Monday, 17 March 2025

Golden birthday card

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I recently bought the Cloud 9 metallic inks from Lisa Horton Crafts , and decided I needed to try the blackout technique on this gorgeous embossing folder from Spellbinders using the Solid Gold ink. I finished the card with a stamped sentiment from Simon Says Stamp
 
 

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Saturday, 15 March 2025

More Beautiful Flowers for AECP

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 Today, I have another card I will be submitting as part of the Altenew Educator Certification Program.
This card was inspired by the All About Layering 4 class.

I got in a lot of practice with layering stamps from the Beautiful Day stamp set (and I need practice - it's not something I've been very good at!) and after fussy cutting all of the images, I then I layered up the flowers and leaves to create this dense arrangement (Glad Press and Seal comes in very handy to keep everything in the right place!) I popped all of the flowers and leaves up on foam tape, and finished with a sentiment from Label Love.

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Thursday, 13 March 2025

Easter village cards for Paper Rose

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Today, I'm sharing four cards using products from the Easter Village suite of products from Paper Rose. 

 


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Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Altenew All about layering 3

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 I decided to challenge myself in my cardmaking this year, so I have enrolled in the Altenew Educator Certification Program. I am hoping that this program will teach me some new things, and push me outside of my comfort zone, as well as allowing me to make the best use of my stash of Altenew products! 

The first course I chose to complete is All About Layering 3 (I am notoriously bad at using layering stamps, so this was a great excuse to practice!) I only needed to create one card for this course, but I made three! 

For all of these cards, I used the Beautiful Day stamp set. For the first card, I used the Leaf Frame cover die and I followed the idea presented by Lydia in the class to cut it from cardstock and from vellum, and layer them up.  


For my 2nd card, I kept it very simple, and added some subtle detail in the background with the Grid Stencil.

For my 3rd card, I created a bold sentiment using the Caps Bold Alphabet Dies, and cut the flowers so that they hang over the edge of the design. If I made this card again, I think I might add some very subtle stenciling in the background.

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Sunday, 9 March 2025

CASE It Instagram hop

Today, I'm taking part in the CASE it hop on Instagram - I have CASEd a card by Cathy Zielske!


This is Cathy's card that I CASEd - you can see it HERE.
I included the ink blended diagonal stripes and floral image stamped in black ink. I added a dotted border and glitter embellishments, and excluded the black dots. I also added two colours to make a rainbow. I also changed the placement of the sentiment.

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