The Crafty Ninja

Sneaky peek at something I'm working on...

2011-11-17T19:45:00.001Z

Yep, I'm a tease ;) enjoy!

Sneaky peek at something I'm working on...

2011-11-16T21:06:00.000Z

Yep, I'm a tease ;) enjoy!

Crafter..oo magazine - Mystery Package Challenge!

2011-10-26T20:07:00.004+01:00

Well, it has been a while, hasn't it?! Honestly, I have had the roughest year you could imagine - I won't go into details as it will not do anyone any favours and well, my personal life is just that - I do not cross it with my craft life.

Anyway, this blog post is about the Crafter..oo Crafts forum who have put together an online craft magazine which has been put together by members of the forum and I am going to be involved in the second issue of it which is due to be released in Jan 1st 2012. If you'd like to take a sneak peek at issue #1, you can do so HERE (I think you may have to sign up for the forum to be able to buy it, but it's free to sign up) and if you go on to purchase it, it's a fabulous bargain price of just £1.50!

So, what's my contribution? Good question - I need your help! I am taking part in a Mystery Package Challenge - how exciting and intriguing does that sound?! But quite frankly, I'm a little bit intimidated by the contents of this package! There are several different materials - pretty much none of which I am experienced in using - EEK!

Ok, these pictures are what's in the package. I'll explain a bit more about the challenge afterwards.

This is the entire contents of the package.

Firstly, there's a page of a book. It's printed on both sides and has some German text on one side (as shown) and what looks like an appendix or contents page in English on the other side.

Then we have this beautiful selection of beads, buttons and charms! They're SO pretty to look at!

And finally, there are three different types of ribbon - a thin strip of pale blue satin-y ribbon, some white-ish organza-type ribbon which is a little wider and some white lace edging-type stuff. Oh, and that piece of grey/brown fabric is also part of the package!

I apologise for my lack of technical terminology in the descriptions - but as I previously mentioned, this is NOT the kind of stuff I am used to working with! And this is why I need your help. The rules/guidelines we have to follow for this project are:

You may blog WIP pieces as a tease, as long as they do not give away too much about the final piece
You agree not to post pictures anywhere on the web of the final piece until after issue 2 hits the shelves (or web, I suppose!)
You may use supplies from your own stash, but please let the supplies in the "Mystery Package" be the main focus of what you make
You do not need to use all the pieces that are in the "Mystery Package", but please try and use as many as you can.
You can make more than one thing

Anyone who knows me or my work, knows that I primarily focus on yarn arts (knitting and crochet) and paper and card crafting, so this is completely new to me! Ideally, I'd like to try to work the items in this package into something covering those areas. I don't want to have to go out and purchase lots of expensive extras to be able to make this work - it's far too close to Christmas(!) to be thinking about spending my money on anything else so I want to use things I already own as much as possible too.

I have maybe a couple of basic ideas, but am not really sure how to make them work. If anyone has any ideas that may help me, please do comment. I will gladly consider anything you can suggest - although I won't be able to let you know whether I use your suggestion or not! And I don't want to steal whole ideas either, so please bear this in mind when commenting!

Thanks so much to every one of you who reads this. You're so supportive to me all of the time and I appreciate it more than you know! <3

And the winner is!

2011-08-06T11:26:00.004+01:00

As chosen by my daughter, the process of which is shown in pictures as follows ;)

First I wrote all the entries on a piece of paper:

These were cut out and folded with the help of my daughter and put into a "pot" (aka a roll of sellotape on my bed!):

She put her hand into the "pot" and chose one name at random:

And the winner is..........

Anice! Who would like a bear the same as the one in the picture! Congratulations Anice, please email me at kaceysmom@gmail.com or contact me via my Facebook Page before Wednesday 10th August at midnight GMT!

If you weren't successful this time, don't worry! If you love these little bears, they are available to custom order (please give at least 4 weeks notice!) at just £5 each plus postage. You can contact me on the email address above or again, via my facebook page - link also above.

Thanks so much to everyone who entered and for all your continuing support!

A giveaway!

2011-07-25T10:17:00.004+01:00

Did you all hear the news? Thanks to Send In The Troops on Facebook, my Facebook Page hit over 1000 fans! Can I get a "HELL YEAH!!" :D So, naturally, I'm going to celebrate this awesome feat and one of you lucky, lucky people gets to have your own custom crocheted bear! These little bears normally retail for £5 each, but you could have one entirely free!

