Mother's Day card (my ol' doodled digi flowers)

Oops, sorry for not posting this week. We've both had a wickedly funky flu, but thankfully it's on the way out and now Charles and I are headed to the island to visit his Marvellous Mom & Delightful Dad and meet their two new huge Newfie dogs: Cody & Floyd.Today's post: just a little rehash of an old flower doodlethat I did in honour of Mother's day quite a while back...Details of the card: It's a 5 and a 1/2 inch square card. The flower...

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Little Nymph at Night

Just experimenting with some digital backgrounds...This looks way better in person, honest!(Does that happen to you with photos of your projects?)Another black background card.Again, with an image from a Day for Daisies...A little window into a night-time world:I wasn't 100% happy with the sky. In hindsight, I would have printed the background differently than I did for this, so I've added a snippet of sky as an afterthought, in case you'd like to...

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new technique? Silver Leaf & Sticky Back Canvas (step by step)

Today's post is all about texture & a little sparkle:texture from canvas and sparkle from silver leaf.It's a LONG one!I got a bit carried away with DIY fabric bits& heat embossed stamping:The canvas trim above is made with my new silver leaf resist technique (on the back of Claudine Hellmuth's sticky-back canvas) at least I think it's new but who knows, right? It's my birthday, so methinks I'll just be a complete goofball and say it's the...

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