What a year for special birthdays! My son was 30, my mother-in-law 90 and my husband 60. My other son’s fiancée was 30 too (her card was blogged earlier as I entered it in a challenge). Hereare a few photos of the 30th and the 60th cards. I used the Fanciful Flight die again but put the wings...
I think I’ve been bitten by the Challenge Bug! Over at StampTV they had this rather appealing sketch so I decided to give it a go. I swapped the rectangle for a circle and cut out the stamped and embossed image with a nestability – I took the starkness off the white card with a little red ink...
I’ve been working on them on and off for months now, determined not to get to December and start panicking. Every time we’ve had a challenge or some ‘homework’ to do at Stamp Club I have made it a Christmas Card. Every time I’ve seen a new technique I fancied trying, I...
Well, three challenges in one day! I have only ever entered one before, a couple of years ago – don’t know what’s come over me This one is from StampTV, perhaps it was the colour choice that appealed to me – or perhaps it was the need to make a card for my brother-in-law encouraged...
Easel Cards seem very popular at the moment and I can quite see why. A regular card takes on a whole new aspect when they’re opened and stood in a different way to the norm. This sympathy card was made for a friend who’s recently lost her father – there’s not really anything one...
I’ve had the Bookatrix board for quite some time but really don’t use it often enough! I was never happy with the cutting-out around the edges of the ‘book’ but I think – since I was recommended to use decorative scissors to cut around the edges – I’ve liked those that...
A very good friend of ours, one of our GoldWing buddies, was sixty in December so I decided to make him a special card. It took me hours just looking through all our photographs to find suitable ones to use on the Tri-Shutter Card – partly because I get sidetracked very easily and get involved in...