Handmade by Michelle: 2025

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Vintage cards for Paper Rose

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Today, I'm sharing three vintage inspired cards using the Afternoon in the Park suite of products.

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Sunday, 11 May 2025

Happy Mother's Day

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I made this card for my Mum for Mother's Day - my Mum is the best Mum in the world and I love her to bits.

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CASE it IG hop

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I am taking part in the CASE It IG Hop today - to follow along, please visit my IG account and you'll see a list of all of the stops on the hop!

Today, I am CASEing Hannelie Bester - I love that she had a coloured and textured panel with a wide white border on her card. I needed to make a masculine card, so I changed up the colour scheme, and I also changed the medium - I used powdered watercolours instead of ink blending, and then I highlighted the pattern with some gold Hero wax.

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Friday, 9 May 2025

Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero - May 2025 challenge

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There's a new Stay Crafty Challenge on the Hero Arts blog today - we want to see cards that can see! (your card must have eyes!)

Enter on the Hero Arts blog for your chance to win a $50 gift card!

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A rainbow of birthday cards

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I've been making cards to donate to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre here in Melbourne. I recently had some crafty friends over for a crafternoon, so I set to work with the Seamless Floral Panel layering stencils from Pinkfresh Studio (I think these are discontinued, sadly) and a rainbow of Distress Oxide inks. I finished the cards with sentiments from Simon Says Stamp and Concord & 9th.

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Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Golden blackout technique for Paper Rose

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Today, I'm sharing two cards that came from one embossed panel.

I began with a piece of white cardstock that I embossed using the Perfect Pansies 3D Embossing Folder. I added ink to the flowers and leaves on the debossed side of the panel, before adding gold pigment ink over the panel by swiping the ink pad over the panel. I cut the panel in half so that I could add it to two cards, adding die cut sentiments using the Fancy Script Layered Hello die, and the Best Wishes Large Layered Script die.

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Monday, 5 May 2025

Masculine birthday cards

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Today, I'm sharing two masculine birthday cards - I struggle with masculine cards, but the combination of alcohol inks and geometric designs works for me!

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Saturday, 3 May 2025

One more card for the Hero Arts May release

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Today, I'm sharing a card using the layering stencils of the month from the May Hero Studio release!

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Friday, 2 May 2025

Hero Studio - May Release Blog Hop

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Today, I'm taking part in a Blog hop celebrating the May Hero Studio release! The Flower Shoppe release is full of floral goodness!

Hero Arts will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Tuesday, May 6 at 11:59pm PDT, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week. Leave a comment on all stops for more chances to win!