In the City is one of our fantastic new hostess sets in the Annual Catalogue. Although this set is only available to "hostesses" you don't necessarily need to have a workshop or party to qualify. If you gather a few orders from friends or even if you have a big wish...
Although the Eastern Beauty bundle has a co-ordinating stamp set, the Eastern Medallions dies can be used on their own or, as here, with another stamp set. Real Red, Basic Black and Silver Foil have been combined to create a striking birthday card. The card base is an...
This masculine Vintage Leaves birthday card uses a muted colour palette, mixed textures and knotted twine to create a more rugged look. It could easily be changed to a more feminine version by choosing brighter or more pastel colours and swapping twine for ribbon. The...
Today's card uses the early release Carols of Christmas bundle to create a limited layers card (for easy mailing) in traditional colours. The card base is an A6 of Real Red. A card front layer of Very Vanilla was die cut with the frame from the Card Front Builder...
I think that stars work well for masculine cards. What do you think? I'm also making more of an effort not to hoard my supplies so much this year. Did you notice that I'd had my Fancy Foil Designer Acetate for a year before using it? So I'm making an effort to break...
Today's card uses the Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate. This fabulous patterned acetate is gold on one side and silver on the other. It comes in three different designs (2 sheets of each, 6 in total) so you have plenty of choice. I purchased my Fabulous Foil Designer...
Today's card is a masculine birthday card with very few layers, so that it's good and flat for posting. The stamps do all the work in providing depth and perspective to the image. The card base is an A6 portrait of Sahara Sand, matted with Night of Navy. On a Whisper...
I'd seen a few variations on this style of card on Pinterest and decided to try my own version. I'm really happy with how it turned out and plan to use the same idea with other papers and colours - so don't be surprised if they keep popping up on my blog now and then....
Hand coloured watercolour paper provides a great original background for stamping on, having the advantage that no two pieces will ever be quite the same, due to the interplay of ink, water and paper. Here we used the edge of ink pads to ink the Clear Blocks but if...