A friend recently gifted me this long Christmas word die (Uniquely Creative), so I had to try it out right away.... I found the white die cut worked well with patterned papers with just one colour and not too busy design.
Friday 26 April 2024
Two quick and easy Christmas cards
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Anything Goes week
Week 4 of the month and it's A = Anything Goes from Darnell's IDEAS prompt..... so this afternoon I finished off a couple of cards... the first was in my UFO stash... in pieces - some leftover patterned paper and some Distress Ink watercoloured daisies (Sizzix -Wildflower stems)
Friday 19 April 2024
Embossing Folder cards
But I did have a play with EF or rather I found this one in my stash and just needed to add a watercoloured die cut daisy (Sizzix - Wildflower stems #1... this seems to be a real favorite with me), a matching border layer and sentiment. It's the third week of April so "Embossing" is the theme, thank you Darnell for helping keep me focused.
Thursday 11 April 2024
Three Die Cut Cards
The first card is using a long die I got from a magazine found stash diving in my piles and having die cut it from green card and trimmed to suit.. and then I didn't like it... but coincidentally in my desk piles there was this pattern paper I'd used and it matched beautifully... I then watercoloured the inner parts of the flowers with Distress Inks and finished with a triple layer die cut "Hello" - also in the die cut stash.
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Birthday Cards
Hello and thanks for stopping by my blog... it's April already!!
Week one IDEAS.... I = Inks/Colour Mediums...I'm sharing two birthday cards today using Distress Inks to watercolour the images. For the first card I chose a patterned paper background and coloured the die cut flowers (Sizzix - Wildflower Stems #1) to match.
I'm back with another card using the Group of Seven Cardmakers April technique - Cover Die Eclipse.
Using some very detailed patterned paper and using a corner die from Sizzix Mixed Media set this time and added a pink card die cut layer to help show off the pattern... maybe it's a bit too detailed but it looks ok in real life. Finished off with a black die cut sentiment layered on white.
Tuesday 2 April 2024
Card Chain Challenge March Reveal
Friday 29 March 2024
Cover Die Eclipse technique with Group of Seven Cardmakers
Thursday 28 March 2024
Christmas card... only my second for the year
One last card for the month... there'll be no time for card making or crochet over the Easter weekend... as we have our two granddaughters come to stay.
So a Christmas card .... is for the Rudolph Days March challenge... there really needs to be some more Christmas cards happening here that's for sure.