Momigami - aka kneaded paper!

Welcome

Sorry I have not been around much, but I have discovered that the reason I have not been keen on blogging, or visiting blogs, is because my eyes have deteriorated and I need new prescriptions for my glasses - all three pairs.  My everyday, my reading and my dark/driving lenses all need to be adjusted, and to top it all off, cataracts are starting to affect my sight also. 

This was a card for the local swap group I am in, and the challenge was to use momigami, (this is a video link, and the technique starts at approx 8 minute mark) or paper kneading on the card.... 

I chose a handmade paper which had these gorgeous gold 'flowers' on it - and they survived the technique

As I wanted the paper to be the focal point, I simply stamped a gerbera (Uniko) in ladybug ink,  watercoloured it with the same ink, and diecut it before adding the micro beads in the centre.

The sentiment was die cut from a piece of card I had also painted with the ladybug ink, then it was adhered to a yellow panel

The panel and flower were adhered using my hot glue gun, as well as the paper to the base, as the result of the paper treatment left it somewhat glue resistant. 

All the edges were coloured using the red ink.. even the insert panel, which I decorated with washi tape.

As I don't often make square cards, I had to make an envelope for it - I used double sided paper, and used a white sticker for the address panel.

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2604 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #736 +737 - Anything Goes

Craft Rocket Challenge #132 - Something New 

(the stamp  and die were NBUS, the technique new to me)

Elliebelle's Gard Party #11 - Anything from or in a garden goes

Another Two-fer

Welcome

Oops, I nearly didn't do a blog post his month -

hopefully I will get this finished before the end of the year.

These cards were made as a result of a challenge in our NZ swap group.  I used the spotlight option.

This was my card for the swap - I used an Indigo Blu stamp Peony Posy, stamping it in Lawn Fawn River Stone ink.  I coloured one copy using sponge daubers, which challenged my propensity of  colouring within the lines.. 

I die cut two circles for my spotlight, and for this card I edged the circles with Forget Me Not ink, then adhered them using 1mm foam tape.  The main panel was edged in the same blue ink, and mounted over a pale blue base

For the two-fer,  I edged the spotlight elements with pink ink, and also the feature panel.

I used 2mm foam tape to mount the spotlight elements, and stamped a sentiment in the bottom left of the panel (and promptly forgot to photograph it.)

Both cards have been delivered and appreciated

I take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful 2026, 

and hopefully you may see a bit more of my craft activities here

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #730 - 733 - Anything Goes

Cut It Up Challenge #346 - Anything Goes

'Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #268 - Anything Goes

Doubles....

Welcome - thank you so much for visiting my blog

This card was made for the monthly swap in a small, local group.

The challenge this month was 'double'  i.e. to use two of anything such as images, a double fold etc.

I amassed 11 doubles, not intentionally, but it worked out that way... 

some are obvious, some less so.

There were two layers over the card base, and two layers on the featured circles

The embossed panel had Memento Lulu Lavender in lightly rubbed over it, then two sprays were applied.  Lindy's Magical's Starburst French Lilac Violet and Cosmic Shimmer Pearl.

Unfortunately I could not get the subtle shimmer to show in the photos.

The two blooms (from a Wood Ware set) were white embossed and painted with watercolours

The two word sentiment was from Uniko, stamped in the second ink, Memento Grape Jelly.

Only two inks were used, and the stamps were from two companies.

I then added some bling in pairs on the front of the card, and also to either end of the two strips of off cuts that I used to decorate the inside.

I am linking this to: 

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #80 - both stamp sets were NBUS.

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #726 + 727 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2547 - Anything Goes

A Curvy Two-Fer

Welcome

Yes, I am still here, and actually well, but I have been away at the beach on a couple of trips, and life is generally pretty busy when I am home - by the time the evening comes and my laptop comes out, I 'blob' behind the screen instead of being productive... 

The first of my cards was for a "Use Curves" challenge - both dies are unnamed

I cut the white card using both dies, and glued the resulting panel to the Forest Green base

The greeting was embossed using two colours of EP

A few clear sequins added to relieve the starkness

And sparkle green glitter tape adorned the inside and the envelope.

