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
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
I hope you are all having a great Father's Day. Sending big hugs to those of you who are missing their dads today. When planning a card for my dad on Father's Day card, I wanted a colourful music theme. The Clearly Besotted Text Me stamp set has a couple of musical notes in the… Continue reading Father’s Day
Today I'm sharing a card using one of my favourite stamp sets from Clearly Besotted - Dandelion Dreams. I started by heat embossing the dandelion image on to watercolour card, using Hero Arts Sparkle embossing powder. With my Zig Clean Colour real brush pens, I scribbled rainbow colours on to the dandelion head. I spritzed the… Continue reading Rainbow Dandelion Dream
I've been looking for a cherry blossom set for a while so was thrilled to get the Spellbinders Cherry Blossoms die set as a birthday present. I die cut the images from watercolour card and coloured them with distress inks. For the background, I blended mowed lawn distress ink onto watercolour card, then flicked it with… Continue reading Spellbinders Cherry Blossoms
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 love the Altenew range for their realistic floral building stamp sets. I was blown away by how beautiful these peony flowers were when I stamped them for the first time. I used the Altenew ink cubes to stamp the flowers and leaves from the Altenew Peony Bouquet stamp set. The Altenew inks are sold… Continue reading Altenew Peony Bouquet
Today's card features the Altenew Oriental Orchids stamp set, and I'm joining in with the the Altenew April inspiration challenge. The challenge image is from Thailand and features a colour palette of navy, lilac, turquoise and white. I heat embossed flowers and leaves from the set in white embossing powder. I used my Zig Clean Colour… Continue reading Altenew April Inspiration Challenge
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