I got some mini distress inks and ink blenders recently. I've never tried distress inks before but love some of the techniques I've seen demonstrated on cards and in videos. They seem really versatile and the range of colours available is great. When they first arrived, I got them all out and played around with… Continue reading Make a Wish
I had some special birthday cards to make this month as it's my Dad's birthday. I made this card for my Mum to give to my Dad. I love the background paper. It's from a book of papers that I've had for a while and the music theme is perfect. I ran the birthday word… Continue reading A Special Birthday
I wanted to make a special card for my Dad's birthday and shaker cards always look great. I used some bright paper to coordinate with the bright colours of the sequins. The double sided paper has a calmer grey pattern on the opposite side, which works really well as a backdrop to the sequins. Shaker… Continue reading Birthday Shaker Card
I've been playing with my new WPlus9 Watercolour Anemones stamp set. I tried stamping with traditional colours, then thought I'd try a more stylised look. I love the blues and how it gives a completely different take on the stamp set. I stamped most of an A4 sheet of card with the blue flowers and… Continue reading Watercolour Anemones card
My cousin's little boy was christened on Sunday. I really wanted to make a personalised card for the occasion. Here's what I came up with: I liked the idea of having bunting on the card, showing his name and the date of his christening. Using the Avery Elle Bunting die set, I die cut some… Continue reading Christening Card
This months challenge from Make the Day Special is a colour challenge. There are three lovely colour palettes to choose from. Here is my card inspired by the third colour palette. I love the summery colours: I cut two squares of patterned paper the size of the card blank, then rotated one so it was… Continue reading June Colour Challenge
I've seen some lovely examples online of stamped and watercolour backgrounds with a bokeh effect. I thought it would be fun to have a go myself, and a good chance to try out one of my new sentiment stamps from Clearly Besotted. The Avery Elle Bunting stamp set comes with several circle stamps in… Continue reading Bokeh Stamped Background
CAS stands for Clean and Simple, and the CAS-UAL Friday challenges are a great way to join in and try out this look. CAS-UAL Friday Challenge 140 is to make a card using tan, white and one bright colour. Here is my card to enter in the competition: I love purple so I decided to… Continue reading Clean and Simple Friday 140
I needed to make a birthday card for a man and I find these can be quite difficult to get right. I wanted to use the Lawn Fawn Party Balloons die set again (I'm getting a lot of use from this set, so definitely worth having). The tricky part was making sure it didn't become… Continue reading Masculine Birthday Balloons
My gorgeous nephew has just turned 1! I can't believe how quickly this year has gone. He's changed so much and I'm incredibly proud of him, especially as he's been through such a lot for someone so young. I don't get to see him as much as I'd like, as he lives in Germany, but… Continue reading Happy 1st Birthday
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