House Mouse Stitched with Love

 Today, I'm sharing a card using another House Mouse stamp in the recent release from Spellbinders!

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Thanks ombre for Paper Rose

 Today, I'm sharing a card using dies from Paper Rose Studio. 

I began with a white card base, and I ink blended on it with Distress Oxide inks. I added some white splatter to the background. I cut the Floral Christmas Coverplate die from champagne metallic cardstock, and adhered it over the ombre background. I cut the Fancy Script Layered Thanks metal die from pink cardstock, and layered it over some vellum, before adhering it onto the die cut panel. I finished with some white enamel dots to pick up on the white spatter in the background. 

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Sympathy cards

 I recently needed some sympathy cards, so I dived into my UFO pile to find some backgrounds, and die cut some leaves to create these three cards. 

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Craft Roulette Episode 278

I played along with Craft Roulette Episode 278 yesterday - the parameters were: 

Project - Thank you card

Colours- Bakery

Element - Shops/shopping 

Random - Oombre

Here's what I created: 

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Altenew AECP Level 2 challenge - part 2

For the Altenew Educator Certification Program Level 2, there were two parts. Part two asks participants to create an altered item or upcycled project. I found this very plain box that I had kept (because who can throw away a good box?? Am I right?) and decided to decorate it.

I was inspired by the classes "Beautiful details", "Color your day" and "Masking unleashed".   

First, I measured the box and cut a panel of white cardstock to wrap around the lid. I stenciled and ink blended over the panel with three different blue inks, and scored the panel so it would fit around the lid neatly. 

I adhered the panel to the box and then decided to add some details with a fine tip black marker. (Yes, I was THAT stupid that I didn't add these details until AFTER I'd adhered it to the box.)

I die cut a bunch of leaves from blue cardstocks and from vellum. I adhered each cardstock leaf to a vellum leaf, and arranged them on top of the box, before adhering them with liquid glue. 

I finished the box with a sentiment from Label Love and some dew drop embellishments. 

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Altenew AECP Level 2 challenge - part 1

Today, I'm sharing four masculine, monochromatic cards I made for the level 2 final challenge for the Altenew Educator Certification Program. 

I was inspired by the level 2 classes "Beyond Basic Backgrounds", "In the mood for color", "Polychromatic", "Color your day", "Impressive heat embossing", and "Creative watercolor media".  

 I made the green and the orange cards first, and I totally forgot to take photos of the process, so when I made the purple and blue cards, I decided to make a video instead! 

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Floral hello for Paper Rose

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 Today, I'm sharing a card I made for Paper Rose Studio.

I began with some watercolour paper. I stamped and white embossed the Blossom Bouquet clear stamp four times around the edge of the panel. I used the ink smooshing technique to add some soft colour to the background, before adding more intense colour to the flowers and leaves using watercolour pencils. I cut the Fancy Script Layered Hello die from dark pink cardstock and adhered it to the centre of the panel, and adhered the panel to a white card base. 

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Case me a Christmas Card with Jennifer McGuire

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2024 - a Christmas Card blog series! For more background info on the who, what, where, when, how and why of this series, please visit my first post for this year HERE!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Jennifer McGuire! I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :)

 

 

 

And I made a video! 

 These are the cards I Cased: 

Using Ardyth's LIMES technique: 

List:  Pool, Vertical or angled strip, foil, pale stamped background, focal floral image cut in half, foiled sentiment and stamped and embossed sub sentiment, gold embellishments

Include: Vertical or angled strip, focal floral image cut in half, stamped and embossed sub sentiment

Modify:  glitter cardstock, embossed background, glitter sentiment

Exclude: Pool, gold embellishments

Spin: a variety of Christmassy (and non-Christmassy) colours!

Jennifer also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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