Time to make birthday cards for the twins again. I made it easier on myself by using a frame die set, and then harder again by getting the microfine glitter out.
Tag: die-cutting
Critters & snowflakes
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
Poinsettia inlay
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
Field of Christmas trees
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
Fabric flowers
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
Pink flowers on pink
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
Winter scene on mirror blue
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
Merry Christmas frame
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
String art and flower
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
Diagonal Distress
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
Bricks and butterfly
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
Christmas town
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
Twins – night and day
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
Wedding hearts
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
Thank you: Inlaid letters
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
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