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Day 9 - Next…..

Regular readers will recognise this image as I have used it before.  It IS one of my favourites… such a serene picture and versatile for a lot of occasions.
I’ve used the “Belly Band” punch in white for this one.  Silver card mat under the picture, although in the photo here it just looks a bit [...]

Day 8 - Vintage Style Card

Day 8 - I have used the first of a packet of butterflies from…. oh… I’ve thrown the packet away!  I think they are from Papermania!
Stick-on lace trim this time rather than the real thing.  I thought I’d show a nice blue-green card today.

Day 7 - Next Vintage Style Card

Day 7 - A piece of “script” style background paper has been wrapped around the card front and onto the inside cover.  It was then layered with a piece of contrasting (darker) paper which I pinched with the Martha Stewart border punch.   Bit of lace and a flower, which, I have to admit to squashing [...]

Day 6 of a Card a Day for 20 Days

Day 6 and a bit of colour blocking with scraps!  I cut them to fit the card front with a border, matted the picture onto a piece of silver card, adhering with 3D pads and added a bit of lace (before sticking the mounted picture to the card base btw!).

Day 4 - A Card Variation on a Theme

Day 4 - Same Vintage Photo used as on yesterday’s card… but with a slightly different treatment.
The graphic is matted on silver card (although I notice that it mostly comes up as a dark mat on most, if not all the photos! tut!), but the background is just one piece of paper this time (yesterday [...]

Day 3 - Vintage Card No. 3

So the third card, I thought we’d have a break from pink today!  I have had these papers (6×6″ pad) for a couple of years!  I have occasionally used them, but thought that they could definitely be used up on vintage style cards such as this one.

These sorts of papers do a lot of the [...]

Day 2 - Vintage Card and another Martha Stewart Punch

Ok, day 2 and my second card.  This is also sporting the latest in Martha Stewart Punches.  It is a special one as it is a “belly band” (as they call it) punch rather than a border punch.  Not particularly easy to see on this card, but it will appear again on another card in [...]

20 Cards in 20 Days!

Hello All!
I recently took a well needed break and visited my folks in Surrey last week and whilst my mum made a couple of scrapbook pages I made some vintage style cards which will be for sale in the Gift Shop area in the Tearooms (it appears all my other one’s have sold out!)
So I [...]

Tea themed card (BG Nook & Pantry)

Another  “vintagey” (is that a word?) card with a tea theme provided by the teapot and teacup and saucer stamps from the Basic Grey Nook & Pantry Collection.
I actually made it as a mother’s day card… my mum likes the pinks and greens together.

Ironically the lace (which is wrapped all the way round the front cover) [...]

Video Tutorial - How to Distress Paper Edges to Add Interest

I am often asked how I achieve the “distressed” look to paper edges on my scrapbook layouts and cards… something I do quite a bit, especially on Vintage style things, (layouts and cards).
So I thought it would be a good idea to make a video for you, showing exactly how I crumple, fold and rip [...]