Archives for August 2011
Alphabet Cards, part 2
I’m still enjoying this club challenge – here are the next six finished cards for the alphabet set. As I said in the earlier post: The project at Stamp Club this year has been to make a card to depict each letter of the alphabet. I’m still bursting with too many ideas for each letter...
Red, Black & Gold
The current challenge at the “Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps” Yahoo Group is to make a card using the colours of the German flag. The use of one of his stamps is not mandatory this time but the colours red, black and gold just shouted ‘oriental’ to me and so I decided to use the...
Alphabet Cards 2011 Project
The project at Stamp Club this year has been to make a card to depict each letter of the alphabet. I admit that I have been a bit too preoccupied with … life and have only just started working on it. I also must admit that I am loving the challenge! The hardest thing is choosing what to do...
Shopping Nest
Why is it that babies always want to ‘eat’ everything? That includes the handles and securing straps on shopping trolleys – yuck. As it’s never too soon to start a young lady shopping I decided to look for a shopping cart ‘nest’ like I’d seen being used whilst we...
Telescoping Card
I recently found this idea for a card design and love the idea of it. I came across it at Donna’s Designs with a link to Hetty’s blog where there’s a video tutorial. This is actually Barb‘s video so that’s the place you should go to see the tutorial. The card shown is...
Colly’s Cat
Colly’s Cat It was a friend’s birthday last week, she loves ginger cats so this image hopefully suited I don’t do a lot of decoupage but really quite enjoyed it for a change. I ran the brown card through my Grand Calibur with a frame design embossing folder and mounted the main...