Hand crafted cards

Can you believe it? In approx 2 weeks time my baby girl is going to have a baby of her own.! He is due around about Mother's Day so I made my daughter another of my basket of flowers cards. This time using the colours of this weeks challenge #357 at www.just-add-ink.blogspot.com

The gesture of giving a thank you card is slowly becoming a lost art, let alone having it be a hand-written and homemade card. Take an extra minute to show that someone how much you really ap…

Hi everyone, Welcome to my blog. Thanks so much for popping in to see me. Last Saturday, I featured this card for a blog hp with a theme of "Harvest Time". Today I'm back with the video tutorial for you and as usual I have gone with a different colour for the video. Back to using one of my favourite colours - Polished Pink! Teamed with some of my favourite Brights colours. And just a little bit of decoration inside! To see my video you can watch by CLICKING HERE or on the image below. Hope…

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The challenge this week at SCS is to create something that has light to dark colors.....this technique is also called Ombre which is defined as "graduated colors from light to dark on a surface". Starting with the lightest shade of a color (any color), use light, medium, and dark shades of the same color to create a background or main image. I'm finding this particular quilt pattern intriguing these days. First of all it's easier than most and you get some wonderful movement with colors. I…

Hi everyone. Time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS. This challenge is being hosted by the wonderfully talented Bonnie (Stamping with Klass) and she has chosen this sweet code word ... This challenge is sponsored by I started by making my bloom. I punched a white daisy and sponged with three colours of distress inks (ripe persimmon, worn lipstick, picked raspberry). I cut out one of the petals, folded the flower in half, pulling together the petals on either side of the one I cut out…

This is a beautifully handmade birthday card embossed with "Happy Birthday" sentiments in a soft yellow. The base is made from heavy weight cardstock. A 1 1/2 inch transparent ribbon with white and yellow daisies borders the left side of the card. Three handmade paper daisies have been placed on the ribbon with a yellow gemstone in the middle of each daisy. Inside, there is a birthday sentiment with a white daisy with a gemstone in the lower right hand corner. This card is so bright and…

Hi Friends I find it hard enough to make masculine cards at the best of times, but when I needed to make a get well card for a male friend who had contracted COVID 19, it was REALLY difficult to find something suitable amongst my vast stamp collection! Eventually, I plumped for these weird IndigoBlu circles that reminded me of the images of the COVID 19 virus itself (with a little artistic licence) and this is what I came up with! Base card measures: 5¾ x 5¾ Everything except the base card…

Using my social distancing time to sequester myself in the craft room and get a head start on special occasion cards for my family. Inspired by this card I saw on Pinterest: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/1c/45/7f1c4500257a1fd083db0fc7f59eb3e6.jpg

Good Sunday morning. My project today is a die cut flowers and scalloped lattice frame card made using several dies by Rubbernecker Stamps. The background