Quick simple Masculine card. May’s Tech 4 Stampers blog hop is to make a masculine card. Generally speaking when you’re making cards for men you pare back the frilly stuff and stick to fairly bold neutral colours. I tend to avoid pinks and/or peachy tones. I am using the Beautiful Gallery 6″x 6″ (15.2 x […]
Category Archives: birthdays
Birthday card for kids
Birthday card for kids. I’m switching back to the Annual Catalogue’s Suite collections and this time it’s the Turtle-y Cute Suite. It wasn’t on my radar, but on closer inspection the images and papers made me giggle! Also the pun on Turtle-y cute because they are! Turtles on their backs, turtles sporting a rubber ring […]
Altered Heirloom Arrangements Kit
Altered Heirloom Arrangements Kit. The Heirloom Arrangements Kit is such a fabulous kit because there are so many laser cut pop out pieces. You can follow the instructions to make 8 cards, but I challenged myself to make more. Following the kit instructions, each card would have used an inordinate amount of elements in the […]
New November Online exclusives
New November Online exclusives. Before I get on to today’s post on this Remembrance Sunday, I’m taking a moment of quiet reflection to remember those who gave up their lives so that the generations that followed could have a better today. November Online Exclusives There’s a lot to choose from the new November Online exclusives. […]
Birthday card – Regal Flora Bundle
Birthday card – Regal Flora Bundle. This month’s Tech 4 Stampers Blog hop theme is all about birthdays and I’ve chosen the Regal Flora Bundle which is a bundle from the Regal Suite Collection on pages 34-35 of the new September-December 2024 mini. The colour palette in the patterned papers are Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wheat, […]
How to create a Birthday card – Sketched Butterflies
How to create a Birthday card – Sketched Butterflies. I revisited a fun fold with a rotating circle mechanism because I needed something special to mark a 60th birthday. For detailed instructions on how to make it, click HERE to see my previous post on the rotating pop up card. Back then, I’d created it […]
Sneak Peek – Season of Elegance
Sneak peek – Season of Elegance Suite. The new September-December 2024 mini will launch on 4 September. Today I have a sneak peek of the Season of Elegance Suite which contains 2 bundles of stamps and dies. The first is called Peaceful Season which are all sentiments with coordinating dies for labels. The second is […]
Surprise pop-up inside card
Surprise pop-up inside card. If you love interactive cards, you’ll love this surprise pop-up inside the card. I used the Sweet Peas photopolymer stamp set from the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue on page 103. It has images of peas in a pea pod with all sorts of facial expressions and a pun on the word “pea” […]