My aged Mum is in her 80s (she probably won’t thank for mentioning her illustrious age!) and has gone globetrotting again! (She’d recently toured Russia then Ireland and came to visit with me here in the UK at the end of last year before returning to Australia via Singapore and was away from home for almost 3 months!) It amazes me […]
Tag Archives: Petite Pairs
A Sympathy Card
Once in a while we have to make a sympathy card and when that happens it’s always hard to get those creative juices flowing. Here’s my attempt at one. I pulled out several stamp sets – Creative Elements for the scrolls stamped on opposite corners in Basic Gray ink mounted on the Basic Gray cardstock, which was […]
Fruit & Flowers, Petite Pairs
These were my team swaps for our last quarterly meeting. I partially embossed the Whisper White layer with the Stripes embossing folder for my background. I used the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch (page 116 in the main catty) to delineate the Whisper White embossed section from the non-embossed section in Poppy Parade. I then matted it on to […]
Patterned Pets, Pocket Silhouettes, Petite Pairs
Hidden message card re-visited. As a fledgling demonstrator, I taught this to my Technique Club ladies many years ago and have resurrected it for my SWE Card club ladies this month. We did a fossil stone background on glossy cardstock and the effect lent itself to an aquatic theme. So I paired it with the fish from the Patterned Pets stamp set in […]
Everything Eleanor, Petite Pairs
This is one of my favourite stamp sets – Everything Eleanor. I taught the embossed crayon technique for my monthly clubs this month. The above was the one that the Technique club ladies made. ….and this is the one that the card club ladies made. Can you spot the difference? The first one was a […]