This is another "from the stash" card. My brain is still not in card-designing mode at all, which is a bit worrying as I really should be thinking about starting on Christmas cards soon. The bunny and the toadstools are two Some Odd Girl digistamps that I combined on my Mac and coloured during one… Continue reading Bunny in the woods
I posted this card back at the end of July before I had decided what to do with it. I thought it might get used for my other half's mum's birthday, but I wanted to leave my options open. In the end that's what I decided to do, though it was going to need a… Continue reading Butterflies and flowers – update
According to my spreadsheet ā yes, I keep a spreadsheet listing all the cards I make and who they get given to, how else am I supposed to keep track? ā according to my spreadsheet, this is handmade card number 600 š I have been doing this since 2014 so that's averaging around two a… Continue reading Junkyard robot
When it comes to greetings cards this year, I have really only been making the ones that I absolutely have to. My energy levels weren't that great at the start of the year and, let's face it, no-one's energy levels have exactly been boosted by subsequent world events. So, I was originally thinking about skipping… Continue reading 80th birthday
I love how this card turned out because, for once, it actually turned out just the way I wanted it to. The thing that took the longest was finding the right flower stamp to fit the design I had in mind and then flipping the design because my original sketch had the flower curving the… Continue reading Flowers in a crackle vase
By the time we got to the middle of October, I was starting to worry that I was running out of time to come up with an idea for my mum's birthday card. I've used all my blackberry images and didn't want to repeat myself unless I absolutely had to ā the same goes for… Continue reading Vintage mouse on leaves
All the time I was making the art cards for the Daily Marker colouring challenge, there was a nagging voice in the back of my head reminding me that it would be my other half's birthday only two days after the challenge ended and I really ought to be spending a bit of time making… Continue reading Twist-and-pop bots
Another masculine card to make. They're hard enough to come up with ideas for when you know the person well, but when it's a nephew who you haven't seen in ages and who is somehow now 22 years old, well... If it was a niece, I'd do flowers, but my fallback for men seems to… Continue reading Purple monster
I've been feeling rather uninspired when it comes to making cards this year. I've enjoyed colouring images, but coming up with layouts that I like has been a struggle, and it's doubly hard when it's a birthday card for a fifteen-year-old boy... Originally I was going to do a card with a footballer on it… Continue reading Ratty Birthday
This is probably the first time that I have revisited an old card and made substantial changes to it. I have occasionally added a sentiment to a blank card and there are a couple of cards in my "rework" pile that need something doing with them, but other than that, if I take a card… Continue reading Revisiting elephant footprints
