Well now it’s in print, I can share my little bit of exciting news – I made the runners up list for this year’s 'Card Designer of the Year’ competition in Simply Cards and Papercraft. I won an absolute mountain of goodies, I’ve had one large box already, and there are a couple more things to come. One of the cards I sent even gets a little feature on the magazine cover – as you can imagine, I’m really pleased.
Well I’m not sure what’s covered in the most glitter – my nephew’s baptism invites or me! I usually avoid ‘real’ glitter because of the mess, I much prefer to use glitter glues instead, but I just couldn’t get the same effect for coating chipboard so messy fine glitter it had to be. I’m so pleased with the design that I shall adapt it for baby cards to include in my next class at the Jinney Ring. As I had to make so many, I decided it was worth making my own chipboard circles. I’d started off with a few scallop ones I’d received in a kit years ago, but I only had a few, and when I discovered how expensive they were, I got a circle die for my sizzix and some sheets of chipboard. I painted them with white acrylic paint, then inked the edges before coating them with some Art Institute powder blue glitter. As you can see, my sister chose the design I thought she would – I personally like the more ‘scruffy’ vintage feel ones, but I think this cleaner, simple design is probably more appropriate.
I will hopefully be back later to share a couple of cards I’m in the middle of and I shall definitely be back tomorrow to share some very exciting news – sorry to tease, and I’m dying to share, but I’m not allowed until tomorrow :)
My sister asked me to make some invites for my little nephew’s christening in January. As she’s very fussy(!) I made a selection so she could choose her favourite.
I think this last one will be her chosen design:
I thought I’d finished my Christmas cards, but actually I realised I do have a couple more to do. I also had to make a new baby card for one of my boyfriends clients. I’ve spent most of today thinking up ideas for my new nephews Baptism. I made a couple of cards I really wasn’t happy with, but now I seem to have some nice ideas, so I’ll be back to share them when I’ve finished.
I’ve started thinking of ideas for gifts, although I’ve left everything a bit late this year, so I don’t have much time. I’ve also just been asked by my sister to make her Christening invites, so yet again, I’ve got tons to do – just when I thought I was catching up!
Here are some more cards I made using my new custom made stamps:
I'm still plodding on with the cards for my boyfriends family. I had some custom stamps made, so I've been playing with them and I'm really pleased with them so far.
This week's challenge on Daring Cardmakers is to use Kraft card - easy for me since all of my recent cards are using it! Here's another card using my Christmas tree template and the Hero Arts tag stamp:
I'm still working my way through my Christmas card list, and still loving my new Christmas tag stamp. I decided to make a fun snowman for this card - although now I've finished I like it and wish I'd made myself a template instead of just cutting it from hand without thinking as I think this would be nice to use in my next class. Oh well, I'll just have to make one now! Can you tell I never plan my cards in advance but just make them up as I go along!?
I just bought a set of lovely tag stamps to finish off my Christmas cards. My boyfriend likes to give individual cards to his family, so it's always quite a big job each year on top of the hundreds of other cards I make! I've made a start with cards for his mum and dad - I've just got his brother and sister, 3 nephews and niece to go!
