Flying Pelican

Hi everyone.  I have a masculine card today using the Pink Ink Pelican and I used the smaller silhouette image which I haven't used before.  I also used a Sea Green Brusho, an orange alcohol marker and a white Posca pen.  I watch a lady called Deb Hallet on YouTube and she did a card yesterday which inspired me to make my version of it as I thought it was a clever idea.  If you are interested the link to it is here.

I started with a piece of white card cut to fit a 6" square card and sprinkled the Brusho powder from the bottom right hand corner up towards the middle of the card, spritzed it with some water and then dabbed away where it pooled around the edges and left it to dry.  I then stamped the silhouette pelican using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and took my white Posca pen and gradually covered the black image with the white making it thick enough to cover nicely.  I then went round the outline with a pencil instead of a black Micron pen just to define it as I thought the black might be a bit heavy.  I then added the orange alcohol marker over the bill and the feet.  I finished by splattering the white Posca over the sea area, and inevitably it did go a bit further than I intended but it gives the impression of spume off the water, and I also quite lightly added a little on the waves too..I decided less is more and I did cover the pelican and the very bottom corner before I did it.  I then added the sentiment using Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink and heat embossed it with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.   

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon. 

I am entering the following challenges:

Colour Hues Challenge - No. 107 Orange and Teal.

We Love Stamping Challenge - April '25 Anything Goes/Favourite Stamps.

Stamping Sensations Challenge - April '25 Birds, Animals, Flowers and Nature/Anything Goes.

Triple B Challenge - April '25 Birds, Butterflies and Blooms (using one, two or all three).

N.B.U.S. Challenge - No. 73 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week 1 Ink/Color Mediums.

First Christmas Card for 2025

Hi all.  I decided to make a Christmas card this week inspired by the GO7 theme this month of pastes, and for the background I used some DecoArt white paste coloured with Brushos and added through a Crafter's Companion stencil which came with Box Set No. 6.  I also used a die set from Spellbinders called Winter Evergreen Foliage and Lady Bugs, and also a set of Creative Craft Products Torn Edge Stars both being used for the first time.

I coloured the paste with Turquoise and a little Ost. Blue Brusho and used it through the stencil.  I then went on to die cut three pieces of foliage using some snippets of white card and two of the dies from the set cutting two of the die which had little spaces on the stems to add the berries.  I decided to colour them in a bluey purple more like juniper, and I found a die which came as part of another set of Spellbinder dies called Balloons & Birthday Wishes which was a small round centre for one of the flowers and seemed to be the perfect size for a berry, so I cut lots of those from more snippets of white card and shaped them on a foam mat with a ball tool before colouring them with my alcohol pens and then added them to the already inked branches...again various greens and a brown used to give a more varied look to them...mind you I don't think the brown stems are very visible.  I finished by glossing the berries using Glossy Accents.

I decided to make a bunch of the foliage and cut a star again using a snippet of white card and my newly acquired set of the Torn Edge dies and inked the edges using Broken China Distress Ink and then added the foliage on top.  I then found a piece of silver embroidery thread using all the layers and formed a bow which I stuck at the top of the bunch of foliage.  I finished by adding the snowflake background and then used some very thin foam on the back of the star and also the sentiment strip placed across the star, cut from another snippet of white card, and which I had heat embossed using WOW Metallic Silver Embossing Powder. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

Snippets Playground Challenge - No. 503 Where we use our snippets of card and paper etc.

Merry Little Christmas Challenge - No. 61 Anything Christmas Goes.

Allsorts Challenge - No. 820 Spring Flowers/Anything Goes.

Stencil Fun Challenge - April '25 Anything Goes/Patterns.

NBUS Challenge - No. 73 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

I.D.E.A.S. Challenge - Week 1 - Ink/Colour Mediums.
Group of Seven Cardmakers - March Technique - Using Embossing Paste.

