Hello and welcome. The wonderful challenge set for us this week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, is to use paper piecing. I've tried this technique a few times in the past and loved the results, but looking at my stamp collection, I have very few stamp sets that lend themselves to this. So, I took… Continue reading Paper piecing with Julie Nutting prima doll
Masculine Christmas card
Hello and welcome. Masculine cards are not the easiest to make, so for this week's challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, I turned to my husband for help with my design... I asked his advice about what type of card he likes to receive and jotted down several ideas as we chatted. First, I… Continue reading Masculine Christmas card
Tim Holtz 3D Snowflake Christmas card
Hello and welcome. There's another fab challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week. This time, the colour choices are green, white and gold... Looking through my paper collection, I thought these two patterned green papers looked lovely together... The striped paper is a retired Stampin Up design. I mat and layered the papers with… Continue reading Tim Holtz 3D Snowflake Christmas card
Tim Holtz 3D snowflake
Hello and welcome. This week's sketch challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown has a great focal point for a card ... I used a textured card base in white, cut down to a regular A6 size card, then added 2 squares of cardstock, one in melon mambo for a pop of colour, and one in… Continue reading Tim Holtz 3D snowflake
Lily-by-Gilly 