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Heat embossing

Thinking of you – modern grey for cardmaking

Today I’m showing you how to style and design a modern card with a simple monotone scheme. Here I using a modern grey for cardmaking and creating a beautiful thinking of you card – this is a great card to send as an alternative to

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Dry embossing

Tone-on-tone for contemporary elegance

 I really enjoyed creating a card last week with a lovely soft colour palette and wanted to continue along that theme for this week. Today I’m creating tone-on-tone for contemporary elegance with a beautiful 3D embossing folder. This can easily be achieved with regular embossing

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soft ink-blended card
Catherine Pooler Designs

Soft ink-blended card!

Today I’m sharing a beautifully soft ink-blended card to create a bright happy card! Here I used one of my background hot foil plates along with a coordinating stencil for a soft elegant design. All it needed was a bold sentiment to finish it off.

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Die cuts

Inspired by the colour of the year: magenta!

The Pantone colour of the year is Magenta, and it inspired this trio of cards. The closest coloured cardstock I had in my stash is Hero Hues Azalea, which is more of a fuchsia pink than magenta, but I went with it and love how

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Colour Popping Florals
General Craft

Colour Popping Florals!

Why not add some colour popping florals to your cards? It is so easy when you use bright contrasting colours within a triad of colours on the colour wheel. What’s more, you can easily keep it simple in the remaining techniques as the colours do

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Christmas

Teal-inspired Christmas – Three ways with one simple die

Today I’ve got a trio of cards: three ways with one simple die and I’ve got a beautiful teal-inspired Christmas colour combination. This fun and whimsical ‘More Holiday Decorations’ die from Spellbinders can create stunning and elegant cards with ease by using a beautiful colour

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Art-deco-inspired Christmas card
Christmas

Art-deco-inspired Christmas card with hot foiling

 I’m really trying to stretch my supplies when it comes to Christmas cards and making different styles. Today I’m sharing an Art-deco-inspired Christmas card with hot foiling using a beautiful plate from PinkFresh Studio. Pair it with the right colour scheme and sentiment and you

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Mixed media christmas card
Christmas

Mixed media Christmas card

I had a real urge to create a mixed media card today, and I wanted to do this with a Christmas card. It isn’t necessarily a traditional style Christmas card, more of a subtle nod to Christmas, other than the obvious sentiment on the front.

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ink blending resist with hot foiling
Crafty Meraki

Ink blending resist with hot foiling

When I first saw this Pagonia Mania Hot Foil Plate from Crafty Meraki, the pattern reminded me for the feathers of Peacocks. This spurred on the colour scheme for the card and I wanted to do a very loose background with gold hot foiling. Therefore

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About Me

Hi, I am Verity and I live in the UK.  I love to create beautiful projects whenever I can. My main passion lies with Papercrafting, however, I will always turn my hand to a new project or craft any chance I get.

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