When I printed out the digis for the mouse and bunny, I did a few extra at the same sort of size. I haven't done much Copic colouring recently and these are all nice simple images that can be coloured without too much effort. I kept the card design similar to the previous cards, but… Continue reading Critters & snowflakes
This is probably my favourite of the batches of cards I've made so far this year. When I saw the poinsettia edger die I just couldn't resist picking it up and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. It's a simple design, though inlaying the poinsettia flower was a bit fiddly and… Continue reading Poinsettia inlay
This is one of the two Christmas dies I bought for this year's cardmaking; I do like border sentiment dies and there is enough detail in this one that the rest of the design can be fairly simple. I divided the card into three sections: sentiment, trees and snow. Because I was going to make… Continue reading Field of Christmas trees
This card was the cornerstone of the unfinished projects. I made the base of this over a year ago and then stopped. The flowers were made, they just needed attaching but, for some reason — maybe I got distracted doing other things — I never finished it. I even had a post-it note by my… Continue reading Fabric flowers
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
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 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
I just felt like having a play with Distress oxide inks and trying out my new sentiment die, so I made a quick birthday card. I masked off a diagonal band, blended Distress oxide inks across it and then flicked water drops over to lift some of the ink and add a bit of texture.… Continue reading Diagonal Distress
I picked up a set of the Tim Holtz mixed media dies out of curiosity more than anything else. Rather than giving you a positive shape to work with, these dies are designed to leave you with the negative, empty space on a panel, and I wondered what I could do with that. My initial… Continue reading Bricks and butterfly
My first small batch of Christmas cards. I’m not sure how many I’ll make this year — I must sit down and work out how many I really need — but I think it will have to be fewer than I made last year. Either that or I need to get them all finished well… Continue reading Christmas town
The start of July brings the twins' birthdays, meaning it was time to come up with another idea for a cleverly linked pair of cards. Once again, my other half gave me a starting idea: something as simple as “an image that flows from one card to the other”. And that sent me off to… Continue reading Twins – night and day
This was only the second wedding card I’ve made. The first card was all flowers, embossing and ribbons, and I wanted to create a cleaner, more graphic feel for this one. I’d seen tuxedo and wedding dress hearts around and knew I wanted to create versions of those with the addition of some ribbon and… Continue reading Wedding hearts
Sometimes you start a card knowing exactly what you’re going to create. Sometimes you start with a rough idea and it develops smoothly as you go along. And sometimes you get cards like this one. I recently picked up the double-cut alphabet dies and thought I’d make a quick thank you card to test them… Continue reading Thank you: Inlaid letters
These cards were created on 19th November; day 19 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Another couple of quick cards for the Christmas card stash made with the large sentiments; this time I paired them with a cute little poinsettia die set. How: I stamped the sentiments and coloured in the letters using… Continue reading Christmas: Sentiment with poinsettia
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