Blue dragon card for card making challenge

I like to use sketch challenges from time to time as they spark inspiration and are great fun to join in with seeing how everyone uses the same sketch so very differently. This card was made for CAS colour and sketches challenge #238. I love how bold the sentiments become now i can use embossing…

Dragon digi stamp card

Yes I did just say the word Dargon! I love dragons and enjoy art work of both cute and more fierce looking dragons. This digi stamp was therefore exactly perfect for me to enjoy. It is from a facebook group called Dragons Lair design group. The team were great at giving out colour challenges and…

Stitched sentiment card

When i saw that the Less Is More challenge was to do paper piercing I knew exactly what I wanted to ue for my card. I have had an unfinished project for some time of a stitched sentiment that I was very happy to find a use for. I had first stamped the sentiment using…

Vintage tea party card

I decided to try make a card for a challenge and so used a sketch from CAS colours and sketches #231 to inspire this card make. The oval on my card is a bit larger but other than that I was very true to the sketch layout. I used a printout of Craftwork cards ‘Afternoon…

My first digi stamp card

I joined the fun challenge over at Dragons Lair Design group. I love the simple line image and really enjoyed crafting a trio of cards. I printed on photo quality glossy paper then coloured in using felt tip pens being carfeull to give time for the ink to dry. Thanks to a close friend I…

I love card making to create very differen’t cards.

I used an insert paper from an old Hunydory kit to help start three of these four cards. I then layered this with other paper kits and the fun of fussy cutting. This card used mainly the large image from the hunkydory paper insert but this glossy high quality paper is far too stunning to…

How-to blue art deco card

I decided that the last post didn’t explain very well on how I created my art deco cards only using a few elements from the Hunkydory page and making this stretch out to making multiple cards from just the one A4 sheet. I recreated the basic shape using my own patterned paper and pale blue…

Three horse cards for animal loving friends

When the equestrian set from Kanban was show on create and craft Tv I immediately had to buy the set and it really didn’t dissapoint. These are three basic layered cards using a variety of the toppers and they were such fun to create. I kept this card very basic as the topper is so…

Art deco cards made from Hunkydory Deco Peekaboo card kit

I was so excited to find my cards featured in issue 171 of Cardmaking and papercraft magazine. I had actually forgotten that it meant I would recieve a small craft gift so was very excited to recieve my gift in the post!! 🙂 The card kit was to make 4 very opulent shaped cards with…

Rainbow unicorn shaker card

When I got issue of and found that next months would have a unicorn die cutter as part of the free gift I knew I had to buy next months and eagerly counted down the days till it was on sale. I love the details on the horse with small snip lines giving subtle shading…

Christmas baubles layered cards wih faux stitching

I love creating my sets for Christmas and these were so quick and fun to create using fussy cutting to cut out many bold baubles from some paper. I really enjoy sitting and cutting as I find it theraputic and gives great finished look. I layered up using snippets of card left over from other…

I made three gate fold cards from one A4 piece of Hunky Dory Scorable adorable. I do think using a score board would be much quicker and easier but I managed well enough with a ruler and bone folder tool. Creating the mirror frame was a bit tricky with needing to cut out the central…