This fortnight’s challenge was to make a themed card – any occasion children’s card with an animal. I stamped the Canvas background stamp on front and back of a normal size card in Pretty in Pink. The Close to Cocoa and Pretty in Pink matts were torn to give a grungy look. Pretty in Pink […]

The challenge this week was a sketch challenge and this is what I came up with. This is the sketch we had to follow to make the card. We had to use colours from the same colour family plus one neutral colour. I thought it would make a nice change to use a length of […]

I’m not a truly pink/lilac person and I really struggled with this one, but it wouldn’t be a challenge then, would it if we were in our comfort zone. I hadn’t even broken the seal on the Orchid Opulence packet and I’ve had it since I signed up to be a Demonstrator last July! Gosh, […]

For this challenge, we had to make a Surprise Pop-Up card.  I chose to use the Tea Party Designer Series Paper – the colours are so lovely and fresh, just lovely for the summer.  I will be demonstrating this at my Technique Club, so won’t go into the mechanics of how to make this.   […]

I struggled with this one as we were not allowed to use the traditional red or green for a christmas card. In the end I chose a night scene using Lovely as a Tree, Winter Post and Best Yet stamp sets. I used a masking technique for the moon and skaters and left the foreground […]

The challenge “Threesome” was to use a trio of materials, whether it be stamps, card stock, DSP, brads, ribbon, ink pads and so on. So I elected to do an accordion fold card which perfectly displayed the tall vase image in the Scene in a Garden stamp set from the Mini Catalogue. I used 3 […]

The challenge was to make a masculine card. Immediate thought was to use sombre colours, but as I rifled through my cardstock, my eyes fell on the Ski Slope DSP which I had left over and it was just perfect for this pocket card. The stripes lent itself to being used as a man’s shirt […]

The challenge was to use a colour combo in Basic Black, Whisper White and any other colour from the Bold Brights family. I chose Tempting Turquoise for my Bold Bright colour to make a waterfall card with a twist. Instead of stamping different images, I stamped the same image 4 times slightly lower than the […]