Awww, isn't he cute? The variables are the colour of his (or her!) body - the main bear colour and the colour of his shirt. You can have the shirt sleeveless, short sleeved or long sleeved and the length of the shirt can be altered to be the length of a dress, if you so wish!

All you have to do, is comment on this blog post and let me know what colour(s) YOU would choose if you won your own custom bear! Bonus entries available for sharing this post on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, but please post each entry as a separate comment and link to the post that you shared it in!

NB: If you are entering from outside the mainland UK, I would ask that if you are successful, would you please cover the cost of postage? Customs charges can be a pain!

PS: One other thing! I forgot to put a closing date on this post before, so I shall leave it open until.... 5th August at midnight GMT. So still plenty of time for you all!

Testing, testing!

2011-07-13T12:25:00.001+01:00

So, apparently, I can update my blog via email, which will be brilliant, especially as my smartphone (currently in for repair) is linked to google too....! Here goes, give me a shout!

Oh and I have also optimised this page for mobile use, so if you are on a phone, let me know how it looks!
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Almost a year later....

2011-02-14T18:24:00.002Z

Yes, I have decided to write a blog post again.

I haven't really got a good enough excuse for not posting, other than laziness, but I hope I can be forgiven.

I don't have time to catch up with all the projects I have done over the last year or so, but as a little background, I have had a VERY trying last few months. A big change happened in my life last November and it's thrown me out of sorts a little bit - actually - a lot. I won't go into detail here, I know some of you who may be reading this know the story, but I don't want to rehash personal issues on what is mainly a craft blog.

So, I have been crafting a lot more recently. I'm finding therapy in it, it takes my mind off of more poignant issues and have a lot more time for it too. I have taught myself to crochet quite effectively now and have been focussed on crocheting small items, whereas this time last year, I was knitting more.

Today, I have been blog-hopping to find small crochet items which can be used as embellishments for my cards. The one card I managed to complete today features a crocheted butterfly, with gems stuck on to decorate the wings. I wasn't sure about it at first, but I have had some positive response on my Facebook page so I'm feeling more positive about it. Please feel free to leave any comments.

So that's my post for today. I really hope I can blog more often and once again, I apologise that it's been so long!

I'm soooo sorry!

2010-02-27T13:07:00.002Z

I'm a terrible blogger, I really am. And you are all welcome to punish me. Facebook has been my main source of self-promotion, so if you want to see what's been going on, click the become a fan link just over on the right hand side of this post!

My last post was about the cardigan I knitted for DS. I managed to complete all parts of it, but I got really lost trying to do the button and buttonhole band, but my OH's mum is also a keen knitter and she has offered to complete that part and sew it up for me! So once it is done, I will get another picture uploaded. I just hope it will still fit him when it's done - he's 2 now and his age 2-3 clothes are getting small already!

I've also been knitting a few small toys. I made DS a small teddy which went down very well! DD now wants one too, but I'm making her a ragdoll which I'm sure she will love even more. At this point, all I have to do is knit the second section of her dress before sewing, stuffing and embellishing!

And I promised I'd update on the craft fair I did towards the later part of last year. For me, it was successful, but I could have done better! I had about 40 cards set out on the table, all OOAK and the table cost me £5 for 2 hours, which wasn't too bad, was only a small village thing. But two tables down from me was another cardmaking stand with 4 owners who were all making cards as thy sat there and had huge filing boxes full of cards. And there was me on my tod with a pair of scissors! So most people were buying from them which was disconcerting as I knew how much work I had put into each and every card. I did, however, sell 5 cards making £8 in total - a profit of £3. Not great, but it was a start!

I now have a Cuttlebug die-cutting machine too and I am hoping to get more organised soon and be able to churn out a few more designs :) For now, I'm sticking cardmaking on a backburner as a hobby.

Sorry again for not updating sooner!

Update on DS's cardigan

2009-11-15T17:00:00.002Z

004, originally uploaded by The Crafty Ninja.

I have just under a month left until DS's 2nd birthday and this is how far I have managed to get with it so far. One of the front pieces is sewn to the back piece, but the other side and the sleeve aren't as yet. I'm about 1/3 of the way through making the second sleeve as well. So far, I'm really pleased with how it's turning out! I think it should fit him for a long time ytet as well - I sized the pattern for age 2-3 years which he wears already, but this seems pretty big so I'll be pleased if he gets a years use out of it!

