All posts in "Cardmaking" category
Pat’s 70th
My sister-in-law had a momentous birthday this month and so I made her a special card. It took me about 3 evenings of faffing about with it to get it how I wanted but I was happy with the final results. To compound the lengthy business my mother-in-law asked me to make one to give from her so I guess...
Folded Star
This was made for a friend of mine – not a special birthday or anything but she is a special friend. If you Google Folded Star you’ll find lots of tutorials for these in various sizes, mine was made from a piece of 12×12 scrapbook paper and I made sturdy templates out of plain card for...
Michael Strong Sat Sketch
I hope I can manage to enter all the challenges throughout the year on the Michael Strong group – it’s only two per month at most so it should be do-able. The main image was made using the large Cloisonné Flower which I stamped randomly over some glossy card stock using a Versamark pad. I...
Dec 2011 Birthdays
I don’t quite know why I’ve only photographed two of the four birthday cards I mailed in December but somehow I must have forgotten! Can’t imagine what it is about December which would make me forget stuff…… A GoldWinging friend of ours turned fifty last month so I sent...
Christmas Card Commission
I was telephoned – I think it was about July sometime – by a young man who had seen this blog and wanted a special Christmas Card making for his girlfriend. Once I’d gotten over the shock of (a) a man actually ordering a special card and (b) him planning it incredibly early in the year, I...
Alphabet Project – the final 6
Well, it’s taken some time (a whole year I guess) but I’ve finally finished all 26 Alphabet Cards. Actually, I have done 27 ‘cos I wasn’t happy with ‘D’ so I did a second version . I think it’s obvious that I left most of the difficult letters to the last...
Christmas Cards 2011
These are photos of some of the cards I have made for this Christmas, 2011. Several of them were duplicated – though not identical – they were basically the same idea so I only photographed one of them . I like to keep a record just so I can look back next year and see what I did and make sure...
White Christmas
I personally think that black and white is really quite elegant and works well for a Christmas Card. This starts with an A4 white base card folded in half and trimmed slightly (I don’t like the size of the full A4 with a fold, it always looks just a little too big to my mind) and the corners...
Alphabet Cards, Part 3
Are you ready for some more? The alphabet doesn’t sound very long or complicated until you’re tasked with making a card depicting each and every letter. I have tried to be less than obvious with my choices – I think I’ve succeeded with some of the cards but others, as you’ll...
Random Card Making
I’m going to add some cards I’ve made in the past few months – I’ll add the description under each photo so click on them to enlarge and read about each. There are a variety of techniques involved although nothing that needs a lot of explanation. These are for quite a few different...
Christening Bookatrix
I have never made a Christening card before so had to go searching for inspiration on the WWWW (Wonderful World Wide Web!). I don’t think I actually saw a Bookatrix card anywhere but something obviously made me think of this. So, I got out various pieces of pink card (did I mention it was for...
Flippin ‘Special’ Birthday
So, I was asked to make a special birthday card for a lady of a certain age and I decided to use one of these cute Flippin stamps (I’ve got the whole set of sixteen, male & female – such fun designs). The base card is a tri-fold which had the large circle aperture already cut out of the...