Landscape autumnal card. The Autumn Toile suite is beautiful. I am using the Amber Autumn bundle part of the suite to create today’s card. It was a great opportunity to use Very Vanilla, because the background of this paper is Very Vanilla too. Today’s card’s inspiration was from the sample in the mini catalogue, but […]
Category Archives: Card making, Fun Folds, technique
November online exclusives
November online exclusives. So much is happening with the run up to Thanksgiving, Christmas, moving house and having to plan ahead for all eventualities. Our move was delayed and I wasn’t sure when we’d have internet installed at our new home. At time of writing we’d just missed our exchange date which was delayed till […]
Gift of Joy cards
Gift of Joy cards. We’re in week 8 of 12 in my 12 week Christmas Countdown Series. I decided not to do an Advent Calendar this year because we are relocating and moving up north to West Yorkshire to be closer to family. In fact I’ve had to work 3 months (at time of writing, […]
One Sheet Wonder Part 2 – Autumn Toile
One Sheet Wonder Part 2 – Autumn Toile. Ready for part 2? Today, we will look at Cards 4 to 6. I will be replicating the cutting guide and card templates for easy reference. Cards 4, 5 & 6 Additional items in part 2 is the So Swirly Embossing folder. I departed from what was […]
One Sheet Wonder Part 1- Autumn Toile
One Sheet Wonder – Autumn Toile. Oh my goodness! I can’t believe we’re already into November and Autumn is definitely here! One Sheet Wonder is a technique of cutting up a sheet of patterned paper and maximising its use on cards without any wastage. I’ve often used this technique on 6″x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 […]
Joyful Tidings Christmas card and Halloween Greetings
Joyful Tidings Christmas card and Halloween Greetings. We’re across the half way mark in Week 7 of 12 in my Christmas Countdown Series and it also happens to be Halloween today. So we have Christmas as well as Halloween in today’s post. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a wreath of two. The stamp set is […]
Long slim autumn card
Long slim autumn card. Finally for the last card I made with the Gathering Moments bundle is a long, slim autumn card which will fit in a DL envelope. I also used the Traditional Labels dies which is part of the Traditions of Christmas Suite collection in the September-December 25 mini on pages 21-27. By […]
Christmas card – Branching Out
Christmas card – Branching Out. It’s week 6 of 12, already half way through my 12 week Countdown to Christmas Series. When I first begin to design a card, I never know what direction it will take. It goes without saying that establishing what colour card stock and pretty papers you want to use is […]