There are some beautiful new dies available at Craftstash.co.uk as part of their Creative Dies range. The font on them is really nice, and what I like about them in particular, is the size. They are small enough to be used as a text greeting alongside a stamped image or larger die, but they are also just big enough to make the main feature of your card.
There are lots of other designs available, so make sure you check them out. They are really good value compared to other brands too.
I recently got some of the new release from Lawn Fawn to make a start on my Christmas cards. We’ll also be making some of these cards at my November card making classes.
The images in these sets are just SO cute. I love them all.
For this first card, I used the Snowy Backdrop die to cut the background, then used the Ready, Set, Snow set to stamp and die cute the globe.
This is another card using the snowglobe set. How sweet is that little row of houses? I think this is going to feature on a lot of my cards this year.
These cards are all variations on a theme using the Snowy Backdrops and Toboggan Together sets. I’m going to make some cards with my niece and nephew with these too, they are going to have so much fun with them.
I’ll be back later with some more Christmas cards that will feature in my November classes. Both dates are almost full, but I do have a couple of spaces left, so just get in touch if you’d like to join us.
Well, I’m a little late to share my Daring Cardmaker DT card this week, Zuzana chose the lovely dare ‘Creative Kids’.
I needed to make a card for my nephew, Toby, who will be 5 in a couple of weeks, so it was the perfect opportunity to use the new WPlus9 Party Animal set I just bought, to create something cute.
It’s hard to see from the photo, but the balloon is coloured with lime green Promarkers, then I added a layer of Wink of Stella for some sparkle, then coated it with Glossy Accents. It’s really beautiful in real life, shiny and sparkly.
Don’t forget to pop over to the Daring Cardmaker blog to see what everyone else did this week.
The theme for our DT projects in September is Space, so I put together a video tutorial for this card:
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It’s my turn to set the challenge this week at the Daring Cardmakers. Since everywhere I look there are cards using watercolours, I thought I’d go with that for my dare.
Rather than just use my watercolour paints, I decided to use my watercolour markers instead – the Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I coloured the marker directly onto the stamp and gave it a little spritz of water. I used the Altenew Painted Flowers stamp set, and this created a lovely watercolour paint effect, but with quite bright colours. The Zig markers really keep their vibrant colours even when you add water, so it’s a nice effect.
Don’t forget to pop over to the blog to see the gorgeous cards the rest of my teamies have made this week, there’s some really beautiful work.
Here’s a couple of cards I made with my new Wplus9 Festive Greetings stamp set.
I really love these little fairy lights.
I think the lights look best with some glossy accents over the top – oh and of course a bit of Wink of Stella first so they are nice and sparkly. The circle text die cut was a happy accident – I went to stamp the greeting directly onto the card and dropped my ink pad - oops. So I stamped the greeting onto a piece of card then die cut it with a stitched circle die so I could cover my little mistake. I’m really pleased with the end result, it gives the card a bit more interest.
Here are some more of the cards we’ll be making……
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