Facebook, commissions and craft fayres - OH MY!!

2009-10-26T18:12:00.002Z

Well, I know I said I would update this more often, but it has just totally slipped my mind. I HAVE been doing a fair amount of crafting, I just... well to be honest, I haven't had the motivation to blog it! I was considering joining in NaBloPoMo next month too but I really don't think I'll be able to keep it up! It would defintiely be an inspiration to do more cradfting, which I definitely need to do as I have been invited to hold a stall at my very first Craft Fayre! It's on the 28th November at Hamstreet Village Hall, Hamstreet, Nr Ashford, Kent from 10am-2pm and I'm so excited about it! But, it's half term, and my main focus is keeping the kids - specifically DD - occupied for the week.

Anyway, if you're a regular on my blog, you may have noticed the Facebook fan page link just over there ----> see it? If you click on it, you can become a fan of The Crafty Ninja on Facebook if you aren't already! A few weeks back, I gained my 100th fan - the lovely Kathryn. I offered her a free commission, which she accepted for her mother's birthday. She gave me a little info about her mum - what interests her, etc - and I came up with this:

I have no idea why it's so small, but you can see more pictures of it from after Kathryn received it, her review and a lovely flattering post about me at her own blog Future Queen and her Crafty Ways! A big thank you to Kathryn and everyone who helps support me, you are all fantastic!

I know it's been a while again....

2009-08-12T23:37:00.002+01:00

2009-08-12 22.48.08.jpg, originally uploaded by grazedelbows.

This is actually a commission for my sister. Though we are both attending our cousin's wedding on Saturday, she asked me to make her a card. She picked up the embellishments and let me know what colour scheme she wanted, so I rustled this up for her! I'm really happy with how it turned out, especially the sheet of polyester laminate on the top to give it that extra professional edge!

And just to say, that now I have discovered how to use Flickr's editing suite and can upload directly to here, I will almost definitely be blogging more often!

Flickr

2009-08-12T23:10:00.002+01:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

EDIT: Oh my word - I may actually have to use this now! How nifty is that? I never realised I could post my pictures directly from flickr to the b log! Of course, I'll have to see if I can get the fancy editing and border tools I've used on Photobucket before now, but wow! Colour me impressed!

The bug has bitten!

2009-07-01T21:27:00.002+01:00

This last week or so, I have been crafting much more often than is usual for me. Most of the time, unless there is a big occasion coming up, I have no reason to, and the kids rarely permit me to - DS moreso - just because he's 18 months old and wants to be in everything - I think my craft cupboard must be like a treasure trove to him. To me, it's MY treasure - and also a danger to him because of all the scissors, knives and pens lying around.

Anyway, my evenings, I usually spend messing around on facebook. It's my vice, I need to quit. But ANYWAY! I have been crafting. A lot. So here's 3 new projects for you to feast your eyes on!

This is my first one. My DD will be leaving nursery in a few weeks to go on to Primary School (*sniff, sniff* Don't get me started on my baby girl going to school already - it's not true, I won't admit to it *sob*). Ahem, excuse me, sorry. So I rustled up this thankyou card from some freebies in a magazine - but the arrangements and ideas just sort of came to me. I'm really pleased with this one.

These next two are for my older sisters birthday, I don't see her very often but my dad wanted me to pick up a card for her from him too. Pick up a card, me? Screw that, I'll damn well make it myself! I'm really pleased with this first one. I had barely any ideas, they just all came together. I actually had the decoration ideas made up beforehand - then when I looked in my card blanks and found one that was almost the exact colour of the detail - yeah, exactly!

I rushed this one really. I don't know, I just had run out of inspiration for one night. Maybe one card a night is my limit, maybe I will build it up as I get more experience. I don't know, but this is going to have to be labelled: "It'll do".

So hopefully this crafty bug will stay with me for a while and I'll be able to show some more of my creations much more regularly!

Oh and as a last note, I got a brand new 10mp camera recently too, so hopefully my photo quality will be a bit better than has been before!

It's a girl... or TWO!

