These patterned papers are really beautiful! All I did with this one was to stamp the birds, lay the paper on some card, and add the fence, arched gate, and some flowers. And of course the cute blue bird! I love cards with lots of details and layers that can take a long while to put together, but I also like cards that are easy and quick to make, with little that can go wrong! And funnily enough, they are sometimes the ones I have the most trouble with!

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Happiness Abounds is in Stampin’ Up!’s new catalogue, and the patterned paper is beautiful and some of the sheets line up with the dies. These flowers are die cut from the patterned paper! Just so beautiful! If you are in Australia and you’d like a copy of the new catalogue or you’d like to know more about Stampin’ Up! please contact me here.

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I love these papers from Stampin’ Up! called On Horizon, it makes it so simple to make a stunning card because the background scene is already done for you.

I’ve been spasmodic getting into my craft space, my creative hub, my sanctuary. I’ve had some health issues which have kept me busy going here and there for tests. Thankfully it’s all good news so far. Making time to create my cards has been helpful in getting my mind off things, mostly things I cannot do anything about. I love this quote that I saw on Facebook recently, I intend printing it out and putting it where I can see it as a reminder.

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I have wanted to make one of these for a long time but always felt it looked too complicated. Well, it was not complicated at all, especially with the helpful Youtube from Alicia McNamara. I think the most difficult part was knowing what to put in the middle of the box! I enjoyed going through my stash of bits and pieces left over from earlier creations, and finding just the right mix of elements to include. I’m rather happy with the finished product!

Wow what a year 2021 was! One minute it seemed to be dragging, the next I felt like I lost a month here and there. My card crafting time was all over the place too. But of all the things I do (or want to do), creating a card or a page for an art journal is what I truly need. It centres me somehow, quietens (is that a word LOL?) my mind and calms my senses. So when I am not taking time to craft, I feel it in my mind, and my responses to what goes on around me. In heavy emotional chaotic times last year I would take myself into my craft room, even late into the evening, and start creating, and I settled down, and could again cope with what was happening.

My craft room has had its own share of upheaval. I moved everything around and put my table under the window. It was lovely with the sun coming in but it didn’t work for me. I have shelves on my desk where everything is at hand, I couldn’t have my shelves on the table under the window and I was up and down all the time. So I put it back the way it was, except there were some things that did work the other way around, so I kept them, and now I am so very happy with my space.

I submitted this photo to a January Craft Room Challenge over at Paper Craft Secrets.

I have started making pairs of cards, because I want to keep one and send one. Last night I made these two, a remake of a card I made last year for Father’s Day :

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I also love making cards from a sketch. I came across Freshly Made Sketches, and decided to play along with them for their current challenge #507 (see below). And this is my entry.

I am also going through all my stamp sets and making a card from each one (some I haven’t used yet LOL), starting at A. I am currently up to B, this set is called Butterfly Brilliance by Stampin’ Up!, so decided to combine this challenge with my own challenge for myself.

I love this card! I enjoyed the whole process of creating it and really had a fun-full time with it and I love how it turned out.

I wanted to create a peaceful space when I made these for a challenge a few months ago. I made the blue and green background by swiping the ink pads across the page.

I love using layers and clusters of elements and embellishments as features in cards. It’s fairly new for me, having learnt it last year from Alicia McNamara at Paper Craft Secrets.

I made this one and used stencils and texture paste on the patterned paper to create a muted background.

I have been going through some old cards I made years ago and revamping them. This is one of them.

I love them both! It was a fun exercise to do, using the new papers especially to get a totally fresh look.