Group of Seven - Embossing Paste Product Focus

Hi everyone.  Another month has rushed by and this month over at the Group of Seven we are looking at embossing paste and what you can do with it.  This is not something that I have used very much before but it does add an extra something to your stencilling, adding texture and with lots of different finished looks using pastes with shimmer in them, or adding glitter or embossing powder or things like fibres or micro beads, and waiting until it's dry to heat emboss the powder, or whilst wet to give a more puffed up look to it.  You can also add colour to white paste using any water based medium for endlessly different looks, mixing it in or adding it after it is dry.  For my card I chose a shimmery relief paste with a titanium coloured finish to it, and I used a Crafter's Companion heart stencil which came as part of a set of three different designs and called Love Hearts and being used for the first time.  I also incorporated a few die cuts from a Spellbinders set called Bold Blooms the rest of which I have yet to use, and ditto another Spellbinders set called Balloons and Birthday Wishes.

I cut a piece of card to fit a 6" square base card and then added the paste through the taped down stencil masking off the rest of the card.  I used a small palette knife to spread it, and it worked quite well, though I do think that I found it easier the few times I have tried this before by using an old plastic store card at a slight angle to pull the paste across. When dry I decided to add the extra hearts placed on the ends of some flower stems and balloon strings.  I cut off the branches on the flower stems to give one long stem, and they were a bit shorter, and I also used the balloon strings from the other set but as they were rather thin and seemed a bit flimsy I glued two back to back on three of them..not the easiest thing, but they look OK I think.  I also used the stencil and pencil marked around one of the larger hearts cutting two with my small decoupage scissors which I doubled up for more dimension.  I then found various little die cut hearts which I keep in a pot and used some in three different sizes and I coloured them with a couple of pink alcohol pens.  I used a lighter pink then decided to darken them a bit so added another colour over the top of each.  I then added a heart to each of the stems, and I decided at this point to add some Glossy Accents to all of them for a bit of pretty shine.  I also used some of the Glossy Accents as a glue over the right hand heart and stuck the heart stems down to it before adding the double layer pink heart over the top and used it behind each of the hearts to stick them down to the card..it is good for something like this as it sticks extremely firmly.  I didn't like the look of the stems beneath the heart so I cut them off so that they emerge from under the heart, and I also added the sentiment heat embossing with WOW Metallic Silver Embossing Powder, and added the five tiny hearts around it.  The titanium colour of the paste does look more silver in reality than it does in the photo which has given it a more beige tone for some reason, so the silver embossed sentiment does look a better match than it appears here.

I hope that if you haven't tried this you will be encouraged to give these pastes a go as they do give the card a bit of a 'wow' factor, and I think mine could have been smoother but not too bad considering I haven't done this technique much before.  I have seen some pastes used over an open embossing folder and left to dry, and I did give this a try with a normal folder using one that I got years ago and which if ruined would not be the end of the world.  This paste didn't release from the folder very well, but I may not have spread it quite thick enough I think, but I have another paste which has a thicker consistency which is a modelling paste made by DecoArt and this did work better and released well..again would have looked better if it had been applied a bit thicker, and I will perhaps give it a proper go during the month and put the card up on the GO7 post.

If you do give this a try do come and add your card to the Linky which you will find at the bottom of the post so we can all enjoy them, and you will also find some wonderful cards made with this technique there from the other ladies, and explanations of how they made them over on their own blogs.  

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

Stencil Fun Challenge - Anything Goes/Splatters.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

N.B.U.S. Challenge - No. 72 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.
Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week 4 - A = Anything Goes.
Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - March'25 Anything Goes/Shades of Green.

Birthday Squirrel

Hi everybody.  This is a masculine card featuring the same squirrel stamp used on my last card here, and this was supposed to be on the card but I decided this darker shade of blue didn't look right so it was left sitting on my table.  I also used the set of Torn Edge Squares..I'm a bit obsessed with these at the moment..lol, and also a Lavinia stencil called Laurel.  I'm still keeping it simple at the moment.

I began by die cutting the piece of card with the squirrel on using a smaller Torn Edge Die and then added the sentiment using the same Versafine Majestic Blue Ink..both the squirrel image and the sentiment have been heat embossed using WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.  I then die cut a larger one from the set, about 5" square and then dry embossed the leaves onto it.  I accidentally did it wrong and got the raised leaves on the reverse of the die cut but decided that I would leave it like this and I ink blended using several green Distress Inks to highlight the stencilling, namely Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover and Pine Needles.  I gradually darkened the look until I was happy as I wanted to make sure that the leaf shapes showed up sufficiently which I think they now do, but without making it too dark wanting to keep the fresh spring colours.  I put the 6" square card together and raised up the central mat with some craft foam for added dimension. 

