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'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
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
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
I've been wanting a die or dies to add stitched lines to cards for a while. When MFT released the stitched strip die-namics, it looked like just the thing I was after. This card was fun and easy to make. First, I got a piece of A6 sized watercolour card, and die cut the MFT… Continue reading MFT Stitched Strip Die-Namics
I've had an idea for a card design in my head for a while, inspired by the retro prints by Orla Kiely. This months challenge at Seven Hills Crafts is a colour challenge. I chose the third colour palette and finally made the card. One of the leaf stamps from the WPlus9 Doodle Buds stamps… Continue reading Retro Print Card
I'm joining in with a couple of challenges today - Addicted to CAS, whose code word is 'Inlaid Dies', and the MFT Color Challenge, which has a palette of oranges, blue and grey. I thought I'd use the MFT Delicate Pretty Poppies stamps and die set. I die cut two poppies from a piece of… Continue reading Inlaid Die Challenge
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
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