These are a couple of bookmarks made with paper clips using the two-step owl punch which I taught at my Owl Punch Art class. The picture is deceptive, the hippo used a jumbo clip and is much larger, and the little girl is a standard sized paper clip. I am told that the face of […]
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Sail Away, Something to Celebrate
This is the technique I taught my club ladies this month, a partially embossed image using the Vintage Embossing Folder. Scroll down after this post for the tutorial as promised which has also been uploaded on to my website and can be found here I made a wedding card using this technique which can be viewed here in […]
Tutorial on Partially Embossed Folder Technique
As promised here is the tutorial for a partially embossed image using the Embossing Folders. First I cut a piece of chipboard measuring 5″ x 6.25″ and then traced and cut out an oval from the centre of the chipboard – I used the chipboard backing from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty Papers bundle back in […]
WOYWW #102
Goodness, Wednesday races toward us each week at such an alarming rate! Once you reach a certain age, you almost wish you could halt Old Father Time and stay “young” forever. You will recall last week I had some lollipop sticks on my desk – this is what I used them for. This is just a prototype, […]
Owl Punch, Basic Phrases
Here is another alternative to using the Owl punch. This is one of the cards we made in my Owl Punch Art Class. I punched four owl bodies in Basic Black, two used for the penguins, and the extras to cut two pair of “wings” so they could hold hands as it’s an anniversary card! 🙂 The Perfect […]
Sunday Share
Well, this isn’t to do with anything crafty, but I thought I’d share. My sister-in-law and her husband came to visit yesterday and treated us to lunch. As if that wasn’t enough, she also brought me a beautiful bunch of flowers – these gerberas look amazing, so I thought I’d capture it for posterity! DH and I […]
Beware Pirate!
This is one of the cards I designed for my Owl Punch Art Class at the end of April. I used the faux wood technique for the ship’s hull, cut the sails free hand, took random bites out of the Marina Mist pieces of card stock with a 3/4″ circle punch to create the waves, […]
Free Butterfly Easel Card Tutorial
Three whole days of Blogger being down! Considering the mammoth task they had on their hands to fix the glitches, save the world’s blogposts and restore them, they only lost one of mine, precisely this one, they haven’t done too badly although updates on what had been going on behind the scenes would’ve been welcome. […]