Just a quick post today to show a few of the beautiful handmade cards I received for my recent birthday.
Category: Secret Garden Framelits
Creative Crew Challenge 4 – June 2014
The fourth and final challenge for the month is Scrapbook and More Focus: "Celebrate your best friend on a scrapbook page or by making a gift for them." Flowers are the perfect gift, so I have made a floral basket using retiring products. The flowers and leaves are from the Secret Garden stamps and Framelits.… Continue reading Creative Crew Challenge 4 – June 2014
Secret Garden Bendi Fold
I wanted a special thank you card for a friend. Splitcoaststampers provides many wonderful tutorials, so I used their 'Bendi Fold' technique. My sister had previously made one and it looked like fun. I used Baked Brown Sugar for the base card and stamped it with the new Hardwood background stamp. The images from Secret… Continue reading Secret Garden Bendi Fold
Secret Garden Olive Leaves
A beautiful way to create a background is to use the negative image from a die cut image. Here I have used the Little Leaves Sizzlit to create a negative image, then sponged it using Old Olive, Wild Wasabi and Pistachio Pudding on Whisper White. I wrapped a piece of Black ribbon [not SU] around… Continue reading Secret Garden Olive Leaves
Creative Crew Window Frames Trinket Box
The third Creative Crew project is: "CCREW0913HF - Holiday Focus: 911 Remembrance. It's not a holiday, but it's a day that has been imprinted on our minds. Make a project with the Big Shot that allows you to remember a day from your past." When I was very young, my grandmother used to have lots… Continue reading Creative Crew Window Frames Trinket Box
Secret Garden Primrose Petals
Secret Garden is a very popular stamp set with matching Framelits. Whilst I was checking out some of my favourite blogs recently, I came across a very pretty clean and simple card using this set on LeeAnn Greff's Flowerbug's Inkspot. I made a few changes to make it my own and created this. I used… Continue reading Secret Garden Primrose Petals
