I'm longing for Spring now, with brighter evenings and hopefully some better weather. When I decided to make a card today, it just had to include butterflies, to make me think of those Spring days ahead. How I made this card: I blended peacock feathers and mowed lawn distress ink on to some white card.… Continue reading Beautiful Butterflies
The Beautiful Friends stamp set from Clearly Besotted is a lovely set for colouring in, and I thought I'd try a different colouring technique, combining promarkers and colouring pencils. How I made this card: I stamped the image in pale pink memento dye ink, then adding some base colour with promarkers. I then added detail… Continue reading Daily Marker Colouring Challenge: Beautiful Friend Blossom
There is a fabulous card drive ongoing at the moment, collecting cards to be given alongside a book to parents who have lost a child in pregnancy. I cannot begin to comprehend how utterly devastating it must be to lose a child, and I hope that this campaign offers a little bit of comfort to… Continue reading Lasting Hearts Card Drive
I've been enjoying colouring with my new Zig clean colour brush pens, and wanted to make a card using some of the images. I don't have many outline images at the moment, but one of my favourites set is the Altenew Oriental Orchid stamp set and it has outline images perfect for colouring. How I… Continue reading Orchids and Zig Clean Colour Brush Pens
I've been trying to use up leftover scraps of paper so decided to make a couple of rainbow chevron cards. Who doesn't love a rainbow? How I made this card? As the chevron cover plate fits an A2 notecard nicely, I cut this size card base to use. I cut the chevron plate from white… Continue reading Rainbow Chevrons
The WPlus9 Watercolour Anemones set is another set that I love but haven't used much yet. It's a really beautiful building stamp set. How I made this card: The stamp set comes with a large stamp of a bouquet of anemones and leaves. It's perfect for when you don't want to think of a flower… Continue reading Watercolour Anemones
I thought it would be fun to try some word die layering on a card. I've admired cards where it's been used to good effect, but not tried myself until now. I had sketched the idea for this card, knowing what I wanted to do but not really knowing how it would turn out. It's… Continue reading Happy Planet
When I started to design this card, I had planned to follow a challenge sketch. I'd chosen the paper, die cut the butterflies, and cut a card base to size. However, once I'd attached the pretty patterned paper to the card base, in my head I could see a completely different design to the one… Continue reading Butterfly Birthday Wish
The September challenge from Make the Day Special is a colour challenge. They have three colour palettes to choose from. I decided to make a card using colours from the second option, which is yellow with black, white, and grey. I searched on Pinterest for that colour combo to help spark some ideas. I found… Continue reading September Challenge
My niece is a fan of the Hey Duggee children's TV series. I made this card for her parents to give to her on her 2nd birthday. I am so pleased with how this card came out. I love the background and how Duggee stands out against it. How I made the card: Similar to… Continue reading Hey Duggee Birthday Card
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