All posts tagged with "rubber stamping"
45 Cards for a Sister
It was my sister’s birthday back in March and I’ve only just been able to deliver her birthday present! As well as an article of clothing I decided to make her a box of greetings cards as I had done for my Mother-in-law and shown in a previous post. I am not going to describe how each one...
Queen of Hearts
Over at Quietfire Designs there’s the 2nd Annual Queen of Hearts Challenge going on. I thought this would be easy but found it wasn’t really – everything I had in mind didn’t look quite right when I tried it! Oh well, I did manage to put a card together and I’m sure I’ll...
Half-Step Card
This card is based on an idea by Sheila Weaver which you can find on Joanna Sheen’s website. Sheila uses a lot of CD printables where I have used rubber stamping. The template is very cute and quite easy. I always make one out of cheap cardstock first – and keep that to work from in the future...
Michael Strong Stamps
As a Christmas Gift, Nigel bought me some Michael Strong Stamps taking advantage of the free postage he was offering for a few weeks. I have admired these for a long time so jumped at the chance to get some at last. Most of Michael’s stamps are this Cloisonné style and his site has some great...
Another Challenge
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...
My Christmas Cards are finished
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...
M-I-L Christmas Collection
Well, it serves her right! My M-I-L is always telling me how much she loves the cards I make so I decided that for her Christmas present this year I’d give her a box full of cards she can use throughout the year. She is 90 years old now and it’s so very hard to find something to buy for...
That’s Odd!
Over at StampTV they’re having a Release Party Challenge which called for using odd numbers of ‘things’ on a card but more than just ‘one’. So I cut some Heirloom Ornaments out of plain card using the Spellbinder Dies and then coloured them with Copper Paint Dabber by...
StampTV Challenge
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...
Spotlight Revisited
At Stamp Club last night I showed the ladies how to do this technique. Some had done it before and it was a nice reminder about how great it can look, others did it for the very first time and produced some fabulous results. The basic instructions I gave: Stamp an image twice onto plain cardstock....
Flippin Card
Well, I totally forgot my bother-in-law’s birthday! Daft thing was, I had the idea already in mind, knew which of my new Flippin Stamps sets I was going to use etc. – just forgot to get on with it. So, in one hurried evening I made this for him. He is an avid gardener and makes his own ales...
90th Birthday Card
In August of this year it was time to celebrate a 90th birthday. My eldest sister’s mother-in-law reached this milestone and, as I’ve know Wyn for many years, I made her a special card. Stepper Cards are popular at the moment and so that’s what I did (I also showed our stamping...