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My heart is yours forever... 6in square Valentine's Day card Hi Craft addicts! Today's card is another one that is suitable to be given for Valentine's Day or just to say you love someone - any time of the year of course! How I made this card:- I have designed the topper in Craft Artist Professional 2 - using a variety of digikits - the main element was part of a kit from Printable Heaven. Once I was happy with the design, I saved it as a JPG and printed it out in Microsoft Publisher. I then cut it out and edged it with a "Red" alcohol marker. I used the "Torn Edged Rectangle" die to make the panel that I used to layer the topper on top of (out of "Rainbow" Mirri card) - before I stuck it down, I attached some "Red" Organza ribbon to the middle of it (sticking it down on the back so it didn't show). I then glued the whole panel on to the centre of a 6" white straight edged card using Collall All Purpose glue. ...

Cartoon mouse (Cinderella style) on 6" square card -  Day 216 of my 366 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Today's challenge is using a hand coloured digistamp of a Cinderella style mouse that I hand coloured using a mix of alcohol markers and pencils. I first of all took the Cinderella style mouse digistamp from the "Fairy Tales" CD rom (I think) and took it into Serif;s Craft Artist Professional 2 and resized it to about 3" high and printed it off onto good quality digital stamping card/paper. I then coloured it in using a variety of Spectrum Noir alcohol markers - mainly grey, pink , darker pink and blue , trying to blend them in to give him a "life like" feel. I also added some of their matching colours in their pencils ( not their Aquablendable pencils) to add a bit more depth. Once I was fairly happy with it, I attached it to some black cardstock and then cut round it to leave a very small border. Next, I cut o...

Happy birthday - Ladybird design - personalised -  Day 80 of my 366 day challenge Hi Craft Addicts! Sorry for the lateness of this post but better late than never!  This card is the first of a series of cards using my own ladybird design in a variety of ways. I have designed it using CAP2 (Craft Artist Professional 2) and have given him (or her) a green body with black spots but first of all I designed the background using a gradient effect from yellow to green . I then added a lattice effect border strip in the centre and placed the ladybird over it. I then added a blue thin border and then added a larger white square as the base layer. I then added a decorative border to the top and bottom of it and printed it out.  This was then placed onto some silver mirri card. For the card itself I added a panel of multicoloured strips from Craftwork Cards " Celebration " 8" x 8" paper pad and drew some faux stitches along the top and bottom of...

How digital crafting can be used - Day 25 of my 366 day challenge.. Hi Craft Addicts! So it is nearly coming up to the end of January - where has that time gone? Anyway, for this post, I thought I would show you how great digital crafting can be. For these three cards, I have used 2 different designs but all using the CRAFTSCAPES digikits that Daisytrail (Craft Artist Professional 2) have produced. You do need to have the software package CAP2, but for what it can do, the price is incredibly reasonable. You can buy all items through Daisy Trail here - there are literally hundreds of kits that you can mix and match to create brilliant projects. As it is a digital image you can layer things up that using shadows etc that actually look as if they are in 3D. They are also brilliant for mixed media projects and you can add as many (or few) embellishments you like. These are also watercolour images so it really creates that effect on your card..       ...