Inspired by all of the beautiful cards made with these Sue Wilson dies on Pinterest and Facebook I added them to my birthday wish list and couldn’t wait to play with them when I opened them on my birthday. This card has a more traditional monotone colour scheme accented with glitter card and vellum flowers. I started by die cutting the hexagon dies from white card and layering them onto…
Inspired by the beautiful Honey Doo Crafts Design Team cards that were on display at last week’s Honey Doo Crafts workshop I decided to have a play with my new Butterflies Flight stamp and made some vellum overlay cards whilst watching the football yesterday afternoon. I started by stamping the Butterflies Flight stamp using Smokey Gray Versafine ink onto white card (approximately 6 1/2″ square) and heat embossed the images…
I thought that I would share photos of the cards that I made at the June Honey Doo Crafts workshop on Friday. In addition to making some beautiful cards it also gave me the opportunity to catch up with Amanda, Kay and Martin from Honey Doo Crafts. They are such a friendly team and work hard to ensure that every attendee gets the most out of the workshop no matter…
I thought that I would share two birthday cards using the Steel Magnolia stamp set from Honey Doo Crafts demonstrating some Distress Oxide techniques. I stamped the Magnolia stamp onto a square of white card using Versamark ink and silver heat embossing powder in opposite corners and stamped the sentiment onto a scrap of white card. I then painted the images with Pebeo Drawing Gum and allowed them to dry…
I thought that I would post something a little different today as these New Baby card and Big Brother cards use a mix of die cuts, papers, stickers and toppers instead of my usual stamping. Both cards started with the step card die and some white card. Many people make step cards without the use of a die but I find it easier as I don’t have to remember any…
This Oh Duck! stamp from the Crafter’s Companion unmounted stamp range is perfect for cards for men and will bring a smile to many faces. I stick EZMount onto the back of all of my unmounted stamps as it makes them much easier to use than having to apply adhesive each time and enables me to attach them to clear acetate sheets in my stamp storage folders. The cards were very…
These cards use the Wine and Grapes stamp set by Honey Doo Crafts combined with their Vintage sentiment stamp and the A Bottle of Vine stamp set which was featured in my previous post. As with the A Bottle of Vine cards I started by stamping the images and sentiments onto white card using Onyx Black Ink and heat embossing using clear embossing powder. I then coloured the images using…
This set of cards are all variations on a theme using the A Bottle of Vine stamp set by Honey Doo Crafts combined with sentiments from the Just the One stamp set and Wine and Grapes stamp set. I started by stamping the images and sentiments onto white card using Onyx Black Ink and heat embossing using clear embossing powder. I then coloured the images using the ColourTint by Spectrum…
This beautiful Forget-Me-Knot stamp set is perfect not only for birthday cards with it’s beautiful Happy Birthday sentiment but also thinking of you cards or for just because cards. As with many of my cards I started by batch stamping the feature image multiple times on white card with the Versafine Smokey Gray ink and heat embossing with clear embossing powder. For the butterfly version I mixed the White Opal,…
This card started as a messy experiment with Distress Oxides, a water spray and Pixie Power which turned into a very beautiful card with what my husband calls a “cosmic background”. I started by splodging Wilted Violet and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink Pads onto a non-porous craft mat, spritzed with a water spray and then dipped 2 sheets of white card into the inky puddles. If you are not…
The A Path to Somewhere stamp by Honey Doo Crafts is perfect for those difficult cards such as Thinking of You, Sympathy or birthday cards for people who enjoy walking. I started each card by stamping the A Path to Somewhere Stamp onto white card using Smokey Gray Versafine ink and clear embossing powder. I then coloured the images using Aqua Markers scribbled onto a non porous craft mat and…
I am sure that I am not the only card maker who find making cards for men difficult so I thought that I would share these shed cards that I have made using the Lili of the Valley In the Shed stamp and some of the Autumn Morning Signature Collection by Sara Davies. I bought this stamp as an unmounted rubber stamp from a craft fair a few years ago…
Like many craft bloggers I have got a backlog of card photos which have not been written up into a blog post so inspired by the snow today I thought that I would share some of the cards that I have made using the Honey Doo Crafts Snowdrops stamp set. This set is very versatile as it could be used for a wide range of occasions and does not necessarily…
Inspired by the Honey Doo Crafts workshop last week I have made two cards using the Welcome Spring stamp set which is perfect for spring birthdays as well as sending a springtime hello card. I started by stamping the Welcome Spring Stamp onto white card using Onyx Black Versafine ink and clear embossing powder twice for each card. I coloured the boots and leaves using Aqua Markers scribbled onto a…
As you may have noticed I am a huge fan of Honey Doo Crafts and love attending their workshops. The March workshop gave me the opportunity to experiment with Distress Oxide ink pads which are my new favourite for creating backgrounds. Not only do they blend easily with a mini smoothie sponges they react with water to create interesting designs. For the vellum flower card we spritzed our blended designs…
As I had a little time to spare this afternoon I thought that I would make cards for my neighbours instead of using the shop bought cards which I had on standby. I must confess that I ran out of time and energy in the run up to Christmas this year and resorted to using shop bought cards when my cute handmade cards ran out. I decided to play with…
This is the last of my cute Christmas card collections this year featuring the Build-A-Snowman die from the Cute Christmas Signature Collection by Sara Davies. As with my previous batches of Christmas cards I die cut the snowman components from card scraps then shaped and assembled multiple snowmen using silicone glue first before making the cards. I found that the tiny elements of this die set quite fiddly so I kept…
My second batch of cute Christmas cards using the Cute Christmas Signature Collection by Sara Davies is based on the Cosy Penguin die. As with the Reindeer cards I started by die cutting the penguin dies using black, white, orange and red mirror card. I then gently shaped each component using a flower shaping tool and a foam mat before layering with silicone glue. Whilst they were drying I used the…
My crafting is often very seasonal as I am inspired to make fresh floral cards in the spring, cards with a brighter colour pallet in the summer and darker autumnal coloured cards in autumn. As a result it feels strange thinking about Christmas cards when the summer sun is beaming through the window and I don’t start making Christmas cards until the first frosts of November. With approximately 50 cards…
I thought that I would share the second card that I made for the recent Cardmaking & Papercraft Competition. I assume that the fact I have not heard anything yet means that I have not been successful but I am confident that the standard of my card entries improve each year. When I was trying to develop my entries I found it inspiring looking back at previous blog posts as…