A couple of cards for you today. I came across a new magazine today, ‘Get Stamping’, and thought I would treat myself as it came with some very useful stamps. I am unable to link to this at the moment as I cannot find it listed, but will update the blog as soon as possible. Here… Read More Double Trouble!
I have lots of occasions for cards coming up this month so I will be kept very busy on my days off! First up, a birthday card for my Mother in Law. This card was made using masking techniques along with some good old fashioned trial and error. First I stamped the Daisy Stamp Trio stamp… Read More Daisy Card
My lovely husband took me to Paris for my birthday and whilst we were exploring this beautiful city we came across a very chic papercraft shop, L’Art du Papier. I couldn’t resist treating myself to some goodies, one of which was my new feather woodblock stamp: The background is tone on tone Victorian Velvet Distress… Read More Paris in the spring time
I have failed dismally at blogging once a week but I do have an excuse – my partner and I decided to get married and we gave ourselves only 3 months to plan everything. Needless to say things have been hectic and the only craft time I have had was used to make all of… Read More First post in a while
Here is a quick card using Distress Inks and the Friendship Definition stamp from Hero Arts to create the background. Unfortunately I stamped the text upside down… but that just adds character! The butterfly stamp is by Indigo Blu, stamped in Memento Teal Zeal. This kind of card could have been used for lots of occasions –… Read More Birthday card with butterflies
I have just received some Cosmic Shimmer Mists which I have been wanting to play with for a while now. Here is my first attempt… The stamp is called Cling Peacock Points from Stampendous. I heat embossed the image and then distressed the background with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. I then sprayed over the top using Peacock Green… Read More New toys to play with
This is the first engagement card that I have made – I have always shop bought them before. I tried to keep it nice and simple so that I wouldn’t mess up and I am quite pleased with the results. I printed the text onto plain white cardstock then used an Artemio stamp set (Ref 10020004). The image… Read More Engagement card
I love taking a plain piece of paper or card and turning into something totally different. For my first post I thought I would show you just this… I couldn’t tell you who the stamp set is designed by, there is no information on the packaging, but I love the Moroccan style. I simply used a… Read More My first post – Moroccan style cards
Poppaea Cards 