blended background with oval window birthday card with flamingo

Blended oval background card

Blending is a way of adding colour to your project and today’s card has a blended oval background. The oval is actually a die cut oval aperture and raised with foam strips. It’s like looking through an oval window to a vista beyond. Stampin’ Up! introduced blending brushes in their product line recently, but they’ve […]

embossed clean and simple card with die cut flowers and butterfly

Card Sketch card- design your own

I decided to design my own card sketch using a graphic design platform called Canva. It really was a “light bulb” moment using that first sketch in the Tech 4 Stampers blog hop last week. It was so easy to use the same sketch to make another card just by switching the stamp set and […]

thank you card using a card sketch with seashells, embossing and gilding

Thank You Card – Happy Sunday!

Happy Sunday! I created a “Thank You Card” using the same card sketch created for the Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop which I took part in last week. Card sketches are a relatively new genre for me. Following a sketch saved me a lot of time. The placement of the elements had already been worked […]

floating technique using butterflies

Floating technique card with butterflies

Last Wednesday I made this card and promised to show you another floating technique card with butterflies from the Floating & Fluttering bundle. You’ll find the bundle on page 61 of the January-June 2021 Mini which will be retiring on 30 June, so I’m making the most of it while I can! Stampin’ Up!’s stamp […]

gatefold card with off centre opening

A Gatefold card with off centre opening and bonus card

Hi and welcome! I wanted to create a special Gatefold card with an off centre opening. We’ve had some joyous news that my Sister-in-law and her husband have become grandparents for the first time! The lock down and pandemic has been such a damper on life in the past year that news of the baby’s […]

floating card technique with butterflies

Card with a Floating Technique

I am so excited to be sharing this card with a floating technique with you today. A couple of years ago, when the floating technique was trending, I shared a card which you can see HERE. It needed quite a lot of effort and patience to create it. I am delighted that Stampin’ Up! has […]

fun fold butterfly card

How to create a Fun Fold card

On Easter Sunday I showcased an Easter card and promised to show you how to create the fun fold card this week. The concept is really simple. It’s just another mini card adhered to the middle of the card front of the main card base. You have the opportunity to decorate the inside and continue […]

fun fold easter card with wreath, easter eggs and butterflies

Fun Fold Card for Easter

It was so difficult to choose which stamp set to use for this fun fold Easter card so I used both to wish you all a HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY EASTER DAY! When I chose the Arrange a Wreath bundle to make this card, I was horrified to learn that it is retiring. It is one […]