Butterflies and flowers, a simple card made with a Dovecraft card pack

Card made with Dovecraft card kit

Fussy cut festive card

I just love the big golden bow on this card and plan to make another Christmas card using this as a sketch. It took alot of time to carefully cut the trees but I wanted them to have the proper prickely texture. I used a small snippet of the ribbon to create the bannerat thetop…

Fussy cut Glittery Bird card

I got some amazing pads from TheWorks with these very sweet birds on.They were amazing value at just £2 for 16 quality sheets of 250gsm glitter card. When i cut the piece to fit my card i then used my off cut scraps to fussy cut and create decoupage depth to my card. I was…

A framed kitten card on a dotty background

I enjoyed playing with the kitten stamp on my other kitten card that I couldn’t resist making another card with this super cute stamp. I wanted to use muted colours and had hoped for a card that could be given to male friends. Once the card was complete I realised that the flower like frames…

Stamping and embossing butterflies to create a blue card

Lately I have been striving for a more simple look to my cards. I love the look of CAS cards but confess I enjoy layering up my patterened paper so to keep so much white space is a bit of a challenge for me. I decided to make another card using masking as my yellow…

My attempts at creating foiled cards using blue butterflies glue and blue foil.

I have seen beautifully crafted cards created using foiling techniques but I confess I had no idea just how tricky this would prove to be. I ened up in a very sticky mess with two cards created to a very low standard and many more scraps destined for the bin. I had hoped to highlight…

A multi layered card using a panda stamp and many pieces of patterened paper

I went a bit layer happy with this card, using pink card with spakle white dots, red with white dots and a subtle patterened paper with pinks and greys. I wouldn’t usually layer up so many different patterns but I am soo happy i tried this out as I really love the final look. I…

Dotty card, a quick and colourful card

I came across the Muse challenge 211 and dug out my bag of circles to enter the challenge. The inspiration is a brightly coloured dotty card. I decided hoops looked better and chose only similar colours of card rather than the primary brights used on the inspiration card. I loved how easy this card was…

Wow I won something!

So I subscribe to Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine and have been enjoying the amazing free gifts papers and just heaps of inspiration and new techniques to try out. I follow their facebook page where every Friday they do a post for us to interact with, perhaps to say our favourite craft time treat or share…

Birds on blue, a card of three colours and two patterned papers.

I got inspired by a challenge that I have since lost the link to somehow, it gave me the three colours for my project which are yellow spring green and deep cobolt blue. Not sure what i did with that link ah well. So I then addapted a sketch idea from a magazine to create…

Watercoloured flower card

I stamped my flowers on my distress looking paper that was the scrap from another card, i felt the curving line really gave a beautiful shape to this card. Once the ink  had fully dried,I got out my watercolours bought from B&Mbargains for just £1.99. I love my budget makes,there is simply so many craft…

Pale pink layered vintage card

I just loved the little girl on the vintage sticker. I layered her with another of the stickers. I really loved using these vintage stickers to make some quick but lovely cards. Important as I hope to soon sell my cards at a local cafe/shop so i can then afford to keep going with this…