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Clouds

I have a fair few baby related cards I haven’t got round to blogging. Often they feature a Lili of the Valley image, still my “go-to” digistamp brand for baby cards. They are really lovely to colour. I hadn’t coloured up “Clouds” before, because I correctly imagined that it would take a looooooonnnnnng time forContinue reading “Clouds”

Atelier Collage

Had a super book for Christmas, called Atelier Collage by and artist called Seiko Kato, who makes amazing collaged images that I would love to have the skills to emulate. This book is full of projects to cut out and make yourself, with lots of guidance on how to assemble them. I like tortuous fussyContinue reading “Atelier Collage”

Pencil Stencil Stencil Pen

Hi All, this is the blog post that goes with my Facebook Live happening in the Stamp Anniething Stampers group at 5 p.m. EST today. I will pop a link in it to the recording if you are seeing this after the live has happened. Link to the live is here! You will need toContinue reading “Pencil Stencil Stencil Pen”

Bit of Disney Shaker Goodness!

So a catch up post with a christmas card! You can see I got a bit behind, lol! All things Disney can only be used for personal use and not reselling. The main images are hand-drawn from scratch and the papers were purchased from an online Etsy Shop. Bit of a disclaimer to start with,Continue reading “Bit of Disney Shaker Goodness!”

More of the doggo!

Just a quick post for this card. I like how it came out, but it really was an assembly job! I found a really lovely set of blank dog themed cards in a sale and thought they would make super cute backgrounds for the dog cards I make. So they were, though to be honestContinue reading “More of the doggo!”

Spotty Doggo

So this was a commissioned card for a dog loving 70 yr old man! I wanted to try stencilling through a stencil too, so to start, the 3×3 circle grid is a homemade stencil. I did my first ink layer in greeny distress oxides through the circle stencil. I then used various stash stencils withContinue reading “Spotty Doggo”

Throwing things away

I hate throwing away interesting offcuts after spray ink projects! I used up quite a few strips of left over projects to make these two butterfly/bee birthday cards. I inherited these dies but I am pretty sure they are from the Spellbinders Fanciful Flights set. The “happy” die is from Altenew and I printed outContinue reading “Throwing things away”

All great birthdays feature lego.

I loved playing with lego as a child, it seems a lot of other people do, and still play with it as adults. Admittedly some of the bigger sets require considerably more skill to assemble than the old kits I played with as a kid! I reckon I would still enjoy it just as muchContinue reading “All great birthdays feature lego.”

Graphic 45

I feel like I may have had my Botanical Tea papers from Graphic 45 a rather long time! They were beautiful, but kind of too nice to use?? Do you have papers you just, stroke? 🙂 I decided to find my 8×8 pad and a 12×12 set of matching stickers and make a few blankContinue reading “Graphic 45”

Birds!

Another catch up post! Or ketchup post! 😀 I made myself a batch of cards using free bird papers and toppers from Making Cards Magazine. These are some of my favourite papers they have released. I made a spare card with the left overs too, not sure if I took a photo of that tho!Continue reading “Birds!”