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
Lavender Thoughts 