Lesley's Craft Room

Sunday, 10 July 2022

My Sister's TV appearance

Hippest Hippos is a FREE sale a bration set,

and I've used it to celebrate my Sister's recent TV appearance on Kate Garraway's "Good Stuff"

She's a Medau (keep fit) teacher and she gave them a demo using gym balls

The balls are very shiny, so I added glossy accents.

Medau often use equipment during their sessions, to aid movement and fun.

I "dressed" my hippos according to their outfits (sorry Kate I missed you out)

Added some foam pads and an extra layer of tutu for dimension.

During lockdown my sister started online classes,

and had to come up with household objects that her pupils could use.

I think it resulted in lots of giggling!

It's a fun, gentle form of exercise for all ages, she's been doing it over 40 years.

Kate asked her age!...Even though she admitted on national TV, I don't think I should share it :)

I sent her this to congratulate her and make her smile.

She was very nervous, but thoroughly enjoyed it and looked like the cat who got the cream afterwards.

Artistic licence in bucket loads on this card!!!

Lesley

xxx

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Saturday, 9 July 2022

Split card

A quick and easy card today, using a new set of dies,

And that fabulous (retired) new horizons paper

I think this would work with any papers, or by making your own

I fussy cut the large greeting, and die cut the grid overlay

Love the zingy lime in the paper matches my background trees :)

Have a happy day

Lesley

xxx

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Sunday, 3 July 2022

Peaceful treees

Hi there,

another slightly different card to one I shared before,

this one a happy accident....

I stamped all 3 trees on a piece of scrap white card, as I was making a batch of these.

When I laid it on the paper I actually prefered it to the one below, where I stamped 2 trees on the paper, and just die cut the small one.....

Here they're side by side, and I think the right hand one stands out a bit better...

what do you think?

Lesley

xxx

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Saturday, 2 July 2022

More Smiles

Hi there

You may recognise this card...

I wanted to show how you can flip a layout for a slightly different look

Love that the word cuts the inside and outline

Used slightly darker outline this time.

Enjoy your day

Lesley

xxx

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Sunday, 26 June 2022

Elephant parade

Hey there

There’s this cute set on the block, and I could not resist….

I love elephants! These ones are up for a party!

Emma Goddard used this set on one of her card and a cuppa sessions.

If you fancy some “me” time, with a lovely group of friends, learn some techniques and layouts to help boost your mojo, I can highly recommend them, see Coastal Crafter Here

You can book different blocks, watch it live on zoom or Facebook, or watch on catch up.

I used blends to colour in, crumb cake and smoky slate for the animals, heather and flamingo balloons,

Pear for my scribbled grass, and pool party around the images and the sentiment, to make it pop out a bit.

I blended grey with crumb cake on the elephants. You can get surprising results using colours you wouldn’t think of together. I drew teeny bows on the trunks too.