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Beautiful Card Designs Made Easy
September 12, 2025
Perfect Panels ...
September 11, 2025
Restocking Base Cards
Hi Everybody,
This has been one of those days where I have needed to re stock on items that I need on a daily basis.
The main task I have done is create new base cards ready to use.
I use A3 card that I buy in a smooth white variety that I get from Hobby Craft
From that A3 card I can get two cards and this morning I have cut forty cards ready to use, and I still have lots of A3 card left.
I have repeated the process folding the same A3 card in half along the short side and cut that every 4" to give me four 4 cards that are a fraction short of 6"
September 10, 2025
Making Flowers - Foamiran
This is a lovely product to work with and foamiran can create really lovely flowers for your cards.
You can get it in lots of places and it usually comes in packs often with different colours in each pack.
It is easy to work with and you can mould it with the heat from your hands to create the petals.
But I find it easier to use an ordinary household iron, set on a low heat, to get the foamiran to curl a little bit more.
There are all different styles of flowers and many different ways to make them .
You will find lots of tutorials on YouTube showing you what to do and this video is just one of the styles that can be made.
As always use any flowers and leaf dies that you have and make the card how YOU like it.
You can also add any embellishments that you have in your own bit box.
This card has the fold at the top and it is a 5x7 with layers to the front.
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
September 09, 2025
Black & White Flower Card
The weather here today is glorious and it will soon be time for a dog walk.
I have taken Ruby to the groomers for a bath and a haircut as she missed the last one when she was poorly.
But now that she is better again Dougal and I will go and collect her and then we will go walkies ...
somewhere where it is clean !!
Todays card is an old one that has been created from an older die and stamp set that I have had for years
The flowers have been stamped in black and heat embossed with clear powder then cut out using the die.
I think the neutral colours make such a change from all the coloured card that I have used in other designs.
It is a DL size and I have layered it with black and white spotty card on a plain black layer.
I have added small flower pearls to the centres and a black acrylic butterfly also.
I have also done the same design in a coloured way to ring the changes.
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
September 08, 2025
Pink Felt Flower
September 05, 2025
Christmas Mistletoe
Todays card is for Christmas and features some Mistletoe on a lovely swirly background.
Both dies are from my own designs but are really old collections and so probably not available any more.
But if you already have them then get them out again and make use of them.
The background dis in in three parts and I have cut mine in pink, black and white and layered them together.
The Mistletoe leaves are cut in dark green with the berries represented in silver.
I used some pink glitter card for the bow and the sentiments were already in my bit box.
It is a5x7 card with the fold at the top and this is the first of the batch for this Christmas which comes around far too quickly.
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
September 04, 2025
Pretty Felt Rose
This is another circular design that is done in layers with stitched edge dies and plain ones on white card.
I have also cut a detailed layer in silver and used some card board underneath to raise it up from the base.
Around the edge of the pattern I have woven some thin pink organza ribbon in and out of the pattern and then ended with a little bow in the same ribbon to one side.
I found this sentiment on my desktop and used circular pearls around the edges and added this with small pieces of cardboard too.
The rose is made from pink felt and I have glittered the edges of the petals.
The white leaves have been tucked behind the bloom and I used hot glue to keep it in place.
Don't forget when you are making a card with a curved edge that it will not stand up alone unless you level off the back part of the card.
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
September 03, 2025
Making Flowers with Crepe Paper
Use any flower or leaf dies that you have and also any embossing folder too. Your card will look different to mine but the principal will be the same.
Crepe Paper comes in many different colours so choose your favourite ones and make some flowers.
You could pierce the middle of the flower and add some stamens if you preferred, but again use anything that you already have in your stash.
Don't go buying any new stuff ... we all have items that we bought and have not used in a long time or even at all. Now is the time to get them out again.
The little butterflies are some that I have had for many years and they were sent to me by one of my readers when I said I liked the ones I had but was running out of them. I get a brand new roll in the post and I am sill using them on my cards.
I cannot remember the name of the person who sent them to me but thank you they have been very handy.
Bye for now ...
September 02, 2025
Baby card
This card is one created quite some time ago and it is another one that will welcome a new baby. You could make this any colour you preferred and add flowers to it if you wanted.
I have made many circular cards in the past and this one also has a smaller circle added to the top that has been embossed.
