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Unusual Shaped Card
At our Stamp Club last month, we were challenged with making an unusual shaped card for our ‘homework’. So, last week I took along the round card I’d made for the Fresh as a Daisy competition at Happy Stampers Festival plus this flower. I started with some plain, heavy, white watercolour...
MojoMonday 81
The sketch for this challenge can be seen here at the Mojo Monday site, a lovely challenge this week which I really enjoyed doing.
Diamond Wedding
My husband’s aunt and uncle are about to celebrate 60 years together! Wow, some achievement. I’m not really very good at Bookatrix cards but thought I’d have another go for this special occasion. There are a few more photos
Other embroidered cards
I have taken many commissions over the years for embroidered cards, usually they’re personalised but sometimes I would just embroider a design I liked and then keep the card for a suitable occasion. The fabric I use varies, sometimes it’s just a cotton/poly mix and sometimes a felt-like material....
Embroidered Xmas Cards
A couple of years ago I embroidered all my Christmas Cards – by machine, mostly, but some by hand. Unfortunately, I didn’t remember to photograph every single one of them, my overseas ones had already been posted (as had a whole bunch of UK ones) before
Engagement card
Both of my sons think that cards are a waste of time! What can I say….I thought I’d done a pretty good job of raising them but I guess I failed somewhere…. My younger son got engaged just before Christmas last year and I had to make a card even if ‘he doesn’t do cards!’...
MojoMonday 77
The challenge for this week can be seen at Mojo Monday – I think I will send this one to my sister as a thank you card. The main card base is a heavy, dark green textured card folded in half and stamped in red ink with a small, art deco stamp; an extra piece of the same was wrapped in a pretty silver...
Red, Black and Gold
At our Stamping Club we have the option to do some ‘homework’ – we’re given a challenge and then we describe how we made the cards at the next meeting. Some of them are really tricky, you don’t always feel inspired, but this theme – make a card using only red, black and gold...
Faces
Some time ago I was challenged to use ‘face stamps’ in a variety of ways. This one is a stamp from Rubbadubadoo, it was inked just once and therefore the images get more faded. I tore the paper round the three faces, coloured the edges with a darker shade of purple than the cardstock and...
Mojo Monday 76
This is my first attempt at a Mojo Monday Challenge – until this week I had never tried following a ‘sketch’ and now I’ve done two! (The other one is called Challenge43 and is a DoCraft Forum one.) So, I made the basic card out of some heavy blue cardstock, trimmed down a little...
Challenge43
On the DoCraft Forum there is a weekly challenge – this is my first attempt at it. The sketch was for a square card with two squares and a circle on it plus a sentiment. The card was cut down from cream A4 textured card (and the remnant used below) and coloured round the edges with a blue ink pad....
Rubberband backing
I recently read about using rubberbands to make an interesting background so thought I’d have a go. The bands were various thicknesses and I wrapped them around an acrylic block which I then inked-up using a Versamark embossing pad. I sprinkled silver on the left-hand one and blue on the right...