I have a riot of colour to share with you all today, with a child's 2nd birthday card. I love the MFT Big Balloon stencil for creating a background. By stencilling colour over each other, you can quickly cover a card with fun balloons. I added some distress detail with water too. I chose three… Continue reading Birthday Party Animals
The Lawn Fawn box card die is so awesome! I'm having so much fun with it and knew I wanted to make my niece a birthday box card. She like pigs so I used the cute pig from the Mama Elephant Lunar Animals stamp set. I stamped and coloured three of them with colouring pencils.… Continue reading Three Little Pigs
Waffle Flower have recently released some gorgeous new stamp sets featuring cats. I love the nature inspired patterns and the cats expressions are perfect! There are four sets to choose from and I just love the fun sentiments in the Flora Cat set. I also couldn't resist the cat in the box image! I think… Continue reading Flora Cat Greeting Cards Set
I'm joining in with the Altenew Inspiration challenge with my card today. I decided on a clean and simple design. I die cut a scalloped rectangle from white card. I stamped a trio of flowers from the Altenew Hello Sunshine stamp set and added colour with pencils. I left the leaves free of colour as… Continue reading March Inspiration Challenge with Altenew Hello Sunshine
The carousel has always been my favourite funfair ride, so the Altenew Carousel stamp set caught my eye. It's a really sweet mini set, perfect for scrapbooking but also looks great on a card, and is sure to make someone smile. Join me on the Seven Hills Crafts blog to read all about this card.
With three nieces, the MFT Once Upon a Time stamp set was a must have for me! I decided to make a pop-up card for a fun surprise when the card is opened. It took a little more time to put together, but I'm really pleased with the end result. I hope you'll head over… Continue reading Fairytale Pop-Up
I always enjoy making a Chinese New Year card each year. I love using vibrant red with gold, such rich colours look fabulous. This year, I wanted a fun card that my nephew would like. The Luna Elephants stamp set by Mama Elephant is perfect. I started by stamping three roosters with memento tuxedo black… Continue reading Year of the Rooster
I'm having fun joining in with the MFT challenges at the moment, as you can probably tell! I've been collecting the MFT mini ink cubes and have a nice selection now, so was excited to see I had three of the colours for this challenge. I started by blending coral crush and persimmon inks onto… Continue reading MFT Colour Challenge 61
I'm joining in with the MFT sketch challenge today, and combining it with their colour challenge too. I started by using the MFT English Brick Stencil to add detail to the card base with a light grey ink. Next, I die cut a tag with the MFT Stitched Traditional Tags die-namics from teal paper in… Continue reading MFT Sketch Challenge 313
I always enjoy making shaker cards. When I saw the squirrel with his cart of acorns in the MFT Harvest Buddies set, I thought it would work so well for a shaker card with acorns falling from the tree. I coloured the images with Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils, then die cut them all… Continue reading Harvest Buddies Shaker
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