Queen of Scraps

18/10/2026

Here’s my prototype for the November Loveitchopit workshop: we’ll be using Christmas papers and we’ll be able to make 6 fancy fold cards.
Suitable for intermediate level card makers: message me for more details

16/10/2026

The make and take from last Wednesday’s Casual Crafting was this little triangle gift box

06/10/2026

Use up your beautiful patterned papers with this fun funfold design (all metric)

06/10/2026

September DSP challenge 2026: using up Painted Lavender

05/10/2026

Still have to photograph my September DSP challenge cards! But already onto my October DSP which is Brushed with Beauty!
I have some great ideas to share using your small scraps like this one! Just a 4cm square of dsp to make this little gift card

05/10/2026

This sounds like fun! I even have a couple of photo worthy frocks! Why not join me?

👗 Frock up this October—and enter to win!
To help raise awareness of ovarian cancer during Frocktober, we’re giving away one ticket worth $30 to our Craft for a Cause card-making fundraiser.
📅 28 February 2027 | 2–4 p.m.
📍 Taylor Made Community Centre, Cambridge
Supporting the Ovarian Cancer Foundation New Zealand.
To enter, add a photo of yourself wearing a frock or suit in the comments. It must be your own original photo, taken this October.
You can enter again on another day! Use a different photo in a different location—the same outfit is absolutely fine. If you have more than one or different variations, please share with us. Maximum one entry per person per day across our three giveaway posts.
Open to people aged 18 or over who can attend the event. Entries close at 11:59 p.m. NZ time on 25 October 2026. One winner will be drawn randomly from all eligible entries and announced on 27 October.
Feel free to share this post to help spread awareness.
This giveaway is run by Ruth Hickey and the organisers of Craft for a Cause in February. By entering, you release Facebook from responsibility for the promotion. It is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.

25/09/2026

Just about at the end of September and I am only now remembering that I was planning to join in the All Stars DSP challenge in August. (thats what ill health and dental work will do to your memory!!)

Are you doing the challenge?it is fun to use up the last scraps of a favourite paper suite. Or maybe this is the challenge you need to cut into that virgin pack of paper!

But its never too late. I've been working on some scrap card templates and using my retired Painted Lavender. It may as well be my DSP challenge paper for September!

Here's a couple of cards that I have completed... a few more to finish and of course the tutorials to write up, so they will follow soon.

22/09/2026

Playing around with scraps, adjusting to fit our metric cards. This isn't quite perfect, but not too shabby as a prototype, and I will be posting it off as a thank you to friends in France.

Once perfected this may be a template for International Cardmaking Day on 3 October!

14/09/2026

You know that problem when you plan a project to use up scraps and at the end of it you have more scraps?

I made this 12x12 layout to use up scraps of a retired double sided paper. I ended up with heaps of 7cm wide scraps leftover. While they were out on my workspace I decided I had better turn them into cards. I made 4! One has already gone to the birthday boy!

Let me know if you would like the template so you too can “use up scraps”

10/06/2026

I always enjoy the challenge of converting imperial measurements to metric, so it works with our A4 cardstock!

This impressive 3D card was inspired bu "Inspired Creativity"

It was the make and take for yesterday's Casual Crafting session, and uses the Valley in Bloom suite of products from Stampin' Up!