All posts tagged with "Spellbinders"
Stamp Club Sketch Challenge for April 2012
The Show ‘N’ Tell at Stamp Club was based on a sketch given to us the previous month – an interesting one with torn pieces and tied-up bits of string to play with . I had recently fallen for a certain stamp which I purchased from Craft Obsessions and so just had to use it somehow. I...
50th Birthday and a Poppy
I’m posting a couple of cards that I made in January and forgot all about! The first was for a GoldWinging friend of ours who was fifty that month. I didn’t want to make anything too fancy as it was for a fella but he also likes a bit of sparkle so I used glitter card to provide that aspect. The...
Lily Birthday Card
My dear friend Denise had a very special birthday today – I’ll not tell you the number here – so I made her this huge card to celebrate the occasion. I had actually made a ‘Star Card’ but didn’t like it at all so that went into the round filing tray under my desk! I started...
March Saturday Sketch
This month the sketch at the Michael Strong Group was as shown to the right. Once again there have been loads of different interpretations of this, I chose to turn it on its side as you can see below. The card base is a simple cream card, there’s a layer of red card with simple rounded corners...
Sister card
So, now that it’s past the day and she’s actually had the card I can now blog about it . These cards are very time consuming (unless you’ve got an electronic cutter that’ll do it for you) but this was a real labour of love so the time didn’t matter at all. I printed large...
Wedding Card
Some very dear friends of ours got married in December and this is the card that I made for them. We had recently learned this technique at our Stamp Club so I felt it was a nice style to use for this occasion. I used lots of Spellbinders stuff – as usual – but what I didn’t do was photograph...
Queen of Hearts
Over at Quietfire Designs there’s the annual Queen of Hearts Challenge happening on February 14th, St. Valentine’s Day. The title says it all really but you can click the link to go see for yourself what it’s all about and maybe post an entry of your own. I used a lovely textured lilac...
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...
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...
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...