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Forever In Your Heart

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Sadly, I recently needed a sympathy card for my friend who lost his Mum.   It is difficult making cards for such occasions but I find inspiration knowing that the card I send might just help ease their pain a little.   To make this card, it was a first outing for Visible Image’s Forever In Your Heart stamps and matching die. To begin, I made a couple of inky panels using the ink smooshing technique.   I pressed Shaded Lilac, Victorian Velvet, Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord Distress Inks onto my craft mat, spritzed on some water and dabbed my card into the puddles. Once I’d finished the brighter one that I was going to use for the feathers, I spritzed a little more water and pressed the second piece of card into the inks.   As there was less ink and more water, the colours are more muted. I stamped the feather using Versamark ink, added bronze embossing powder and heat set it before cutting out the feather with the matching die.   Even though the background panel was muted
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Winter Birthday

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Our Design Team theme this week is Winter Birthdays and for my non-card project, I’ve made a birthday tag.   Although it’s a birthday project, I’m stretching my stash by using a Christmas stamp set and making a male-themed tag to boot. To begin, I die-cut a large tag from an inky panel that I’d made using Distress Stain, Mica Stain and Distress Spritz sprays in various shades of blue.   It’s hard to tell from the photo but this panel has lots of lovely shimmer. After liberally dabbing the tag with an anti-static powder tool and using Christmas Eve stamp set, I stamped the row of trees, moon and stars with Versamark ink, added white embossing powder and heat set.   I then repeated the process for the large tree in the foreground and the sentiment, which is from Birthday Wishes . To make the ground different to the sky, I used a scrap of paper for a hill mask and blended white pigment ink below each mask, and below the tree line.   I also added some white ink to the moon, blen
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Location: Fareham, UK
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Wrapping It Up

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  My revamped craft room now features a new sewing table where my sewing machine is set below the table top giving me a flat bed sewing space.   It is fabulous!   The first project I made was this ditty bag for one of the Project 71 veterans but it’s ideal if you want to give presents in reusable bags.   They’re very adaptable: you can make them any size to suit just one present or to hold a few.   Use festive fabric and you’re sorted for Christmas too. This bag was for a former member of the Royal Navy so I wanted it to be sea themed.   Unfortunately, I didn’t have any pieces of fabric large enough so I quilted a selection of squares, adding the recipient’s intials to one.   Don’t do this if your aim is for the bag to be reusable! After the quilting was complete, I stitched the side seams together and then cut a square from the bottom corners to enable the bag to have a boxed base. This is achieved by straightening out the cut sections, matching up the side and bottom seams an
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Location: Fareham, UK
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