Today's card I'm sharing is a simple Get Well Soon card, featuring the MFT Leafy Greenery Dienamics, and the Avery Elle Sentimental Stamp set and matching dies. I chose six distress inks in a rainbow of colours. I blended these in stripes onto white card, so the colours faded to white. I die cut a leaf… Continue reading MFT Leafy Greenery
I saw a great wordle card online by Jill Vickers, using sentiments to make a one layer card. I'll link to her card below as its really worth checking out. When I saw it, I thought the idea would work really well with birthday sentiments for a masculine card. I stamped sentiments from a range… Continue reading Sentiments A Plenty!
I saw an amazing card on Pinterest by Yoonsun Hur at RejoicingCrafts.com that I love so much, I just had to have a go at creating one of my own. I started by die cutting 6 squares from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Square dies. I stamped images from the WPlus9 Doodle Buds stamp set with Memento… Continue reading Inspired by Pinterest #5
I love to make special birthday cards for my nieces and nephew. It's my niece's first birthday this month so I decided to make a Hello Kitty card for her. How I made this card: I started by sketching an idea for the card as a starting point. I found a Hello Kitty image that… Continue reading Hello Kitty
I'm following the the MFT challenge 275 sketch for today's card. I've had the MFT Birthday Centerpieces die for some time and I thought I should get it back out again. This sketch seemed perfect for it. I started by blending distress inks onto watercolour card, in the colours abandoned coral, squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade,… Continue reading MFT Sketch Challenge 275
My niece is celebrating her 1st birthday this month. Her mum (my sister) and I created a very special card for her. We wanted the card to feature a fairy surrounded by poppies. My sister sketched out a fun design and then I started work creating the card. Fairy: As I don't have a fairy stamp… Continue reading Poppy Fairy
A slightly different card to share today. I thought I would create a clear embossed background, and this dark grey cardstock is perfect for a sophisticated masculine birthday card. I used an embossing powder tool on the cardstock first, to prepare it for the embossing powder. I chose a striped stamp from the Clearly Besotted… Continue reading Embossed Stripes
I'm following the sketch on CAS(E) This Sketch challenge blog today. I started by stamping ice creams and an ice lolly from the Altenew Way Too Sweet stamp set on to white card. I used Memento tuxedo black ink, and then coloured them with promarkers. I used Karisma colouring pencils to add shading and detail. I also… Continue reading Ice Cream and Sprinkles
I had an idea for a simple Easter card, with a white cross on a hill and a sunset sky behind. It was surprisingly quick to make. On an A6 card base, I blended distress inks in barn door, spiced marmalade and squeezed lemonade on the lower portion of the card. I left most of… Continue reading Easter Card
I'm playing along with the Seven Hills Crafts March challenge today. It's a sketch challenge, which I always enjoy. I thought I'd combine two challenges with one card, so I'm using the colours from the MFT Colour Challenge too, which are greens, yellow and beige. I'll link to both challenge pages at the end of… Continue reading March sketch challenge
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