creating cards

This beautiful image is a stamp by Indigo Blu. I have stamped onto a pearlescent card, and coloured lightly with my promarkers. The edges ...

The challenge at Crafty Hazelnuts this week is to use music. I have used my CI stamp to pop some portions of music on to the background a...

A very simple card from me today. I have stamped the message and embossed with white detail EP I used my cuttlebug to die cut the corner ...

Another card following the very talented Joanne Wardle on the Paper Artsy blog. I have had to substitute as I did not have some of the co...

I am following the challenge this week at Paper Artsy . The guest is Joanne Wardle, and I find her ideas very inspiring. I have tried to...

There has not been much happening in my craft room this week, as we have had a visitor. This card idea was taken from a cardmaking magazi...

Today's card features a gorgeous stamp from Indigo Blu called Elizabeth Bennet, which I bought when I was in the UK earlier this year....

This card (CASed from Beccy, Scrappin and Stampin in GJ)  has been stamped with bundled sage DI and a stamp from my JoFy set. I overlapped...

I have been following the posts at PaperArtsy and have been inspired by Liz Borer and her amazing projects. I have followed her suggestion...

Today's card features a lovely stamp from TH, stamped with walnut stain DI onto a piece of kraft card. I have layered it with a deeper...

This is my second entry for the challenge at   Paper Artsy . I love the splash of colour with the paint swipe!

This week at Paper Artsy we have been inspired by Joanne Wardle. I was very impressed with her CAS style, and actually made 2 cards for t...

Today's card for the challenge at Pixie's Playground has a layer of pretty paper stuck onto a white card. I stamped the sentiment...

This is a very quick card that I made for a wee boy who loves engines, so I hope he likes it! I layered the spotty paper onto white card,...

The current challenge at CuttlebugMania is for nature. I have embossed the green background in my 'bug, and also diecut 2 spellbinde...

.......Alison Bomber at Paper Artsy! I have tried to follow the style and colours of some of the examples. The background was sprayed w...

This sweet wee girl is Maggie from Cuddlebug Cuties, and I have coloured her with my limited supply of Promarkers. R346, R327, Y417, O727...

Today's card has been made by stamping with Emboss it 'clear' and then using clear embossing powder on white card. I then used...

.....and I was too. I recently won two sets of Marianne Collectables from The Southern Girls Challenge. I made this card using the cup d...

Another one for the Christmas box! This image is from CD Gingerbread Twist by Studio 12. I have coloured it with a mix of copics and pro...

Playing in the playground again this week, and this is a great way to use up some of those snippets! It does not need much explanation - i...

Another one for the Christmas box, using a cute image from a Penny Black set. I have coloured with copics and promarkers, and mounted the ...

I had a quick play this afternoon and ended up with this card. I swiped an aqua ink pad down the card a couple of times to make the backgr...

This week's challenge at   Cuttlebug Mania is for manly - a good choice as I always need more men's cards. The car stamp is a ve...

Another card for Pixie's Playground, only small snippets used this week to make the 3 silver balloons! I have used my new stamp from S...

For this card, I have used a number of Crafty Individuals stamps. I first coloured the background with distress inks, and also added the d...

This cute stamp from Suzy's Zoo set called Slippery Slope has been stamped twice and the images from the second one cut out and  layer...

This gorguss stamp is one that arrived today as part of my prize at Pixie's Playground. I couldn't wait to try it out, and this is t...

Here is my attempt this week adapting the instructions from the Paper Artsy blog. I made a rough background using texture paste, and spri...

I was so pleased with the effect of this design on a previous card, that I decided to make it again using pieces from my scrap box. I coul...

I should have scanned this card against something dark so that you can see it is a square card. I was inspired by the challenge at Crafty...

Christmas card - that is! I have used 2 images from my Tim Holtz set, stamped in Adirondack Expresso. It goes well with the pale cream ca...

Today I have been busy with cardmaking and this is one of them. The base card is from Craftwork Cards, included in a lovely prize that I ...

The present challenge at Opus Gluei is a beach theme, so I thought this one would be appropriate. I have used an embossing folder, and h...

I have made another card using the sketch from Cardmaking Paradise. This is an ideal way to use up all those little snippets that we mana...

This is the first time I have used this cute wee bear which was in a free set with a magazine. I stamped with Brilliance Graphite Black an...

A quick baby card that I made this afternoon, using some strips of different pink snippets. Popping it into Pixie's Playground

Here is another lovely image from Crafty Individuals, which I have stamped with Shades ink pad from Sweet Stamps - purple majesty. I think...

My lovely new JOFY stamps arrived yesterday (thanks so much PaperArtsy for picking me as a prizewinner) and I couldn't wait to try the...

I had some spare time this afternoon so decided to have a practice at making this tag. The original is on a blog post at Paper Artsy, and...

Here is a quick card that I needed to make for a wee boy. I have embossed the yellow and the blue with an embossing folder, and then diecu...

Thanks to following the Paper Artsy blog, I got out my shrink plastic and had a little play, to make this pendant. I first painted with s...

I had fun making this card with a CI stamp that had not yet seen ink! It is such a pretty image -  clothes from possibly around the 1880...

Just slipping another one into the Playground at Pixies Crafty Workshop Summer garden from CI embossed with pearl EP and some kindy glit...

Today, I searched through the snippets box to see what I could find to make for the playground over at Pixie's place , and I came up wit...

This is way out of my comfort zone, but I had such fun playing with various distress inks, bubble wrap, stencils, smooch, and my new Tim...

It has been so long since I have done any crafting, as I have been on holiday. I have made this card using my new Crafty Individuals stam...