Category: Cards

Retro rubber #246 Winter

I realised when I started to make this card for the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog #rrcb246, that in my 25 years of making a card cannot remember ever making a specifically Winter card before. Living in Australia, our Christmas is hot, so a snowflake is not the normal theme for us. However, I enjoyed the process 🙂 I love this stamp set from Stampin’ Up!, Season of Chic and use it quite a bit on my cards. And it happens to have a snowflake! I’ve had this stamp set for around 3 years.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day.

Creating in 2024

I have been away from Cardmaking for most of this year, we had a week away with our family which was lovely, and then we started planning for some much needed renovations which began a few weeks ago. They are all completed and our home is looking and feeling amazing. My ‘craft room’, which is also our spare bedroom, has also had a make-over and a lot of my stash has been moved to the garage, and some given away.

I have been reflecting on my need and love of Cardmaking and whether I want to continue it. For the last four years it has been my therapy, my happy place, where I go to unwind and renew and I come away from it, not only with something beautiful I have created, but with a sense of greater peace and wellbeing.
I went in there tonight and made these two cards using patterned paper, stamps and dies. I had fun! I will continue making cards but with a renewed focus. More on that later 🥰

Fun with color throwdown

This week’s challenge with Color Throwdown was a challenge as they are not colours I would normally use together, however I do like the card I made for this challenge.

I chose to do a simple layered image card, and used Stampin’ Up!’s Ranunculus Romance set for this challenge #ctd757.

Fun with a sketch

I’ve been busy with some challenge cards the last few days. Today I’m posting a card I made for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches FMS600, and it was a fun sketch to use to create my card.

I usually make cards with layers, and sometimes lots of them, and I am discovering (and enjoying) this clean and simple style of cardmaking.

Create your own kind of beautiful

I first heard this saying a few years ago when I was struggling to make sense of my life. When I created this blog for my handmade cards, I adopted the saying as my tagline, because I believe in it so much. I never believed myself to be beautiful or creative, that was a term for real artists not for me a mere cardmaker, who would copy cards I saw in magazines. What I didn’t realise then was that the cards I made were never like the originals, I had made them my way, using the supplies I had, and chose the colours and papers I liked. They were my creations.

I had been making cards, teaching card making, and even selling the cards I made at the local florist, but still did not believe I was talented or creative.

When I came across this quote from Coco Chanel, it all began to make sense. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” I’d like to add to that now, beauty begins the moment you decide to be, to know, to believe, and to trust who you are, who God has made you to be, and what he has put in you. And he has given me a love for paper and creating beauty with it.

I hope this inspires you to create your own kind of beautiful!

Love

Just Add Ink #648

Just Add Ink is another challenge blog I like but have not until now entered any of their challenges.

This challenge is a Choose Two challenge, the idea being to choose two of the three elements in the challenge, Water Wall and Garden, and for my card I chose Water and Garden.

An early morning encounter

I have trouble falling asleep, often. So what else could I do than craft?! It’s quiet so I don’t disturb anyone, and it gets my mind off what is keeping me awake.

I haven’t used my gel plate for ages so got that out around 2:00 this morning. What a messy endeavour! But I am in love with how this card came out. (I didn’t enjoy the clean up at that time of the morning though LOL and my husband said he heard the hot tap running for a while).

I finished it off this morning and kept it simple as I didn’t want to cover it up. So a tired but happy crafter today 😃