Gnomes For The Holidays, Card 14, Personal Christmas Card Challenge 2021

Hello! Today I'm sharing my fourteenth card in my Personal Christmas Card Challenge, a challenge to see how many different ways I can use a seasonal looking background to create my Christmas cards. This card uses the Enchanted Garden Stamp set by Apple Blossom that was available with a magazine quite some time ago. This …

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A Monster of A Christmas, Card 13, Personal Christmas Card Challenge 2021

Hello! Today I'm sharing my thirteenth card in my Personal Christmas Card Challenge, a challenge to see how many different ways I can use a seasonal looking background to create my Christmas cards. For this card, I've stamped and coloured the yeti monsters from the My Favorite Things Beast Friends Stamp Set (retired) and the …

Silhouette In The Snow

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, …

Can’t Stop At One – A Bugaboo Double Make.

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 …

Magical Birthday Wishes

Hello! Another Creative Fingers Challenge is underway and it's sponsored by the awesome Michelle Tracey Art. My inspiration uses Sienna And The Deer Enchant The Garden to create a simple watercolour feature for a die cut, hinged card base. I started by printing the image onto suitable cardstock for use with my Zig brush markers …

Fields Of Flower Silhouettes

Hello! Another challenge is underway over at A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge, where you can enter absolutely any craft project with any theme. This month our sponsor is Artsystamper and I've created two quick cards using the Field Flower Silhouette Set. For my first card, I spent a bit of time on the …

Tastes of the Orient

Hello! My inspiration for the new Creative Fingers Challenge highlights the lovely Chinese Cranes image from sponsor, Lemon Shortbread in an oriental inspired creation. I printed the Cranes onto regular cardstock and decided to do a little "old school" crafting. I coloured the whole image with Tombow markers and a Dove Blender Pen, something I …

The Flowers In Life’s Garden…

Hello! Today I'm sharing my mid challenge inspiration for Kitty Bee Designs' monthly Aloha Friday Challenge. I've chosen to make a sweet one layer card, using All Dressed Up's Jam Jars image. This image comes as a set of three jars in a single image but I decided my first task was to crop each …

“Holidays Are A Nightmare” – Kindred Stamps Guest Designer + Blog Hop

Hello! Today, I'm please to announce I've joined Kindred Stamps as a guest designer. I have had the opportunity to work with one of their latest releases, "Holidays Are A Nightmare". I am also able to offer my readers a Kindred store discount, but more about that later... I am discussing all three cards in …

One Layer Wonder with a Stamp Masking Secret

Hello, I'm never really comfortable making a one layer card. It only takes one mistake and the whole card is ruined. That thought always makes me nervous and, because I'm nervous, I know in more likely to make that one mistake. This week Cas-ual Fridays Challenge gave me the drive to attempt a one layer card and …