Hi there A while ago I needed a sympathy card so I used the Mini Catalogue for my inspiration – check out page 27 to spot the original card. Did you notice that one of the dies in the Poppy Moments Die set doesn’t fully cut out the image? The partial die allows the underneath… Read More »
Hi there I find sympathy cards one of the hardest to create and even more so when they need to be masculine based. Since we’ve been in lockdown I’ve needed to create two sympathy cards for male colleagues who have lost family members (thankfully not due to COVID-19). I CASE’d this layout from a card… Read More »
Hi there I saw a card on a Facebook group I belong too that I liked so I saved it to recreate one day. Well that day has come. Recently I was in need of a sympathy card and knew the layout would work really well for my sympathy card. I changed the colours for… Read More »
Hi there There are two types of cards I struggle with creating – masculine and sympathy cards. Well I think I have found a stamp set that covers both – the Waterfront stamp set from page 125 of the Annual Catalogue. The images in this set can be used to create a mountain, lake or… Read More »
Hi there My project today is a card we made at a recent team training and uses products from the new Woven Threads Suite (pages 12-14 Annual Catalogue). I don’t have this suite so it was great to create a card and be able to share it with you. This suite consists of a stamp… Read More »
Hi there I find it hard to create a sympathy card – deciding on the stamp set to use and then what words to write inside. At last years OnStage in November we got a sneak peak at the Sale-A-Bration brochure and one set that jumped out was the Lasting Lily set. This set is… Read More »
Hi there It’s been a while since I posted here so sorry about that but I’m back now. On the 19th September my wonderful brother (in-law) passed away in Australia after a short battle with cancer. I am so thankful that I was able to visit the week before he died to say my goodbyes… Read More »
Hi there I finally made some time to craft for myself yesterday – it was so nice. I picked one of my new sets – Beautiful Bouquet – page 92 of the Annual Catalogue. This set comes as a bundle and who can resist a bundle. Do you sometimes get stumped as to what colours… Read More »
Hi there Sympathy cards are never easy to make but this one came together nicely. I CASED one of my previous cards and just changed the colour scheme. This was for my neighbour who lost her grandmother at the beginning of the month. She had been very close to her grandmother and I wanted to… Read More »
Hi there It’s never easy creating a sympathy card but I found this design by Margaret – it’s so lovely the only thing I changed was the colour combo. Here’s a tip I found out (the hard way) over the weekend. For any die that is horizontal feed it through the Big Shot vertically as in… Read More »
Hi there I recently needed to make a quick sympathy card for a guy I used to work with. My ‘go to’ stamp set in cases like this is Lovely as a Tree and here’s what I created. I’ve heat embossed the image in Early Espresso then using a Blender Pen applied ink to colour… Read More »
Hi there Here’s the last Make & Take we made last Saturday. We were shown how to create a mask so that the stalk of the branches didn’t stamp over the flower which was stamped first. This also gives it a bit of a 3D effect. To get the mask effect stamp the flower image… Read More »
Hi there I hope my fellow Kiwi’s are ready for the fast approaching cyclone. We’ve made sure things are secure outside and have our candles ready – just in case. This is the second card we made on Wednesday night – this one combines a few techniques – dry embossing, heat embossing and watercolouring. We… Read More »
Hi there Last night I held my second stamp class with six lovely ladies 🙂 We made two sympathy cards as was the request from the previous month. The first one uses the dry embossing technique with a twist of resist. I taught the ladies how you can emboss just part of the card allowing… Read More »
Hi there Well it’s been a very sad weekend for me. My cousin died very unexpectedly yesterday and we will have to wait until at least Wednesday for an autopsy report. I still can’t believe it. She was the most giving person and always helped others. She was 15 years older than me but always… Read More »