The obvious thing would have been to make a Valentine card with this bunny and its big heart, but it didn't really feel like the sort of image I'd use for a card for my other half (see this year's Deadpool Valentine). So I decided to leave it without a sentiment because my card stash… Continue reading Love you sew much bunny
And this is the last of my festive creations for this year. I hope that everyone has had a pleasant Christmas and I promise I will catch up with everyone's blogs and comments — December has had more than its fair share of stresses this year, so I've been truly grateful for this few peaceful… Continue reading Stripy gift card
I have had this digi stamp sitting on my hard drive for a while now, just waiting for the right time to be used. And this Christmas was that time. A friend of ours builds robots as a hobby and I just had to turn this one into a Christmas robot for him. The original… Continue reading Christmas robot
The annual hunt for small furry Christmassy critters to go on a card for my mum. I'd narrowed it down to a handful of options, but ultimately this one won out because of the mouse butt. I love that little furry mouse butt 🙂 I decided to keep the design simple and just find a… Continue reading Mice and presents
When I got this stamp, I did think that I would end up making more card variations with it — the stained glass style does lend itself to lots of different mediums and experiments — but then I didn’t actually need any more! By some miracle, I managed to make more cards than I ended… Continue reading Stained glass robins
By the time I had got Birka's address and then found the time to focus and actually write in the card I made for her, it was an embarrassingly long time after her birthday. In fact, it was getting dangerously close to Christmas. So my brain helpfully popped up and suggested that, in that case,… Continue reading Pink gnomes
This is a variation on a card I made last year. I learned my lesson and, this time, I checked whether mum wanted me to make a card for her to give to her brother before starting work on it. She did want one and, as last year's candle card ended up being repurposed, I… Continue reading Candles and snowflakes
It's been a few months since I last made a shaker card. This little bunny and his frame gave me the perfect opportunity to make another, although the required fussy cutting was quite fiddly. But I know the person it is destined for will appreciate the effort involved. I wasn't completely sure that I'd be… Continue reading Bunny shaker
Rather than go for the traditional Christmas red, I chose to create a shiny blue-purple ribbon for these sprigs of holly and mistletoe. This was another piece of colouring from my projects box that was crying out to be put on a Christmas card, but the trick was coming up with a suitable setting for… Continue reading Merriest berries
Birka loves pink. And it was Birka's birthday. So the Happy Crafty Friends had a pink blog hop for her and invited everyone to make a pink birthday card. This looks nothing like I had envisaged. Apart from the background that is, that went as planned. It all started so well: the heat embossing and… Continue reading Pink flowers on pink
Another piece of colouring from the project box. I'd been staring at this for quite a while before I worked out what I wanted to do with it. Earlier this year Nancee created a cute layered card and I was rather taken with the postage stamp die she used to do it. Unfortunately, that die… Continue reading Holly Sparkleberry
Just a cute reindeer prancing across the snow. I coloured this during the Daily Marker colouring challenge and have actually got around to putting him on a card. I loved how the colouring turned out on this, especially around his head, so I didn't want to distract from him too much by making the card… Continue reading Prancing reindeer
I coloured these wreaths just after the last Daily Marker challenge finished and they'd been sitting in my colouring box, forgotten, until the other day when I checked through my to-do list and spotted "Pick Xmas colouring out of stash and turn into cards". I love how these simple cards turned out — maybe I… Continue reading Christmas wreaths
Another pair of cards using the red Christmas masterboard. This time I added an extra layer of stamping on the background and then decorated it with die cuts. These were both assembled from things already in my stash. I had die-cut some sentiments and snowflakes at the same time I made the masterboards. I just… Continue reading Snowflakes on red
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