Building up a card stash

I paid a flying visit to the NEC a few weeks ago and bought some stuff from the MDF man, including a box with dividers which I think is supposed to be for recipes.  However I have it earmarked as a birthday card/general card box – as being MDF means it will protect the cards [...]

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Simple Cards

As you know, I have been having a bit of a de-clutter over the last few days.  Well, isn’t it amazing how inspiring a good tidy up can be as you come across stuff you forgot you had and papers you’ve stroked, but never used. Well I looked at my stack of K&Co 6 inch [...]

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More Winter Glimmer Cards

Here’s some more detail on three of the Winter Glimmer show cards featuring the new Glimmer screens. This one started out life as this piece of card: It’s sprayed onto a linen textured white cardstock, using Seaglass, Jazz Blue and Sapphire Glimmer Mists over Glimmer Screens from two of the sets, Winter Crystal and Vintage [...]

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My Dorothy Shoe

I said I’d be back with orange.  Well here’s something I was just messing about with yesterday. I’d been playing with backgrounds.  The background to the shoe (from Fashion Dream plate) is done using coloured tissue paper.  Certain types of tissue don’t have the colours fixed, so you can wet them, then lay them scrumpled [...]

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A simple card – step by step

Mistletoe Card Here’s a simple, but elegant card made with the Christmas Foliage stamps which was shown on the Winter Glimmer Show. You will need: Christmas Foliage unmounted stamp set Christmas Reflections unmounted stamp set Versafine black inkpad Green pigment ink Green chalk ink Clear embossing powder Heat tool Thick white card, rusty red and [...]

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