2009-06-10T13:16:00.002+01:00

The ex-DH rang me to say our old next door neighbour had given birth this week to identical twin girls! Of course, I remembered I had LOADS of baby bits in my craft stash, just DYING to be used for something, so I rustled up this little thing! Really pleased with how it turned out and I hope the new parents and their new 5 piece family are enjoying their babymoon!

Update on the cardigan for DS

2009-05-26T16:10:00.002+01:00

You may remember I started to make a cardigan for DS a few months ago [see this post, a few images down]. That picture was the back of the cardigan, which now looks like this:

And now, teamed with this [the left front panel]

Shold look a little something like this:

I am now working on the first sleeve, which is the same kind of yarn, but in a contrasting colourway to set off the raglan pattern. Keep watching as I update with more pictures soon!

Darren's card

2009-05-25T15:08:00.002+01:00

As many fellow cardmakers know, making cards for men is HARD. It's so easy to find flowers, hearts and butterflies, or any kind of paper or decorations for female orientated cards, but to make a card for a man is a challenge every time! Especially if it's a last minute job. But, I think I was pretty successful with this one. It suited the recipient to a tee and he had to double-take on receiving it - he thought it was shop bought!! I'm really pleased with how this turned out as well.

A commision, part 1

2009-05-07T14:27:00.002+01:00

My brother asked me to make some cards for his friends. The first one, I was told, was for an 18 year old girl who is very girly. I had bought some butterfly peel-offs that day as I'd seen a demonstration using them and acetate to create an effect. I also had bought some polyester sheets [much cheaper than acetate and does the same job ;)] and created this:

You can't tell so much, but the wings have been coloured in with pens too. My brother said his friend would love it - the word he used was "perfect", which made me a little proud :)

The next commision hasn't been started yet, but the other friend is 'girly emo' - so watch this space!

BARGAIN of the year!

2009-04-24T16:02:00.003+01:00

I've had a lovely day today. Really, lovely. My DD was off mursery yesterday with earache and still felt under the weather when she woke up today so I kept her off again. As it was such a lovely day, we decided to spend it outside. I'm feeling a bit broke today, but realised that as today is the last Friday of the month, we'd take a trip down to our local Sure-Start Centre where they hold a coffee morning for cloth nappy users. She was happy to have lots of dressing up things and a giant beanbag to play with and DS was happy enough playing with some of the kids his age too. I soon discovered that the two ladies there were also keen crafters and they begun showing off their recent crochet projects! I was stunned - they were AMAZING! I would love to be that talented and it made me feel determined to improve on my knitting and crochet.

After we'd finished, the kids and I set off to town where we had lunch and DD was an angel! We were about to go home, but I felt like I needed to do one more thing, so I told DD I wanted to look in a charity shop and asked her which one we should go to. "The one next to McDonald's!" she told me, so we set off towards the British Heart Foundation.

As she was looking at the toys, I spied a charity sack with some writing on it. "4 for £1" it said. I peeked inside the bag to find it was about half full of different sized balls of yarn, different colours, mostly acrylic, but almost every ball had maybe scraps taken from it - some were clearly old and some were brand new. I asked the lady behind the desk how much for the whole bag. She phoned her manager on the intercom and I was shocked at the reply. "£4 for the bag"! Needless to say, I snapped the whole lot up!

And here is the mega stash in all its glory!

That's TWENTY-SIX separate balls in total. You can NOT say that's not a bargain if you ever saw one! Now, what to make...

Rob's Birthday

2009-04-22T21:41:00.003+01:00

Rob is my kids' dad. We separated very amicably in September last year (Remember the post titled "Pause in Life"? That's what was going on.) and are still great friends. His birthday was in March and I just found his cards. He's forgetful and keeps leaving them here.

This is the one I made for him:

The basics are all bits cut out from kits and various ready made papers, except the bits inside the "pocket" - the pen and mobile phone are cut from scraps of black card and the detail on the phone is cut from plain white paper and hand drawn on by me.

And DD wanted to make a card too, so she chose the colours and I let her pick from my birthday appropriate peel-offs. She stuck them all on herself, though I arranged the letters on the table in the correct order for her. I'm very pleased with her effort!

Hopelessly late...

2009-04-21T20:48:00.002+01:00

You may remember I blogged about some swaps I was participating in and promised to post some photos...

Well, this is my apology. I'm a rubbish blogger and just kept forgetting and when I finally remembered, I realised I'd lent my camera to a friend so couldn't take photo's of my outgoing swaps.

