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Hi everyone, today I’m sharing a colourful card which is right up my street. I’ve named this card Create A Scene Card because you have to make up the scene however you want, with whatev…

1Matt a 16.5x13.5cm piece of green cardstock onto pink cardstock, leaving a narrow border and secure it to the card front. 2Stamp the sentiment onto a 5x16cm piece of pink patterned paper and attach it to the top of the card front. 3Use patterned paper to create the pleated panel. Matt a 2x16.5cm piece of patterned paper onto green cardstock, affix it to the pleated panel using 3D foam pads. 4Stamp the bird onto white cardstock, colour using alcohol markers and add detailing with a white gel

My students love trading cards. I created these trading card blanks so they could create their own with mini animal research projects. To download these mini-research trading cards, please visit this post at Artistry of Education. You Might Also Like:Get Ready for the Iditarod with These Free Activity PacketsTop Tips for Note-Taking“Where in the World” ... Read More about A Mini-Research Project: Create Animal Trading Cards

I used the 3D embossing folder from Papercraft Essentials Issue 181 to create 4 cards with some added Tim Holtz, Elizabeth Crafts and Hedgehog Hollow things

I'm not sure I'll ever tire of this stamp of a boozy girls' night out, that was a covermount on a recent issue of Making Cards magazine. This time I've teamed with a sentiment from the same set and have stamped wide borders on the background card using stamps from the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials, with the bubbles finished with Glossy Accents. I am sharing this with Allsorts Challenge - Ladies' Night Out (although how ladylike these three will be by the end of the evening is open to question!) Watercooler Wednesday - anything goes feminine

Hi crafters, today I thought I would share some ATCs I made for a recent crafty swap. The theme was “If music be the food of love” and here is my set. I used a two sets of stamps from …

Hi everyone. I have a masculine birthday card to share today made using two of the stamps from a set by Hunkydory which came free with Creative Stamping Magazine, a background scene, and the canoe. I watercoloured the scene using some Staedtler Watercolour Brush Pens. I prefer to keep the colours softer by adding more water with them, so I scribble some on my glass mat and pick it up with the waterbrush. I started by stamping using Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink, which I also used for the sentiment, but this was also heat embossed with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder. I added the line from the boat to the shore as I thought it looked a bit odd adrift without anyone in it. Thank you for visiting the blog today and I'll see you again soon. I am entering the following challenges: Stamping Sensations September Challenge - The Great Outdoors. Allsorts Challenge - Week 588 Use A Hand Coloured Image. The Paper Players Challenge - No. 507 Masculine Birthday. The Male Room Challenge - No. 142 Travel.

Well I seem to be up and running again, but please, if you get emailed when somebody leaves a comment on your blog, will you check your spam folders from time to time to see whether I have commented, as Blogger seems to think my new email address is spammy and is marking it as such - even emails I send to myself! Anyway, up and at 'em, I've actually managed to find time to make a card - it was getting pretty urgent as it is for a friend whose birthday is next week. Don't worry, she won't see this, she doesn't read my blog! The background uses an embossing folder from a recent issue of Papercraft Essentials, covered in pale blue ink before embossing to give a faux letterpress effect. The sentiment is a SoSuzy stamp - the grammar may be questionable but the sentiment is very true, especially of this friend with whom I have a 30+ year history of over-consumption!!! The image of three besties is stamped with a recent Making Cards freebie that has become one of my most used stamps, which may say a lot about my friendships... I coloured it with Promarkers, again sticking to shades of blue as it is my friend's favourite colour - except when it comes to wine, when it's red all the way for her. I am sharing this with Shopping Our Stash - crazy for colouring Stamping Sensations - Something beginning with B - blue, black, bubbles, besties Watercooler Wednesday - feminine anything goes

Hello friends, sorry for the delay in blog posts towards the end of the week, my nan has come to visit so I have been spending some lovely time with her. On Wednesday I shared these awesome Gel Fil…

Happy Thursday! I hope you have a great day! Today, I have something special and very unusual. In my tutorial, I'm showing you how to create a 3D Bodice Gift Bag using a svg file from CraftWorld and a free gift from Simply Cards & Papercraft issue 242 'Beautiful Blossoms'. In the magazine there is a photo tutorial how to put this bag together and when I saw it, I decided to try it straight away. To decorate the bag, I used the design paper from Marta Debicka and the free gift. It was a lot of fun to create the foam flowers to embellish the bag. Have you ever created a shaped gift bag? Happy crafting!

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Well, this has just made my day! My latest copy of Making Cards & Papercraft magazine arrived today and whilst flicking through the pages with my cup of tea I saw my cards featured which I had …

Hi friends, here are my Triple Diamond Gatefold cards that I’ve recently made. I made this card during a FB Live craft along using the free gifts from Issue 205 of Simply Cards & Papercra…

Hi friends, I recently revisited the Tunnel Fold style and made these two fun cards. This portrait ‘Giraffe Hotel’ version was made during one of my Facebook Lives. It’s a place I…

Bonus cutting files from Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine. Enhance your scrapbook and papercrafting with bonus files.

Hi friends, here’s the Triple Tier Slider Cards I shared earlier. I’ve seen this style around for a long time but never got round to it myself, then I was looking through my requests an…

I’m really excited to share with you the first Simply Made Crafts Covermount gift with Creative Stamping Magazine! Here’s a closer look….

I have a great opportunity to review a fantastic magazine, Creative Stamping - issue 87. I am so happy for this incredible chance. The magazine came with two superb sets of stamps. The sets are of a great design and the quality is perfect. The magazine is full of fabulous projects with step by step tutorials in different styles. So I believe that everyone can find somethimg interesting. Every step by step tutorial is explained very well so you will know exactly how to make your card

A hand-picked compilation of brush fonts and script fonts that can give more artistic look to you design. These brush and script fonts based on the expression of real handwriting.

I was absolutely delighted to catch a glimpse of this month’s Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine – One of my pretty boxes had made it onto the front cover!

Welcome to the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials. I’m so excited to be bringing this issue to you. For anyone who doesn’t know me, I have been working on the Premium Magazine box kits for the last two years, but I have been a crafter for as long as I can remember! Taking over Papercraft Essentials is nerve-wracking and exciting in equal measure, as I was a subscriber myself before I started working at Practical Publishing! I hope I won’t let you down and promise to still bring you great idea