Dreamweaver

Card inspired by an idea I saw demonstrated by Lynell Harlow in her recent appearance on Create and Craft. Involved the use of the Dreamweaver square grid stencil.

Background stencil/mask is from Crafter's Workshop and has been overpainted with white gesso. The fauna stamp is from Inkylicious.

Daisy Stamp from Hobby Art Ltd

Inspired by this card that I saw on the Hobby Art stand at Harrogate - I later found out it was made by Georgina Sweetenham.

I made this card.

I cut out and embossed my spellbinder shapes before inking them, to produce the white line borders. I must have used a smaller card blank than the original card, as I have less of the daisies showing in my apeture.

Little Claire Designs

I belong to the Little Claire Project Club and am enjoying it. Here are some cards made with the stamps received through the Project club, that I liked the most in 2012.

This was an alternative design suggested in the project club leaflet - adapted of course.

I found it very difficult to send this card after I had made it.

This male card was made several times for different male birthdays. You could add the age of the recipient to the front of the radio.

Craft Stamper - Stamper of the Year Competition

Round 1 Entry - Chocolate Baroque

Was not submitted
Round 3 Entry - Imagination Crafts

Shortlisted
Round 5 Entry - Indigo Blu

Shortlisted

Man Cards

The Little Claire's club stamp set for March had a male theme. There was a further card idea supplied with the project card. This is my version of that further suggestion.

The base card for this card was 15 cm square. I then decided to do a larger version, 7.75 inches square for a friend's 50th Birthday.

I then decided to do a different colour version of the large card for my brother's 50th birthday.

In every case, I did each tile/square individually rather than stamp them all onto one large piece of card.

April Card Swap

The theme for the swap was create your own background paper. I made the blue handmade paper for the background about 2 years ago, recycling coloured paper handouts. The method was demonstrated on one of the TV craft programmes about the same time. General idea is to blitz the paper in an old liquidizer, mixed with water, then scoop out on a wire mesh, press between two nappy liners and then dry. The butterfly stamp and flower stamp is from Indigoblu and the background script is from the Marion Emberson range.

March 30th - Indigoblu Workshop

Two of the projects I made with Kay at the Indigoblu Workshop.

Both images were coloured using panpastels.