fancy fold card with plentiful plants

Fancy fold card with Plentiful Plants

Fancy fold card with Plentiful Plants is really a Reverse Gate fold card. I have had a debate going on in my head about what size I should cut my card base. Gate folds need a degree of accuracy so that it closes in the middle without any gaps. However, if you use the back […]

anniversary card soft pastels with always in my heart bundle

Anniversary Card with pastels

I have an anniversary card with pastels using the Always in my Heart bundle. At the end of my Soft Pastel series which you can see HERE and HERE, I discovered even more ways to apply pastels. This time I used Stampin’ Up!’s new Plenty of Patterns Decorative Masks. Unfortunately the photo doesn’t do the […]

clean and simple card with all squared away bundle

Clean and simple – less is more

I’m a great advocate of clean and simple cards and firmly believe that sometimes less is more. Too often I feel I’m short changing people if I don’t put more effort into a project, particularly when making card. In most of my tutorials, I incorporate a fancy fold, or layers etc, and on occasion I […]

five more soft pastel applications - Part 2

How to apply Soft Pastels – Part 2

I am so excited to be sharing how to apply Soft Pastels – Part 2 with even more ways to apply Stampin’ Up!’s Soft Pastel Assortment. In today’s video, I cover five more ways you can apply pastels so altogether there are ten! Extra non-Stampin’ Up! tools involve a grater, and a different kind of […]

trifold shutter card with seascape

Tri-fold Shutter Card with Blending technique

When I first started crafting, the Tri-fold Shutter Card looked really daunting and then adding a blending technique on top would have sent me over the edge! Thirteen years on, it’s really not difficult when you know how. Having said that, if you want pretty layers, then this involves a lot of itty bitty pieces […]

clean and simple card pretty perennials

Clean and Simple card – Pretty Perennials

I’m sharing a clean and simple card made with Pretty Perennials today. It always makes me sad when we have to say farewell to something I’ve fallen in love with. Pretty Perennials retires at the end of June, so I thought I better give it an airing one last time. The card base and top […]

collage soft pastels 101 part 1

How to apply Soft Pastels – Part 1

I thought I’d do a Soft Pastels 101 and as there are so many ways to apply them I’ve split them in a Soft Pastels 101 – Part 1 for this week. The following Friday, I will publish Soft Pastels 101 – Part 2. Please bear with me as I haven’t edited the video yet, […]

slide and lock gatefold card with sweet ice cream bundle

Gatefold card with slide and lock mechanism

This gatefold card with a slide and lock mechanism is surprisingly easy to make. The first one I made, I used a smaller scalloped frame and found that the slide and lock mechanism kept on “popping out”. After having filmed the video tutorial in the early hours, I didn’t have the energy to re-jig it, […]