Just before I finish I have noticed that over the last few weeks my follower numbers have dropped, only by a few and maybe they have just decided to leave, but then within the last day they dropped by two more which does seem a bit odd.  I wondered if others have notice that suddenly the number of followers has changed.  Maybe this is down to blogger so I had a look at a few of the ones I follow to compare and all seemed OK, so it is a bit of a conundrum.    

Anyway thank you for visiting me today and I'll see you again soon.

We Love Stamping Challenge - March'25 Hello Spring/Anything Goes.
Stamping Sensations Challenge - March '25 Hello Spring/Anything Goes.
Allsorts Challenge - No. 819 Feminine/Anything Goes.
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Have Fun With Stencils.
Stencil Fun Challenge - Anything Goes/Splatters.
Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Spring Fling.
Darnell's I.D.EA.S. - Week 3 Embossing.

Spring Flowers

Hi all.  I was lucky enough to be a randomly picked winner of a couple of Aall & Create stamps and this card today features one of them. The title of the stamp is The Best You Ever Had, not sure why this title, but to me they look like crocuses so hence my title of Spring Flowers..I did though use a bit of artistic licence as I don't think that crocuses are every coral pink, but was one of the colours on the package which I thought looked quite pretty.  I decided to keep it simple as my hand is still not back to full strength, but is a lot better than it was, and I just added the double mat using a recent purchase of these Oval Torn Edge Dies from Creative Craft Products which were in a recent sale and I do love the look of these so they inevitably slipped into my basket..lol, and this is their first outing.

I did find that stamping this very detailed stamp came out a bit dark with black ink so I tried again with Versafine Smokey Gray which was better.  I then coloured using my alcohol pens, but perhaps should have chosen lighter colours or maybe watercolour or coloured pencils, though my hand is still not keen on using pencils, but which may have made the finished effect a bit lighter and brighter.  I did also add a bit of blue grey to shade a few of bits of the dotty grid in the background, but I don't think it shows up very well.  I also used a black fine micron pen to add in the stamens and then used a white gel pen for the stamens themselves which worked OK.  I just finished it with a birthday sentiment  and added it to a 6" square card. 

Thank you for joining me here today and I'll see you again soon. 

I am entering the following challenges:

We Love Stamping Challenge - March '25 Hello Spring/Anything Goes.

Stamping Sensations Challenge - March '25 Hello Spring/Anything Goes.

Allsorts Challenge - No.  818 CAS/Anything Goes.

NBUS Challenge - No. 72 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

Try it on Tuesday Challenge - For A Lady.

Triple B Challenge - March '25 Using Birds, Butterflies or Blooms (one, two or all three).

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Anything Floral Goes/Optional Mood Board No. 26.

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S.  - Week 2 - Dies.

AAA Cards Challenge - No. 285 Anything Goes.

Group of Seven - Floating Frames

Hi everybody.  I'm back with this month's technique over at the Group of Seven Cardmakers and have made a card using a new lower case alphabet set from Card Making Magic and also a squirrel stamp from a set called Christmas Animals by the RSPB both being used for the first time.  This set of stamps is very versatile as the animals are woodland creatures so not merely something to use on winter/seasonal cards.

The floating frame gives lots of dimension and I merely cut the letters for 'happy birthday' out twice and coloured one set using Salty Ocean Distress Ink blending with a brush, and added these randomly over the frame which I had cut using two sizes of a set of Torn Edge Squares which I've used on a couple of fairly recent cards.  It is also useful to have some Press-n-Seal so that when you have laid out the images on the card you can place a piece of this over the top and it holds everything down in place whilst you die cut the frame, but I decided that my card is 300gsm and with the extra pieces of alphabet also cut from the same card my machine would not handle that thickness well, so I decided to cut the frame and then add the letters onto the frame keeping them in place with the Press-n-Seal so that I could then turn the letters over still stuck to that whilst I then stuck the dimensionals to the letters and then placed that down onto the frame all in one go to stick it all down at once when I had it in the correct postion, lifting it away from the letters when stuck firmly down on the card frame.  I then infilled around the letters with bits of the white alphabet just to fill in some gaps.  In fact there weren't that many gaps as the letters I used were quite large and close together, and with hindsight perhaps slightly smaller letters might have worked better, and unfortunately I had to cut most of the tails off the two 'ys' so they do look rather like 'vs', but would have been much more fiddly to stick, as even this size of letters took quite a time to fix in place.  I did make it more difficult for myself with partial letters which I had to cut to fit the torn edge, and in future I think I would stick to using a straight edge to line up with.  I finished by adding the sweet little squirrel onto a separate piece of card stamping with a coordinating blue ink and then heat embossed with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder, and I then glued this in place behind the aperture.