However - I really enjoyed both swaps, and now I present to you, my received items from blottedcopybook's Time for Tea Swap. Many apologies to Vonnie who writes that blog as she's been chasing me for ages to blog this but I'm so forgetful. But I'm emailing her as soon as I post this blog up!

My swap partner was Fiona from Scotland [who I believe doesn't have her own blog] and she sent me the above delights - as well as some lovely scottish wafers, which aren't in the pic because my DD and I scoffed them before I got the box home *greedy*. But the items you can see include some lovely patterned paper for my cards, some cupcake shaped stickers, a pack of pink napkins with cupcakes on them, a blue mug, a box of Scottish blend tea [pyramid bags! Oh and the box is empty by this point, the tea was delicious!], a handmade cupcaked-shaped felt pin badge and a handmade miniature felt cup of tea on a keyring!

In my personal life, I am finally starting to get really organised, so hopefully I will be able to keep up with my blog a lot more efficiently!

It's been a while!

2009-03-25T22:28:00.002Z

Here's some of what I've been up to!
Firstly, I picked up some wallpaper offcuts from the local DIY store, including a disney princess border. I put one of them into a frame to go onto my 4 year old daughter's bedroom wall.

I also bought a cheap scrapbook from a pound shop - it looked a bit bland so I decorated it up and am going to work on filling it soon. Here's the cover:

And on a book-cover-designing kick, I designed the front cover of a notebook for my daughter as well. What little girl doesn't like, flowers, hearts, pink and GLITTER!!??

I also picked up my knit-sticks again, to make "Little Chuckles" from Issue 27 of Simply knitting Magazine. I have completed a bit more of this now, but here's an earlier WIP photo:

And finally...
Call it a commission if you will, except I'm not getting paid for it ;) My sister asked me to make a card for a 3 year old girl and I rustled up this!

Anyway, very sorry for not keeping up to date with this. I've been very busy with numerous swaps, mainly Blottedcopybook's Time for Tea swap and the Secret Easter Chick Swap Which is being run by the lovely Incy @Incywincystitches - both of which will be blogged after their intended recipients receive them!

I've been slacking, but not in the making dept...

2009-02-25T20:39:00.002Z

Yeah, I've been slacking in updating this thing, but I have been semi-busy over the last few weeks too!

February 14th was of course Valentine's Day and I created this card for the boyfriend. It wasn't my best piece of work, but the whole thing was my own idea and everything except the backing paper on the inside was hand-drawn/coloured - so it was actually almost 100% handmade. I was pleased with it anyway and I got some pretty good feedback from it.

It was also my best friend's birthday on the 13th. I haven't actually given him this card yet, so I hope he doesn't read this regularly ;) Being a guy, this card took some thought but I really liked the outcome, I hope he does too.

I decided to make a donation to the Crafter...oo Comic Relief Shop at Folksy where all items are handmade by members of the Crafter...oo Craft Forums and all money made from the sales of these items goes to Comic Relief. The following submission was sold last week, but I shall be adding at least one more card to it in the near future, so watch this space!

Please check out the shop and donate to a very worthwhile cause!

Late start to the new year!

2009-01-25T13:13:00.003Z

First off, Happy Birthday to my very lovely boyfriend, Iain. Here's the card I sent him.

I was in the middle of making him a crocheted cow toy as well, but only got this far:

[That's the head and snout, by the way!]

I also crocheted myself a bracelet - nothing special. Originally, i was following a pattern for some baby bootees but I realised it was going to be far too big, so I finished it there and Voila! A bracelet!

Now I'm concentrating on Valentine's projects and experimenting with heat embossing, stamping, etc. Here's some of the forementioned experiments:

Busy this time of year...

2008-12-13T13:23:00.001Z

Firstly, a cute doggy and a new style of fold

And a more classic one

Create-a-calendar #1 - Jan and Feb

2008-12-10T00:13:00.001Z

January

February

The one that wouldn't go to plan

2008-12-08T22:09:00.001Z

I kept doing things wrong with this, but with a little determination, I finally managed to put it all right and here is the finished project

Some quick Christmas cards

2008-12-03T14:14:00.002Z

The ex-DH wanted me to do some cards for some of his work colleagues. I had no idea what to do, but I hope he likes what I did come up with. I'm calling them "lazy cards" because all the bits came out of kits!

