Blog Posts
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Valentine’s Gnomes: featuring one of my favourite colour combinations
Hello all! I hope you are having a lovely week so far. I have gotten a start on my Valentin’s day cards and I’m sharing this cute gnome valentine today featuring one of my go to colour combinations. To create the background I used the It’s Cloudy stencil and ink blended with Nectar, Honeysuckle, and…
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Gnome Birthday card featuring an easy way to line up images for masked scenes
Do you even struggle to get images lined up just how you want them when you are creating masked scenes? I do! But I came up with this simple template idea to make it easier to get all your images lined up right where you want them! Keep reading for step by step instructions plus…
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Spring Chicks are Back in Town with the new Picket Fence Studios release!
Design Team disclosure: As part of my design team work I received some of the products shared in this post for free. It might be dreary January outside, but we can pretend it is spring in our craft rooms! I used the new Spring Chicks are Back in Town stamp and die set from Picket…
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A clean and simple snow-dog card with stencilled embellishments
I’m so excited to be able to say that I am joining the Whimsy Stamps Design Team this year! I can’t wait to share my projects featuring their wonderful crafty products. Thank you Whimsy Stamps for having me! How I made it I started by stamping the cute dog building a snow-dog from the Christmas…
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An Easy Mountain Shaped Card for the January Inspiration Station Challenge
Happy New Year everyone! I’m starting off the new year by sharing my project for the January Inspiration Station Challenge. This month’s inspiration image is a lovely mountain scene and I decided to really focus in on the mountains for my card by creating a mountain shaped card! January Inspiration Station Challenge The Inspiration Station…
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New House Mouse Collection and tips about how to colour knitting!
There is a new House Mouse Collection from Spellbinders. I absolutely love the House Mouse images and in fact a House Mouse stamp was one of the first stamps I bought when I got into cardmaking! So I was excited to be invited by Spellbinders to create with there newest House Mouse collection. This collection…
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A clean and simple Christmas card for the December Inspiration Challenge
Are you still working on your holiday cards? I am! I’m trying to make enough cards so that I can give them to all my coworkers but I probably should have started making holiday cards earlier because I don’t have that many made yet! December Inspiration Station Challenge This card was created for the December…
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Adding to my “get well” card stash featuring Picket Fence Studios new release
‘Tis starting to look a lot like cold and flu season! The November release from Picket Fence Studios release has this lovely little sentiment set with several get well sentiments and today I’m sharing two cards I created using it, and some other Picket Fence products, to build up my get well card stash. Happy…
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Bright and cheerful cards featuring the new Picket Fence Studios release!
I have some exciting news! I am starting with the Picket Fence Studios design team this month! I am so incredibly excited for this opportunity. Picket Fence Studios has long been one of my favourite craft companies and I am over the moon to have the opportunity to work with an amazing team of designers…
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Welcome to my blog!
Hello and welcome to my blog! I’m so happy you are here! Keep reading to learn more about me and how to enter to win a cute stamp and die set! My name is Alexandra and I’m pretty new to the wonderful hobby that is cardmaking. I started making cards in 2021 when, with the…