This technique is quite effective and you can of course stamp and colour some images and then cut them out with a corresponding die, or fussy cut by hand which would be more time consuming, but at present I am still hampered by my sore hand and wrist which is improving but still aches when I'm using it a lot, and I did add a bit of extra darker colour to the squirrel using a pencil as I decided the inked outline was a little pale, but having to press down when colouring is still not comfortable so kept that to a minimum.

There are a couple of videos to watch over at the Group of Seven and also the other ladies have made some wonderful cards to take a look at and you can find out more from their own blogs too, and there is a link so any cards you make using this technique can be added for us all to enjoy.  

Thank you for coming to visit me here today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

The Male Room Challenge - No. 195 Monochrome.

NBUS Challenge - Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

CAS Valentine

Hi everyone.  With my present wrist and hand problems I had not thought I would manage to make a card for hubby, but last night I did think that maybe a fairly straightforward card would be OK, so I set to.  I used a medium sized heart die from a set by Sweet Dixie, and some papers from The Works which I bought back in the summer but this is the first time I have used any of them, and I also used a 'love' die which I got at The Range a long time ago.

I started with a piece of white card cut to 51/2" square, and then decided where to place the heart taking into account that I wanted to place the 'love' over part of it, so put it over to the left a bit.  After cutting the aperture I then cut the heart from one of the papers which had tones of red and grey and I attached this to the white heart which came out of the aperture in the white card, just to give it more substance and to keep it level with the surrounding card when placed back in.  I then cut the 'love' out of the white layer with the heart kept in the aperture, and as it was quite thick it did take a few goes twisting the piece and running it back and forward to cut through, but eventually I got there, and I made sure to keep the spare pieces of the paper as well as the white piece to fill in the 'e'.  I decided that I would mat the white piece onto a piece of black card and after doing that I stuck the heart in the aperture and put the black 'love' into place, adding in the little pieces to finish the design...done!

I was pleased that I gave it a go as it is the first time that I have made anything since I fell over, and although my hand did ache a bit I managed it, so onwards and upwards as they say.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge - Feb. '25 Anything Goes/The Color Red.

CAS on Friday Challenge - No. 302 Valentine.

Simply Clean and Simple Challenge - Feb. '25 Anything Goes/Love and/or Hearts.

Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Romance.

NBUS Challenge - No. 71 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

Daisy Bouquet and Beautiful Bee

Hi everybody.  I recently had a bit of a tumble when I tripped and fell whilst out on a walk around the village where we live as I have been a bit of a couch potato and thought it was time for me to try and get fitter..lol.  I pitched forward and my glasses pressed into my nose and above my right eye so I don't look too good at the moment, and unfortunately also hurt my right hand which was very swollen and bruised and although it is a lot better than it was I still don't have the full use back, so doing any cardmaking has been a no no...such a pity it was on tarmac and not grass as I would probably have faired better.  

I have been looking back through my drafts and I have come across this birthday card using Tattered Lace freebie dies from several years back, and also this pretty die cut frame of flowers and birds which doesn't seem to be available now.  Not sure why I never got around to showing it but thought now might be a good time.

