Seeing the most-liked cards on Instagram made me think about which cards I would put on my own personal favourites from the last year. This was hard. I could have easily picked more — there are two or three other Christmas cards that are definitely good enough to be on here and several others from earlier in… Continue reading Personal favourites of 2015
It's always interesting to see which cards people like so I joined in with posting my most-liked photos over on Instagram. Cards from earlier in the year do miss out though — I only started posting regularly in March when I joined in with the first Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge — and the more… Continue reading Most-liked cards of 2015
I created this blog in 2014 as a means of recording the cards I make. I made this blog public in January 2015 once I'd caught up writing up the cards I'd already made. And now I've got a domain name for it. The old WordPress URL still works and will redirect to the new… Continue reading New domain name
What: I bought a fuse tool a little while ago, but I hadn’t got around to trying it out. It seemed daft to get these things and leave them unused so I pushed myself to give it a go. And I’m really happy with the results. How: In an effort to use up some of… Continue reading Happy Day card: Shaker tag
What: The last Christmas card of 2015 and I finally came up with an idea for a design for my other half. He’s a big Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fan so I went in search of Christmas inspiration there. Wassail!!! How: Of course, there are no MST3K stamps or digis out there so I had… Continue reading Christmas card: MST3K bots
What: A quick card for my other half to photograph and use as a digital card for his colleagues in the US. How: I had a quick hunt for a decent quality image of an iMac, sized it appropriately, printed it out and fussy cut it. I masked the edges and blended some Distress inks… Continue reading Christmas card: iMac Santa
What: As soon as I saw this digi stamp from Some Odd Girl I knew I had to use it to make a card for one of my other half’s nieces who plays the violin. How: Before I started colouring the image with Copic markers I printed it out on regular printer paper and planned… Continue reading Christmas card: Violin Gwen
