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 […]
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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 […]
Elf Christmas card – Words for the Season
Elf Christmas card – Words for the Season. Happy Sunday! I promised I would use the elf, so here it is. It’s been paired with another useful bundle from the September-December 2025 mini on page 51 called “Words for the Season”. There are dies for scripted words like “Merry, Happy, Christmas, Wishes, Greetings, Autumn, New […]
Festive Friends for Christmas
Festive Friends for Christmas. Welcome, welcome, welcome! It’s week 5 and time to meet with Festive Friends – another Online exclusive! Christmas isn’t Christmas without Santa or his Elf or a snowman! I will leave the elf for another day, so do pop back! Continuing with my mission to reduce the thickness of the cards […]
Long slim Halloween card
Long slim Halloween card. In week 4 of my 6 week Countdown to Halloween series, I created a long slim card in landscape. An A4 sheet wasn’t long enough to make my kind of tent card. Tent cards tend to collapse on me, so I’d rather the spine of the fold is vertical and not […]
Autumnal card – Gathering Moments
Autumnal card – Gathering Moments. What do you think of the Gathering Moments dies so far? There isn’t a doubt that those leaves are LARGE! I wasn’t sure to start with, and resisted the temptation to get this set, but after a lot of procrastination, I did invest in it and am so glad I […]