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There are so many ways... beautiful... DL white card

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There are so many ways... beautiful... DL white card Hi Craft addicts! Well, here is another card that I have made for #WorldCraftWeek - this time using a Sharon Callis sentiment stamp , Rare Earth inks and an Altenew stamp for the flowers. How I made this card:- I used a pre-cut panel (from Sweet Dixie) of white stamping card and dusted it with an anti-static bag. I then stamped the sentiment... There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy (from Sharon Callis) on to it using Versamagic and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Once it had cooled down, I then used various ink cubes (from Rare Earth Reaction collection) to create the background. When I was happy with the colouring, I then used a piece of kitchen roll to remove the excess ink so that the lettering popped out and then edged the panel with a blue/green alcohol marker. I then added a piece of lime green self adhesive paper to roughly a quarter of the left hand side of a DL card. I also added a na...

Cherish Every Moment - bird on branch A6 white card

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Cherish Every Moment - bird on branch A6 white card Hi Craft addicts! I thought I would carry on with my new resolution of writing my blog again with this simple but effective A6 card that I have made for #WorldCraftWeek (and #TheHundredDayChallenge). How I made this card... I have had this Bird die from Tattered Lace and was nervous about using it as I didn't know quite how to colour it in as I am not proficient at water colouring (so far). Then I had a brainwave and coloured a piece of cream hammered card with various brown shades (using Tim Holtz's Distress Crayons (which I really love) - such as Aged Mahogany and Walnut Stain. I wasn't too careful where I added the crayon but made sure that I blended each area in before I moved on to the next... Once I was happy with the shading (having thought about what colours I wanted the bird to be), I then used a medium paint brush and blended all of the colours in further with water. I used a heat gun to dry it b...