The Twofer:

This used the remnant of the white panel  from the first card, and the diecut of the lady

The sheen on the diecut of the lady was done by dabbing the diecut on my embossing pad, and then coating her in pearl perfect pearls

The gold was splatter on the "mop up" sheet that I used as the background panel.

The feature panel was mounted on Cranberry cardstock.

The inner was decorated with an offcut of the background, as was the envelope.

I am linking these to:

Word Art Wednesday Weeks 726 +727 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #2546 - Anything Goes

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday November Challenge - Anything Goes

Flowers for a Gardener

Welcome,

Thank you so much for visiting.

I made this card for a very keen gardener and aspiring florist.

I started by sizing the white card for the layer, and then cutting the window with my Peek-a-boo die. Next I inked some clouds to show through the aperture, but decided they looked too 'harsh', so then brushed white ink over them, and was satisfied with the much softer result.

I stamped the image, a Studio Light Essentials set called Calla lilies, (it appears to be discontinued) in Memento London Fog ink, and then coloured with my polychromo pencils using the 'no line' technique.

I cut the image apart to arrange it coming up through the aperture, popping parts of it up on foam pads.  I also adhered the front panel using foam tape.

The sentiment was a magazine freebie, stamped in Whisper Ink Sugarloaf Green.  It was one of my original inks, and is getting rather dry now.

I stamped two of the lily flowers in gray ink on opposite corners in the inside, but they were too faint to photograph well. 

I am linking this to:

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge # 2541- Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #720 + 721- Anything Goes

                                    A Cut Above, Die Cut Challenge, October - Anything Goes

Springing into Spring.

Welcome,

I know that I have not been very active in blogland of late - my other hobbies, plus a BIG card order have kept me busy - never mind life in general has also kept me occupied a lot....

  The theme for our small, New Zealand swap last month was 'spring', as that is our current season.

We were told we could use a pop-up/spring mechanism, or illustrate the season.

But 'yours truly' went off an another tangent.

My card started with a sheet of 'spring-like' floral paper glued to some white card, then edged with yellow ink.  As you can see, a snippet was used on the envelope.

I then positioned a rectangle die towards the top of this, and die cut it.

Next a piece of white card which was printed with a computer generated 'sentiment' was cut with  a slightly larger rectangle die, sponged with the yellow ink and creased before being adhered over the top of the rectangular void.  A tag was added at the base.

I then stacked this panel (with 4mm of foam tape) on a white card base -that I had brushed the edges of with the yellow ink.

I then opened the aperture and glued a spring from a ball point pen in the resultant 'nest'.

I finished the inside of the card with a snippet of the patterned paper also. 

The recipient (and her husband) roared with laughter when the card was opened.

I am linking this to:

Word Power October Challenge - Anything goes with the sentiment as the main focus

Allsorts Challenge #833 - Woodland Creatures or Anything Goes

Love Those Pretty Papers October Challenge - anything goes with Pretty Papers Opt, Halloween colours

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #718 + 719 - Anything Goes

Pussy Cat Pussy Cat...

Welcome

Thank  you for visiting today - it is very much appreciated.

I needed a thanks card, and am also a guest DT at Critter Crazy Challenge this month,

so I combined the two.

The card is for a male, who was adopted by a cat, after refusing to have one for years, hence the image.

The image is from Gina K's set called Cordial Cats, and was cut with a matching die, before being mounted on an oval, cut with a TH Thinlets die. stitched ovals

The oval was mounted over a textured panel, pierced with a plate simply labeled 'swirls' that was  in a giveaway package I won.

All the layers were edged with Delicata Golden Glitz ink, and layered on 1mm foam tape

I stamped the inside with the paw prints stamp, 

and the mouse hole stamp

I also stamped the enveloped with the paw print stamp.

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #718 - 719 - Anything Goes

Try It On Tuesday challenge - Animals, real or imaginary 

 

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #262 - Anything Goes