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Category: Perfectly Penned
This week at Crafter's Anonymous, Julia showed us how to make this elegant masculine card. I used a base of Bravo Burgundy with a layer of woodgrain from the Natural Composition Specialty DSP. The shirt panel is Very Vanilla, and the tie and pocket handkerchief are Bravo Burgundy DSP. I used a White Gel pen … Continue reading Elegant Masculine Suit
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
Today, I have a cute little project that I made with Julia Leece on Crafters Anonymous last week. Thanks Julia for some great inspiration. I used Midnight Muse for the base and owl body and eyes, Gumball Green for the leaves, Print Poetry DSP Stack for the owl, and Very Vanilla for the background and … Continue reading The Owl and the Tissue Box
Before Christmas, I showed you how to use the Snow Festival Designer Printed Tags on Christmas cards. Today, I am using the other side of one of these tags so that you can see how versatile they are - not just for Christmas. I started with a base of Naturals White, added a piece of … Continue reading Snow Festival Designer Printed Tags – not just for Christmas
Today's Summer Afternoon image is the barrow full of flowers. The image was stamped on watercolour paper with Stazon Jet Black and coloured with ink and a Blender pen, before being layered onto Island Indigo. This was added to a base of Pool Party. The Adorning Accents Scallop TIEF was run three times across the … Continue reading Summer Afternoon Flower Barrow
Julia showed us how to make this Corner Diamond Fold card in the online class at Crafters Anonymous. I made one a long time ago [then known as a side spring card] but had not thought of this technique in recent times. My base is Summer Starfruit stamped in Summer Starfruit with some of the … Continue reading Perfectly Penned Starfruit Corner Diamond Fold
