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Eeeeek I haven't posted since Easter!  Where on earth does the time disappear to?!  This will be fairly brief, but I wanted remind you that we are running a Facebook Live session on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays currently.  All at 2.30pm UK time.  Even if you aren't on Facebook as such I think you can still watch the videos by scrolling down on this page: https://www.facebook.com/craftyindividuals/ Mondays are 'Show and Tell' days, Wednesdays are 'Demo Days', Fridays are 'Giveaway Days' as it stands at the moment.  My last demo (Wednesday) featured all things in simply Black & White.  Inspired by the cards below, last shown on Hochanda: I went on to demo the following cards: Simple stamped cards, just in purely black and white! Do join us there on Facebook if you can (next one today, 2.30pm).

Dora is one of our new teamies as you know.  She made some lovely cards for our last show on Hochanda, but unfortunately they took over a month in the post to get to the UK, from the Netherlands!! We wonder where they have been meanwhile?!  Needless to say they didn't make it in time to take as samples for the shows, which is a great pity as they are lovely, and would have been great for the winter tree shows.  Dora's stamping is beautiful, and here are 3 examples.... The first sample uses CI-483 and CI-287,  the second the tree trio is from CI-453 , with the young girl from CI-402 , and our little Monty dog from CI-439 , and the third features some trees from the lovely A4 tree plate CI-450 . Still on a tree theme I have this fabulous make by Daniele - love it!   Daniele used the middle tree from CI-287, one of our lovely A4 background papers,  and one of the sturdy die cut swirly frames. I also have this delightful and stunning card from Sandra, using

As I was going through my makes recently and having a bit of a sort out, I thought I would pick out a few of the older ones from the past, so that we could have a little look back at some of my faves over the years from time to time!  I expect I blogged about them at the date of creation, but I so loved making this mini printer tray one in a vintage 'lady's room' theme - very pretty in pinks and copper.... I used one of those fabulous Tando Printer Trays - I especially love the dinky ones .  The stamps used are from CI-306 , CI-329 and CI-335 , along with papers from our ' Shades of Summer' background book, plus lace, ribbons and charms. Those lovely printer trays do make fantastic gifts when fully decorated. My other makes this evening are by Sylvie and are in the shape of houses, so they sort of fit a similar theme... ..... lots of CI stamps appearing here, including the lovely old gothic door from CI-249 , and the flower patch from CI