As the title suggests this one is all about different ways to add some glam to your cards with an injection of sparkle & shine! I knew exactly what I wanted to make for this class because I had the gorgeous Exotic Garden large stamp sitting on my desk begging to be played with! I…
Ink Blending with Altenew’s Crisp Dye Ink – How Does it Perform?
Hello Crafty People! This week I have been playing with my Altenew Crisp Dye inks, I love them for stamping but I haven’t done too much ink blending with them so I wanted to test how they did. Spoiler – They are FAST becoming my absolute favourite and go to ink! I also wanted to…
Graciellie Designs – Gracie’s Birthday Sale and Mega Floral Inspiration!!
This weekend is Gracie’s birthday; to celebrate we are having a throwback to some of her older, fabulous floral designs and Gracie has a HUGE 50% off sale, so you can join in too!! I chose to use this Iris from the ‘Family Love’ bundle; I’ve never coloured an Iris before and so I wanted…
Creating a ‘Wow Effect’ – Slimline Succulent with Eclipsed Sentiment
When I saw this Slimline Succulent digital stamp by Alex Syberia, I just knew I had to use it to make my husband a card for our recent 9th Wedding Anniversary. I printed it onto Neenah 80lb and coloured it with Copic markers, and I discovered around half way through that some of my Copics…
Black & White With a Pop of Colour! – Aud Sentiments Challenge #251
Today we are starting another challenge over at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog and this time we are being sponsored by Fred, She Said. As our sponsor they have generously given the Aud Sentiments team a selection of images to use for our creations. I chose to work with the Dahlia Garden Digi Set, (outlines only)…
Creating a Card That Makes Me Happy – Actually Two Cards! (EDS/HSD Awareness Hop Cards)
If you don’t know about the Instagram Hop & MEGA Giveaway in aid of EDS Awareness that I am hosting, then you are missing out! Check it out here. The only ‘theme’ for the Hop is to create something that makes you happy. So I grabbed a few things that are making me happy right…
Keep Calm & Drink Coffee – Watercolouring Digi Stamps.
I am loving experimenting with digital stamps, but my printer won’t take Bristol Smooth and I haven’t found a decent, smooth enough paper that will go through yet either, so I have been somewhat restricted as to mediums I can use. I’ve been wanting to watercolour some of these beautiful images by Gracie but I…
Ehlers Danlos & Hypermobility Spectrum Awareness IG Hop 2020 – HUGE Giveaway!
Hey Crafty People! I have hEDS. Earlier this week I talked about some of the story surrounding my journey to diagnosis (you can check that out here) and that one of the main barriers to diagnosis is the lack of awareness & understanding of what this range of illnesses really are. There are two websites…
Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop – Graciellie Designs
This week I am so excited to be participating in the Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop as part of Gracie’s design team! This is the Spring/Summer hop so the theme is pastel and straight away I knew I had to use the freebie from last week which is this incredible bubble tea image! (Now, I did…
Making a background using digital stamps- Polkadoodles Challenge
Hello Crafty People! We are back with another challenge over on the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog! This time our brief was ‘thank you card, using more than one image; using the Heroes collection’. Now, I felt that I wanted to do something a little bit different because I had used all of the characters together in…
Scene Building – AECP Level 1 Post 10
Hey Crafty People! This is the last post before I do my assessment for Level 1 and I must admit I have been putting this one off on purpose; I have never made a scene card, so I was a little bit nervous to tackle this one. As is the case with most things we…
