Oh, to have a dedicated craft room, with rows of shelves for inks, stamps, dies, cardstock.... but in my house, I just don't have the space. Sigh. I craft at the dining table. It's more sociable, I suppose, as I'm not sat in a room away from other people, but it does make storage a… Continue reading Craft Organisation
For my Christmas cards this year, I'm aiming to keep as many of them as I can as one layer cards. I love layers and embellishments but they do add to the bulk when mailing. I found the WPlus9 Folk Art Flurries stamp set on eBay recently for a good price. This set has beautiful… Continue reading Christmas in July Part 2
I've started thinking about Christmas and making my own cards this year. If I don't start making them early, I know I won't be ready. For this card, I've used the colours from the Seven Hills Crafts July competition. Although it's a summery colour scheme, I think it works well for an alternative Christmas colour… Continue reading Christmas in July Part 1
The feather detail in the Clearly Besotted Tickle My Fancy stamp set is beautiful. The set includes solid and detail stamps, but I am just using the detail stamps for this card. I started by prepping a piece of watercolour card with my anti-static powder tool. I then stamped the detail feathers (3 different sizes)… Continue reading Clearly Besotted Tickle My Fancy
Along with the triangles in the Mama Elephant Trifecta stamp set, it also comes with some fun arrow stamps. I used them to make a summery background. I used the mini Misti stamping tool to help me line up the stamp properly, choosing inks in some bright colours. Next, I die cut from gold glitter paper, a 'birthday'… Continue reading Arrows
I am so excited to be asked to guest design at CAS(E) This Sketch this week! I hope you have as much fun playing with this sketch as I did. Here is the challenge sketch: This sketch really intrigued me and it took some thought to figure out how to incorporate the gap in the… Continue reading Guest Designer at CAS(E) This Sketch #180
A fun and quick card to share today. On watercolour card stock, I blended distress inks in blue and green. I then flicked the background with water, dabbing away the drops after a few seconds, to lift the colour underneath away, leaving a distressed background effect. I also flicked over the background some Ranger Perfect… Continue reading Three Cheers
I'm playing along with the MFT Sketch #287 today. I thought I'd combine it with the colours from their colour challenge #48. I started by die cutting a tag using the MFT Stitched Traditional Tags die set. I lightly drew a circle on the tag in pencil, by drawing around one of my circle dies.… Continue reading MFT Sketch Challenge 287
A summery card to share today, using Altenew Way Too Sweet stamp set and my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush pens. I started by preparing a piece of watercolour card with an anti-static powder tool. I then stamped a lollipop from the set all over the background, using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I then heat… Continue reading Way Too Sweet
I'm thrilled to be this week's guest designer at Addicted to CAS! This week's competition code word is 'FLY'. So many possibilities with this word! Here's what I came up with, I hope you like it: I started this card by stamping on white card an image from the MFT Distressed Patterns stamp set several… Continue reading Guest Designer at Addicted to CAS!
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