I started by cutting the frame from white card and it did take a bit of cutting as it is quite intricate.  I then die cut two of the flower stems and one of the bee and coloured them with my blending tool using some Distress Inks - Mowed Lawn, Wilted Violet and Scattered Straw.  I decided to make them symmetrical so obviously one is coloured on the back and they don't look quite the same but I decided this was OK.  I then blended some Mustard Seed on to a small piece of white card and cut it to fit behind the main piece of the bee for the stripes.  I did use my waterbrush and a black Inktense Pencil for the body of the bee as I definitely didn't want to get any black on the wings which I made sparkle using a Clear Wink of Stella Pen, and I added some Glossy Accents to the body of the bee.

To finish I found a piece of paper from a 6" square pad by Craft Consortium called Grunge - Light Tones to which I added background hills using a mask and some Stormy Sky Distress Ink, and I also blended a little Mowed Lawn underneath.  I then added this to my 7" square card (a bit larger as I didn't have to post it) and placed the white frame over the top and glued the two flower stems just under the edge of the frame and used some Pinflair Glue Gel under the flower heads and the body of the bee, and the white wings have some added Wink of Stella   I then stamped and clear heat embossed the sentiment using Versafine Deep Lagoon Ink and WOW Clear Gloss EP.

I am going to try to finish a card I started before I got into my present state and hopefully I will then put that up...wish me luck.

Thank you for visiting me here today and I hope to see you again soon.                                                                          

I am entering the following chalenges:

Allsorts Challenge - No. 816 Romance and/or Music/Anything Goes.

Triple B Challenge - Feb. '25 Birds, Butterflies and Blooms (using any one, two or all three).

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge - Feb. '25 Anything Goes/Red using your papers,

Floral Heart Anniversary

Hi there.  I suddenly realised that I had some freebie digital stamps from Uniko which I found when looking through some stuff on the computer and have never used before, and thought I would use this heart shaped  floral for an upcoming anniversary.  

Unfortunately I can only use fairly lightweight paper in my printer as it is one which turns it to bring it out the way it goes in and this means I can only colour with pencils or use very little water if watercolouring and inevitably it usually cockles a bit.  I decided to try my alcohol pens this time and it wasn't bad but there was some bleeding in a few places which meant that I had to fussy cut rather than leave a bit of white around the edges.  It was very fiddly but I got there in the end with just one cut where there shouldn't have been one..lol, but I managed to glue it all in place on the white background card using a Zig Two Way Glue Pen with a wide nib to spread it on as it does not wet the paper too much, but if you take too long it becomes repositionable which is probably what happened as I spent quite a bit of time going back over the bits that didn't stick properly but I got there in the end.

I finished it with a matted layer which I coloured round the edges using one of the green alcohol pens I used to colour with, and I added a sentiment in the centre of the heart using Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink heat embossed with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.  I also used a fine Black Micron Pen around the edge of some of the image where I had cut it a bit tight and lost the black edge..I think it just cleans it up a bit.  

Thank you for your visit today and I'll see you again soon.     

I am entering the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - No. 816 Romance and/or Music.

CAS on Friday Challenge - No. 301 Flowers.

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes.

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Anything Goes.

NBUS Challenge - Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

Group of Seven - Dry Embossed Highlights over Ink Blending

Hi all.  I am back today with the Group of Seven Cardmakers technique for this month, and I have made a couple of cards using a 3D Sizzix Embossing Folder Making Hearts with Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and Dusty Concord Distress Inks, and also some Brilliance Moonlight White Ink.  The heart is from a set by Sweet Dixie and the little flowers and leaves are from a set of Spellbinders dies which came free with Die Cutting Essentials Magazine No. 114.

I am entering the above card in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - No. 815 Close to Nature/Anything Goes.

Snippets Playground Challenge - No. 498 where we use our snippets of card and paper etc. ( I used snippets of white card for the background and heart, and also for the added flowers and leaves).

I am also joining in with Darnell's I.D.E.A.S.  This is Week 4: Anything Goes.  

