Rather than creating a straight-line panel, I used stamps and masking to build up a flower pattern following the basic angled shape and then fussy cut around the flowers. This was my first attempt at slightly more complex masking and I’m rather pleased with how it turned out, though fussy cutting Distress watercolour paper without creasing it is not the easiest of tasks.
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I’ve watched many card-making challenges go past in my feed reader; always thinking that I’d give them a go, but never getting around to it in time (or simply forgetting about them). This time I was determined to actually make a card, possibly even in time to enter it…
I’m not one hundred per cent happy with this card — it’s okay and it will be used. I’m not quite sure what I’d do to improve it: I would have liked to have had some brighter glitter to hand, and maybe I wouldn’t bother with the silver watercolour in the background if I made it again. I don’t dislike it, it just could have been better somehow.
I really need more practice using the stamp n’ bond to stick the glitter down… And better lighting for photographing cards in the evening…
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What:A valentine’s card for my other half.
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Friends of ours have just had their first baby; a little girl. I don’t have any baby-themed stamps, so I had to find something suitable — I think the bunny works well, and it is certainly my most successful attempt at no-line watercolouring so far.
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A birthday card for my brother’s other half, another VW camper van fan. I’ve used the camper van stamp before, for my brother, and that time I used Copics to colour it. I wanted to do something different for this one, so I got out the foil and, after much fiddling (it was the first time I’ve tried using foil) ended up with one shiny red van. The shine doesn’t really show up in this photo, but you can see it in the detail pic at the bottom of this post.
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A birthday card for my nephew who, by some weird effect of the passage of time, has just turned eighteen. I don’t have any large number dies, so I found a font I liked (far harder than it should have been really), printed it out and used it as a template to cut the numbers out of the Dufex card.
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This wasn’t made specifically for anyone; I just fancied making a shaker card and using the Clearly Besotted butterfly dies that match their equally lovely dragonfly dies, which I have used before.
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