Today’s challenge is to use a card sketch. Card Sketches are an amazing way to unleash your creativity! They guide you in placing your elements, and in today’s video, I’m diving into that process! With the freedom to choose colors, greetings, and my focal point, the sketch leads the way for where to put everything on my card.
Continue readingUnderstandably, because it is summer there are a lot of wedding anniversaries in my circle of friends and family. Today I am sharing a card I made for a friend who, like me, took time to find the right fella and married a little later in life.
Continue readingThis month the challenge is Oranges & Lemons. We can either chose to use the colours or to have oranges and lemons on our card. As I am now starting to unpack my crafting supplies I was able to find a stamp set with oranges and lemons as well as the prettiest sprig of orange blossom.
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Welcome to the Funky Folds Hop ~ a community for like minded paper crafters who love to make cards with funky folds and to share our ideas. Funky actually means “modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way” so hang onto your hats and see what the talented artisans have to offer 🙂
We don’t have a specific theme ” anything goes” it is all about the fold!! I chose to go with an oldie but goodie fold this time, Double Dutch Barn Door fold. I was reminded of it by my dear friend Elly B
Continue readingToday I am continuing on my junk journal journey. I began this one when I was still living in North Texas but had to put it on the back burner while my supplies were still packed away. I am gradually starting to unpack and reorganize them and doing a little creating as I go along.
Continue readingSometimes we create a card which just will not fit any envelopes we have, this happened to me just this past week when I needed to mail a card I had made a few weeks ago. I could have used my envelope punch board but did not have a piece of plain paper large enough for the job, so I scratched my head a little and came up with today’s idea.
Continue readingI have been sharing my Junk Journal Journey for a few months now, with our move I haven’t really made a lot of progress but I have made some! I wanted to make this journal with different and unusual signatures (pages) and the one I share today has 5 pockets as well as a sliding journaling patch.
Continue readingThe challenge this time is ‘Water’ so an ocean theme worked perfectly for me. I am trying to build up my mixed media skills so have used this challenge to do just that! You want to check out the video on this one as I share how to attach vellum to card without any adhesive showing!!!
Continue readingWe are just coming to the end of exam season here in the UK and our eldest grand-daughter is in the final days of some key exams. She is a bright cookie but sometimes doubts her own abilities so when the exams started back in early May I made and sent her this card to let her know she was in our thoughts.
Continue readingThis month the theme of the challenge is a project with a window. I used this as a chance to do a simple triple fold card which was perfect for my window 🙂
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