First Belt

It seems that everyone that starts to play with leather makes a belt at some part in the process. This is the first one I have made and it was decidely a learning experience. Hopefully the next one will be better and I have learned from my mistakes. lol

Leather coin purse

I have seen these nifty little no sew coin purses while cruising the web and thought I would try and make one. This is my version. There are some errors in tooling and dying because I was impatient and rushing but I still think it turned out ok. Leather working will teach me patience, if nothing else. lol

Leather watch band

I have been playing with leather these days. Just learning of course and things are still really rough but I thought I would share the watch band I made using scraps. I did a lot of things wrong so this was a great learning experience but I am pleased that the end result is wearable.

Christmas cards

I have been on a stamping hiatus for quite a while. My hobbies seem to have changed as happens to many. But this lovely stamp has never had the kiss of ink and I thought I would like to make some cards with it. Here are a couple of quick pics of the cards that I made using the Holly stamp from the Stampsmith. Have a wonderful Christmas.

Lucy Vacation Book

I submitted this ages ago to Stampington and now that it has been returned, thought I would share it with you. This book uses images from the Stampsmith Lucy plate and I thought it would be fun to see if I could turn them into a story.
















Hope you enjoyed the trip.


The images were stamped on glossy cardstock, and coloured with water based markers applied by paintbrush.

More Christmas cards

These cards are made with images from the new Oxford Impressions Christmas plate Sleigh Bells. This card expresses my wish for peace this Christmas.





This quote seems made for these boys.




This card makes use of the masking technique. The quote is from the St. Nicholas collection.






I was so happy to see this formerly retired image back in this collection. She is one of my favourites. The snowflake was cut on my KNK electronic die cutter.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Dress form christmas card

I had fun combining this image from the Oxford Impressions Dress Forms and Corsetry plate with the Christmas tree from the Sleigh Bells plate. I drew the lights on the form and coloured the whole thing with Copic markers and air brush.