This one is one of my favourites. I LOVE how it turned out!

I wanted to do something original with this, so I layered up the parcels a bit with lots of sticky squares. I think it brought some life to the card!

Lastly - I designed a card for a friend for a secret swap - I wanted to make it personal to her, so I added her name and made it using her favourite colours.

Picking up some old crafts

2008-11-30T15:15:00.002Z

I got sent a lovely crafty package as part of a swap I was involved in on Punkymoms which included some beautiful handmade knitting needles. I decided to pick up the sticks again last night, I haven't knitted for a while, but it's like riding a bike - so I found my old magazines and some scraps and began to make one of Alan Dart's farm animals. I got halfway through the body and put it down for a nap, but my DS decided to go through my bag and took it off the needles. I haven't inspected the damage yet, but I suspect I'm going to have to frog the whole lot and only work on it after the kids are in bed.

A long one today!

2008-11-23T18:14:00.003Z

First off, some older stuff today.

A birthday card for my dads 64th birthday

A christmas card

Another christmas card made with a 'Me to you' craft set

Some WIP's - I'm not sure I like the gift one yet.

And just for funsies - my not-so-organised crafting area - it's a large under-stair cupboard which is doubling at the moment as a Christmas present hiding place, so it's rather more cramped than usual!
EIGHT drawers of stuff!

And a large box with all my plain cardstock and magazines - the plastic zip bag at the bottom currently has all my christmas papers and bits in it - I'm forever looking for them so I put them all together!

There you go, nice long entry for once!

Punk birthday card

2008-11-16T09:58:00.003Z

A friend asked me to create a card for her sister's 15th birthday - the only idea she gave me, was that she liked "punk" stuff - so this is what I came up with.

The skull and checked paper was printed off from www.glogster.com and the toppers were just plain card/paper stock written on by hand with an embossing ink pen and black glitter embossing powder. I know it's a little wonky, but I think that adds to the effect!

I loved creating this project as I came up with the whole idea myself. I was duely informed that the recipient was very pleased with the card too - I love making people happy with my creations!

Pause in life...

2008-09-27T13:46:00.001+01:00

Thanks to everyone for reading my blog, but due to some life decisions, I will be putting the blog on hold for the time being. Watch this space and hopefully I will be back shortly with some new stuff and with a fresh mind! Thanks for reading xxx

Market/bootfair bargains

2008-09-15T12:30:00.002+01:00

I found a papercraft stall at our local market. I managed to get a neat little set of craft knives in a box for £2.50, a cutting mat for £3 and a lettering stencil for £1.20! I was pretty impressed with my haul, then when I paid for it, the lady running the stall asked me if I made cards myself and handed me a small bundle of card toppers - for free! Then my DS woke up from his nap extremely grumpy, so I tried to get him away from the bustle to give him a cuddle. DD wanted to look at the bits on the stall some more, so the lovely lady gave her a sheet of peel-off flowers! She had great fun decorating them up for her nanny's birthday [tomorrow]. I shall get some pictures of them sorted soon too.

Whilst we're on the topic of pictures, I am still trying to get them sorted out. I want to get some kind of watermark across them to prevent people claiming my work as their own, but haven't quite worked out how to do it yet ;) But as soon as I can, I will get the pictures uploaded :)

Pics soon!

2008-09-06T10:20:00.003+01:00

I lost the xD card for my camera. My 'day job' had new 512mb cards in the warehouse for £2, so I picked up the last one last night - so there will be new pictures very soon.

Of course, sod's law says as soon as I installed the new card, the old lost one turned up *doh* but oh well. I'll have one for kidlet pics and one for card pics.

Watch this space!

First display

2008-09-05T10:38:00.000+01:00

Some of you have seen these already, but these are the only ones I have uploaded right now.

Any input/comments much appreciated!

Intro!

2008-09-04T22:44:00.000+01:00

Hello!

Ok, I have little to no idea what I'm doing with this at the moment, so please bear with me whilst I get things going. I intend to use this blog to display my own work as a card maker - hopefully getting my work some exposure. I currently class myself as a beginner in this field of craftiness or creativity, but have had several positive comments on my work and wanted to gain some pointers from others who may be more knowledgeable than I.

I'm still experimenting with both my craft work and this site, so once again, please bear with me whilst I familiarise myself with the controls etc.

Thanks for reading!!