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.
The theme of today’s blog post wasn’t intentional. I didn’t exactly expect to mess up one of my cards, let alone both. But I did, and then I fixed them, so that seemed like a linking theme to discuss for them.
After yesterday’s multitude of patterned paper Christmas cards I thought today I’d go with something more clean and simple. Actually, I was working on another batch of patterned paper cards, but knew I wouldn’t be able to get the batch finished and photographed in time to share today. So this is what I came up … More CAS Reindeer | Christmas Card
We’re half way through this month’s challenge at Christmas Craft Creations. If you haven’t encountered our challenge before, it’s a month challenge all about Christmas creations (as the name suggests!) with different themes each month. This month, as it is Christmas in July, we decided to go with an anything goes theme, so any projects … More Christmas Craft Creations | Christmas Cards | Anything Goes
What’s this? Another post today. (You can see the previous one here.) That’s right! I know I’ve been trying to group cards together into one post if I have more than one to share today, but I thought this one deserved its own post. I missed participating in the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers hop … More Washi Stripes | Christmas Card
I’ve been having fun revisiting card kits this month and trying to use up bits and pieces from them. I made 16 cards with a bee-themed kit from Simon Says Stamp, a SheetLoad of mini slimline cards with a Love From Lizi kit, I have another 16 Christmas-themed cards that will be shared tomorrow, and … More Peacock Mini Slimlines | Patterned Paper Cards
We’re in the birthday spirit at Cupcake Inspirations this fortnight, with our theme being Balloons. Although that doesn’t mean you have to make a birthday card – you could use balloons for a new baby, a wedding, whatever you prefer! As long as there are balloons as a feature on your project, you can join … More CIC 524 | Birthday Hedgehog | Balloons
There have been a lot of days lately that I’ve been sharing more than one card at a time. I’ve been lucky that I’ve been able to come up with ways to connect them, because I hadn’t planned ahead to consider how to connect them in the blog posts. Yesterday it was cards using embossing … More Stamped Cards
I’m seeing embossing folders around more and more lately. They seem to be having something of a resurgence. I don’t have very many embossing folders, but I do enjoy using them. I even made a video a couple of years ago talking about different ways to use them, which you can find here if you’re … More Embossing Folder Cards
The title says there’s a video, and there is, but it only shows the process for one card. I didn’t think I’d do a video today because I’m still recovering from a respiratory infection and I didn’t think trying to do a voice-over would be wise. Too much coughing and sniffling, for that. But my … More One Stamp Two Ways | Video
I don’t think I’ve ever made an inchie card before. A quick search of my blog doesn’t bring up any results for the word. As much as I enjoy clean and simple designs, the amount of white space required for a card that only has a square inch of decoration is a bit intimidating! This … More Reindeer Twinchie | CAS Card
