Name:
Amelia Thorneycroft (mimi) (Administrator)
About You:
I’ve always been interested in crafts, but I’ve only started card making
for the past 2 years. I’ve been ill and haven’t been schooling, and a teacher
from my school came to visit me and bought me a copy of the Cardmaking &Papercraft magazine. I subscribed and started card making from there. Then, when was in hospital for two months, I shared my creations with the other patients in there. I lose motivation sometimes but you know mental health problems! They’re always up or down!
Because of my crafting story, I was recently made subscriber of the month by Carmaking & Papercraft.
Your Personal Blog(s):
How long have you been blogging for?
December 2011
What is your favourite technique?
Stamping and using Promarkers
One of your Creations:
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Name:
Vicky Plowman-Render (Author)
About You:
I am 33 year old married
Mum of two Hannah and Joe, and work as a manager for services for people
with autsim, which I thoroughly enjoy. I have been crafting for since 2004 my
mum got me into card making, then I did a bit of scrapbooking, but now I mainly
do cards and the odd gift. My sister is also a card maker so we often go to
local craft fairs with our mum, which has been great as its something we can do
together aswell as borrowing each others supplies!! I have two dogs and love spending time walking in the
country, also love my kindle and read lots.
March 2012
What is your favourite technique?
I love stamps and colouring with promarkers, but then I love
lots of techniques and trying new ones
One of your Creations:
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Name:
Sandy :)
About You:
I live in a small town in Victoria, Australia. I am married with 2 adult children. I started out doing scrapbooking and kind of fell into card making as a
way to use some of my scrapbooking supplies.
Now I love the creative process of card making and scrapbooking is a
definite second to my cards. I like to
do the card challenges and sketches would have to be my favourite of the
challenges. They give me so much
inspiration, but I can still be creative in the way I use them.
Your Personal Blog
How long have you been blogging for?
I am fairly new to blogging only started this year on the 27th
February
What is your favourite technique?
Would have to say the Clean and Simple technique is my favourite. I love to try different techniques and am
always on the lookout for something new to do.
One of your Creations:
I made a few different ones of these spinner cards, the owl spins up
and down the tree.
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Name:
Anthony James Paterson
(Also known as AJ)
About You:
I am a support worker for people with mental health issues
Learning disabilities and challenging behaviours, I live in Louth with my civil
partner Mark who also loves crafting, I enjoy films, TV and reading but my big
passion is to create a new card or altered art project
Your Personal Blog(s):
How long have you been blogging for?
I have been blogging since
October 2012
What is your favourite technique?
I enjoy a lot of different
techniques but I like layering papers and colouring with my spectrum noir pens.
One of your recent
creations:
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Name:
Joan Macdonald
About You:
I am English and retired
with my husband Eddie to Spain about 5 years ago. I have two daughters; one lives in Cornwall the
other lives in Ireland. I also have 3 grandchildren. My daughter Claire got me
interested in card making and scrapbooking when I retired, her two sons Tom
& Stephen are also very good at making their own cards. I am now totally addicted! My youngest daughter Helen makes jewellery
and her 7 year old daughter Elena has also become keen on “makings”. I have two sisters that are avid crafters as
well so we have a lot of interaction.
Your Personal
Blog(s):
How long have you
been blogging for?
March 2012
What is your
favourite technique?
I originally started with decoupage
which I find very relaxing but now I love stamping and colouring with my copic
pens and promarkers. I love learning
new techniques of all kinds.
One of your recent creations:
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Name:
Helen
Mascall
About You:
Hi! My name is Helen and I am 48, married to
my lovely Steve and have three children (Tilly and Rob are grown up and have
flown the nest, leaving my youngest, Rebekah, still at home). We have a dog, a
cat and rabbits! I live in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside in a village
just outside Banbury and work part-time in the admin office of a local girls’
school. I had a major, life-changing health event three years ago in the form
of a brain haemorrhage. Being lucky enough to survive that, relatively
unscathed, made me thoroughly re-evaluate my priorities in life, one of which
was to spend more time doing what makes me happiest and one of those things is
crafting.
