Category: Stencilling
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LDRS Creative v Wow Embossing IG hop
Hey everyone! There’s another fun Instagram hop happening today – this time it’s with Wow Embossing and LDRS Creative. Check out Instagram for all the details and the giveaway (I’m @card_days_night on IG). For my project, I used the gorgeous Cosmos floral layering stencils from LDRS, and combined it with their Big Word – Beautiful…
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Hi!
I love making cards to say “hi” or “hello”. It’s the type of card I send most often, and there’s nothing like pairing a bold hello sentiment with a showstopper background for a winning card formula! For my background, I took a panel of Concord & 9th Midnight cardstock and dusted it with anti static…
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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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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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Happy birthday – New Wow Trio
I love a Wow Trio, do you? Today they’ve released two new ones, and they’re lovely- to me, they feel very autumnal and rich! For today’s card, I’ve used the Ancient Orient Trio (Tarnished Brass, Vintage Turquoise and Turkish Coffee). I’ve been wanting to try a new-to-me Stamp Your Life project kit from Altenew called…
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Rainbow pawprints
A new crafty friend of mine is going through a tough time as her fur baby needs a lot of medical attention, so I wanted to make an encouragement card to let her know I was thinking of her. I used a rainbow of distress oxide colours (crackling campfire, scattered straw, salvaged patina, tumbled glass,…
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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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Jubilee celebration card
I couldn’t let the Platinum Jubilee pass by without making a card to celebrate! It was the perfect opportunity to finally use my Oh Crumbs stamp set by Heffy Doodle! I stamped and coloured the images from the set with Copic markers, then cut them out with my Brother Scan N Cut. I used the…
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