Sci-fi, bad movies and shaker cards. Yes it was time to make a birthday card for my other half again. This time I went straight for This Island Earth aka Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and created an interocitor. Once I found a reasonably clear image of the whole of the interocitor, I used… Continue reading Interocitor
This was made for my neighbour. Some people like bunnies, some people like cats or dogs, and some people, like my neighbour, love meerkats. In fact, making this card for her was the main reason for picking up this stamp set. Doing all this catch-up card blogging is rather fun. It was a bit of… Continue reading Meerkats
This was made for a friend who is a radio geek (among other things) — hence the valves — and whose eyesight is bad enough that I always make an effort to put extra texture or interactive elements in; this one is basically a full-size shaker. Looking back at the photos of this card I… Continue reading Valves shaker
Another little piece of colouring from a previous Daily Marker colouring challenge. This sad little pusscat didn’t really need much embellishment, so I just cut the panel down and mounted it flush on a pearlised card base. Finding a sentiment that matched with the image was the hardest part, but I think this one works… Continue reading Rainy cat
This definitely falls into the really simple category. The sort of card that you can make when you just want to switch your brain off and do a little bit of flat colouring and a lot of easy doodling. I die-cut several overlapping circles in a piece of card, coloured the individual pieces and doodled… Continue reading Doodled die-cut circles
This pencil-coloured unicorn Mae had been sitting around for almost a year before finally being put on a card as part of my brief blitz on my PHD (projects half done) box. I did some tone-on-tone stamping for the lines on the card base and stamped the sentiment over the top of them. The sparkly… Continue reading Purple unicorn Mae
Browsing around YouTube one day, I came across this watercolour-stamped card and was inspired to create my own version. I do have the set Dawn uses for her card, but I like to avoid duplicating other people’s cards too closely, so I went hunting for some other solid stamps in my collection and found some… Continue reading Watercolour butterflies
The bonus lessons for the wrap-up day of the Clear and Sheer card class were on shaker cards. I’ve made a few shaker cards in the past, but I’ve always used acetate for them; it had never occurred to me to use vellum, so I had to give it a go. And I really like… Continue reading Vellum shaker
One of our neighbours asked if I could make her a handful of birthday cards as she had a bunch of birthdays coming up. Typical of such requests, there wasn’t a lot (well, any) more detail, so I had to wing it a bit. Knowing that her tastes swing more to amusing rather than pretty… Continue reading Four monster cards
This was only the second wedding card I’ve made. The first card was all flowers, embossing and ribbons, and I wanted to create a cleaner, more graphic feel for this one. I’d seen tuxedo and wedding dress hearts around and knew I wanted to create versions of those with the addition of some ribbon and… Continue reading Wedding hearts
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