What: A card for a gadget-loving friend. Supplies: stamps: Clearly Besotted - text me Avery Elle - cake & candles colour: Versamagic - cloud white Hero Arts - Hero Hues - black Knorr Prandell - embossing powder - transparent paper and card: Paperchase - A6 cropping block - metallic First Edition - paper pad - Noir et… Continue reading Birthday card: iPhone
Category: greeting cards
Birthday card: MST3K 50th
What: Made for my other half's 50th birthday. It took a while before I struck on the MST3K theme — obvious in hindsight — and set about making the elements. I downloaded a cinema seats silhouette, printed it and fussy cut it out. The flying saucers were stamped, coloured and fussy cut; one was suspended on… Continue reading Birthday card: MST3K 50th
Birthday card: Piccadilly line
What: Made for my neighbour, who is a driver on the Piccadilly underground line. Inlaid circle die cuts formed the tube roundel and I coloured some baker's twine with marker to make it closer to the Piccadilly line colour. One slight oops — as he pointed out, I overlooked Heathrow Terminal 5. Supplies: stamps: Bo Bunny - sentiments… Continue reading Birthday card: Piccadilly line
Card: Just a note
What: A quick note card to send along with a package to my mum. I took trial piece of embossing and fussy cut a flower pattern from it, laid it over some Distress-inked stencilling and added the dragonfly (I love this die-cut). Supplies: stamps: Clearly Besotted - sweet little sentiments dies: Clearly Besotted - dragonfly… Continue reading Card: Just a note
Birthday card: Bunny
What: A birthday card for my neighbour — I should have written something rude in place of the stamped sentiment, but I really need to work on my lettering before I contemplate committing my handwriting to the front of a card. This was my first attempt at painting with Distress inks and, while it's far from… Continue reading Birthday card: Bunny
Birthday card: Mirrored images
What: A matched pair of cards created for twin girls. I didn't want to simply create two identical cards that differed only in their main colour, so I extended the idea by making them into mirror images and splitting the central stamp over the two cards. Supplies: stamps: Penny Black - round and round Clearly… Continue reading Birthday card: Mirrored images
Birthday card: Faux leather
What: I love this faux leather paper technique and it was perfect for this particular friend's birthday. It's really simple and very effective: spray both sides of the cardstock with Ranger ink refresher, work in, crumple, dust with Perfect Pearls, and leave to dry. Finding the video of someone demonstrating this technique led me to… Continue reading Birthday card: Faux leather
Birthday card: Belated
What: If the person I made this for lived in the UK, it would have arrived in time. Unfortunately, they're on mainland Europe so I knew it wouldn't, hence the "belated". In future I'll try to keep better track of what day of the month it is. Supplies: stamps: Clearly Besotted - mini basic banners dies: Clearly… Continue reading Birthday card: Belated
Birthday card: Bookworm
What: I wish I'd given myself a little more time to work on this; I would have done the sentiment differently, or at the very least made sure it was properly centred on the card. I am, however, happy with the way the colouring turned out. The Dove blender pen smooths the pencil nicely without… Continue reading Birthday card: Bookworm
Birthday card: Flowers and twine
What: Another card created in the process of learning techniques and trying out different styles. Inspired by: Petal Parade at Made with Sparkle Supplies: stamps: Clearly Besotted - sweet little sentiments Clearly Besotted - leafy accents Hero Arts - floral colour: Distress ink pads Memento - tuxedo black embellishments: The Homemakery - lovely baker's twine -… Continue reading Birthday card: Flowers and twine
Birthday card: Stamped labels
What: Created to see how easy it would be to stamp on a sheet of labels and rebuild the image on cardstock. It was a bit fiddly to get started repositioning the individual labels, but I was happy with the final result. Supplies: stamps: Paula Pascual – all year round Penny Black - round and… Continue reading Birthday card: Stamped labels
Card: Father’s Day
What: Father's Day card Inspired by: Video: Gradient Stencil Inking at Jennifer McGuire Ink Supplies: stamps: Paula Pascual - all year round dies: Sizzix - framelits - circles 2 stencils: That Special Touch - chicken wire mask colour: Distress ink pad - peeled paint, old paper, tumbled glass, shaded lilac Cosmic Shimmer - embossing powder -… Continue reading Card: Father’s Day
Birthday card: Honeycomb die-cuts
A birthday card with a bit of texture for a partially sighted friend.
Card: Thinking of you
A quick masculine Thinking of You card for a relative.
My first card
The first card I made was an Easter card for my mum. Unfortunately, I had it sealed in its envelope and in the post box before it crossed my mind that I really should have taken a photo of it... I don't remember the exact details of it. It was made before I started on… Continue reading My first card
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