JO FIRTH-YOUNG

This little chap was given new, fancier, tail feathers - and then I forgot to blog him/her! shame on me! so it gets its own little blog post...

... back in 2005 I married Matt. Here's the card I made for him this year - I always try to include the same number of heart motifs on t...

On the first Saturday of each month The Craft Barn has in-shop demonstrations and this month I was providing one of them... I had a lovely d...

... to my Hubby - who turned 40 yesterday - here's the card I made him - quite simple.  I love this card structure - deceptively simple....

Love how this tag turned out - I used Tim Holtz stamps, Nestabililies dies, and the 'cafe' set of Perfect Pearls powders - the Capp...

There areother tutorials out there on the www (Tim Holtz has one on his site - bit tricky to find but maybe that's because I was looking...

... so lots of little bits and pieces going on & being made/created and I've been a bad blogger and only been putting things up on T...

 ... its an ongoing task - to attack/use the stash I've accumulated (all part of 'reduce, reuse, recycle') - and over at Banana ...

When I get a product I like to try it out on & with anything I can get my hands on... The above are what I made before (and after) I we...

Today's tag is decorated with the lovely new PaperArtsy OakLeaf dies - love how they've made them in 3 sizes! Went a bit old schoo...

This tag, created again for demo'ing at the AC/TH event, is a bit of a sampler: the tag has been partially embossed accented with Distr...

... well not technically Part 1 as I've put up a lot of tags during my time on this blog but its part 1 for this week - there are going ...

Another 'something' where I was just playing with 'stuff'.... acrylic paint resist, stamping & resist, cuttlebug embossi...

I'm in Essex and I realise we don't have half the amount of snow as the rest of the country - yesterday on my way up the garden to f...

As promised here is the other tag I made with the lovely embossing folders that the Postie delivered in a snow 'storm'... All the e...

It feels like I should be posting something festive today as its 1st December.... Eeek! 1st December!! aaanyhoo,  I'm not going to! but ...

Here's a pretty tag I made with things that came in the post last week - making a tag lets me quickly use new 'toys' ahem sorry,...