Hello everyone,
A very Happy Easter Sunday to all my followers. Just a very quick post today to showcase some new Easter card designs. These were a special order for a customer and never actually made it into my shops,
but they'll be ready for next year! Nothing like being prepared!!
Have a wonderful time whatever you are up to this Easter!
Jill
Hello everyone and a very happy Easter to you all,
I'm enjoying a little bit of "down time" to do some of the things I rarely get a chance to do when I'm at work, including posting on here. No new Easter designs to show you, but thought I'd show you a special order I recently made for a customer. She liked this card:
but wanted a bigger 6" x 8" card, with a longer message. Here is the design I came up with:
Looking at it now there are some changes I'd make, but I think the customer was happy.
Enjoy the rest of the Easter weekend!
Jill
As I mentioned in the last post, it is my parents' diamond (60th) wedding anniversary soon - tomorrow in fact. I've already shown you the invitations so thought I'd show you the card I made them. Earlier this month I had made a large card (8" x 8") as a special order for a customer:
I don't think mum and dad would appreciate such a large card, so made a very similar one but slightly smaller (6" x 8"). I'm sorry about the quality of the photo - I took it at night in my studio, rather than in natural light with my usual set up. But I'm sure you get the idea!
Happy anniversary mum and dad - 60 years is certainly something to celebrate!
Jill
I knew it had been a while since I'd last posted on here, but can't believe it was way back in January. I have lots of new designs to show you so please stay with me but today I thought I'd show you one of the reasons for my long absence. On 3rd April this year my parents will be celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary and I have been busy making the invitations for them.
No quilling here - just a very simple design, I know, but sometimes (always?) the simple ones take twice as long to create. Once I had the design it was fairly simple to put them together though. I used white linen card from PaperMill Direct, glimmer paper from Stampin' Up and little diamante buckles MeiFlowers.
Here they are all together:
I am quite looking forward to the celebration - I think it will be the first time the whole family will be together for 10 years, since their Golden Wedding anniversary!
Jill
Wow,
is it really over a month since I last post on here? Bad blogger! To make up for my lack of posts, I have 5 cards to show you today, albeit very much variations on a theme. Early in January, I managed to find a little window of time to have a play and make some new Valentine cards designs. First, three cards with a little bit of beehive quilling...
And then a couple of cards with no quilling. Instead of the quilled heart I've used a die-cut heart cut from red glitter vinyl.
I'd love to know which one you prefer - leave me a comment. Thanks in advance,
Jill
Wow, just where has the last month gone? It's hard to believe that the big day is almost here. At one point I didn't believe that I was ever going to get everything done, but somehow, I think I'm almost there. A few more presents to wrap and the last minute food to sort, then I can relax!
I know some you follow my blog to see my quilled creations, so sorry to disappoint, but as I've said before, a lot of the cards I send to friends and family are not quilled. This is usually the case with the Christmas cards I send and a couple of weeks ago I spent a very happy few hours messing about with dies and punches and coming up with some new designs. Just thought I'd pop in here to show them.
The first card uses some lovely Memory Box dies - I have a lot more designs in my head for that Merry Christmas die but I am very happy with this card.
The next card uses the same Memory Box Country Border die, along with the Star of Wonder die. The blue card is pearlescent but you can't really see it in the photo.
The next four cards I made to use up some embossed snowflake frames (originally from Craftwork Cards) which have been in my stash for ages. They are all very similar but with some subtle differences. The central snowflake is a die-cut.
After I had cut out the snowflakes, I decided to use the negative which was left to make another card. It's made with silver mirror card, which is really hard to photograph, but I hope you get the idea!
And lastly a card using the Papertrey Ink holly embossing plate - love it!! And some little poinsettia and holly dies - very sweet!
Hope you like them!
Jill
Hi everyone.
Well it has been a while! I've been kept busy with lots of orders from my Etsy and Folksy shops in the run up to Christmas.
Just thought I'd drop in here today to show you a special order card which is currently winging its way to Japan to wish a little boy called Sho a Happy Christmas. The brief from the customer (his mum) was for a Christmas tree and a teddy.
I'm loving these word dies I used for the message - really makes the message stand out.
I think the Christmas season in my shops is just about over now so maybe I can now concentrate on making some cards for family and friends - I know, very last minute!!!
Jill
