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Sharing some lovely ideas by the teamies tonight.... Gorgeous Happy Dog looking over a wall by Dora (don't you just love him?!)... Plus two cool cards full of balloons , by Sam, the Scottish Crafter... Then some fabby dabby makes by Sandra... More lovely balloons - just fantastic!.... Plus one using the Chunky Train Tag ... ...And that lovely Ship in full sail .... Sandra also made this fabulous card using CI-517 , to help promote our stamp designs on the super website of 'Ink Art Designs',  owned by the lovely Dot Leathbridge.  What a beauty! Finally this evening I have a lovely journal page by Chris - using the Tea at Three stamp, CI-389 - an old favourite of many of you I think, plus one of our butterfly dies and a sheet of our background paper.  All looks so stunning against the black background!... All full of extreme gorgeousness! Thank you one and all.  So very delightful. Back soon, Jean x

Thanks for the comments on my last blog post.  Must take a photo of my old Singer Sewing Machine and pop it on here as suggested,  Also hope you get a bit more free time soon Coco, my friend! I thought I would share a few of my recent journal pages on here, plus a lovely journal page from Daniele.  This is how it began for Daniele... And this is how it ended up... What a delight! Here are my four pages, again featuring the latest stamps by the artist Sharron Bates.... I also made a little 'China Cupboard' using a little wooden tray (which had previously held craft embellishments), with one of Sharron's designs... I demoed the process Live on our Facebook page. In today's Live Demo I made this little card with a couple of our older stamps, a stencil and Distress Oxides.... Thanks for watching, and following, Back soon, Jean x

We are very excited as we have just released three new festive stamps, which are available on special opening offer prices if you are quick.. You will find them easily in the New Products section of the CI Website. Here are the first few makes with them.. Lots more makes to come.

Well we've all had the bug, cough, cough, cough, hoping it will pass soon.  Have any of you had it out there?  My eldest son started it off - he was extremely poorly with it, couldn't get out of bed - and he kindly passed it on, lol.  However thought I'd better do a quick blog post nevertheless, as my last was before Christmas, and then go to bed and try and sleep .  Why is it that as soon as you lie down, the coughing starts again?! I have a few makes I don't think I've shown you yet, although not 100% sure about that.  I'll start with three lovelies by our latest teamie star - Sally Holmes... ....and another one with the Highland Stag CI-526 next by lovely Dora.... Now a few more makes from the last lot of zentangle animals and flowers, drawn by Ellie Mulligan, and made by Isa - just gorgeous... CI-524, CI-523, CI-522, CI-525, and another older image drawn by Linda Edwards CI-351, appearing above. Finally this evening a card made by Helen using the flowers ag

A little catch up of images that were part of our recent Hochanda shows, based by the sea, and in the sea. Loving these bright colours achieved by Helen using alcohol inks along with the turtles and seahorses and dolphins... Here's a turtle image by Daniele too... Love this seahorse by Sandra... ...And these dolphins by Sandra too... Here is another seahorse card by Sally... I made a seahorse tag, with the new 'Wonderfully Weathered' CI papers, during a Facebook Live Demo... ...And these are the wonderful papers (now on our website)... One of the following journal pages was completed on Hochanda by moi.... ..... I used the new stamps, one of our image sheets, 2 tags made out of Malcolm's photographic scene background papers, some hand drawn shells, and other background papers from our collection.  What a lot of fun we had down by the sea! Finally I love this card made by Sally... Such a terrifically talented team we do have!