Craft Blog

risbane based artist Definatalie just linked me up to DailyDropCap.com, a fabulous new typography blog featuring (as you may have guessed) a different illustrative drop cap each day. From the site: The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new [...]

I just completed some Easter cards to hand out to my family this weekend and thought I’d share them here The zip folder contains all of the images shown above. Three that you can cut out and stick onto the front of a blank greeting card, and three to print out onto cardstock and fold [...]

I love the vintage look of Lomography, and yet can’t bring myself to fork out money, for a camera (or “another toy” as my husband would refer to it!)  just because it takes some interesting looking pictures, particularly considering it took me almost two years to get the films printed from my wedding – who [...]

Pixels and Ice Cream is to thank for the brushes used in the new CB header and layout. I discovered Jen’s site via stumbleupon a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with her designs. If you’re interested in graphic design, Photoshop or digital scrap-booking then her blog is stuffed full of resources for [...]

I am self taught at both image manipulation and sewing, but I like to think that I’m fairly proficient in both of them – at least I pretend to be! It wasn’t until this evening that I actually combined the two. A few weeks back I ordered some Hungry Caterpillar Fabric featuring the illustrations from [...]

The sewing world has been buzzing with news about Spoonflower.com for a couple of months now. I’ve had an account and my design for a couple of weeks and have just got around to placing my first order, two yards of fabric with my own design should be heading my way soon! I won’t be [...]