Crafty As L

  This week’s card is the one I made to accompany my Visible Image ATC swap for April, which had the theme ‘Mellow Yellow’.   You could use only shades of yellow plus black and white.   I had seen some glorious yellow tulips in a garden locally so I opted to use the Sketched Tulips stamp set. Using masking paper, I stamped and fussy cut the tulip flower and then stamped and clear heat-embossed the first row of tulips. I continued to replace the masking paper and stamped and heat-embossed multiple tulips over the bottom of the panel and finally added a bee from Bee Happy. For a hint of sun, I blended Scattered Straw Distress Ink through the Strobes stencil, fading out as it reached the flowers.  The tulips were coloured using Copic markers.   I like to clear heat-emboss the stamping as then I don’t have to worry about using alcohol-friendly ink. To finish the card, I partially stamped the text from the set and added a few dots with a yellow Posca pe...

    I really resent paying someone to do what I am perfectly capable of doing myself.  Never was this feeling more evident that when Mr. L popped the question and we began to get prices (seemingly complete with the wedding tax!) for the various wedding paraphernalia.  So we decided that we would do as much as possible ourselves so that we could have the day we wanted without feeling that we'd been fleeced!! We met at work and were friends before romance blossomed.  We used to play (well actually  we still do) the online Scrabble game Words With Friends and it was messaging each other through this that we started to move from friendship to 'lurve' 💜! So we thought it apt that our wedding theme would be Scrabble and, somewhat bizarrely, air traffic control! Mr. L is a reluctant crafter but still got stuck in with helping with the invitations......   CAS (Clean & Simple) is mostly my card making style so a simple design was drawn up and f...