The card today is the last of the four cards that I made to put into the card gift box. It started with the pink patterned paper label and went with the pierced circle on top. I wanted to add some patterned paper behind the label but also wanted to emboss the background, so used a strip of paper and cut out a fish tail and then you could still see the background. I...

I have already showed you the first two cards of the four that I had put in the card gift boxes and today I have the third card. This card is not as bright and summery as the first two but more autumnal and I am a big fan of the colour teal and so really wanted to use the teal spotty paper on the circle. The background paper is very full of different colours...

Today's card is the second of the four cards that I made for the card gift boxes I posted here. For this card, I wanted to use a doily as part of the main focal point and decided to use a Die-namics pierced circle in front of it. I just used a small strip of patterned paper on the background, as the doily takes up a lot of the card and added two stars to...

Today I have the first of four cards that I have made for the card boxes that I showed in this post last week. For the card, I decided to use the Clearly Besotted you're a hoot owl for the main image. Before choosing the ink colour, I chose the patterned paper from the American Crafts Soho Garden paper pad. I went with Memento cottage ivy, it is slightly darker...

I had seen a picture of this little cake made out of paper and a battery operated candle on Pinterest and was really intrigued by it and wanted to give it at making one for my mums birthday, which was at the end of December.   I started by cutting out a large scallop circle for the bottom of the candle and cut out a hole for the switch. To secure...

For a few Christmas presents, I decided to make some handmade cards and wanted to make some boxes to store them in. I decided to make them with the envelope punch board. I found a tutorial on YouTube by Lizy Bartaby where she makes a card box that was big enough for UK c6 size envelopes, as most tutorials on YouTube are for US size 51/2 x 41/4 cards. The...