On my desk this week are things that I am going to use to package up a couple of card sets that I have made, maybe for Christmas presents. I love to make card sets up in advance as they make great gifts to have on hand. So, I have my cake stand full of washi tape. Washi tape is so easy to get hold of now and I tend to buy mine from Ebay...

Today's Halloween project came about as I wanted to do something with an old jam jar. It wasn't until I went to Hobbycraft that I came across some orange crepe paper and the idea went from there and I decided to use the crepe paper to make a jar pumpkin. So I started with the jar and simply added a piece of the crepe paper all the way around so...

This week I have showed the origami pumpkins and origami bats that we have made and today I wanted to show you the origami ghosts we have made. These ghosts were made using this tutorial and were really easy to make. I just used 4x4 inch white paper, googly eyes and some glue. Hollie had great fun gluing the eyes on the ghosts and said they...

I mentioned on Tuesday that I enjoyed making some Halloween things using origami and that I was going to make some more, well one of the other things that I made were some origami bats. I used this tutorial to make the bats and found them slightly more tricky to make than the pumpkins but after I had made a few, I understood how to do it. All...

So it's one week to Halloween and I have been making things for it, as you may have seen from yesterdays post where I show you the origami pumpkins I have made. I have also been making some other origami Halloween things and I will be showing them later in the week but you can spy a couple of them on my desk below. I have been having...

I love to make things using origami, like flowers and stars and so when it came to Halloween, I really wanted to use some origami. I came across this tutorial to make pumpkins and thought I would give it a go.  I thought the tutorial was easy to understand and I quite enjoyed making them. I made some big ones and some small ones. To...

Hollie has been in school all day for 2 weeks now. I get asked if I miss not having her at home but to be honest, I don't. That might sound mean but we were beginning to get on each others nerves and some time apart I think will make both of us appreciate each other.  This is a photo I took when she started all day. Hollie loves going...

Yesterday I showed you my desk and the things I had out to make a card and maybe use a sketch to do it.  Well I decided to use the Retrosketches sketch #33 and make a Christmas card using the stamp set and washi tape that was on my desk.   Stamps - Marion Emberson Sparkling Christmas | Red washi tape | Gems - Ebay | border punch...

I have followed Julia's blog at Stamping Ground for a long time and loved to look at the what's on your work desk posts, but never joined in but today I was inspired to join in. Here is my desk this morning as I was getting things out to make some cards, maybe using some sketch challenges from this week.  I am the type of person that will...

I have really been struggling with making cards recently until I came across some cards that had used a lot of stitching on the cards. This seem to get my creative juices flowing a bit but I also decided to use the Skipping Stones Design sketch 148 to help me complete the card.  When it came to creating the strips I struggled a bit with the measurements,...