This is the last of the cards I made for the Sparkle & Shine class. There are still a few techniques that I will get round to trying at some point, but I was just about glittered out by the time I got to this one 🙂 I created an ombre effect on the hexagons… Continue reading Glitter hexagons with love
I don't like to waste anything, so I needed to find a use for my patchy glitter kiss test piece. I had a search through my box of finished coloured pieces, looking for something that would go well with the shiny purple. And I found these flowers. I knew they'd been lurking around for a… Continue reading Glossy flowers
Before I started the 30-day colouring challenge, I was >this< close to having got completely caught up with blogging my card backlog. I very deliberately stuck to colouring during the challenge so that I wouldn't end it with a stack of thirty cards that needed to be photographed and written up. I even blogged a… Continue reading Gilded triangle sunburst
A simple card, but effective. But then, anything shiny on a black background stands a good chance of looking nice 🙂 This was a really easy card to make. I just smeared stripes of the gilding polish across some watercolour paper and then die cut one large and three smaller hearts from it. I die… Continue reading Gilded friend heart
This technique gives gorgeous results. I am always looking out for interesting ways to use my stencils and this one is very satisfying. The background is definitely the star here. Most important tip for using gilding flakes: close all the windows and do not sneeze! They are incredibly light and will go everywhere given the… Continue reading Gilding flake swirls
I'm used to using glossy accents to highlight eyes or make balloons shiny and things on that scale. I had never thought of using thin lines of it to create rain or water ripples though. For this card, I got out the pico embellisher instead of the glossy accents; it's much more liquid and comes… Continue reading Make a splash
This was not planned. This was the result of having a strip of double-sided adhesive sheet and a bit of the rainbow foil left lying on my desk and my head already in glitter mode for the next Sparkle & Shine lessons. I stuck the adhesive strip to a scrap of card, applied the foil… Continue reading Glitter rainbow foil stripe
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
Time caught up with me and I realised that I needed to get a card made for an old friend who now lives abroad. My main aim was to make something pretty and I took my inspiration from one of the cards from the first day of the Clear and Sheer class. How: I had… Continue reading Birthday: Vellum butterflies
Another technique learned in the Clear and Sheer class: using Copic markers to create a watercolour-like effect on heat-embossed acetate. This gives a really pretty effect and makes a nice alternative to colouring on cardstock. How: I started by preparing the acetate for heat embossing. Acetate is a remarkably static-y thing and you will end… Continue reading Birthday: Copic on acetate
So many new ideas to try in this class. The next step on from just having a plain acetate card base is to have an embossed one; it’s an interesting technique, but it does warp the acetate so, depending on the embossing folder used, it could be more appropriate for creating embellishments. How: For the… Continue reading Embossed acetate cards
Another thing ticked off the “must-try techniques” list: creating a card using acetate for the base. I kept the design simple in the hope that it wouldn’t take too long to do, but I didn’t factor in all the fussy cutting that is needed to create not only the coloured elements, but also the plain… Continue reading Celebrate: Uplifting acetate card
Day 2 of the Clear and Sheer class and we started by making a card with a coloured vellum front. Theoretically the vellum I have is at least as heavyweight as the ones they use in the class — and it does do the job — but I would like it to be a little… Continue reading Birthday: Coloured vellum
Some months I am inspired and organised early on, some months it’s a last-minute dash to come up with an idea and get a card created, and then there are months like this one where I had a pretty good idea what I was going to do soon after getting the new challenge image, but… Continue reading Thinking of you: Monkey
On a whim I signed up for the interactive Clear and Sheer class from Online Card Classes; I’ve always stuck to the self-paced classes before. It will be interesting to see everyone else’s creations at the same time as making my own. How: I started by stamping the rose twice with Versamark and heat embossing… Continue reading Smile: Watercolour roses
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