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   Hi Craft addicts!       Well today's latest blog is about these three different cards I made using Lisa Horton Flowers.... I had created some backgrounds using a variety of products from Himi Silk Crayons to Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and thought they would make good flowers. I cut out the various flower shapes from the Shabby Florals die set from Lisa Horton and then cut out the stalks in green card. I really like this backing paper which Becky Seddon produced for her collection and thought it would make the flowers really stand out and so trimmed a couple of pieces to fit the cards used and stuck them to the card with a tape pen - I wouldn't use PVA glue as it would show through the paper. Two of the cards are small (4") cards and I used two different punches (from Kit n Caboodle and Prism from Hunkydory) to round the corners along and then scored the edges with my Prism Scoreboard with an A6 card too. For the A6 card, I used one of the larger blooms and a ...

Hi Craft addicts! Today's latest handmade card is quite simple to make but is one that could be used for any occasion. I first of all created the background using a variety of Rainbow Coloured Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - you just add the crayon to some Yupo paper, using my finger to blend them in first of all and then a paintbrush to blend them further. I also find that they can rub off a bit so I used a piece of kitchen roll to get any excess off. The Bee topper is made from using both the outer and inner die from Lisa Horton's Slimline Bee-autiful Panel set which I cut out from Lynda Chapman's Black Card which I had first of all added to some of Wild Spider Self adhesive sheet to make it easier to stick on to the Yupo Paper. Once cut out, I removed the backing sheet and attached it to the background and trimmed it to leave a narrow border around it which I then rounded the corners with my Hunkydory Prism punch (definitely my most favourite effect at the moment!). I then ...