About Me

Hello, as you may gather from the title I am Antonia and I craft in my attic bedroom. I started crafting when I retired and love making cards for family, friends and charity

Saturday, 30 January 2010


I noticed challenges on Passion for Promarkers so have done a card for their current one Blossom and Pastel Green and if I can work out how to post to their site will enter
I used sugar nellies Gorjuss -foxy stamp coloured with Promarkers Blossom, Pastel Green, Sandstone and Spice I also used blosson and P Green on some E-line white paper flowers
I embossed and "nestied" a piece of Cordenations card and a sheet of white paper with Lables die and then coloured the paper with Pastel Green. The sentiment shape is also coloured paper
I attached the flowers with some lovely pearl brads from my stash

Friday, 29 January 2010

I used 1 inch split rings to put the "book" together

toms mum posted on MSE about a "word card" so I thought I could post this to let her see how I did mine last year


Someone on MSE was asking about sympathy cards and what "type" we made. I would like honest opinions on this one. I recently bought the "Guardian Angel " stamp from sugar nellie. I liked the look of it but when I was talking to the assistant she said she used it for sympathy cards and that has sort of changed the way I see it. I have made a card up and would like your opinion too childish? not serious enough? Oh I am just not sure about it now, anyway what do you think?

Boy it is so cold and we have more SNOW, I made some wonderfully warming soup this morning. There is something so comforting to me in weather like this about being in a warm kitchen, music playing in the background, chopping veg and herbs. Even better once you had done it you get the pleasure of eating it mmm

I see I have sprouted some followers, so welcome all. I assume you are fellow MSE crafters. I am very new to all this so now need to workout how to "follow" so thats the task for this evening if DH has football to watch tonight.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

day 2


well this is day 2 of my craft blog, and I am going to try to post the card I have made for my niece, I have used an image from sugar nellies "autumn" stamp range and coloured it with prisma pencils, using sansoder and paper stumps to blend the colours. I saw this demonstrated at my local craft shop and treated my self . I used my "bug" and nesties to mount the image and sentiment and coloured white paper flowers with promarkers to match the backing paper


Wednesday, 27 January 2010

well would you believe it!!! now I need to work out what I did, that way I can do it again.

try again
oh my it worked
well that did not work!!!
i am trying (very) t0 add a card I made today
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did it work?

OK so this is blogging

this is a trial run