Say hello to these adorable “Party Puffins”! This blended card with a quirky inside fold happened quite by accident. I was aiming for something quite different. Originally I had been aiming for a tri-fold but it became only a partial one. The best places to see puffins in the UK is the Channel Islands. Here’s […]
Category Archives: Card making, Fun Folds, technique
Create grid of circles – Party Puffins
Today I’m going to show you how to create a grid of circles with patterned paper. If you have trouble trying to line up shapes or images in a straight line, then creating a template will save you time. You can use it time and time again for future projects requiring the same technique. I […]
New In Colors floral card for Tech 4 Stampers blog hop
New In Colors just released in the new Annual Catalogue so this month’s Tech 4 Stampers blog hop was a color challenge. Also thrown into the mix was a floral theme so it stands to reason to combine the two. Thank you to the lovely Sara Sayers for setting the challenge. Two-step stamping I made […]
Tower block fold card
Eek! I recently discovered this fancy tower block fold card. It sounds complicated, doesn’t it, but there’s a method in the “madness”. I try to make the instructions as easy as I can for its execution! Evening Evergreen is such a rich green, and I love the combination of greens in the Pansy Petals 12″ […]
Sneak Peek for a Two-step Stamping Floral Card
A new publication is on the horizon so here’s a sneak peek for a Two-step Stamping floral card! In fact there are several sneak peeks! The first is the Hand-Penned Petals Bundle. It’s a photopolymer stamp set in the new configuration where the images are printed on the sleeve insert instead of the acetate sheet. […]
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 […]
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 – 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 […]