I decided to use a 5" x 7" card which this EF fits onto nicely, and ink blended using the three colours.  I originally used Victorian Velvet and was going to blend using that at the bottom followed by the Picked Raspberry and then the top with the Dusty Concord, but ended up going over the Victorian Velvet with the Picked Raspberry as it was too pale, and then I brightened up the Dusty Concord with some added Wilted Violet and then I was happy with it.  I then die cut the heart out of this piece and dry embossed it all leaving the die cut heart in place, and finished by brushing over the hearts EF with the Moonlight White Ink.  I decided to keep the inked and embossed heart for a second card and cut another heart and coloured it using the pink, violet and purple inks and decided to use this as the place for the sentiment.  I added an anniversary sentiment using Versamark and heat embossed with WOW Silver Metallic Embossing Powder.  I then die cut some flowers and leaves from some white card and decided to add some silver gilding wax on the flower petals just to highlight them and to tie in with the sentiment, and I glued the heart in place and added the flowers and leaves to the side of the heart.

I am entering this second card in the following challenges:

Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge - Anything Goes/Snow.

Triple B Challenge - Jan. '25 Birds, Butterflies and Blooms (one, two or all three).

The second one has the same embossed background and the embossed and inked heart which was left over from the first, and I added a few of the flowers I cut from the Spellbinders freebie magazine set and just used a bit of pink ink which remained on the brush to highlight the edges and also used on the centres, and just a couple of white leaves to finish.  I then added the pink vellum strip with the sentiment also heat embossed with the WOW Silver Metallic EP, and wrapped round to the back of the card before I then glued it in place on the 5" x 7" card base.  I did notice that the vellum was a bit loose, so I put a couple of dots of ink underneath it in a couple of places which made it sit flatter.

I think the ink blending and then the added highlights with the white ink really lifts the look of the embossing, and provided you brush the ink pad over the raised edges very gently it looks very crisp and clean...you have to be patient though and build it up gradually, and sweeping in different directions helps too.. white pigment ink or Distress Oxide in a very light colour would work the best I think.  I did unfortunately catch the background with it in a couple of places but I thought it still looked OK.  The only thing is that the ink pad did pick up the inks and turned a bit pinky purple, but I used a clean tissue and wiped it across it a few times and it did get most of it off.  In fact when I went back the next day I had another look at it and it was hardly noticeable.  I did think that this Brilliance Moonlight ink might not be a bright enough white as it is more of a pearlised ink but I was happy with it.  I think provided you use good strong colours for the ink blending to give a good contrast it can work well with most good quality inks.  I only have this one white ink pad so cannot compare, but the other ladies at GO7 will have used different ink to me so do go and take a look over on the blog and if you give it a go it would be great to see your cards..there is a link at the bottom of their post.

  
Thank you for visiting my blog today and I'll see you again soon.

 

Wild Flowers and Ferns Silhouette Take 2

Hi all.  I'm afraid that I have not been very productive lately and my mojo has definitely not be much in evidence..lol, but we needed a card to send to hubby's former SIL who we have just found out is unwell and has been in hospital for a while and I decided to use this Crafty Individuals stamp which I also used here, in much the same fashion, but last time I used shades of blue ink blended onto the stamp, and this time I decided to use my Staedler Water Brush Pens straight to stamp, and coloured with two greens, and a pink with a touch of red for the flowers.  

I used the same Torn Edge Die set for the mat placed in my stamp positioner so that I could repeat stamp to get the right depth of colour, and I simply attached it to the 6" square card.  We decided not to put anything on the outside but simply write an appropriate message inside.  I think unfortunately she will need to be in hospital for ongoing treatment which is frustrating I'm sure, and hope that things will improve for her soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

We Love Stamping Challenge - Jan. '25 Anything but Square/Anything Goes.

Stamping Sensations Challenge - Jan. '25 Anything Goes/Hand Coloured Image.

Allsorts Challenge - No. 814 Matching Pairs/Anything Goes.

Simply Clean and Simple Challenge - Jan. '25 Anything Goes/Something New.

Triple B Challenge - Jan. '25 Birds, Butterflies and Blooms (using any one, two or all three).

My Favourite Cards of 2024

Hi everyone. This is something that I do every year, looking back over all the cards from last year and choosing a card from each month which got a lot of comments or one that I especially loved, and here they are:

That is the twelve, one for each month, but I have picked out three others which are ones I was really pleased with as they turned out so much better than I expected at the time:

 

It's great to look back on the year just to remind yourself what you did, and I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has visited and commented throughout 2024 as it means a great deal to me, and I wish you all:

                                  A VERY HAPPY AND CREATIVE NEW YEAR