Crafty As L

Today is my sister’s birthday and I’ve made a fun fold centre-stepper card for her.   Ange is a total inspiration, working hard in her job as an NHS perfusionist, together with being the head of the department.   Outside of work, her passions are her cats and harp playing and she’s fiercely loyal to family and friends.   She’s a great listener with a good sense of humour and is even more sarcastic than me!   Ange is the reason that I started to learn the harp at the beginning of this year.   She’s been playing for about 12 years and played at our wedding, even though she’d only been playing for about a year then.   Very brave!   My friend spotted this die when we went to the Creative Craft Show at Farnborough a couple of weeks ago so I had to have it for Ange’s card.   I opted for gold mirror card as one of Ange’s harps (she has three!) is a very grand gold one.   This die-cut was layered with a brown one.   I then decided to cut out t...

This week’s card is a sympathy card I made for some friends whose dog had passed away.   I like the idea of the rainbow bridge where pets wait for their humans so that was my theme. To make the rainbow, I used Newton’s Nook Pawprints stencil and blended though Distress Inks in Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Faded Jeans and Seedless Preserves. For the sentiment, I used Waffle Flower’s Rainbow Bridge and stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink, added clear embossing powder and heat set. The panel was mounted on a square of black card and adhered to a 5¾” square card blank.   The card was finished with a tiny purple enamel heart after the sentiment.

  This is a handy technique for using up those old bits of DSP you’ve got lying around after finishing other projects.  However, you can also just use coloured card or even a single colour card that’s been textured with embossing folders. To begin, I cut a bunch of wonky strips – ones where the edges aren’t parallel.   The strips need to be longer than the card panel you’re sticking them to.  As I was making a single colour, I added texture to my strips by using a variety of embossing folders. It’s not entirely necessary but makes life a lot easier to have a non-stick sheet to put the card layer on that the strips will be stuck to.  This is because the strip overhang will have glue on and will stick to anything underneath.  I roughly planned out my strip arrangement and began to glue them in place, leaving a small gap between each strip. After the glue dried, I turned my card over and trimmed the strips with scissors, using the edge of the card pan...