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
I keep mentally referring to the base layer of this card as the blue masterboard. It's actually purple and green, but that just feels a bit long-winded 🙂 So, pretty much the same procedure as for the red card with the fairy lights. Different colour background, different stamp and different patterned border, but otherwise... The… Continue reading Candle on blue
Yes, yes, I've left the challenge until the end of the month again. But it's not like I haven't been busy making other Christmas cards; at this rate, I might even be finished by the end of November! This cute little mouse balancing on his bauble deserved to be the star of the card, so… Continue reading Balancing mouse
When I started thinking about Christmas cards, I decided that I would try creating a couple of masterboards — basically, my own patterned paper made using a brayer and acrylic paints with layers of stamping over the top — to use as the base for a few cards. I didn't want to make lots of… Continue reading Fairy lights on red
I couldn't bring myself to waste the snowy scene left over from die-cutting the hills for the last card, so I used it to create a simple card for the Christmas stash. I grabbed a sheet of the extra shiny mirror card that has been lurking in my paper pile for months and glued the… Continue reading Winter scene on mirror blue
I rarely use large detailed dies like this, but this one caught my eye. In theory, it should make it easy to create a few quick Christmas cards; which is why it took me two days to finish this one. I had a dig through my box of background experiments and found this piece of… Continue reading Merry Christmas frame
This was a good way of using up lots of small pieces of vaguely Christmassy patterned paper; however, although it’s quite a simple design, it did take quite a while to make these. Creating the card bases was quick, they just needed to be run through the Big Shot in an embossing folder. Creating the… Continue reading Paper-pieced presents
This started out as an experiment, one of those “see a technique, try it” self-contained experiments that have no purpose other than to have a go at something. Of course, me being me, I couldn’t leave a perfectly good bit of string art sitting unused for long. The string art is in four colours —… Continue reading String art and flower
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