Hello! Another Creative Fingers Challenge has just got underway. For my inspiration, I chose a sweet Momma & Baby Penguin image from sponsor, Some Odd Girl to create a slimline scene card with a truly southern hemisphere perspective. As we all know, there are no penguins in the Arctic, almost all live in the southern … Continue reading A Southern Sky Christmas
Hello! For this month's Crafty Christmas Club Blog Hop, I decided to do something very different, for me anyway. I haven't done any stitching on cards in many years so I thought I'd find a pattern online and have a little play. Before I got into the stitching, I decided to create a distress ink … Continue reading A String Art Tree For Christmas.
Hello! For the latest Creative Fingers Challenge, with sponsor, Jan's Digital Stamps, I've created another easy Christmas card. I chose to use the Sleigh Ride silhouette image and printed it twice into a single piece of cardstock, reversing the smaller image. I made sure these images were already correctly placed so I could make the … Continue reading Dashing Through The Snow
Hello! There's another Creative Fingers Challenge starting today and we have the ever awesome Bugaboo Stamps as our sponsor. I chose to use their Reindeer Silhouette image to make a black and white Christmas card that will go through the post easily. I started by creating a background panel by cutting a piece of white … Continue reading A Silhouette For Christmas
Hello! The September A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge starts today and my inspiration uses a sweet silhouette from this month's sponsor, SheepSki Designs. This card was really easy to put together. I started by printing the Winter Deer Silhouette image onto plain white cardstock, sizing it to fit a 5"×7" card base. Before printing, … Continue reading Silhouette In The Snow
Hello! For the August Crafty Christmas Blog Hop, I've had a bit of fun making a white on white card that came together really quickly. I used the Tattered Lace 3D Decoupage Merry Christmas die and cut three of each of its layers from plain white cardstock, backed with wide double sided adhesive tape. I … Continue reading White On White – Crafty Christmas Club Blog Hop
Hello! The new Creative Fingers Challenge is now underway. That past month has just flown by! This month, I decided to make a quick and easy masculine card, using an image from one of my own challenge blog's sponsors, Fred She Said. I needed a quick birthday card to pop in the post and had … Continue reading An Old Blue Truck!
Hello! It's the first of the month and another A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge is underway. This month, we have the awesome CraftsÜprint as our sponsor. I chose to create my inspiration using just elements from a kit to show how to get more than just one card design from any kit you buy. … Continue reading Expanded Uses For A Card Kit – A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge, August 2020
July see the first of my Christmas cards made for 2020, and the first time I've joined in with the Crafty Christmas Club Blog Hop! My card uses the Simon Says Stamps Ring Wreath die to create the main feature of my card. I die cut it in white three times from plain white cardstock … Continue reading Crafty Christmas Club Blog Hop – July 2020
Hello! It's the start of the latest Creative Fingers Challenge and our sponsor is the awesome Bugaboo! This digital stamp provider is a seasoned veteran of the craft world, and she has the range of images to match it! Even better, this Creative Fingers Challenge runs for four weeks and, to celebrate that, I decided … Continue reading Can’t Stop At One – A Bugaboo Double Make.
Hello! It's the start of July's A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge and me this month we have two sponsors, Charlie's Stamps and Bugaboo! For my inspiration, I've chosen Bugaboo's Stella Tidbits Heaven image to make a quirky little card. I started by printing the Stella Tidbits Heaven image and the matching quote onto regular … Continue reading Move Over God!
Hello! We've been given yet more creative freedom for the latest Creative Fingers Challenge. Again, I thought I'd create yet another tutorial, this time for a 5"×7" Double Dutch Fold Card. This card design isn't new but no matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find a 5"×7" card template. I love making cards that … Continue reading Double Dutch Fold Card Tutorial with 5″×7″ Template.
