focus should be the challenge colours.
I fell behind a bit at the end of last week. I had no energy left after being done with work each day. The weekend has helped me recover somewhat, and I’ve been doing some catching up on the cards I had wanted to make and share over the days I missed. Not all of … More Catch Up Cards
My first day back at work after being ill went fine. If you don’t count all the public transport mishaps… On my way to work, I had to go to the bus stop after the one I needed to get off at, because my stop has apparently been replaced by a hole in the ground. … More A Variety of Cards
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