The butterflies have been stamped and cut out with dies to add to the card and the sentiment is also stamped and cut with a banner die.
I have no idea where the stamps and dies are from as they are all very old. But I find I buy items and use them once, or sometimes not at all, and then they get stored away and never used again.
Not just dies and stamps but all types of things and then I forget what they are for …. And so I made my decision not to buy anything new and so far I have stuck to it and probably saved myself a lot of money.
You will see that many of my cards will be using the same dies, stamps, ribbon and card stock that is in my craft room
This is a very quick and easy card to create and is sure to please the parents, and I am sure the baby would be very happy with it too
Bye for now …
Hugs xx
September 01, 2025
Denim Dahlia
Then all the layers have been added to a white 5x7 base card with the fold at the top.
August 29, 2025
Parchment Flowers
August 28, 2025
Die Cut Flowers
I missed another day yesterday but I had to go out of town to see a physiotherapist for my knee and it was right smack in the middle of the day.
August 26, 2025
Staying With Denim
These denim roses are created from strips of denim and I am quite pleased with the result. But I have to say they are quite awkward to roll up.
August 25, 2025
What a week ….
Hi Everybody,
I am sorry for my absence but I have had a truly awful week. My Ruby has been really poorly again and I have had to take her to the vet twice and nurse her back to being ok again. I thought she had a recurring bout of pancreatitis but blood tests showed that wasn’t the case.
But she wouldn’t eat and was very lethargic and kept hiding under the bush in my back garden, she wouldn’t come inside at all. I am happy to say that she is now much better..
I have also been with without internet connection. I couldn’t use the computer, my iPad or my phone and there was no tv in the evening either, so very quiet but a bit too quiet !!
There has also been a visitor here for ten days in the shape of a Dachshund puppy that I have been looking after and she has driven the others crazy. I have Dougal during the day while Vickie goes to work and the pup has taken a real shine to him and will not leave him alone, and she chases my cat, who now stays up stairs out of the way.
The pup goes home again tomorrow and so peace will reign again, and my internet is restored and Ruby is eating again.
I too will be back to normal hopefully and can get some videos and blog posts done.
So see you then
Bye for now …
August 14, 2025
Spiky Denim Flower
Hi Everybody,
I am using one of the other flowers that I made in the last video and this a die cut one that I have flipped the layers alternatively.
Into the centre I have glued a blue pearl and dotted some more around the card front
I splattered it all with gold paint to match in with the sentiment and this card is an A6 size.
I have added a cut out panel to the card and surrounded the flower with some leaves.
It was very quick to make and I am not un happy with the result even though it is not my favourite size.
Using old jeans is a perfect way to get some flowers that are different from the rest and saves them going to the landfill site.
So I hope you like them
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
August 13, 2025
Using Old Jeans
Do you have some old jeans that you no longer wear or can get some from someone else who wears them and now doesn't need them anymore.
You can make some lovely flowers from them to add to your projects and it doesn't take a lot of material to make them.
It is another fabric that can be put to good use in the flower making department and there are lots of ways to use it up.
This is just one way that denim can be used and I hope you will stay with me as we try some more from the same material.
Just use any dies that you already have for the flowers and leaves and experiment and come up with a different design if you would like too.
Have fun with any of the flowers that have been covered over the last few months, they certainly make for pretty cards.
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
August 12, 2025
Lace Flower
August 11, 2025
Three different flowers
Here I am using three different types of flowers again and this time they are Fun Foam, Die Cut and Homemade pattern on paper.
I have inked the background and I meant to emboss this panel in a folder .... and I forgot !!

August 08, 2025
Last of the Crochet Flowers
Hi Everybody,
So today I am adding in the last of the crochet flowers and next week I will move onto some other material to make some more.
This card has two flowers glued together to make a larger one and the stamen is one of the pretty ones that I have in my stash.
I have used a variety of dies to make this card, some from my own designs and others are from Spellbinders.
They are all really old dies now and I have used shades of turquoise and teal tamed with white to get the look.
As usual it is a top folded 5x7 card as that is my favourite size to work with.
The layers have been raised with cardboard, as a cheap alternative to foam tape, and then wrapped with ribbon.
This is another pretty card but it will need a box to send it in because of the height to the flower.
Well worth it though so as not to spoil the design.
Bye for now ...
Hugs xx
August 06, 2025
Creating a Crochet Rose.
Hi Everybody,