I really must try to finish blogging the last of the cards I made for the Sparkle & Shine class; I got all the glittery ones done and then ran out of steam... So here goes with the first of the foiled cards. For this one, I used the balloon die cut left over from… Continue reading Rainbow foil balloon
It’s my other half’s birthday today, so of course I had to create something special and geeky for him. I returned to a common theme: Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Specifically, this time, the new ones where Gypsy appears as a silhouette on-screen and Tom Servo flies around occasionally rather than being stuck in the seats.… Continue reading MST3K: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Birthdays are no respecters of how you're feeling and annoyingly come along even when you have a horrible flu-y cold. And so it was I had to create a masculine card for my neighbour all while reaching for the tissues and breaking into a sweat. Ideal conditions to try something I haven't done before 🙄… Continue reading Whisky glass
I grew up not far from Waddington in Lincolnshire so we regularly had the distinctively shaped Vulcan bombers flying overhead. Our neighbour is a big fan of Vulcans so I was happy to create this card for her birthday. I do love working with stamps and digi stamps, but there is something rather satisfying about… Continue reading Vulcan bomber
These ducks are quite ridiculous. But such fun to colour, and those big eyes just begged to have a layer of glossy accents over them. There are only a few feathers on the digi stamp, but I added some extra texture to the body by mimicking those shapes using a slightly darker Copic colour than… Continue reading Quackers
Cake!!!!! I was tempted to colour rainbow layers but decided to make it into a massive chocolate cake instead. On the digi stamp, the banner says “live it up”, but I wanted a more traditional “happy birthday” so I wrote it in by hand; I could probably have found a stamp that would fit in… Continue reading Layer cake
This nearly ended up in the bin. I had die cut the cogs from both pearlised grey and a panel of black card, layered them over some double-sided adhesive sheet and added an ombre glitter effect inside the cogs. But I wasn’t very happy with the result and, try as I might, I could not… Continue reading Glitter cogs with stripes
It’s just as well I got all caught up with the backlog of card write-ups otherwise I would be really stressing about the stack of cards that are waiting to be blogged right now. But that’s what happens when I take a class with Online Card Classes — so many fun ideas that just have… Continue reading Glitter butterflies
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
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
The starting point for this card was one of the smallest pieces in my PHD (projects half done) box. That and a selection from my much under-used patterned paper collection… The “happy birthday” is actually a neat border die (it might have slipped my mind that I actually had this die until I came to… Continue reading Layered fox
I always try to match cards to their recipients as much as I can. So my mum gets cute critters and flowers, my other half gets something a bit geeky, his sister gets bunnies, and we seem to be developing a South Wales theme for his dad. Last year I did a picture of Port… Continue reading Birthday: Mumbles lifeboat
It really doesn’t seem like two years since I made a welcome card for baby Amelia, or even a year since her first birthday, but at the start of March I was colouring up a cute animal reading group for her second birthday. I layered the final coloured piece with some black and patterned paper and mounted… Continue reading Birthday: Animal reading group
Yet another masculine birthday card; this time for my younger nephew. One of his passions is football, but that leaves me cold, so comic book style it is 🙂 I did start out by looking for suitable lettering and graphics online — and there are a lot of comic book resources out there — but… Continue reading Birthday: WOW!
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