A Silhouette For Christmas

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 …

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Magnolias For Mother

Hello! It's the start of the May A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge and this month, we have two sponsors, Fred She Said and Artsystamper Digitals. For my inspiration, I've chosen to use Artsystamper's Magnolias, overlaying the outline onto a watercolour digital background from a background bundle from The Hungry Jpeg. I printed the image …

Creative Fingers Says Thank You.

Hello! It's that time of year where Creative Fingers Challenge says thank you to our sponsors. This year I've chosen to say thanks to Michelle Tracey Art. My creation highlights her beautiful greyscale artwork featuring her Little Wing image. I coloured the image with my Chameleon pens and cut it out with a stitched rectangle …

Remembrance Poppies

Hello! For the start of the latest Creactive Fingers Challenge, I've created a fairly traditional design for a solemn occasion. I always make these cards in advance to keep in my stash. The events are sudden and I never feel like making a beautiful card when it happens. The sponsor for this challenge is Morgan's …

A Krafty Metallic Christmas.

Hello! It's the start of the August challenge over at Get Creative Challenge and my inspiration features the Merry Christmas Tree from sponsor Drawn By Krista. Before I printed the image onto kraft cardstock, I quickly changed the colour of the pot from black to brown. I then used my laser printer onto the card …

A little Ray Of Sunshine.

Hello! Today, I'm sharing my inspiration for the start of the latest Creative Fingers Challenge. I chose to create a card using the Dancing Sunflower image from sponsor Lemon Shortbread as the feature image. I started by printing the image onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock and added a single base layer of colour …

Pretty In Pink.

Hello! It's the start of our latest challenge over at A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge and this month we're lucky to have Morgan's Art World as our sponsor. The team has created some awesome inspiration for this month's challenge and you can see it all here, in this month's challenge post. While you're …

Sweet Geisha Girl

Hello! Today I'm sharing my inspiration for the start of the April Get Creative Challenge. For this card, I've chosen the pre-colored Geisha image, called Japanese Lady from Ike's Art. I've always loved using pre-colored images as my features because they give me lots of time to work on the rest of my card design. …

Magpie In Magnolias & Successfully Planning A Card Design

Hello! Today I'm sharing my inspiration for the start of another Creative Fingers Challenge. I'm also going to discuss a couple of issues cardmakers face when designing a card from scratch. My inspiration for these cards was this stunning artwork that I'd seen online by Heidi Willis. This piece just took my breath away with …

Sands In The Hourglass

Hello! Today I'm sharing my inspiration for the start of the latest Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge that has a theme of drinks. Sparkle 'n' Sprinkle have kindly sponsored this challenge and I couldn't resist using their Beach Friends digital stamp kit. I started by printing the image and one of the matching sentiments …

The Sweetest Of Nectars

Hello! Today I'm sharing, what will sadly be my last inspiration design for Le Ann's World 101. I've had a blast working with her great digital stamps over the past few months but life has thrown me a very unexpected, but exciting opportunity. I've decided to grasp it with both hands and it will take …

Fun With Stockings And Plaid

Hello! This is my first inspiration post for Le Ann's World 101's Design Team. I was so happy to be making one of my first Christmas cards. I'm running so late this year! I used the Fun With Stockings digi stamp, coloring it with my Chameleon Pens and Pencils. Once finished, I die cut the …