This week’s 52 Christmas Card Throwdown technique challenge is all about creating a shaker card, and I couldn’t resist making something delicate and frosty with soft pastel tones and shimmering silver details. Shaker cards always add a touch of interactive fun to Christmas designs, and I love the way the floating sequins and glitter catch… Continue reading Shimmering Shaker Card for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Technique Challenge
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Christmas card in pink, red and lime green
Hello and welcome. Elizabeth has set a fab colour challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week - to use pink, red and lime green - what a lovely combination! I'm still on a mission to use up my paper scraps, and as I still had scraps from the paper pad I used last… Continue reading Christmas card in pink, red and lime green
Christmas pop-up card
Hello and welcome. I'm really happy to be joining the lovely ladies for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge this week, where Rosi has challenged us to make a pop-up card. I watched a fab tutorial by Sam on Youtube the other day and was inspired to make my own version... I used papers from… Continue reading Christmas pop-up card
Paper piecing with Julie Nutting prima doll
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
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