My nana
taught me to knit and crochet when I was very small and my mother taught me to
sew and embroider. I have dabbled in all of them over the years but I always
end up drawn back to paper and card. I just love the versatility of it and all
the possibilities of what you can make and all the ways you can decorate it and
manipulate it. I have no formal qualifications in design or art, I have just
learnt as I’ve gone along through experimenting and following tutorials and
advice etc.
Your Personal Blog(s):
How long have you been blogging for?
Not long –
since September last year.
Currently
there are 37 followers and this seems to be added to every week J.
What is your favourite technique?
Tricky
question because I love trying out new ones all the time!
I like
playing with die-cutting and dry embossing. This week I have been experimenting
with creating my own home-made embossing plates, particularly for text,
which have
been quite successful so far.
I am open to
trying out anything you want to chuck at me!
One of your recent creations:
Oooh, how do I pick just one? I can’t decide which one to show you, so this is absolutely the most recent, it’s going on the blog tomorrow! Have a look through the blog though, as my style is quite eclectic.
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Name:
Tracey
Murphy
About You:
I am a 44
year old Mum of three amazing children aged 26, 24 and 6. I live with my fiancé and our little boy –
our girls have flown the nest but thankfully still live close by. I have two adorable grandchildren with a
little third one on the way – due this summer.
I work in Accounts and do love a bit of number crunching to keep my
brain in gear.
I started
card making in 2005 just as a ‘little hobby’.
Little did I know I would become obsessed with anything/everything
crafty! My Mum is a keen crafter and we
love to have crafty get togethers where we create and put the world to
rights! My little boy also often pops
himself down at the end of my desk and creates – he too loves all things crafty
and loves nothing more than sharing my stash with himself J
Your Personal Blog(s):
How long have you been blogging for?
I have been blogging since August 2012
What is your favourite technique?
I have a few I really enjoy but my
favourite technique is stamping and colouring with my Copics, Promarkers and
Spectrum Noirs
One of your recent creations:
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Name:
Vickie Norris
About You:
I am a 29 year old, craft mad, mum of 7
children from Brighton, East Sussex. I started cardmaking about 5 years ago and
last year won Lets Make Cards Magazine Cardmaker of the year competition.
Following on from that I set up a group for local papercraft fanatics like
myself which meets monthly which has 15 members (and grows each month), I also
became a Docrafts Demonstrator in December 2012 which I LOVE doing. I also
became part of the docrafts DT for March to August this year.
Your Personal
Blog(s):
How long have you
been blogging for?
I have been blogging on and off for a couple of years but now I
regularly blog about 3 times a week and spend absolutely ages looking at other
peoples sites.
What is your favourite
technique?
I love so many different techniques that this is a hard question
to answer! Stamping and playing with inks and distressing by ripping and
getting at the edges of paper are probably the things I like to do the most.
One of your recent creations:
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Name:
Pearl Hayes
About You:
I am 38 years old, married with 2 children, whom I home school.
I am origanally from Pakistan but have lived in the UK over 20 years.
I have been into crafting all my life but only about 2 years ago I fell in love with card making.
I also suffer from mental health problems and crafting really helps in times when I feel unable to cope.
I am 38 years old, married with 2 children, whom I home school.
I am origanally from Pakistan but have lived in the UK over 20 years.
I have been into crafting all my life but only about 2 years ago I fell in love with card making.
I also suffer from mental health problems and crafting really helps in times when I feel unable to cope.
Your Personal Blog(s):
How long have you been blogging for?
Since December 2011
What is your favourite technique?
I like trying all sorts of things but most of my cards have flowers on them. I like using real dried flowers as no one can make products as beautiful as the one who designed them in the first place.
One of your recent creations:
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1 comment:
Looks like a fun group of ladies and a fun challenge! I found you through Sandy's blog and look forward to linking up with you!! Darnell
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