Hi everyone, I wanted to show you a technique for colouring the raised areas of embossing which is really easy and adds another dimension to embossed backgrounds. I have been wanting to try my hand
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Hand Made Birthday Card with Hot Foil Greeting and Foiled Wooden Embellishment
Hi Everyone, I'm still hot foiling - almost anything that moves!! For today's card I have used a hot foil stamp for the greeting as I did in my first hot foil card, but this
Continue ReadingHand Made Birthday Card with Inked Background and Hot Foil on Vellum Greeting
Hi Everyone, Happy Easter, I hope you are looking forward to the long weekend, a good chance to relax and do some crafting! For this second hot foil card I wanted to try stamping the
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Hi Everyone, despite the current UK weather I wanted to make some spring cards, with bright colours and flowers. I love using the Cardio Majestix stamp sets, they are so easy and there are so
Continue ReadingHand Made Birthday Card with an Inked, Stencilled and Embossed Background
Hi Everyone, This is the first of a few different stencilled cards that I have been making recently to demonstrate the different effects that you can create with stencils. I started by making a few
Continue ReadingBirthday Blossoms Holly and Poinsettia Cards for December Birthdays
Hi Everyone, I can't believe this is the last in our series of birthday blossoms where did that year go?? It's no surprise that the flowers for December birthdays are holly and poinsettia (although it's
Continue ReadingBirthday Blossoms Marigold and Cosmos Cards for October Birthdays
Hi Everyone, Marigold and Cosmos are the birth flowers for October, Marigold are usually dark yellow and orange whilst Cosmos range from a very dark maroon through all shades of pink to white, giving you
Continue ReadingBirthday Card with Quilled Design under Square Shaker Dome
Hi Everyone, since we launched our own range of shaker domes almost a year ago (I can't believe it's a year already!), I have used them to make several different shaker cards for birthdays and
Continue ReadingBirthday Blossoms Lily of the Valley to Celebrate May Birthdays
Hi Everyone The birthday flower for the month of May is Lily of the Valley, a delicate white flower with broad leaves and a very distinctive scent. Despite it's popularity in gardens and flower arrangements
Continue ReadingBirthday Blossoms Daffodils to Celebrate March Birthdays.
Here's my "host of golden daffodils" to celebrate March birthdays. These daffodils are made using six quilled marquise shapes in yellow 3mm quilling paper, with a tightly coiled centre in a darker shade of yellow, the
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