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Happy New Year to all my lovely followers. One thing I’d love to do more of in 2023 is memory keeping, so I’m starting as I mean to go on, and sharing a memory keeping page I created with the recent Time for Tea Designs mini-release, capturing some of our favourite Christmas traditions. For the…
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Hey friends, how are you? Are you ready for Christmas yet? Quite honestly, I’m not! I love Christmas, but it seems to have crept up so quickly this year and I’m not feeling festive quite yet – however, getting stuck in to some of my Christmas cards with the new stamps and dies from Time…
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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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Do you love CAS (clean and simple) cards, or are you scared of them? I LOVE them but I find them so hard to pull off! Nonetheless, I decided to give it a go for the MFT Card Design Superstar: CAS Genius category. For some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to…
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Hi friends! For anyone that has been following me for a while, they’ll know that I am a big fan of MFT Stamps, so I was super excited when they announced their Card Design Superstar competition recently. I didn’t get time to take part last year, so I really wanted to get involved this year!…
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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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My friend recently asked me to make a congratulations card for her friends who had recently married. Their wedding invitations had cacti on them, so I decided to adapt a couple of the cacti from Clearly Besotted’s Prickly Plushies set. I stamped the cacti with alcohol marker friendly black ink, then used a pencil to…
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Hey crafty friends, how are you? Today I’m sharing a sweet little card, perfect for a new baby or a special friend. I started out with a panel of watercolour paper, and masked off the third to the left. On the right, I wet my paper and applied various shades of blue watercolour paint, from…
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I love this super bright and cheerful little celebration card! I made it for my lovely friend, who just aced the first year of her nursing course. I started out by die cutting a panel of white card using my favourite Pink & Main stitched rectangle dies, then die cut the giant “Hooray” sentiment (by…
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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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Here’s a Hug from Me to You
Hey friends, how are you? Today I’m sharing a lovely slimline card featuring some of the new release embossing powders from Wow! I’ve used the Dappled Effects trio, which has three beautiful dappled pinks and peaches. I decided to make a slimline card with three windows to show off each of the colours properly. I… Read more
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MFT Sketch Challenge
Hey crafty friends, I’m back today with another cardmaking challenge entry – this time for MFT’s weekly sketch challenge! I love this sketch, and as soon as I saw it, I thought it would look good as a notebook page! At first I was going to team it with the School is Cool stamp set,… Read more
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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… Read more
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I’m nuts & bolts about you
Hey everyone, hope you’re well! I’ve just made a card for this month’s Heffy Doodle challenge – “Love” themed cards, so I thought I’d share a tutorial! To make my background, I blended various pink shades of distress oxide through the Simply Radiant stencil, starting with the darkest in the centre, moving out to the… Read more
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CAS embossing – thinking of you
Hey guys! It’s been a while! Some big life changes happening at the moment, so crafting has taken a bit of a back seat, but I’m hoping to be back more regularly very soon! So, today I’m sharing another CAS card that would be suitable as a sympathy card, an encouragement card or a masculine… Read more
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Wow! New release insta hop – 2 for 1 embossed backgrounds
Hey friends, today I’m sharing TWO cards for the price of one! I always love a 2 for 1, especially when the “spare” card turns out just as cute as the first! I used the Sweetie Jar Trio from Wow! Embossing’s latest release to create an embossed panel. I covered some white cardstock with Wow’s… Read more
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