Second post of the evening with this card which I would like to enter into this week’s Merry Monday Challenge which is themed ‘The Words Have It’. The idea of this challenge is to create a Christmas card where the sentiment is the star. This sentiment stamp is an old one from Woodware – I… Read More Merry Monday #126
First post of two this evening with this card which I would like to enter into 2 challenges – Addicted to CAS where the theme is ‘Oriental’, and Time Out Challenges where there is a surprise extra challenge with the theme ‘Double the Joy’ to celebrate the happy news from Uniko Studio‘s Bev who is now the proud… Read More Time Out: Double the Joy and Addicted to CAS: Oriental
I was very excited to be asked to be a guest designer for Time Out Challenges after winning challenge #12 with this card. The new challenge is a photo inspiration with a ‘Home, Sweet Home’ theme: When I received the inspiration picture I didn’t know where to start as I had lots of different ideas… Read More Time Out Challenge #14 Guest Design.
The cue word ‘under’ at CASology really got me thinking this week. There are lots of different ways to interpret this and I came up with the phrase ‘Under your spell’. I used a die cut heart from a previous project and coloured it with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, then coated it in Pearl Perfect… Read More CASology week 111: Under
I recently purchased the fabulous Jungle Fever stamp set from Create a Smile and have fallen in love with the cute little characters. Create a Smile are holding a guest design call for October – check out their gorgeous stamps here, or you can also use one of their freebie digital stamps from here. I… Read More Create a Smile October guest design call
Second post of the day with a very quick and literal take on the Merry Monday challenge this week which is to include a Christmas present on your card. I have used Kaisercraft Christmas design papers to paper piece the presents and picked out some detail using a gold pen. Please leave a comment and… Read More Merry Monday #124
I have to say I was a little stumped when I saw the latest challenge over at Time Out which is the ‘Inspired by words’ challenge using a quote from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “If music be the food of love play on”. I had some musical notes design paper in my stash but no musical… Read More Time Out Challenge #13, Fusion (Old door charm)
The cue word over at CASology this week is ‘Letter’. Two of my friends have just got engaged so straight away my mind leapt to ‘Love Letter’. I cut a template with my Silhouette of several hearts and a card mat with a heart cut out. Whilst still on the mat I stamped the Kaisercraft… Read More CASology: Letter
A fab inspiration over at Muse this week with this stunner created by Bobby from Bits and Pieces: This is such an eye catching card with the swirls popping off the dark background. I love the effect Bobby has created by colouring the embossing paste, but this is not something I have in my stash. … Read More Muse Challenge #82
It has been pouring with rain all day today which put pay to my plans with the husband to go out to a local craft fair, so instead, I have done some crafting of my own. The card above is my entry to the latest Fusion challenge: I wanted to use my new Create a… Read More Fusion: Bright Floral Celebration
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