Category: ink blending
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Wow Embossing & Picket Fence Studios Instahop & GIVEAWAY!
Have you seen the hop happening over on Instagram today? It’s a Collab between Wow Embossing and Picket Fence Studios, and there’s prizes to be won, so hop on over and check it out! I ended up making two cards for this hop, as my off-cut from the first was so pretty! For my first…
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Holy Moley! It’s your Birthday!
Hey everyone, I’m back today with another card from the latest Time for Tea Designs release, featuring my favourite of the new stamp sets – the I Really Dig You stamps & dies. I started by die cutting four slimline frames using the Stitched Slimline Slopes die. On the first three, I snipped away the…
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Easter Wishes
Hey, how are you? With Easter just a week away, I’m sharing this pastel coloured Easter card using some of the new release goodies from Time for Tea Designs. I made my background with the Eggstra Special layered stencils – applying a light layer of colour (spun sugar, shaded lilac and salvaged patina distress oxides)…
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You’re a Limited Edition: MFT Color Challenge #206
Hey guys! Do you like taking part in card challenges? I love them, because they force me to think creatively in ways that I might not have otherwise, and I end up producing something new! Today, I made a card for the current MFT Stamps colour challenge #206, which has the following colour palette: I…
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Little Signage Agenda – new baby card
I was scrolling through my photos this afternoon and realised I’d not posted this new baby card I made for a friend a few months back! To make the background, I ink blended a slimline panel with distress oxides (speckled egg and tumbled glass, I think!). I then sprinkled it with water to add some…
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Heffy Doodle challenge – Tone on Tone
Hi! Today I’m sharing a card I made for this month’s Heffy Doodle challenge (tone on tone projects). After searching my Heffy Doodle stash, I picked out the Hello Squeakheart stamp set and decided to make my own patterned paper background by repeatedly stamping the cheese image. I mounted the image on an acrylic block,…
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MFT Card Design Superstar – Coloring Virtuoso
Well, I’ll be honest – I wasn’t sure whether to enter this card in the competition at all, because some of the entries are just crazy good. However, I did take a lot of care over colouring my characters and I like how the card turned out, so if nothing else, I could end up…
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Charlotte’s Naming Day
It was our youngest daughter’s naming day at the weekend, and of course I had to make a card to mark it! I thought it would be appropriate to make a card with Charlotte’s name on it, so I used the Lea’s Ornate lower case alpha dies from Pinkfresh Studio to cut the letters from…
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Trick or Treat – Lawn Fawn x Wow Embossing
Have you seen the new Trios that Wow Embossing have recently released? The thing I love about them is that often they are colours that I would not have thought to put together myself. One of the Trios that Wow! sent me to play with as part of my guest design spot recently was this…
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2 for 1 inky backgrounds – Wow Embossing
I love 2 for 1 techniques, and this one is so easy, you need to give it a try! Also, if you like a process video, I have a quick reel over on my Instagram page, so feel free to check it out! To make my backgrounds, I used the All Squared Up Stencil from…