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 paper [...]

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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 Ice.  The [...]

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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 on [...]

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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 speckled sage
Groovy Duo
Coloured pencils
Clear Stardust pen
Creative Acrylics Christmas set
White glittered [...]

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