Posted in art, cards, crafts, digital stamp files, inspiration, papercraft, tagged cards, Christmas, digital stamps, papercrafts, penguins on November 16, 2011| 4 Comments »
A while ago I designed some penguin digital stamps for the Christmas issue of PaperCraft Inspirations, and the mag is published soon. Jenny, the editor, chose five of my designs and I said I’d make the other four available on my blog, so here they are! Just click on the file names, and save them, then you can print them out and have fun with them!
Posted in cards, crafts, papercraft, patterned paper, Uncategorized, tagged cards, papercrafts, patterned paper on August 2, 2011| 2 Comments »
I love working with patterned papers, and thought this super floral paper was great for a teapot. My original idea was just to have a teapot pouring flowers, but the teapot looked so great I went on to do the cup and saucer as well, which changed the whole card The flowers had to be tiny but luckily I found some tiny Doodlebug paper flowers in a pot on my desk, and they did the trick. There was a lovely matching paper in the set that had spots and tiny flowers on, and I used that for the background, and for the tiny punched hearts. All the papers are edged with ink to emphasise the shapes. I wanted the teapot and the cup to stand out, but I need to send this card through the post so instead of foam pads I used a couple of layers of card on the backs of the shapes to lift them up.
This was a very self-indulgent card, using papers patterns and shapes that I love, and I hope my sister-in-law will like it too when she receives it on her birthday.
